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A Final Ward

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Thomas and Erin Ptacek on software, security, cryptography, hiring, and the occasional cocktail.

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17 from 22 Jul 2013 to 25 Sep 2026
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2026 5

  1. What Even Is An OS Now?
  2. How To Write With An LLM
  3. Stop Making TUIs
  4. The Emacsification of Software
  5. Vulnerability Research Is Cooked

2025 1

  1. I Went To SQL Injection Court

2016 1

  1. 14 DNS Nerds Don't Control The Internet

2015 7

  1. Be Coachable
  2. Is Extended Random A Malicious NSA Plot?
  3. Starfighter, Summer 2015
  4. Checksums, MACs, and Signatures
  5. The Hiring Post
  6. Against DNSSEC
  7. A Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail Party

2014 2

  1. You Don't Want XTS
  2. How To Safely Generate A Random Number

2013 1

  1. Applied Cryptography Engineering