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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Personal blog · josephhall.org/blogsecuritypolitics
Joseph Lorenzo Hall's personal blog at josephhall.org covers security and politics. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Senate’s Draft Encryption Bill [pdf]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments on this blog are not about its writing. They link a hosted image of an HDMI audio 'stuck on mute' problem after the OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 update, and one comment quotes a Senate encryption bill.
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Personal website, research, and publications of Joseph Lorenzo Hall.
Most-linked posts?
- Senate’s Draft Encryption Bill [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-08
What Hacker News says?
"A covered entity that receives a court order for information or data shall provide such information or data in an intelligible format; or provide such technical assistance as is necessary to obtain such information or data in an intelligible format or achieve the purpose of the court order." Okay, so I get that the main section of the bill requires companies which provide encryption to decrypt data upon receiving a…
Comment linking /f0eabaa89b8ee38577bf7d0fd50ddf0d58ecd27a/307378123-Burr-Encryption-Bill-Discussion-Draft.pdf
on “Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance'”Submitted Senate’s Draft Encryption Bill [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaybe this is similar to my issue when I connect to my HDMI TV: If I plug in my audio output (1/8" cable) before connecting the HDMI, I'll briefly see a "NO" symbol with the audio (something like this: https://josephhall.org/nqb2/media/blogs/nqb2/stuck-on-mute.j... ). The workaround I've been using is to disconnect the audio cable, wait a second or two, and reconnect the audio cable. After that, I can send audio to…
Comment linking /nqb2/media/blogs/nqb2/stuck-on-mute.jpg
on “About the OS X Yosemite v10.10.4 Update”Submitted Hacking Time: Spoofing Atomic Clocks with Audio Harmonics as a story · 1 points
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