Steve Bellovin

https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@SteveBellovin

I'm a computer science professor and affiliate law prof at Columbia University. Author of "Thinking Security". Dinosaur photographer. Not ashamed to say that I’m still masking, because long Covid terrifies me.
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Home page: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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Photography-only account: Urban Dinosaurs (npub1q4m…njgq)
License: All of my photos available via a Creative Commons BY-NC license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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2024-11-09 03:07:29

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Of of course it would be retroactive — he wants to deport the American-born children of undocumented immigrants, too. You know — the so-called “anchor babies”.

2024-07-20 23:04:00

It was great hearing @npub1akj…7u7q today in Stockbridge. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112818853161604946

2024-07-04 23:00:25

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For me, it was in summer camp—as best I could tell, many camps for many miles around bussed the older kids to some other camp where he was performing.
The next time I saw Seeger was at the March on Washington protesting the war in Vietnam.
If you love your Uncle Sam
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home.
Support our boys in Vietnam,
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home!
I saw him many times after that, in many different settings, including Carnegie Hall and Wolf Trap Farm.

2024-07-04 22:05:46

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Way cool! Thanks! (I first saw and heard Seeger circa 1964-5.)

2024-07-01 14:37:44

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And kicked the case back to the lower court to “properly” analyze. 6-3, with the predictable split.

2024-07-01 14:36:41

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No. It threw out the appellate court rulings on those laws, with some snide comments about the Fifth Circuit, which upheld Texas' law: “there has been enough litigation already to know that the Fifth Circuit, if it stayed the course, would get wrong at least one significant input… the editorial judgments influencing the content of those feeds are, contrary to the Fifth Circuit’s view, protected … activity. And Texas may not interfere… simply because it would prefer a different mix of”

2024-06-28 23:27:24

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I know. And I think that that requires name recognition.

2024-06-28 23:10:23

The problem with Biden dropping out is that the Democrats have very few people who are nationally known by more than the folks who live and breathe politics, if not as a living or even a hobby than out of a sense of civic responsibility. Whitmer? She had her 15 minutes of fame with the kidnapping plot. Klobuchar? Hers was 5 years ago. Harris is the structural choice, picked 5 years ago as Biden’s backup, but she’d attract the racists, the misogynistists, the birthers, and other wing nuts. Who?

2024-05-31 15:40:49

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and his purity of essence and precious bodily fluids?

2024-05-27 16:57:57

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Odd. Anyway, two scientists talking in front of a window, behind which are three monkeys at typewriters: “We only got funding for three monkeys with typewriters, but they wrote the script for Plan 9 from Outer Space.”

2024-05-27 16:53:36

Uh, @npub1lq6…nf7e, were you responsible for https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/comics/bizarro/ ?

2024-05-27 15:51:46

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RS-232? I've been mulling classical or even optical telegraphs…

2024-05-27 15:40:53

Cleaning out my office and stumbled on an old RS-232 breakout box, for DB-25 connectors. I don't really want to get rid of it, but I haven't used even a DB-9 serial port for decades…

2024-05-25 23:18:54

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Python has good tools for dealing with CSV files formatted like that. If you know Python, you could write a very short script that would generate the proper gnuplot commands. (I think there are Python plotting packages but I don't know them, which is why I always use Python to generate the gnuplot input.)

2024-05-21 23:59:54

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Those of us from the NYC area have never been under any illusions about him. He’s always been an authoritarian, self-aggrandizing thug; in TFG, he met a kindred soul.

2024-05-03 01:18:38

“NYPD Officer Fired Gun Inside Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, Manhattan DA’s Office Confirms”: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/
Also note this: “Cohen said no students and only police officers were in the immediate vicinity when the shooting occurred.” In other words, the officer had their gun drawn for no reason and used flash-bangs when that would not be normal for this sort of situation. It is lucky that no one was killed. (It's probably also why the NYPD wanted no journalists or legal observers present.)

2024-04-30 20:18:16

I gave a retirement/farewell talk today. Video at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/farewell.mp4; slides at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/farewell.pdf.

2024-04-19 19:28:51

I also found some *ancient* Usenet maps.
https://files.mastodon.lawprofs.org/media_attachments/files/112/299/535/080/565/914/original/293e7b34f2ca7975.jpeg
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2024-04-19 19:07:38

Cleaning out my office, I found my old Unix licenses.
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