joeuchill.bsky.social
Potential game show contestant.
Former Axios, The Hill, Passcode. Founder of the Codebook cybersecurity newsletter. Once got lost in a Starbucks.
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I really liked the first one.
Bummer.
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That’s not the hat of someone who was ever going to have a press conference go particularly well.
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Actually, human flesh tastes more like pork than chicken.
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It wasn’t like anyone knew who Arcade Fire was at the time. The Unicorns were doing a favor for a band they went to high school with.
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And, let me add, AAAAAHHHHHH
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At least one of those is made up.
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Icymi: creativecommons.org/2025/05/15/u...
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The bottom line is adding unnecessary complexity to a system you want to be secure rarely helps that system stay secure. The more things that can be broken, the more things I can break.
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...or if I just buy a second phone in my grandma's name, or if I use BGP to reroute all the internet traffic that should go to the datacenter into a black hole, or if I just ram a truck into a cell phone tower, I've blown up your entire primary.
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All of that infrastructure is online for a non-negligible amount of time.
Online banking works, in part, because you audit your account or at least know if your checks bounce. Votes don't do that. If I intercept your vote between you and the data center, or if you don't vote and I use your phone...
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...from the point you tap "Oprah" to the point the vote is logged, think about the amount of infrastructure outside election officials' control. Dozens of phone manufacturers, two major OSes, a bunch of phone carriers, the network of the internet, and the data center. The threat surface is immense.
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You've almost definitely heard this before, but here's why phone banking works and phone voting doesn't.
Phone banking apps are not secret ballots. Your bank knows who you are and can evaluate the likelihood of fraud based on your past behavior. You can't do that with votes.
Moreover...
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Do we need more empirical data to know if this is a time to be alive? Let me get my lab coat.
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I'm considering developing the "what a time to be alive" bot, the bot that reposts every post that says nothing other than "what a time to be alive."
This way, everyone can tell if it is, in fact, a time to be alive.
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You know who they expect to get that joke right away? High school seniors selecting colleges.
There's a chance we're dumb.
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An Easter Egg we found reporting this story:
It turns out Trump’s campaign ad buyer has been cashing in on the taxpayer-funded ads in which Kristi Noem thanks Trump for his immigration crackdown.
More on this soon
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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And I get it. These are two people having a juvenile public spat.
But this isn't Sidney Powell fighting Trump. This is the United States' main access to space in a fight with the United States, and the president questioning the guy he just had spearhead a force reduction the size of Reno.
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Yikes. I'm going to repost this spelled right.
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The market just said it believes that, for at least one major American business, criticizing one of the president's policies erases 15% of market cap.
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The president's biggest donor is publicly complaining that he no longer influences policy as a quid pro quo for his donation.
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The president just questioned the competency of someone he just trusted to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and cancel government programs, who is the head of the 53rd largest government contractor - controlling one major aspect of critical infrastructure with hands in three others.
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Some guy with a folding table is selling you genuine Rollecks watches and Goid.
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Bootleg was the wrong word. Counterfeiting. People are counterfeiting God.
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I’m disappointed he didn’t go to a Florida team and force Disney employees to choose between fandom and not rooting for a guy who thinks the house of mouse traffics children.
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(To be clear, I don’t know the answer either way. Just trying to follow along).
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Directly, or in deterrence?
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