Steven Myers

Cryptographer, Computer Security and Privacy Researcher & Engineer Former Professor, Runner, Dad

[Ivan Krstić @radian]

🔺New on the Apple Security Research blog: introducing PQ3, a groundbreaking post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage. To our knowledge, PQ3 has the strongest security properties of any at-scale messaging protocol in the world. https://t.co/NIyeXjVne6

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@ThomasDecru “Clearly it follows..”

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@Leptan So much better than the first season!

[Nigel Smart @SmartCryptology]

Call for papers for the new IACR journal is out..

https://t.co/cm33XTleE4

Please support this journal. It is the outcome of a many year community led effort to improve the publication process in cryptography.

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@matthew_d_green

[Jelani Nelson @minilek]

I listened live to this episode of @KQEDForum guest hosted by @mlagos, and unfortunately it missed the mark. The host seems to have fallen into the culture war trap of thinking the central pushback against the CA Math Framework was based on whether social justice should or should not be incorporated into math, and this distracted her focus throughout the episode. Yes this criticism was brought up in an open letter from more than 2 yrs ago (https://t.co/NpndKYDY51), but IMO the letter was fairly inconsequential and isolated in its focus compared to most other pushback.

Much more pushback came later that had nothing to do with 'social justice' or culture wars at all. One central thread of later pushback focused on new data science centered curricula being pushed by the CMF to replace traditional math courses, yet no known such course adheres to CA state standards. One of these courses (UCLA IDS) was even promoted during the official CA Dept of Education presentation (!) at the July 12th State Board meeting in which the CMF was adopted (https://t.co/dMInalNSmD). This is despite a formal committee at Cal State, representing all 23 campuses, passing a resolution that IDS "represents inadequate preparation for college" and not properly meeting state standards (https://t.co/itj8POoHXT).

Why did the official CA Dept of Education presentation in July support a course that doesn't meet state standards? Why was this huge issue completely ignored by the episode's host? And also this open letter signed by nearly 500 faculty on the issue, which again had nothing to do with social justice (https://t.co/x7u2tMsemA)? Or this Op-Ed by the deans of both data science and engineering at UC Berkeley (https://t.co/him6uFLLcX)?

I can only imagine the KQED host failed to incorporate such discussion into the episode because she failed to understand what the pushback was really about, which is unfortunate. A missed opportunity -- the episode could have been so much better.

@alexismadrigal

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@martinstrand Sure

[Christopher Skelly @Skelly4Liberty]

@harryjsisson Can you name a provision in the Constituion that regulates the Supreme Court?

[Carmela Troncoso @carmelatroncoso]

1\ Last week, @YlvaJohansson wrote a post in response to the open letter from more than 300 scientists (more than 450 by now)
@bpreneel1 and I respond with an op-ed on Euronews explaining our concerns are not addressed 🧵👇
https://t.co/XsdlAZ1fnQ

[Jelani Nelson @minilek]

In Sacramento to give in-person public comment on the California Math Framework. Hello from the @SBECalifornia.

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix]

Church’s lambda calculus and the Turing machine are equally powerful but differ in the fact that Turing machines use mutable state. To this day, there is a rift between functional and imperative programming languages, because of the separation of Church and state.

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@matthew_d_green C isn’t on the diagram. You think C is <= 20%?

[Larry Brilliant MD MPH FACPM 💛💙 @larrybrilliant]

COVID-19 digital contact tracing worked — heed the lessons for future pandemics https://t.co/aAhchj6HpH

[Boaz Barak @boazbaraktcs]

Don’t let the “please stop” quote tweeters mislead you. Advocating for replacing algebra and calculus with data science is advocating to teach less math.

https://t.co/F91fifTV6P

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

When recruiting athletes in track we don't rely solely on times.

A 4:10 miler in California is valued less than 4:15 in Alaska.

We adjust based on circumstances, training, etc.

Yet, we often look down on similar adjustments in academics & admissions:
https://t.co/DdrKvovOHR

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@ColecaTheGreat @djdunclive The last writers strike led to more reality TV which lead to the Apprentice. There is another writers strike now. We should give them whatever they demand immediately.

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@__apf__ @Dan_M_Sullivan Another trick is to use a pitch fork.

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@united These are basic issues that should have been caught well before production deployment.

[Steven Myers @cryptolicious]

@united Really disappointed. You ask us to prepare by providing vaccination info at your Travel Ready Center site to ensure smooth travels but it won't accept any of my vaccination information by manual entry or via SMART Health Card.