Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD.
“[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.”
Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
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Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
The fifth recording in Wild Up’s Julius Eastman survey, Gay Guerrilla, will be released in June and is available for preorder: https://wildup.bandcamp.com/album/julius-eastman-vol-5-gay-guerrilla
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Michael Tilson Thomas has died. A titan of 20th (and early 21st) century music. May his memory be for a blessing.
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
RE: @tomrittervg@infosec.exchange
Respect to the Firefox team!
But: At what point do you conclude that our way of delivering security-critical software via ever-growing piles of trusted C++ isn’t working, and won’t?
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Richard Ginell reviews the LA Phil’s production of the Turangalîla symphony: https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/simone-young-takes-messiaens-mighty-turangalila
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Der Schwerbelastungskörper und Die Schwerbelastungskörperaussichtsplattform, from Greg Allen: https://greg.org/archive/2026/04/10/der-schwerbelastungskorper-und-die-schwerbelastungskorperaussichtsplattform.html
In 1941 Hitler’s architect Albert Speer got approval to build a giant triumphal arch on a main axis of a redesigned Berlin, and quickly built the Schwerbelastungskörper, or heavy load-bearing structure, to test the ability of the marshy soil to support such a ridiculously large structure.
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
Security, privacy, and tech policy at UCSD. “[U]niquely among all government employees, lie[s] outside the scope of [the government speech] doctrine; […] stand[s] alone on a First Amendment pedestal, free to say what [he] please[s], no matter what [his] government employers, including even the State Legislature, think about it.” Profile photo: Nox the tiercel peregrine, Cal Falcons class of '24, photographed by Billy Thein (California Raptor Center).
The security hill I will die on: Credit for the “backdoored compiler” trick should go to Karger and Schell (“Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis,” 1974).¹ That’s the “Unknown Air Force Document” from which Thompson (1984) borrowed the idea.
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¹ https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics-orig.pdf, §3.4.5