Tim Bouma

Human Freedom Index…

Preach. Thanks @Karnage…

Status of quantum computer development.…

Questions surround Taiwan’s decentralised military model Lawrence Chung lawrence.chung@scmp.com South China Morning Post Dec 21, 2025 Lawmakers briefed on heightened risk of sudden strike paralysing command and control systems Taiwan’s military has stepped up training in decentralised command and control, aiming to ensure frontline units…

A Bluffer's Guide to PQC Digital Signatures: (Source: Bill Buchanan) In digital signing, a private key is used to sign the hash of a message, and the associated public key will verify it. RSA, ECDSA and EdDSA are all broken by Shor's algorithm. For digital certificates,

“The first rule of secret quantum computer club is that you don’t do anything that might let people know you have a secret quantum computer.”…

PQC…

Trust and Power are actually opponents in a zero-sum game.…

Exit your goldfish bowl.…

Thanks for this. It’s heartbreaking to see (former) colleagues turning into unwitting dupes for the State. Not necessarily bad in most cases, but you can see them swimming in their own goldfish bowl and there’s really nothing you can do but to exit your own goldfish bowl.…

And it came to pass in 2025, that there went out a decree from The Centre, that all the world should have a digital ID. 2. (And this ID was first called for when Tony was governor of Britannia). 3. But all were already ID’d, every one who wanted…

My npub has no dob.…

PQC is the new COVID…

THE END OF A 10 M-YEAR LOVE AFFAIR The Economist (North America) Dec 20, 2025 Civilisation was built on booze. Technology may sober us up WHETHER IT IS champagne fizzing on the tongue, a hoppy beer coating the palate, or a plummy wine staining the lips, alcohol announces itself…