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• by SocksCanClose on 11/3/2025, 1:09 AM with comments

• Cyberattack Halts Oh Forklift Maker's Operations

  by SocksCanClose on 6/28/2024, 10:30 PM with 0 comments

• Are Hackers the Biggest Threat to America's Critical Infrastructure?

  by SocksCanClose on 4/12/2024, 12:23 AM with 1 comments

• AMA: Just finished six months of customer discovery around ICS and cybersecurity

  by SocksCanClose on 9/14/2021, 3:31 PM with 4 comments

• Galvanick

  by SocksCanClose on 9/14/2021, 1:48 AM with 0 comments

• “TurboTax” for Industrial Cybersecurity (failed startup idea #5)

  by SocksCanClose on 7/23/2021, 8:29 PM with 0 comments

• Audio Version of WrathOfGnon's “How to Build a Small Town in Texas”

  by SocksCanClose on 7/16/2021, 8:50 PM with 0 comments

• A Mixed Reality Sports Stadium?

  by SocksCanClose on 7/16/2021, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• An ICS Managed Security Services Provider? (Startup Idea #4)

  by SocksCanClose on 7/14/2021, 4:43 AM with 0 comments

• Managing the risks of societal collapse [audio]

  by SocksCanClose on 6/28/2021, 4:04 PM with 0 comments

• Managing the Risks of Societal Collapse

  by SocksCanClose on 6/28/2021, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• Massachusetts Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attack; ferries delayed

  by SocksCanClose on 6/2/2021, 6:47 PM with 251 comments

• Hacking Meat-Space

  by SocksCanClose on 6/2/2021, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• ‘ Wormable’ Flaw Leads July Microsoft Patches

  by SocksCanClose on 7/15/2020, 5:28 PM with 0 comments

• EO: Securing the Information and Communications Tech and Services Supply Chain

  by SocksCanClose on 5/9/2020, 11:15 PM with 0 comments

• (Taleb) Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens – Coronavirus: a Note

  by SocksCanClose on 1/26/2020, 6:55 PM with 1 comments

• Kerckhoffs's Principle

  by SocksCanClose on 2/21/2017, 4:22 AM with 0 comments

• The Truth About Pepe the Frog and the Cult of Kek

  by SocksCanClose on 9/15/2016, 2:18 AM with 11 comments

• Live Auction of Steve Jobs' Personal Effects

  by SocksCanClose on 9/2/2016, 9:29 PM with comments

• The CIA has a team of clairvoyants

  by SocksCanClose on 7/14/2016, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• Imagine the Starling: Peak Fighter, the Swarm, and the Future of Air Combat

  by SocksCanClose on 6/29/2016, 12:46 AM with 0 comments

• Chelsea pensioners

  by SocksCanClose on 6/23/2016, 5:38 PM with 0 comments

• The case for offshore balancing

  by SocksCanClose on 6/21/2016, 6:33 AM with 0 comments

• Optimization

  by SocksCanClose on 6/8/2016, 7:34 PM with 0 comments

• Thank god for the atom bomb [pdf]

  by SocksCanClose on 5/27/2016, 7:13 PM with 1 comments

• Why the US Military turned a hipster tattoo parlor into a special operations lab

  by SocksCanClose on 5/27/2016, 1:08 AM with 1 comments

• Wait, is Facebook using their app to listen in on your conversations?

  by SocksCanClose on 5/25/2016, 4:24 AM with 10 comments

• Our firmware is baked into your machine and we are watching you right now

  by SocksCanClose on 5/24/2016, 11:09 PM with 12 comments

• Peter Thiel: On Things Not Yet Done (2016 Commencement)

  by SocksCanClose on 5/24/2016, 5:29 AM with 0 comments

• Can the DIY movement can help special forces soldiers counter insurgency?

  by SocksCanClose on 5/24/2016, 12:41 AM with 0 comments

• Evaluating the political chess board

  by SocksCanClose on 5/20/2016, 12:30 AM with 0 comments

• Your Employer Is Not the Judge of Your Personal Beliefs

  by SocksCanClose on 5/16/2016, 8:00 PM with comments

• What if this one characteristic is the hidden secret to success?

  by SocksCanClose on 5/9/2016, 6:29 AM with 0 comments

• How A. Q. Khan made Pakistan a nuclear power (2005)

  by SocksCanClose on 5/6/2016, 3:55 AM with 1 comments

• The Silk Road investigative team all moved to this secretive company

  by SocksCanClose on 5/6/2016, 3:51 AM with 0 comments

• Wait, life begins in a flash of light?

