Everything is about to “go dark”

I'm coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaining to colleagues why Baltimore isn't actually like The Wire. And second, trying not to talk about AI. Here I'm going to…

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Rubenerd: The myth of Snow Leopard

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