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Ethan Cecchetti
@ethancecchetti.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, PL-Security Researcher, and Bitcoin Unenthusiast at Wisconsin–Madison | Cornell PhD | Ultimate Frisbee player | Aspiring-to-be-more-avid cyclist

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Web: cecchetti.sites.cs.wisc.edu
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Congrats! I have decided to be happy for you despite the existential dread it induces.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
ethancecchetti.bsky.social
You're already writing your dissertation? But you were a new great student like...last month!

Oh no, am I getting old?
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
ethancecchetti.bsky.social
Take a look at El Goonish Shive (egscomics.com, created by @danshive.bsky.social). I've just realized I've been reading it for over 20 years, which is crazy, but says something.
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
ethancecchetti.bsky.social
Do I have to take the puke-filled sewing bag, or can I just have the cat?
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Judge Young then proposes that maybe Americans just don't care because there aren't many immigrant Palestinians among us and Gaza is far away. He then concludes this section with a robust defense of WHY people should care about what this admin is doing, which I'm reproducing in full.

Read it all.
Finally, perhaps we don't much care. After all, these Plaintiffs, a group of non-citizen pro-Palestinians are relatively small compared to the much larger interest groups who have every right vigorously to espouse the cause of the State of Israel. Palestine is far away and its people are caught up in the horrors of a modern war with heavy ordinance wreaking massive indiscriminate destruction, a war that is not one of our making. Why should we care about the free speech rights of their compatriots here among us? Here's why: The United states is a great nation, not because any of us say so. It is great because we still practice our frontier tradition of selflessness for the good of us all. Strangers go out of their way to help strangers when they see a need. In times of fire, flood, and national disaster, everyone pitches in to help people we've never met and first responders selflessly risk their lives for others. Hundreds of firefighters rushed into the Twin Towers on 9/11 without hesitation desperate to find and save survivors. That's who we are. And on distant battlefields our military “fought and died for the men [they] marched among.” Frank Loesser, “The Ballad of Roger Young”, LIFE, 5 March 1945, at 117. Each day, I recognize (to paraphrase Lincoln again) that the brave men and women, living and dead, who have struggled in our Nation's service have hallowed our Constitutional freedom far above my (or anyone’s) poor power to add or detract. The only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
ethancecchetti.bsky.social
Is there also a reporting feature (adjudicated by an area/vice chair) so particularly bad reviews receive no tokens at all? I'm a fan of having both carrots and sticks.

Regardless, I wish the security community would adopt this.
September 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM