Benlog

Building secure systems is difficult. It would be nice if we had a bunch of well-designed crypto building blocks that we could assemble in all sorts of ways and be certain that they would, no matter what, yield a secure system overall. There are, in fact, folks working on such things at a theoretical level [...]

I’m at the Creative Commons Tech Summit today, where I gave a talk about the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language. Fun group, good stuff, and a bright future for Creative Commons. The CC Interns live-blogged my talk, among others.

I have a couple of very serious and technical posts in progress, but this is too funny to wait:

more graph humor and song chart memes
more graph humor and song chart memes

Thank you, Hillary Clinton, for a very gracious concession speech today. There is sadness in your voice and in your eyes, which is, of course, completely understandable and only human. So thank you for the courage and humility it took to give this sincere speech.

I was a huge Clinton fan in the 90s. And I was pumped to think that Hillary Clinton might be the first female President, back in 2000, when she ran for the Senate and it was clear she eventually would run for the Presidency. But then came Barack Obama, and I saw in him a [...]