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Oh, I didn’t know it was posted as recently as December, I just stumbled upon this again and assumed maybe not a lot of people have seen this recently

He's _such_ a great writer/speaker. It's totally worth reposting him every 3 month.

I think this is my favourite piece of his, "This world of ours":

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

I thinkbhe's a better writer than speaker, but I suspect if I'd seen him speak first I'd have it the other way around.

I love all his Usenix articles and they always cheer me up if I'm having a grumpy day at work.

For me, acknowledging that:

"YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON"

is quite comforting at times.

When I'm doing security related thinking at work (or at home), understanding that if a powerful nation state's security forces become "interested" in what you're doing means you've already lost, takes the pressure off striving for perfection and trying to design systems that are secure against "the global passive observer" who's already NSL-ed your TLS cert provider and your cloud host. I admire what Signal/WhisperSystems build, but the project we're building at work that's topologically equivalent to just another CRUD app can't afford and doesn't need to be secured against the NSA or any of their Fiveeyes henchmen.

This is the first time i've seen it, so you got one! thanks!

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