#SECURITY

One interesting thing about this Cummings stuff I think, is that the reaction to it shows signs of the political realignment that’s been going on for a little while, where
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The UN arms embargo on Iran expires this Sunday. Though it has faded from the news along with the sanctions snapback debate that it prompted, the embargo's expiration remains important
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Among many other things, Macron’s statements are just puzzling. Russia is clearly the most direct serious military threat to major parts of Europe. https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2018/12/20/vostok-2018-ten-years-of-russian-strategic-exerci
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Hi, I’m an MIT PhD student studying election security. Mail in ballots are a secure way to vote. Here’s the thing: there’s a well-studied phenomenon in voting called the “blue
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Contact-tracing apps: "The performance art people will tie a phone to a dog and let it run around the park; the Russians will use the app to run service-denial attacks
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.@IvankaTrump & Kushner have been the subject of many stories like this one by @NYTLiz. They deserve no sympathy, and no easy return to society, polite or otherwise. They took
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7 Life lessons I learned working at a max security prison //THREAD// Speaking with men who have life sentences and nothing to loseShifts your perspective on life so quickly, you
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If you ever think day trading is easy money, please read this. This guy racked up a $9m (R165m) LOSS in just one day from his basement.https://twitter.com/EnronChairman/status/1258936315539787777 If I invest
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A thread on how our building society at Gogol, Margao, South Goa, managed itself in the time of lockdown.1/n We do not have a registered society yet. So we formed
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Founders, be wary of advice to ditch trad media, pr agencies, etc and rely solely on your own media channels.The whole value of PR is that it's NOT your own
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Today we heard from a law grad in Quebec who recently took the online bar exam administered there. A thread on the alarming experience of taking Quebec’s remote exam. 1/8
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Update COVID April 9: The big conversation is around the 60,000 death toll model so I had confidential conversations with the modelers. Can share without attribution.Also a palliative care doc
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I'm going to do my level best to explain why Excel is being used in Test and Trace, and why the Govt probably did the right thing.https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1313046638915706880 Firstly, there are
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Trump audio: "Get rid of her -Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it." ....Yovanovitch received a call at 1 a.m.
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1/@quant_network + @MIT IETF RFC Proposal for Open Digital Asset Protocol (ODAP) an open blockchain agnostic protocol, enabling Interoperability of assets and messages across DLTs as well as Oracle functionality
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1/8 Read this next thread...I first learned of Omar Montoya about this time 3 years ago. Followed the case, then when I left news I lost track..only to recently re
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