@mattblaze

Consider blogging about this! I'd love to share this thread as a blog post or to read more about it in long-form in the future.

I did find this which will keep me busy for a while, as I digest the references:

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/safecracking_and_science/

@Edent

It occurs to me that people outside the security field might find it odd that we openly publish stuff like this. Why help people who might use the knowledge to do bad things?

There are a number of reasons. The first is that only through open discussion are we able to identify and fix problems […]

There will be more video later (there's a TV news crew there) but here's a bit that Jon Duerig has sent from on-site

The post contains a ton of fascinating graphs from the new Spotify music dataset.

We can't resist the sad tone of E-minor! E-minor dominates E-major, unlike most other keys.

@alpha1beta @nikitonsky

I bet the gain is not even a nanosecond, but negative.

To gain time the browser has to receive it in different network packets, but those are at least 14kB (CWND, larger after TLS). They arrive in the same packet. Or, they preload synchronously without batching […]