• Can a Radical New Treatment Save Children With Severe Food Allergies? - NYTimes.com
  Interesting article about controlling food allergies with progressively increasing controlled exposure to the allergens. The author has a child in the study being described, and it's working for him, so there's a certain lack of critical distance in the writing. ( Read more... )

• How to get under Aaron Sorkin’s skin (and also, how to high-five properly) - The Globe and Mail
  Hatchet job or stylish takedown? You decide ( Read more... )

• [cryptography] Key extraction from tokens (RSA SecurID, etc) via padding attacks on PKCS#1v1.5
  This is a great description of the attack on RSA tokens that's going to be presented at Crypto. It turns out that PKCS#1 padding is so broken that you can use its flaws to decrypt any message, even messages that weren't encrypted using PKCS#1 in the ( Read more... )

Just came up with the best idea ever for a Doctor Who story and it seems that none of the possible outlets -- not Big Finish, not BBC Books, and certainly not Doctor Who itself -- are accepting unsolicited submissions. Bah bah bah. Oh well. Will write it up anyway and find a way to shame them into making it, perhaps after my death.