  by SocksCanClose on 4/26/2016, 9:55 PM with 0 comments

• Peppers: A Culinary History from Columbus to Mao

  by SocksCanClose on 4/18/2016, 4:36 PM with 0 comments

• Does Facebook have a moral responsibility to shut down Trump?

  by SocksCanClose on 4/16/2016, 5:26 AM with 2 comments

• Who is responsible for explosions at a bruxelles airport and train station?

  by SocksCanClose on 3/22/2016, 5:19 PM with 0 comments

• President Obama: Encryption Debate Isn't Black and White

  by SocksCanClose on 3/12/2016, 1:01 AM with comments

• Coherent Change Detection: Detecting Subtle Environmental Modifications

  by SocksCanClose on 3/9/2016, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• Peak Fighter Jet: The Future of Air Combat Is Black Birds, Not Blackbirds

  by SocksCanClose on 2/18/2016, 12:31 AM with 0 comments

• OMG REY IS OBI WAN'S [GRAND?]DAUGHTER

  by SocksCanClose on 12/30/2015, 8:50 PM with comments

• 'Twas the Night Before Startup (Vint Cerf - 1985)

  by SocksCanClose on 12/28/2015, 9:24 PM with 1 comments

• Why do people join ISIS? Here's what they say when surveyed

  by SocksCanClose on 12/9/2015, 9:30 AM with 0 comments

• Teen who hacked CIA director now going after his FBI counterpart

  by SocksCanClose on 11/5/2015, 10:24 PM with comments

• Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy

  by SocksCanClose on 10/20/2015, 8:12 AM with 0 comments

• Four held in Turkey over Ankara attack, bomber identified

  by SocksCanClose on 10/20/2015, 8:11 AM with comments

• How a US Army strategist thinks about football

  by SocksCanClose on 10/15/2015, 6:35 AM with 0 comments

• So, *this* is what the Army thinks #futurewar is going to look like

  by SocksCanClose on 10/15/2015, 6:00 AM with 1 comments

• Dozens of countries amass cyberweapons, reconfigure militaries to meet threat

  by SocksCanClose on 10/15/2015, 5:36 AM with 0 comments

• Behold: The UAV-Killers

  by SocksCanClose on 10/14/2015, 10:54 PM with 0 comments

• Copyright review may put an end to the Drudge Report

  by SocksCanClose on 10/14/2015, 10:53 PM with comments

• Free Training for Vets: National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program

  by SocksCanClose on 10/14/2015, 10:50 PM with 0 comments

• In China, Your Credit Score Is Now Affected by Your Political Opinions

  by SocksCanClose on 10/12/2015, 10:45 PM with 1 comments

• How a 1200-Year-Old Hacking Technique Can Crack Encrypted Vaults

  by SocksCanClose on 9/10/2015, 7:39 AM with 0 comments

• 94-year-old who served behind Nazi lines reveals terrifying aspects of war

  by SocksCanClose on 9/10/2015, 7:37 AM with 0 comments

• The Cinematic Style of David Fincher, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Director

  by SocksCanClose on 9/1/2015, 7:54 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How best to get CISSP certified?

  by SocksCanClose on 8/24/2015, 1:54 AM with 2 comments

• More subtle Newson/Ive trolling re: #AppleCar (read to the end)

  by SocksCanClose on 8/13/2015, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• Military officers don't need college degrees

  by SocksCanClose on 8/11/2015, 1:24 AM with 1 comments

• Buzz Aldrin's travel voucher, for the Moon

  by SocksCanClose on 8/2/2015, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• How to kill auto-play on Twitter videos

  by SocksCanClose on 6/17/2015, 6:22 AM with 0 comments

• Chekhov's gun

  by SocksCanClose on 6/16/2015, 4:55 AM with 1 comments

• Product Market Fit: I finally saw it in the wild. Now everything makes sense

  by SocksCanClose on 6/11/2015, 6:53 PM with 0 comments

• Enjoy the BBQ, but this is really what Memorial Day is all about

  by SocksCanClose on 5/25/2015, 3:29 AM with comments

• I am Banksy (2005)

  by SocksCanClose on 5/23/2015, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• Ramadi, in flames, falls to ISIS as Iraqi security forces flee Anbar.

  by SocksCanClose on 5/18/2015, 5:57 AM with comments

• Who is behind organic brands?

