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6 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Radio nerditry: Pirate on 4030 AM. Playing classic rock, IDing as "Ballsmacker Radio". Very strong signal in DC.
ATTENTION FUN POLICE: Yes, operating an unlicensed shortwave broadcaster is illegal. Yes, the authorities know about these stations and can easily find them if they want. It's not a priority, which is very sensible. Stand down.
And 4030 is either off the air or the HF propagation gods, fickle as the are, have disfavored me.
I'd be remiss in mentioning pirate radio without also plugging @shortwaveology's amazing Brooklyn Pirate Radio Soundmap (which tracks a different, though related, underground radio phenomenon): map.pirateradiomap.com

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25 Feb
Voting security involves a difficult and complex set of problems.

Now that November is finally over, I hope (and am cautiously optimistic) that we can more calmly discuss making US voting more accessible and secure.

A REALLY great place to start is here: nap.edu/catalog/25120/…
Some of it is counterintuitive. Most voting machines are, frankly, pretty crappy. We COULD try to make them better, but we'll never make them good enough to rely on. Fortunately, there are rigorous auditing methods that let us get reliable elections with UNRELIABLE machines.
So election security experts are focused less on improving the software and hardware (ultimately a fool's errand) and more on improving the election process (e.g., by incorporating audits as a routine part of the election certification process).
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8 Jan
Based on DC radio chatter, several bomb threats being investigated between WH an Capitol (so far mostly being cleared as far as I can tell)
Also, some kind of multiple shooting incident in Columbia Heights around 13th and Columbia Rd NW. Be careful, DC friends.
Please keep in mind this is based on a narrow and limited view of radio chatter, not firsthand knowledge, so ymmv
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7 Jan
Putting my (extremely well-worn) election security hat back on for a moment: it’s important to understand that the objections raised by 140-odd members of congress to various states’ election results were utterly and completely unsupported by serious or credible evidence. Period.
The violence at the Capitol yesterday will rightly be a source of outrage that we should remember. But we also must not forget the lies being told to cast doubt on the outcome by elected officials who should know better. They have forfeited our trust.
When I teach election integrity, I always take some time to discuss the fragility of the foundations of trust on which our democratic institutions are based. It’s always been hypothetical. Now it’s sadly far more concrete.
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5 Jan
To clarify- this is about Elizabeth Friedman, a cryptologic badass who led an amazingly interesting life.
A somewhat under-appreciated and remarkable aspect of Elizabeth Friedman’s legacy is that she came to cryptology from a traditional literary background, just as it was shifting to being a chiefly mathematical discipline. Yet she continued to make central contributions.
She was also unafraid to call BS on her employer’s loony pet theory about hidden codes in Shakespeare’s writings.
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3 Jan
The thing that gets most deeply stuck in my craw here is how the thousands of dedicated election workers who worked tirelessly to give us an amazingly smooth election at significant personal risk are not only being denied the thanks and recognition they deserve, but vilified.
To get a sense of what an accomplishment this election was, consider this short writeup from March on pandemic voting: mattblaze.org/papers/Emergen… . Almost all of the challenges came to pass (and more) and almost none of the suggested federal support materialized.
Essentially, most counties had to run TWO elections simulaneously - one in person, and one by mail, with no way to be sure in advance of how many voters would use which. And local election workers somehow did it. Really well. We own them a huge dept.
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2 Jan
It's important not to allow the fact that high-level officials and media personalities have promoted these claims of election fraud to obscure just how utterly baseless (unsupported by serious evidence, easily refuted, or downright impossible) they have uniformly proven to be.
It's very easy to lazily conclude that because there are so many claims, and because prominent people have repeated them, that there must be SOMETHING to this. But there isn't anything to it. It's all just obviously fabricated nonsense.
A large volume of fabricated nonsense is still fabricated nonsense.
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