Archive for April 26th, 2021

“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 391

Monday, April 26th, 2021

Military History Monday!

Today’s videos go out to FotB RoadRich, as they involve two of his favorite things: planes and submarines.

This is an older documentary (about 1990) from Connecticut Public Television on the USS Nautilus.

Back in a previous life, when I was going to Rhode Island semi-frequently, I was lucky enough to visit the Submarine Force Museum in Groton twice. The first time I went, the Nautilus was closed for renovations. So I made a second trip a while later just to see the Nautilus. I really like the museum itself, and the Nautilus: once things open back up again, if you have the chance, I recommend visiting.

Bonus: “Saga of the Skyraider”, a short video about the Douglas A-1 Skyraider.

This is one of those planes that I think would be hella fun to fly as a civilian, and maybe not that expensive to run.

Bonus #2: Since that last one was short, I’ll throw one more in here: “Tactical Weapons Effects Tests”, a 1963 Air Force promo film featuring Century series fighters blowing stuff up.

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Obit watch: April 26, 2021.

Monday, April 26th, 2021

Les McKeown, of the Bay City Rollers.

I have not found a mainstream source for this yet, but it seems to have been confirmed in various places: Dan Kaminsky, noted security researcher.

His politics were not mine, and he was not a personal friend or even acquaintance of mine. But I was lucky enough to see him speak at DEFCON and Black Hat a few times, and the guy was wicked smart. Especially when it came to TCP/IP and DNS: man probably forgot more about DNS than I’ll ever know. (One of my favorite talks involved him demonstrating how he could run streaming audio, in real-time, over the Internet…by embedding data in DNS queries. I believe this was that talk.)

There’s a good Hacker News thread here, and an obit from The Register here.

When your Register hack asked Kaminsky why he hadn’t gone to the dark side and used the flaw to become immensely wealthy – either by exploiting it to hijack millions of netizens’ web traffic, or by selling details of it to the highest bidders – he said not only would that have been morally wrong, he didn’t want his mom to have to visit him in prison.

The Reg obit also includes a link to a playlist of Mr. Kaminsky’s talks on YouTube.

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