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Truth Decay Astroturfing

Truth Decay

What is the greatest threat facing human civilization? This question is obviously meant to be provocative, and is probably inherently unanswerable. But I think there is a reasonable argument to be made that perhaps the greatest threat is the deterioration of …
bubmag
May 14, 2019
Cryptanalysis of SIMON-32/64 NSA

Cryptanalysis of SIMON-32/64

A weird paper was posted on the Cryptology ePrint Archive (working link is via the Wayback Machine), claiming an attack against the NSA-designed cipher SIMON. You can read some commentary about it here. Basically, the authors claimed an attack so devastating …
bubmag
May 14, 2019
Links 5/14/19 Monsanto

Links 5/14/19

Deepest ever dive finds plastic bag at bottom of Mariana Trench CNN Escalating Floods Putting Mississippi River’s Old River Control Structure at Risk Weather Underground Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End. A bulletin from our …
bubmag
May 14, 2019