Notices by Steve Bellovin (stevebellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org), page 4

@danmcd Good taste, for not liking IKE? <ducks…>

@letoams @mattblaze @danmcd @marabou I've been arguing since ~1995 that we should get rid of AH entirely…

@danmcd @letoams @mattblaze @marabou There was also the belief that you didn't need authentication (I was guilty of that, until I proved myself wrong in https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/badesp.pdf)

@danmcd @letoams @mattblaze @marabou Btw, my history of IPsec is at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/ipsec-evolution.pdf with a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6mywFgySA from CFAIL, the conference of cryptographic mistakes…

@doop Show her a picture of core storage, with three wires woven through each tiny core…

Reading the indictment, it seems that tfg is more or less the Smaug of classified information. He has no specific use for it all, but it gives him pleasure to have and show off the hoard.

@blakereid That's why I'm scared…

I've been mulling how the GOP fascists could legally destroy the Constitution, and now I'm even more scared. The image below describes the amendment procedure. I think there are only 13 safely blue states, partly due to gerrymandering. That means that 34 states—⅔ of 50—could call a Constitutional Convention. But what about the ¾ for ratification? Turns out that Texas can (probably) split into five states (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/more-150-years-texas-has-had-power-secede-itself-180962354/). Add gerrymandering, and you have 54 states, 41 pretty red…
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@adamshostack https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/109479808455388578

@adamshostack @inthehands Right. I had posted https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@SteveBellovin/110419015739917805; one of the responses is the thread I replied to you with.

@blakereid I have Word open at this very minute, for the same reason (given your mention of Westlaw) as you: I'm working on some law review articles. Now, I'm not happy with Word (when doing some articles with @mattblaze and Susan Landau, all of our calls started with a 2-minute hate towards Word), but necessity is necessity. For my CS writing, of course, I use (shall we say) other platforms, for things up to and including typesetting books.

@coreyrayburnyung @blakereid @mattblaze @paulgowder So what is the proper way to use Juris-M with Markdown? (And I'd think that inconvenient footnotes would be a show-stopper for law review articles…)

@coreyrayburnyung @blakereid @mattblaze @paulgowder The inability to easily split documents into multiple files is very high on my list of Why I Hate Word.

@blakereid @mattblaze @coreyrayburnyung @paulgowder I have one article I’m using OneDrive with. Getting it working has not been among my happiest experiences…

@inthehands My solution to the exam problem is retirement… Next fall, I’m teaching a seminar class with no exams.

I generally give open-ended exam questions. I think, if I were ever to give another exam (which at this point is extremely unlikely), I'd ask ChatGPT the question and ask the students to analyze its response for correctness and completeness.

@b0rk @oclsc You might want to read this bio of Fred Brooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks)—he said that the decision to use 8-bit bytes on the IBM S/360, to permit use of lower-case letters, was his most important. (Aside: Brooks, who died last November, was one of my mentors. Saturday, I was in North Carolina for a "professional memorial" to him, about which I may post more later. For more on my relationship with him, see https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2022-11/2022-11-18.html).

@daveleeFT @acookiecrumbles Sounds like we need an inverse Turing Test: how do you prove you're not an AI…? (Well, outside of CAPTCHAs, which (a) are outside the model, and (b) don't really work that well…)

@fgbjr @Popehat From his tweet at her, I had no desire to learn anything more about him…

I suspect that to Musk, his "poll" was a win-win situation. If people said he should remain, he'd take that as a mandate and insist that he was doing everything right. If folks said he should leave, he'd have a scapegoat to blame when Twitter files for Chapter 11 or otherwise implodes.