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Schneier on Going Dark

Posted on 2015-08-23 by jcs

There’s been an alarming increase in Law Enforcement’s campaigning for mandatory backdoors in communication software. They are increasingly taking their case “to the people” with dishonest Op Eds intended to induce fear of terrorism and the other four horsemen. Bruce … Continue reading →

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Super- and Sub-Word

Posted on 2015-08-22 by jcs

I’ve blogged about this before but here’s a handy chart to server as a reminder: #Emacs subword-mode, superword-mode, camelCase, snake_case http://t.co/34mROSF4rs pic.twitter.com/wj3mNEKmAq — Xah Lee (@xah_lee) August 18, 2015

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The Network is Hostile

Posted on 2015-08-22 by jcs

Matthew Green over at Cryptography Engineering has a depressing piece on the security status of the network. He says that the network is hostile and that that hostility is baked in by its design. Our packets travel through routers and … Continue reading →

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I Want One

Posted on 2015-08-21 by jcs

Some good advice from Troy Hunt: pic.twitter.com/q0BMtbDwzc — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) August 5, 2015

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Calc Tutorial Video

Posted on 2015-08-21 by jcs

Karthik C has a very nice video entitled Emacs-Calc: The Poor Man’s Mathematica. It’s a tutorial on some of the features of Emacs calc. He begins by covering the basic stack machine nature of calc and how to perform simple … Continue reading →

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Four Times

Posted on 2015-08-20 by jcs

Pretty much shows the FBI is being a bit disingenuous: Going dark? Crypto was a problem in a grand total of FOUR wiretaps last year. http://t.co/zZlDRzGFLi pic.twitter.com/zGALMT39cd — matt blaze (@mattblaze) July 1, 2015

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Wha?!?

Posted on 2015-08-20 by jcs

I’ve recently experienced a canonical instance of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Until the other day, I had no idea that Emacs had a built-in spreadsheet. Now, I’m seeing references to ses (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet) everywhere. It even has its own manual. … Continue reading →

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Key Management

Posted on 2015-08-19 by jcs

is the hard part.

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Repeated Links in Org Mode

Posted on 2015-08-19 by jcs

The tireless Artur Malabarba has shown us how to make custom Org links for special purposes before (1, 2). Now he shows us how to implement Markdown links. The point here is that with Markdown, you define a link and … Continue reading →

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Crossword

Posted on 2015-08-18 by jcs

For all you puzzle constructors out there: How to create a crossword puzzle in LaTeX http://t.co/0BdZcYhRyA — TeX tips (@TeXtip) July 7, 2015 The cwpuzzle makes it really easy to typeset a crossword puzzle. If you want to try your … Continue reading →

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