Podcast appearances and mentions of Quinn Norton

In this episode, FIRST Podcasters interview FIRSTCON22 Speakers Raphaël Vinot and Quinn Norton on their tool Lookyloo. This open-source project was made to capture and record all the happenings on a website in real time. After a news website fell victim of malvertising, Raphaël and Quinn were called in to investigate. After a failed search for a tool to monitor the page, they created their own. Users of Lookyloo will have access to all the contents of a webpage mapped onto file tree as well as a created database of content and relationships to better help monitor and protect their sites.

SHOW NOTES: Description: What a day and age we live in. 2020 was a dumpster fire and 2021 was like hold my beer. I discuss ridiculous covid-19 conspiracy theories, grifters, charlatans, and how some popular talk show hosts are using this pandemic as a way to fill their pocketbooks. So, get ready for the last political show I do for a while. The Seeth One PAYPAL: seeth.mcgavien@gmail.com Please donate if you can. The $37 billion supplement industry is barely regulated — and it's allowing dangerous products to slip through the cracks: https://www.businessinsider.com/supplements-vitamins-bad-or-good-health-2017-8 History of U.S. Iodine Fortification and Supplementation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3509517/ How Alex Jones Makes Money | NYT News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghuRuU6YBw&ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes We Hate You Now by Quinn Norton: https://medium.com/surviving-covid-19/we-hate-you-now-d0fca14e3b82 Doctors Debunk 9 Popular COVID-19 Vaccine Myths and Conspiracy Theories: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/doctors-debunk-9-popular-covid-19-vaccine-myths-and-conspiracy-theories Doctor Rips Joe Rogan after taking Ivermectin for COVID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGvlPeo5bNU&ab_channel=DoctorMikeHansen Logo Design: Miss Morgan: https://www.instagram.com/missmorganproductions Artwork: Alan Deras: https://pebkaccomic.wordpress.com/ Vocals, Script, Writing, Music, Production, Recording: Seeth McGavien LISTEN: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-seeth-one/id1277262682?mt=2 SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/seeth-mcgavien-1 STITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/seeth-mcgavien/the-seeth-one-podcast PODCAST BY PHONE: 701-719-1293 SOCIAL: WEBSITE: https://www.seeth1.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheSeethOne/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/OneSeeth LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seeth-mcgavien/ Legal Disclaimer: All material used, sound effects, interviews, music, stock footage, is public domain unless otherwise noted. Any additional information was agreed to be used and a link was provided in the show notes. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

The work of polemicists like Sarah Jeong, recently hired to The New York Times editorial board, is to make arguments in public space. Polemicists can be insufferable. They get to be gadflies and think themselves Socratic. They're belligerent. They have a reputation for laziness and Twitter addiction; they often shun shoe leather.

The New York Times is under fire after announcing the hiring of Sarah Jeong. Over two years Jeong made a serious of racist statements, in one instance calling white people "groveling goblins" among other offensive terms. The New York Times says this was just trolling and that she won't do this again, but they also mention that they knew she had made the posts. This is in stark contrast to the firing of Quinn Norton who did not make direct racist statements like Jeong yet was fired following a controversy over her use of certain words. So is this NYT being hypocrites or have outrage mob tactics stopped working?Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

What does it actually mean to be someone's "friend"? (Quinn Norton's post, Jeremy Corbyn's regrets) Andrea becomes a Redditor (/r/MakeUpAddiction) Adrian becomes a journalist in the Watch The Skies megagame Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia

Bullet Journals One Weird Trick That Would Have Fixed Black Panther Quinn Norton and the incredible brief sojourn at the New York Times Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia

Adrian sits down with DIT head of design Barry Sheehan and freelance culture journalist Roisin Kiberd to talk about whether AirBnb is helping society or damaging it. Sheehan, who rents out his one-bed house in Dublin using AirBnb, says that it's not detracting from the rental stock available to struggling families. The panel also looks at the short New York Times career of Quinn Norton, whether journalists should be free to express opinions on Twitter and the new phenomenon of people picking fights with robots.

