The Blog of Random

A blog about the most random things you can think of.

History

Love and War

A modern-day tragedy

Written by noClaps

The Phalanx Formation

My favorite ancient Greek battle formation

Written by noClaps

History of Toilet Paper

The long and quite strange history of toilet paper

Written by noClaps

Law

Duty of Care

R v Stone and Dobinson

Written by noClaps

Science

The Split-Brain Experiment

Cutting the corpus callosum

Written by noClaps

Collatz Conjecture

The simplest hardest problem in math history

Written by noClaps

Chaos Theory

How the simplest things can go haywire

Written by noClaps

Tech

Battle of the Browsers

A comparison of different browsers, and a peace treaty

Written by noClaps

How to Make an OS

The various pros and cons of different operating systems

Written by noClaps

Be Social

What's your [enter social media here]?

Written by noClaps

Google: A Misrepresented Evil

Don't be evil, sometimes.

Written by noClaps

Inside E2EE

Part 1: Introduction

Hiding data with style

Written by Mester

Part 2: The X3DH key agreement protocol

Creating secure shared secrets with an offline party

Written by Mester

Part 3: The Double Ratchet Algorithm

A great way of encrypting messages between two parties.

Written by Mester

Appendix A: Safely storing private data

You can't keep your browser open forever, can you?

Written by Mester

Privacy, Security and Anonymity

Intro to Privacy, Security and Anonymity

How to protect yourself from the internet, on the internet

Written by noClaps

Messengers

The right and wrong places to talk to people

Written by noClaps

Threat Modelling

Why are you running?

Written by noClaps