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This is a brief explanation of the weird acronyms on the cover sheets that appeared in the photo of classified the FBI seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. They identify different types of ...

I’ve avoided commenting on the FBI’s discovery of classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago Club, the home of former President Donald Trump, before this. Numerous pundits have shared their opinions about Trump’s legal ...

Peter Gutmann of the University of Aukland recently published a parable “On the Heffalump Threat.” He pokes fun at the R&D cottage industry trying to achieve a practical quantum computer and at ...

I’m reposting this article as part of my tests of auto-posting. In other words, my first attempt wasn’t exactly a success. It appears that I didn’t get my cron working correctly. Like ...

Like lots of other people, I’m looking at Mastodon as a newer, better tech-social community. I’m trying to auto-post from this site to a Mastodon ID, and I have a separate Mastodon ...

This post is inspired by Tessa Flattum’s post, “How to Write a Novel with ADHD.” I self-diagnosed my own ADHD after my son was diagnosed as a child. I’ve written three technical ...

Former President Trump recently suggested that the sitting President simply needs to “think” something is declassified in order to declassify it. Is there a cascade of increasingly formal ways to declassify? Perhaps: ...

A software engineering friend fell victim to an almost-successful attack on his Facebook account. The attacker seemed to have a database of email addresses and user physical locations (i.e. cities, states, small ...

MSSE second-year students may request a cybersecurity elective as course SENG 5271. If the course is not chosen to be an offered elective, students may take it as an independent study. In ...

Back in the dark ages of the Trump presidency, the President tweeted this photograph. An earlier post examines the legality of this act (100% legal), and speculates about the potential damage to ...