Episode #1847: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show to offer reading recs: Lighthead, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Fuck Feelings, and listening rec Paloma Faith, discuss meditation, and to help Patreon questions about Andy Cohen and Once. Also, the kids aren't taking your bullshit anymore: students chant "no more guns!" at Florida school shooting vigil, stage walkout to protest gun violence, and plan a march in D.C. to shame lawmakers, students walk out of Texas high school after classmate detained by ICE, ex-Google employee who wrote anti-feelings diversity memo lost his labor relations challenge, and the New York Times parts way with op-ed writer Quinn Norton just hours after hire The Fun Aunts have discovered leopard print and they're FREAKING OUT. Watch, subscribe, and comment! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikyE7pN1DjQ *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Filling in for Mike Pesca today is Leon Neyfakh, still smoldering after his first season as host of Slate’s hit podcast, Slow Burn.  Leon is indulging in a new fascination lately: the latest “left Twix vs. right Twix” ad campaign and its insistence that we should all pick one.  But, of course, we insist on taking sides. Slate writer Justin Peters sheds some light on the New York Times’ swift hiring and firing of tech journalist Quinn Norton.  In Leon’s Spiel: We must have some moral absolutes. But what is the cost of eschewing bothsidesism?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Filling in for Mike Pesca today is Leon Neyfakh, still smoldering after his first season as host of Slate’s hit podcast, Slow Burn.  Leon is indulging in a new fascination lately: the latest “left Twix vs. right Twix” ad campaign and its insistence that we should all pick one.  But, of course, we insist on taking sides. Slate writer Justin Peters sheds some light on the New York Times’ swift hiring and firing of tech journalist Quinn Norton.  In Leon’s Spiel: We must have some moral absolutes. But what is the cost of eschewing bothsidesism?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brianna, Christina, and Simone are reunited to discuss Wired's cover story about Facebook, the upcoming (ongoing?) Infocalypse, and Quinn Norton's short life at the New York Times.

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this, our 99th episode, our returning guest is Sarah Kendzior. You first heard Sarah Kendzior on Episode 70, Episode 80 and Episode 89. Sarah Kendzior is … well, you know who Sarah Kendzior is by now, don't you? She is a St. Louis-based journalist and expert on authoritarian states. One programming note before we begin: At 2:58 p.m. Tuesday, The New York Times announced the latest addition to their Editorial Board, Quinn Norton. Sarah and I started recording this episode at about 8 p.m. At 10:18 p.m., the following was posted to The New York Times Communications Twitter page where Quinn's hiring had been first announced just hours before: “The following is attributable to James Bennet, editorial page editor, The New York Times: 'Despite our review of Quinn Norton's work and our conversations with her previous employers, this was new information to us. Based on it, we've decided to go our separate ways.'” The Rob Burgess now has a newsletter! I promise not to bother you more than every seven days, or so. And, I promise to make it worth your while. Go to tinyletter.com/therobburgessshow and type in your email address. Then, respond to the automatic message. If you enjoy this podcast, there are several ways to support it. Join The Rob Burgess Show mailing list! Go to tinyletter.com/therobburgessshow and type in your email address. Then, respond to the automatic message. I have a Patreon account, which can be found at www.patreon.com/robburgessshowpatreon. I hope you'll consider supporting in any amount. Also please make sure to comment, follow, like, subscribe, share, rate and review everywhere the podcast is available, including iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Facebook, Twitter, Internet Archive, TuneIn and RSS. The official website for the podcast is www.therobburgessshow.com. You can find more about me by visiting my website, www.thisburgess.com. If you have something to say, record a voice memo on your smartphone and send it to therobburgessshow@gmail.com. Include “voice memo” in the subject line of the email. Until next time.

