My tweets

• Thu, 12:30: Meanwhile on LJ: My tweets - Wed, 12:33: Meanwhile on LJ: My tweets - Tue, 12:30: Meanwhile on LJ: My tweets - M... http://t.co/PtcTVOhe5m
• Thu, 15:26: Black ice in Wilsonville, pretty much everywhere. #pdxtraffic
• Thu, 15:30: RT @HuffingtonPost: "I am pro-gay-rights because I am an Orthodox rabbi, not in spite of it." http://t.co/kisBJ79VXl
• Thu, 22:48: Thursday Miscellany! http://t.co/Je1pFfKibC
• Thu, 23:26: Meanwhile on LJ: Thursday Miscellany! - Three Senators are drafting new Iran sanctions in defiance of the Obama Ad... http://t.co/waib8KHP9G
• Fri, 06:04: Pussy Riot members freed from prison http://t.co/qNdYjWmOut via @usatoday | If they can get visas, best riot grrl tour ever.

Friday Miscellany!

• President Obama's said today the NSA is "not engaging in domestic surveillance or snooping around." I'm pretty sure that's bullshit. Meanwhile, there are claims out of Washington that the NSA's massive snooping program hasn't stopped a single attack. I'm frankly pretty sure that's bullshit, too.


• Conservative antiwar activist Justin Raimondo changes his mind and supports a boycott of Israel.


• Now that China has a probe looking for moon minerals, it might be time to start dividing up the Moon.


• Something mysterious under Seattle has stalled the world's largest tunneling machine. They call this thing "The Object." Horror and Bizarro authors take note!


• Wedding-ish purity rings: creepy-as-fuck sexism, or sexist-as-fuck creepiness?
  
• Via keith418: Banksy's Christmas Card.


• The least classy Christmas gift ever.

Federal Judge strikes down #Utah gay marriage ban. Utah. UTAH. #wtf #lgbt

Whooooooah

A federal judge has struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban, saying it is unconstitutional.

This is Utah we're talking about. To give you an idea of how conservative Utah is, Mitt Romney got three times as many votes as Barack Obama in 2012. And while the state has a libertarian streak, it's mostly because they don't trust government power after the way the LDS was treated. You'd better believe that there's a lot of Utahns who are freaking out right now.

Edit Same-sex marriage licenses are being issued in Salt Lake right now. The Mayor just married two lesbians. Meanwhile the Governor blasted the ruling and the Attorney General is filing for an emergency stay pending appeal.

#NSA paid #RSA to use flawed random number generator, make their encryption easier to crack

Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now know this:

Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show that the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers to create a "back door" in encryption products, the New York Times reported in September.

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Undisclosed until now was that RSA received $10 million in a deal that set the NSA formula as the preferred, or default, method for number generation in the BSafe software, according to two sources familiar with the contract.

In other words, if you used RSA products and the default random number generator, you basically gave the NSA the keys to your kingdom....not to mention anyone to whom the NSA disclosed this information, willingly or otherwise.

You would do well to dump RSA products and find an open source substitute immediately.

The latest disappointment #EVEOnline

Well, I found the EVE Online community on LJ.........


.....and it's abandoned.


Kinda like most of LJ, isn't it?