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Stewart Baker
Personal blog · skatingonstilts.comsecuritypolitics
Stewart Baker's personal blog at skatingonstilts.com covers security and politics. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Stewart Baker's site, which hosts his book, for his views on cybersecurity, surveillance and US government policy. The comments say little about the writing itself.
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Publications Travel and (Mis)adventure Life isn't all work. Sometimes it's hypothermia, or heat stroke, or an endless cross-country ski marathon. Join me as I find new ways to forget the office by torturing my family and myself. Read about our misadventures Publications Books, Podcasts, Testimony, a
What Hacker News says?
Read his book: http://www.skatingonstilts.com/
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on “Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government”Submitted Six Uncomfortable Answers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNo, but that's their justification the vast majority of the time. They don't limit it to foreign governments or militaries either. They do engage in economic espionage, fact. They do single out anyone they don't like which isn't limited to terrorists in these campaigns: "radicals", among them Wikileaks supports, fact. Stewart Baker has discredited himself[1], his opinion is worth jack shit frankly. I wouldn't trust…
Comment linking /skating-on-stilts/2014/04/hiding-in-plain-sight-evidence-that-nsa-isnt-wrecking-internet-security.html
on “NSA Reportedly Intercepts And Alters Routers And Servers Exported From U.S.”Submitted What the Prism Stories Tell Us About the Press as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deposing Tim Cook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted European webmail privacy, is it really better than in the USA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Luxembourg: The Steve McQueen of Cybersecurity as a story · 1 points
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