In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea speaks with BDYHAX co-founder Trevor Goodman. BDYHAX, also known as BodyHacking Con, is an annual conference focused on human enhancement, transhumanism, and biohacking. This conference brings together pioneers and thought leaders from varied disciplines, with specific focus on implantable technology, nootropics, health and fitness, wearable tech, and ethics. The third edition will take place from February 2-4, 2018 in Austin, Texas. Noteworthy attendees have included biohackers Rich Lee, Amal Graafstra, Jeffrey Tibbetts, Moon Ribas, and Neil Harbisson, bionic actress Angel Giuffria, the "Eyeborg" Rob Spence, journalists Quinn Norton and Cory Doctorow, science communicator James Young (Future Grind Ep. 9), and many more. Show Notes: https://futuregrind.org Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-grind-podcast-science-technology-business-politics/id1020231514 Support: https://futuregrind.org/support Follow along - Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ryan0Shea Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryan_0shea/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RyanOSheaOfficial/ If you have any questions or are interested in supporting or sponsoring Future Grind, you can reach us at hello@futuregrind.org.

For this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Jesse & Matt have a discussion with Matt Bruenig--a lawyer, blogger, political analyst and Twitter-dynamo who's got your back when you're kettled by Roaming Hillbots and Randian Regressives. More importantly though, Matt has just started the first grassroots, people-powered think tank called The People's Policy Project (3P). Funded by small donations from $5 to $15 dollars, 3P is an attempt to actually make Think Tanks “think” again, but for the purpose of actually benefitting the 80% Americans who now own only 20% of the nation's wealth, and are increasingly living lives of quiet desperation. We will discuss Bruenig's childhood, his educational experiences and awareness-path toward political change, his history as a blogger for the think tank Demos, and his surprising success at crowd-funding 3P via Patreon. We will also talk about where Matt plans to take this new and enterprising venture in the years ahead.Mentioned In This Episode: The World of Mattness: The People's History of Matt Bruenig Matt's Official Website and Blog Page Matt's Twitter Page & Wrecking Tweets (@MattBruenig) The People's Policy Project (3P) The People's Policy Project on Twitter (@PplPolicyProj) Some Notable Essays by Matt Bruenig: Here, Here and Here Some Notable Podcasts Where Matt Appears: The Jacobin's The Dig with Danvir: “Bruenig on Why Welfare Is Great and Need More of It” The Katie Halper Show: “Matt Bruenig on Liberals Who Are Actually Conservative + Get Out!” Delete Your Account Podcast: “The Welfare State” Why Snyder Was a Good Last Name (While It Lasted): Gary Snyder as Featured in The New Yorker: “Zen Master” . . . Then “Snyder” Found Bad Luck in the 21st Century: Fallen Marine, Matthew Snyder Heckled by Westboro Church Members as Seen in the SCOTUS case Snyder v. Phelps and in The New York Times: “Justices Rule for Protesters at Military Funerals” Zack Snyder (Awful Director of More Noble Comic Book Heroes) as Explored in The Guardian: “From Suicide Squad to Batman v. Superman, Why Are DC's Films So Bad?” Rick Snyder (Awful Governor of Michigan) Being Roasted and Cross-Examined in The Washington Post: “The Flint Disaster is Rick Snyder's Fault” Do Boys and Girls Like Trucks and Buses or Barbies and Conversation? Or Both? Simon Baron-Cohen in The Guardian: “They Just Can't Help It.” Here Is an Excerpt:"How early are such sex differences in empathy evident? Certainly, by 12 months , girls make more eye contact than boys. But a new study carried out in my lab at Cambridge University shows that at birth, girls look longer at a face, and boys look longer at a suspended mechanical mobile. Furthermore, the Cambridge team found that how much eye contact children make is in part determined by a biological factor: prenatal testosterone. This has been demonstrated by measuring this hormone in amniotic fluid." Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X and the Millennials: A Generation Differences Chart Sarah Stankorb in Vogue Magazine: “Xennials, or 30-Something Millennials, a Micro-Generation With a Writer to Thank” Reality Bites - Metaphor and Symbol of the Grunge Age? Or Is It, as Expressed in Jezebel, Lindy West Writes “I Rewatched Reality Bites and It's Basically a Manual for Shitheads” Jim Puzzanghera in The Los Angeles Times: “Economy Has Recovered 8.7 Million Jobs Lost in Great Recession” PBS's 25th Anniversary Special: Looking Back at the LA Riots After the Beating of Rodney King Anna Deavere Smith's Stunning ‘Documentary Theater' Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Savior America's Low-Morale Car Industry and the Comeback King in the 1990s Is Explored in Autotrader: “A Look Back at the Ford Taurus” John Bellamy Foster in The Monthly Review: “The Financialization of Capital and the Crisis” When Contrasting Presidential Terms, 22 Million Jobs Were Created During Clinton Regime Versus Bush 2 Million During His Eight Years in Office: “Job Creation by President: Number and Percent” Sara McClanahan in The American Prospect: “The Consequences of Single Motherhood” Michael Morris in The Huffington Post: “The Earned Income Tax Credit: A Pathway Out of Poverty for Millions of Americans with Disabilities” The Podcast Radiolab Provides A Moving and Deeply Thoughtful Exploration About the History of U.S. High School Debates & What Happens When A Black Queer Student Challenges This Culture as an Institutional Force: “Debatable” The School of Life Explores John Rawls' Life and His Most Important Contribution, The Veil of Ignorance: “POLITICAL THEORY - John Rawls” Lance Weiler in The World Economic Forum: “How Storytelling Has Changed in the Digital Age” Peter Guber in Psychology