RIP Mark Klein

2006 AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein has died...

The Combined Cipher Machine

Interesting article--with photos!--of the US/UK "Combined Cipher Machine" from WWII...

Reimagining Democracy

Imagine that all of us--all of society--have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do not have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking. How would we govern ourselves...

Measuring the Attack/Defense Balance

"Who's winning on the internet, the attackers or the defenders?" I'm asked this all the time, and I can only ever give a qualitative hand-wavy answer. But Jason Healey and Tarang Jain's latest Lawfare piece has amassed data. The essay provides the first framework for metrics about how we are all...