Monthly Archives: June 2008

Don’t Hash Secrets

Posted on June 19, 2008 by ben

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 … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons Tech Summit

Posted on June 18, 2008 by ben

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.

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The Internet is Funny

Posted on June 12, 2008 by ben

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

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Thank you, Hillary Clinton

Posted on June 7, 2008 by ben

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 … Continue reading →

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What (Who?) Hillary is fighting for

Posted on June 4, 2008 by ben

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 … Continue reading →

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