Today: “The Inside Story”  Excerpt: “Telling stories is not just the oldest form of entertainment, it's the highest form of consciousness. The need for narrative is embedded deep in our brains. Increasingly, success in the information age demands that we harness the hidden power of stories.” Sociology - Relight the Mechanisms That Justify Your Life Story: Social Construction of Reality and Dramaturgy Owen Jones in The Guardian: “The Iraq War Was Not A Blunder or a Mistake. It Was a Crime.” Theresa Amato in Vox: “I Ran Ralph Nader's Campaigns. A Political Revolution Is Vital — and Much Harder Than You Think.” Quinn Norton in Wired: “Beyond the Rhetoric: The Complicated, Brief Life of Occupy Boston” Occupy Riverside Still Exists on Facebook (At Least) The San Bernardino Sun: “Occupy Movements from Inland Empire Meet Together” The Dangers Found in Call-Out-Culture as Explored in Kristian Williams' Long Essay in Toward Freedom: “The Politics of Denunciation” Mark Fisher in The North Star: “Exiting the Vampire Castle” Yamiche Alcindor in The New York Times: “Black Lives Matter Coalition Makes Demands as Campaign Heats Up” “Folk Politics” as Explored by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek in The Disorder of Things: “Inventing the Future”Classical Definition of “Prefigurative Politics” Samuel Farber in the International Socialist Review: “Reflections on ‘Prefigurative Politics” Jo Freeman's Massively Influential and Famous Essay (Among Activists): “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” Jason Stahl in Jacobin: “Do We Need a Socialist Think Tank?” Nicole Gaudiano in USA Today: “‘The Sanders Institute:' Jane Sanders Launches New Think Tank” Alex Shephard and Clio Chang in The New Republic: “How Neera Tanden Works: Emails released by WikiLeaks reveal the maneuverings of a liberal think-tank president and member of Hillary Clinton's inner circle.” The Spoils System Dino Grandoni in The Atlantic: “Obama Likes the Spoils System as Much as Any President” TINA: There Is No Alternative Adam Curtis' Blog Post About the Origins of the First Think Tank in Britain: “The Curse of Tina” An Excerpt from His Survey About The International Policy Network: “Think Tanks surround politics today and are the very things that are supposed to generate new ideas. But if you go back and look at how they rose up - at who invented them and why - you discover they are not quite what they seem. That in reality they may have nothing to do with genuinely developing new ideas, but have become a branch of the PR industry whose aim is to do the very opposite - to endlessly prop up and reinforce today's accepted political wisdom. So successful have they been in this task that many Think Tanks have actually become serious obstacles to really thinking about new and inspiring visions of how to change society for the better.” Tom Liacas in Mashable: “How Online Activist Groups Are Raising Millions to Keep Corporations in Line” Cesar Chavez's United Food Workers (UFW) Was Successfully Committed and Focused Because It Relied Upon A Large, Balanced Ring of Small-to-Medium Donations; Now as Recorded in Miriam Powell's Article in The Los Angeles Times, “Farmerworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots” A History of the National Labor Review Board (NLRB) J.K Trotter in Gawker: “Liberal Think Tank Fires Blogger for Rude Tweets”Michelle Goldberg in Slate Magazine: “Is Matt Bruenig a Populist Martyr?” Sam Levine in The Huffington Post: “Pro-Bernie Blogger Raises $25,000 After Getting Fired For Attacking Clinton Backers” “Scumbag Neera [Tanden]” Was a Play and Meme Allusion on “Scumbag Steve” Deadline Hollywood: “Reza Aslan Out At CNN On Heels Of Trump ‘Piece of Sh*t' Tweet” Matthew's Local Union from UC-AFT (University of California & American Federation of Teachers): 1966! The National Labor Review Board's Position on Social Media Matt Bruenig's GoFundMe Account After Demos Fired Him After Bruenig Raised More Than He Needed, He Asked Supporter to Donate to Eric Harwood's GoFundMe Page. You Can Read About the Story of Harwood in One of Bruenig's Blog Posts Here. Terry Gilliam's Famous Sendup to 1984, Kafka & Bureaucracy with Brazil George Zimmerman ($100,000!): Don't Look Like Him, Matt! “George Zimmerman Auctioning Off Gun He Used to Kill Trayvon Martin” The People's Policy Project (3P): Here Are Some Supporting Writers That Have Contributed to the Think Tank Thus Far . . . Peter Gowan and Mio Tastas Viktorsson's “Tackling Wealth Inequality Like A Swede” Peter Gowan's “Models For Worker Codetermination In Europe” Michelle Styczynski's “What Does The Stock Market Do For Workers' Wages? Nothing” Matthijs Krul's “Does The Dutch Healthcare System Show The Way?” The “About” Page for 3P & an Excerpt:“Unlike most think tanks, which are financed by large corporations and foundations, 3P is funded by small donors pledging $5 to $15 per month on the Patreon platform. This unique funding source enables us to publish policy insights untainted by the compromises typically demanded by monied interests. We are, as the name suggests, the People's Policy Project, not Walmart's Policy Project and not the Gates Foundation's Policy Project. The work of 3P aims to fill the holes left by the current think tank landscape with a special focus on socialist and social democratic economic ideas.” Gus Bagakis in Truthout: “Faith in Charity Is Hopeless: Philanthrocapitalism Has Failed Us” Instead of Philanthrocapitalism How About Givedirectly.org? As One Princeton Study Details, Direct Donations Are Far More Effective than NGOs Matt Bruenig's Policyshop (Blog) at Demos: “How Much Money Would It Take to Eliminate U.S. Poverty?” Alex Emmons in The Intercept: “The Senate's Military Spending Increase Alone Is Enough to Make Public College Free”CNBC News: “A $1,000 Per Month Cash Handout Would Grow the Economy by $2.5 Trillion, New Study Says” Reading the Fine Print, From the Roosevelt Institute, Which Is Glorious to Behold: “Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of