We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion monthly active users. We found that MMTLS is a modified version of TLS … Read more
We frequently get asked why we’re building text (code) processing software in Rust and not in Python since our performance would be bottlenecked by the LLM inference anyway. In this article I’ll do some exploration on the performance of our … Read more
It kinda depends on which platform handles their bulk messages. For example, if they are messaging you through Twilio, replying with “STOP” will cause Twilio itself to opt you out of messages (https://help.twilio.com/articles/223134027-Twilio-support-fo…), and the sender can’t disable that (https://help.twilio.com/articles/360034798533-Getting-Starte…). … Read more
Hello Richard, I was really surprised when I saw your posting… Such a subject lineis typically used to start holy wars–but considering your reputation,this couldn’t have been your intention. So I read carefully what you’vewritten; but after all, it still … Read more
Hey! I’ve been writing 2 blogs for the past couple of years, one focused on Software Engineering and the other on general life things (e.g. philosophy, psychology, self-improvement, etc). Recently, I’ve created another blog focused on Entrepreneurship. At the moment, … Read more
Listen to this article 00:00 10:03 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Updated at 1:05 p.m. on June 4, 2024 The last time Ron Lance had visited Doggett Gap in western North Carolina, he photographed … Read more
500 priests, cartographic n00bism, and the limits of scale I want to tell you a story about a map that never came to be. When I first heard it, in an interview with Katia Naouri in Desired Landscapes,1 its metaphorical … Read more
No. Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer. Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a … Read more
Monday, 29 April 2024 Internet and Web It’s a common spy thriller trope. There’s a special key that can unlock something critical – business records, bank vaults, government secrets, nuclear weapons, maybe all of the above, worldwide. Our hero has … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The New York Stock Exchange is polling market participants on the merits of trading stocks around the clock as regulators … Read more