Category: hacks
Jun
19
There's been quite a bit of attention ([EFF], [NYT], [BBC]) paid to the [letter] to Google from 38 security experts requesting that they make HTTPS the default for their cloud computing services (GMail, Google Docs, Calendar, etc.).
[NYT]: http://bit… more »
Jun
18
Implementing Risk-Limiting Audits in California
elections, reform, hacks, berkeley, research, policy, legalWe've made available a pre-print version of our forthcoming [EVT/WOTE 2009][1] paper. We'd appreciate any feedback, especially before next week, if at all possible.
[1]: http://www.usenix.org/events/evtwote09/
You can grab the at either of these… more »
Jun
03
*(I'm traveling this week in California for meetings and the [Privacy Law Scholar's Conference](http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/PLSC/), so [Mike] and [Eric] beat me to this announcement...)*
[Mike]: http://electionupdates.caltech.edu/?p=2684… more »
Apr
11
Recently, [Eric Rescorla][EKR] told me about [RefTex], a tool that makes writing documents in [LaTeX] with [emacs] just a tad bit easier.
Specifically, RefTex:
* Can display a table of contents of your document in another sub-window, making the… more »
Mar
18
Hello again internets.
I've been working a bit in my free time on [my family's ancestry] using ancestry.com. One problem, as you can see in that last link, is that visualizing one's family tree can bee a challenge in hardcopy. And I really enjoy my… more »