a Universal Basic Income” Matt Bruenig in Medium: “The UBI already exists for the 1%” A Counterattack from Tim Worstall in Forbes Magazine: “Matt Bruenig Says The 1% Already Gets A Universal Basic Income - So Why Not One For All?” Hillary Clinton invented UBI? Did She? Or Is This Matt Snyder's Fib? Dylan Matthews in Vox: “Hillary Clinton Almost Ran for President on a Universal Basic Income” Matt Bruenig's Vision For Changing Society with a Better Understanding of Transforming the Use of Capital: 1: Enlarge Our Welfare System to Something Akin to the Nordic System 2: Expand Labor/Union Rates Via Legal Protections   3: Develop Capital Social Fund Dividends as Seen in Norway Jesse Herring's Suggestion for 7-Point Platform, “The Slingshot Seven”: Healthcare for All Renewable Energy Plan Toward 100% Usage Universal Basic Income (UBI) for All Demilitarization: Both Domestic & Foreign Tuition-Free Education Getting Money Out of Politics $15-Hour Minimum Wage (Adjusted to Inflation) David Levinthal on the Koch Brothers Funding of Colleges in The Atlantic: “Spreading the Free-Market Gospel” Draft Bernie for a People's Party Matt Bruenig in the People's Policy Project: “The Contents Of The New Medicare-For-All Bill” Catherine Rampell's Inflammatory Op-Ed in The Washington Post: “Sanderscare Is All Cheap Politics and Magic Math” Michael Sainato in The Observer: “Recall Campaign for California Democrat Takes Big Step Forward” Physicians for a National Healthcare System: (PNHP): “California Speaker Anthony Rendon Calls for Hearings on Universal Health Care” Elana Schor in Politico: “Chris Murphy's Stealthy Single-Payer Pitch” Ryan Skolnick in Medium: “Rendon is Wrong: SB 562 is Not ‘Woefully Incomplete'” Frantz Pierre's Los Angeles - Basic Income Project on Indiegogo On Patreon: “Scott Santens Is Creating Support for Unconditional Basic Income” The Guardian: “What Makes Norway Is the World's Happiest Country” (2017) CNN's Travel: The Top-Ten Rankings for the Happiest Places on Earth for 2017 Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: The origins of LangSec, rigidity vs. robustness, and using game theory to make security better for everyone.In this episode, I talk with Meredith Patterson, a software engineer and leader of the Langsec Conspiracy. We discuss the origins of LangSec, rigidity versus robustness, and game theory as it applies to organizational approaches to security.Here are some highlights: The origins of LangSec One evening I was having dinner with another fellow grad student who was doing security, and we were talking about SQL injections. He explained to me how it was possible with some web applications or HTML forms to add additional phrases of SQL in such a way that you could trick a database into executing arbitrary queries for you. He was explaining to me that people try to white list or black list against certain regular expressions to try to prevent this from happening, but it doesn't work terribly well. I said, 'That's silly, because SQL is a context free language.' This was something that was readily evident to me from all the formal language theory I'd been doing. I said, 'Why don't people try to white list against context free expressions instead?' He replied, 'What would that possibly look like?' I said, 'I can't really explain it over a dinner table, so I guess I'm just going to have to go home and write some code to do it and explain it that way.' So I did. That ended up turning into my very first ever Black Hat talk. That was 2005. The absence of unmitigable surprise Dan Gear, who we had as our speaker at the second IEEE workshop on language theoretic security, gives a definition of security that I absolutely love. He says, 'It's the absence of unmitigable surprise.' I think that robustness falls under this definition as well. Part of security is making sure that your code is hardened against malicious inputs. If you look at the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for instance, the vast majority of them are going to be input vulnerabilities of one kind or another. In LangSec we argue that the way to avoid these kinds of vulnerabilities is to be definite about what input you are willing to accept, and reject everything that doesn't fit that. It's not a matter of rigidity for rigidity's sake. It's a matter of having all behavior be defined. This is honestly one reason I think functional languages lend themselves better to this approach—because it's easier to be exhaustive about inputs. A lot of the time the compiler will warn you, but the good news is that we are starting to see systems languages moving in this directional, particularly with Rust. Using game theory to make security better for everyone I asked Meredith—who also studied game theory in grad school—what organizations can do when they reach Nash equilibrium, which is a game theory state where none of the players have anything to gain by changing their strategy. My friend Quinn Norton loves to say that 'it's really difficult to pull out of a tailspin from the inside.' Part of that is that it can be difficult to really see what the landscape of payoffs is. You make predictions about the payoffs of various moves you could make, various decisions you might make based on your expectations and your confidence in those expectations. Essentially your expectations and your confidence in your expectations dictate the strategy you play. To change the payoffs, you can lower the cost of adoption, or you can alter the optics. [It would help] if you could point to success stories. There's actually one talk that I'm looking forward to at the Security conference, which is the Secure NTP talk. They got rid of a tremendous amount of attack surface in NTP just by carving off large amounts of legacy code. This is brilliant. I haven't looked into where they are in terms of the quality of their parsing, but that might very well be something I can contribute. I think we'll start to see more success stories of people just using basic principles.