  by SocksCanClose on 5/17/2015, 12:11 AM with 0 comments

• Entrepreneurs are the New Labor

  by SocksCanClose on 5/14/2015, 5:51 AM with 0 comments

• Did Secretary of the Navy just revolutionize the sea service?

  by SocksCanClose on 5/13/2015, 8:22 PM with 0 comments

• What It Will Take to Create the Next Great Silicon Valleys, Plural (2014)

  by SocksCanClose on 5/11/2015, 5:58 AM with 0 comments

• Arsenal of Democracy: WWII Fighters, Bombers to Over-Fly Capitol This Weekend

  by SocksCanClose on 5/8/2015, 6:44 AM with 0 comments

• A Short Story: H1GH N00N (autonomous trucking, drones, and highway robbery)

  by SocksCanClose on 5/6/2015, 6:36 PM with 1 comments

• Telegraph: Berlin Airlift :: Packet Switching: Syria Airlift

  by SocksCanClose on 4/28/2015, 6:17 AM with 0 comments

• What's the Secretary of Defense Doing at Stanford?

  by SocksCanClose on 4/23/2015, 11:37 PM with 0 comments

• The Department of Defense is setting up shop in Silicon Valley

  by SocksCanClose on 4/23/2015, 2:23 PM with 1 comments

• 2000-year-old headache cure

  by SocksCanClose on 4/23/2015, 6:24 AM with 0 comments

• General Mattis, Reflecting on Iraq and Afghanistan

  by SocksCanClose on 4/20/2015, 8:12 AM with 1 comments

• The Real Story Behind the Islamic State

  by SocksCanClose on 4/19/2015, 12:15 AM with 0 comments

• Rand's running (obv) and he's accepting Bitcoin

  by SocksCanClose on 4/7/2015, 10:12 PM with 1 comments

• Hacking for Defense in Silicon Valley

  by SocksCanClose on 4/1/2015, 4:04 AM with 1 comments

• Would you pass the test to get a job with Thomas A. Edison?

  by SocksCanClose on 3/12/2015, 11:51 PM with 1 comments

• Magic Leap vs. Holo-Lens (from a biased source)

  by SocksCanClose on 3/6/2015, 5:14 AM with 0 comments

• Advice from a billionaire

  by SocksCanClose on 3/5/2015, 6:27 AM with 0 comments

• Hyperloop Construction Starts Next Year With the First Full-Scale Track

  by SocksCanClose on 3/1/2015, 4:36 AM with 8 comments

• Paul Allen Is Hacking Space Travel by Launching Rockets from Planes

  by SocksCanClose on 2/26/2015, 4:41 AM with 0 comments

• Software is eating the [war]

  by SocksCanClose on 2/18/2015, 11:53 PM with 0 comments

• “Patterns of Conflict” – a techno-industrial “Art of War” (1976) [pdf]

  by SocksCanClose on 2/17/2015, 4:16 PM with 4 comments

• Designing for pleasure – designing for mastery

  by SocksCanClose on 2/16/2015, 6:24 AM with 0 comments

• Octopus robot? Where are my laser beams

  by SocksCanClose on 2/15/2015, 7:06 PM with 0 comments

• Time, Money and Email: A Modest Proposal

  by SocksCanClose on 2/15/2015, 4:34 PM with 0 comments

• The era of submarines is coming to an end. This is what's next

  by SocksCanClose on 2/15/2015, 3:22 AM with comments

• Attempting to Revolutionize the United States Navy

  by SocksCanClose on 1/27/2015, 7:18 AM with 0 comments

• Hacking Unmanned Vehicles

  by SocksCanClose on 1/15/2015, 3:41 PM with 0 comments

• Andrew Marshall (“Yoda”) and the End of the World

  by SocksCanClose on 1/12/2015, 11:05 PM with comments

• This just makes me sad that someone hasn't made a Cryptonomicon trilogy

  by SocksCanClose on 1/12/2015, 4:23 AM with 1 comments

• 'Twas the Raid Before Christmas (A Forfeiture Tale)

  by SocksCanClose on 12/23/2014, 6:08 PM with 0 comments

• Google Form export to Google Doc (based on a Template)?

  by SocksCanClose on 12/23/2014, 6:01 PM with 1 comments

• by SocksCanClose on 9/1/2014, 2:09 AM with comments

• Norwegian Military Mash-up: Virtual Reality + Actual Tanks

  by SocksCanClose on 5/6/2014, 5:18 PM with 0 comments