The Lippard Blog

It was interesting to go back through the old posts on this blog about the CIA torture program in light of the new film, The Report, which ...

From John Keeling , by way of the May 2019 Fortean Times (p. 28): In 1945 a jittery American public was mistaking Venus for Japan’s FU-GO...

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2018. Charles Arthur, Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shock...

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2017. Items with hyperlinks are linked directly to t...

Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA14) has circulated a draft bill, the "Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act" (or ACDC Act), which amends the Co...

In Andy Greenberg's Wired article on February 9, 2017, "Trump Cybersecurity Chief Could Be a 'Voice of Reason," he write...

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2016. Items with hyperlinks are linked directly to t...

Not much blogging going on here lately, but here's my annual list of books read for 2015: George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Ph...

I've been using OpenBSD since way back at release 2.3 in 1998, so I've gone through upgrades that took a fair amount of work due to ...

" I believe that we are rapidly transitioning from an Age of Information to an Age of Misinformation, and in many cases, outright disi...