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: The origins of LangSec, rigidity vs. robustness, and using game theory to make security better for everyone.In this episode, I talk with Meredith Patterson, a software engineer and leader of the Langsec Conspiracy. We discuss the origins of LangSec, rigidity versus robustness, and game theory as it applies to organizational approaches to security.Here are some highlights: The origins of LangSec One evening I was having dinner with another fellow grad student who was doing security, and we were talking about SQL injections. He explained to me how it was possible with some web applications or HTML forms to add additional phrases of SQL in such a way that you could trick a database into executing arbitrary queries for you. He was explaining to me that people try to white list or black list against certain regular expressions to try to prevent this from happening, but it doesn't work terribly well. I said, 'That's silly, because SQL is a context free language.' This was something that was readily evident to me from all the formal language theory I'd been doing. I said, 'Why don't people try to white list against context free expressions instead?' He replied, 'What would that possibly look like?' I said, 'I can't really explain it over a dinner table, so I guess I'm just going to have to go home and write some code to do it and explain it that way.' So I did. That ended up turning into my very first ever Black Hat talk. That was 2005. The absence of unmitigable surprise Dan Gear, who we had as our speaker at the second IEEE workshop on language theoretic security, gives a definition of security that I absolutely love. He says, 'It's the absence of unmitigable surprise.' I think that robustness falls under this definition as well. Part of security is making sure that your code is hardened against malicious inputs. If you look at the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for instance, the vast majority of them are going to be input vulnerabilities of one kind or another. In LangSec we argue that the way to avoid these kinds of vulnerabilities is to be definite about what input you are willing to accept, and reject everything that doesn't fit that. It's not a matter of rigidity for rigidity's sake. It's a matter of having all behavior be defined. This is honestly one reason I think functional languages lend themselves better to this approach—because it's easier to be exhaustive about inputs. A lot of the time the compiler will warn you, but the good news is that we are starting to see systems languages moving in this directional, particularly with Rust. Using game theory to make security better for everyone I asked Meredith—who also studied game theory in grad school—what organizations can do when they reach Nash equilibrium, which is a game theory state where none of the players have anything to gain by changing their strategy. My friend Quinn Norton loves to say that 'it's really difficult to pull out of a tailspin from the inside.' Part of that is that it can be difficult to really see what the landscape of payoffs is. You make predictions about the payoffs of various moves you could make, various decisions you might make based on your expectations and your confidence in those expectations. Essentially your expectations and your confidence in your expectations dictate the strategy you play. To change the payoffs, you can lower the cost of adoption, or you can alter the optics. [It would help] if you could point to success stories. There's actually one talk that I'm looking forward to at the Security conference, which is the Secure NTP talk. They got rid of a tremendous amount of attack surface in NTP just by carving off large amounts of legacy code. This is brilliant. I haven't looked into where they are in terms of the quality of their parsing, but that might very well be something I can contribute. I think we'll start to see more success stories of people just using basic principles.

