Notices by Steve Bellovin (stevebellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org), page 2

Say what?!?!!!!
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112453112829237738

There was a slogan when I was at AT&T of "Our Common Bond", but I didn't know they meant bail bonds…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112441115030608987

@jvagle I am writing one, but it's a personal one for my family, not for the public—I doubt that anyone is interested in my childhood beyond what I shared today. I mean, does anyone here care that there was at least one house on block with a coal furnace, in the 1950s? The slides do have a link to an interview in ;login: a few years ago; very soon, there will also be an oral history interview with me available.

I gave a retirement/farewell talk today. Video at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/farewell.mp4; slides at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/farewell.pdf.

@cigitalgem As I said, I have a lot of writing I plan to do…

I also found some *ancient* Usenet maps.

As many recent news articles have noted, Columbia was a hotbed of student unrest during the Vietnam War era. When I moved into the dorms and unpacked, I found that my parents had put this cartoon into a suitcase…

@mattblaze Instead of Kyllo, next teach Kylo (Ren). (Aside: many years ago, back at Bell Labs, I had a supervisor who loved SF movies. Any time a good new one had opened, he'd declare the afternoon time for a computer graphics conference and we'd all head out…)

@adamshostack @gdinwiddie @inthehands There are at least three parts to the answer. The first is that I'm quoting someone (and focusing on what he said about college); I don't have to explain it… Second, most of the incoming students were MS students, not PhD students. They weren't writing papers. Last, this was a very long time ago, when very few people had much CS experience—I was a rare exception. (When I took Data Structures as an undergrad, it was classified as an advanced graduate class.)

@gdinwiddie @inthehands At a welcome ceremony for incoming grad students at UNC Chapel Hill when I started, lo these many years ago, Fred Brooks (the founder and then chair of the department) said "You're not here to be educated. You went to college to be educated; you're here to be trained."

Read this thread! The older I get, the less I value a narrow education. You don't know where your career or interests are going to lead you. Learn to *think*, and learn what others before have thought and thought/taught about thinking.
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/110390739226017146

If you use Homebrew on MacOS, you're affected—do 'brew update' and 'brew upgrade’.
https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/112179988525798247

Clearly, electromagnetic pollution, especially from 5G phone signals, is activating the microchips in vaccines.
https://journa.host/@w7voa/112163833951775396

Does finding a sword in the water make him the next king of England?
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112101532712432412

@mattblaze “He mounted to his cabin with his orders in his hand”…

@mattblaze @karlauerbach Ordered!

@mattblaze @karlauerbach Btw, one of my favorite stories about railroad and communications history is at https://www.telegraph-history.org/charles-minot/. I won't try to summarize it…

@karlauerbach @mattblaze You'd enjoy Standage's book, if you haven't read it. Briefly, his thesis is that the telegraph network was a bigger change in human society than the Internet, since it was the first way to communicate rapidly across very long distances.

@chris_bloke @glent @mattblaze @karlauerbach So the British action in 1914 was actually the product of a strategy devised decades earlier. (Btw, Paul M Kennedy, Imperial Cable Communications and Strategy, 1870-1914, 86 English Historical Review 728 (1971), http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/563928?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103708309471 also has details, and for some folks is more accessible than Headrick's book.) Britain tried to route its communications through British-controlled territories, and tried to route other countries communications, too…

@karlauerbach @chris_bloke @glent @mattblaze Getting SIP security as good as possible was a continual challenge. As Security AD, I once blocked some RFC on security grounds, and had to defend my actions at a lunch surrounded by annoyed SIP folks. I had to pull out my laptop and show them exactly how the attack would work before they believed me. (It was, as I recall, a redirection request that was not properly authenticated.)