Links April 2025

Asianometry has an interesting YouTube video about elecrolytic capacitors degrading and how they affect computers [1]. Keep your computers cool people!

Biella Coleman (famous for studying the Anthropology of Debian) and Eric Reinhart wrote an interesting article about MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) and how it ended up doing exactly the opposite of what was intended [2].

SciShow has an informative video about lung cancer cases among non-smokers, the risk factors are genetics, Radon, and cooking [3].

Ian Jackson wrote an insightful blog post about whether Rust is “woke” [4].

Bruce Schneier write an interesting blog post about research into making AIs Trusted Third Parties [5]. This has the potential to solve some cryptology problems.

CHERIoT is an interesting project for controlling all jump statements in RISC-V among other related security features [6]. We need this sort of thing for IoT devices that will run for years without change.

Brian Krebs wrote an informative post about how Trump is attacking the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution [7].

The Register has an interesting summary of the kernel “enclave” and “exclave” functionality in recent Apple OSs [8].

Dr Gabor Mate wrote an interesting psychological analysis of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump [9].

ChoiceJacking is an interesting variant of the JuiceJacking attack on mobile phones by hostile chargers [10]. They should require input for security sensitive events to come from the local hardware not USB or Bluetooth.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSpzAVpnXo4
[2] https://tinyurl.com/25rpmgxx
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYhncB9Ftt8
[4] https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/19480.html
[5] https://tinyurl.com/287ahynt
[6] https://cheriot.org/
[7] https://tinyurl.com/28x64xyc
[8] https://tinyurl.com/237qycbw
[9] https://drgabormate.com/trump-clinton-trauma/
[10] https://tinyurl.com/22wmyogu

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