Category: Link posts

This week I recommend the NYT piece about Google tracking phones.

• Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords by Dan Goodin
  • [PDF] Dragonblood: A Security Analysis of WPA3’s SAE Handshake
• Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
• All EFF’d Up by Yasha Levine
• Review: Beyoncé Is Bigger Than Coachella by Jon Caramanica

 

This week we got a lot of very good articles for reading. If you had to pick one to read it would be the piece about the 737 MAX flight control system by Dominic Gates.

• The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives by Miriam Posner
• Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system by Dominic Gates
• Weapons of War: The Defiant class by Starship Critic
• Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye by Jane C. Hu
• On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness by Soraya Roberts
• How BioWare’s Anthem Went Wrong by Jason Schreier

This week I recommend the analysis by Amanda Lee.

• We Are 0–7: A Deeper Analysis of What’s Wrong with the Valiant by Amanda Lee
• Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by Ciara Byrne
• Discussing “Player Trades” with Overwatch League GMs by Dave Cecconi

This week I recommend reading the article about Facebook by Bruce Schneier and Adam Shostack.

• Winding down my Debian involvement by Michael Stapelberg
• Judging Facebook’s Privacy Shift by Bruce Schneier and Adam Shostack
• How an App for Gamers Went Mainstream by Taylor Lorenz
• Wolf Weighs in on Contenders Korea 2019 by Wolf “Wolf” Schröder

This week I recommend reading the latest edition of the Leah Letter and the brief history of Wi-Fi security protocols.

• The Federation Fallacy by Alyssa Rosenzweig
• Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
• Leah Letter No. 53 – Be YoUrSeLf by Leah Finnegan
• Why Esquire’s March Cover Is Sort of Dangerous by Patrick Nathan
• A brief history of Wi-Fi security protocols from “oh my, that’s bad” to WPA3 by Jim Salter