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If you read the bottom of NIST's press release, they've tasked their Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (recently co-chaired by Vint Cerf) to do a review of NIST's crypto st…

"Attackers used a well-known method to bring down a system known as Denial of Service (DoS) - in which huge amounts of data are forced on a target, causing it to fall over." Really…

Yes, for sure. As someone who works there, there's nothing more annoying for staff assistants sitting through hundreds of irrelevant calls from uninformed people reading a script. …

This is the right question. ICANN likes to put out these happy press releases, but they don't give us the details. It's necessary to name and shame the TLDs that are behind the cur…

I can't get it to work in Washington, DC. I smell a conspiracy...

So, what's your plan re: pushing legislation? Have you identified who in Congress will serve as a champion for your cause? Are there any lists of specific demands that any good leg…

Here's the difference. The banks control something critical: the financial system. What's the critical system for the tech companies? The Internet. Tech companies don't control it,…

I'm just curious -- What do you want to do with your design/coding knowledge? I'm in the non-tech world and have the desire to learn for the sake of learning, but I also want to kn…

It's blocked by my work firewall. Oh well!

Sounds like a personal problem.

So, what are you working on?

The HN DDoS attack strikes again...

"Keep in mind here that Chehadi was appointed by the US government, who has remained silent on this matter." No, he wasn't. ICANN appoints its own President/CEO. There is no US con…

No mention of their funding from the National Science Foundation that helped them get off the ground? http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660 http://www.nsf.gov…

Basically everything beyond Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid is discretionary spending. If you get rid of those, then yes, military spending looks huge as a share of discretio…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/... Will hurricane "Jim" really make people think about Senator Inhofe? I don't think so.