Matt Blaze
Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at mattblaze.org/blog
- I did a little thread over on Mastodon with some speculation on the Fulton County election office search warrant. federate.social/@mattblaze/1...
- Reposted by Matt BlazeSo many of us warned of this situation www.justsecurity.org/16503/securi...
- Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
- Reposted by Matt BlazeSusan Landau, @mattblaze.org, and Steven Bellovin unpack the U.K. government's latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups in Apple products and explain how it could make sensitive data more vulnerable to adversarial actors.
- Reposted by Matt BlazeNB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
- The trick to be taken seriously is to act seriously, something the election deniers don't seem to be capable of doing.
- I’ll take these theories seriously when the advocates of them submit papers to legitimate, refereed journals and propose actual, as opposed to handwavy pie in the sky, mechanisms of action. For now I’m with election security experts like @mattblaze.org who hasn’t seen anything close to reasonable.
- Reposted by Matt BlazeThey got a cool festive signage for the holiday train and an old subway token as the line symbol!
- Tomorrow in my election security course we dissect election denial BS, always fun. I'm grateful to the "election truth" conspiracy people for keeping the 2020 dream alive in 2024, giving us a steady stream of new (actually recycled) material. The pillow guy gets old after a while.
- I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.
- It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
- Why is this my favorite hack of all time? - It was harmless, but exploited and demonstrated a serious vulnerability - The combination of technical sophistication and utterly juvenile content - No one ever took credit or explained it. It was pure art
- Less than a year later, we got the Morris worm, which, but for a few unfortunate bugs, could have been similar.
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View full threadFor context: STL means "Studio-Transmitter Link", a UHF or microwave link between the broadcast studio (usually located downtown) and the (usually unstaffed) transmitter site (with a big tower somewhere, maybe on a hill). Pogramming is fed to the transmitter over the STL.
- Reposted by Matt BlazeIt's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
