Links February 2025

Oliver Lindburg wrote an interesting article about Designing for Crisis [1].

Bruce Schneier blogged about how to cryptographically identify other humans in advance of AT technology allowing faking people you know [2].

Anarcat has an interesting review of qalc which is a really good calculator, I’ll install it on all my workstations [3]. It even does furlongs per fortnight! This would be good to be called from a LLM system when someone asks about mathematical things.

Krebs has an informative article about a criminal employed by Elon’s DOGE [4]. Conservatives tend to be criminals.

Krebs wrote an interesting article about the security of the iOS (and presumably Android) apps for DeekSeek [5]. Seems that the DeepSeek people did everything wrong.

Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer wrote an insightful article DOGE as a National Cyberattack [6].

Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan wrote an insightful article about why and how computer generated voices should sound “robotic” [7].

Cory Doctorow has an interesting approach to the trade war between the US and Canada, instead of putting tarrifs on imports from the US the Canadian government should make it legal for Canadians to unlock their own property [8].

This youtube video about designing a compressed air engine for a model plane is interesting [9].

Krebs has an interesting article on phishing and mobile phone wallets, Google and Apple need to restrict the number of wallets per phone [10].

The Daily WTF has a good summary of why Elon’s DOGE organisation is badly designed and run and a brief mention of how it damages the US [11].

ArsTechnica has an informative article about device code phishing [12]. The increased use of single-sign-on is going to make this more of a problem.

Shrivu wrote an insightful and informative article on how to backdoor LLMs [13].

Cory Doctorow wrote an informative post about MLMs and how they are the mirror world version of community organising [14].

• [1] https://tinyurl.com/2cmk6g6a
• [2] https://tinyurl.com/2d6ynkp4
• [3] https://anarc.at/blog/2025-02-08-qalculate-hacks/
• [4] https://tinyurl.com/2yo9gp6b
• [5] https://tinyurl.com/249swu8d
• [6] https://tinyurl.com/23soj7ya
• [7] https://tinyurl.com/22eq6gee
• [8] https://tinyurl.com/2xueute7
• [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udI2dWmwMUE
• [10] https://tinyurl.com/24tbqdjm
• [11] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/walking-the-doge
• [12] https://tinyurl.com/27zf3yjt
• [13] https://tinyurl.com/26tpcu7f
• [14] https://tinyurl.com/2bwqq4xp