In the podcast's final episode, Tim returns to Quinn Norton and Frank M. Ahearn, both of whom have first-hand experience of watching people disappear. What exactly would people need to do in order to vanish? Is it a matter of determination, technical skill, deceit, or blind luck? What’s the balance between creating a new life and burying the old one? With their help, Tim sifts through the final evidence before asking, in the 21st century, is it really possible for someone to disappear?

What’s life like for someone that actually, successfully disappears? Is it glamorous, a heady cocktail of new identities and new experiences? Or is it a constant, grinding pressure, as you're isolated from your friends, family and - increasingly - the truth? This week, Tim is joined by journalist Quinn Norton, ‘digital hitman’ Frank M. Ahearn, and Dr Nigel Blackwood, as they describe the unique pressures of life on the run.

Journalist and internet activist Quinn Norton discusses the cookies and algorithms that track you online -- including on FiveThirtyEight.com -- and how they shape identity.

Journalist Quinn Norton, #SOPA!, #Occupy!, and our new SEO keyword "stochastic"

Die heutige Sendung basiert auf dem hervorragenden 23C3-Bodyhackingvortrag von Quinn Norton. Die Sendung soll einen Überblick geben, was bereits möglich ist und getan wird. Ausserdem wollen wir auch die ethischen Seiten der funktionalen Körpermodifikation ein wenig beleuchten.