It’s been more than forty years since Ken Thompson delivered his famous talk, “Reflections on Trusting Trust“, which pointed out how there is no avoiding some level of trust. Hence the question here is not: should we trust someone. That decision is already taken. It’s: should we trust that WhatsApp is not running the biggest fraud in technology history.

Advice as old as time but I often forget. Placed well in the context of today’s workplace.

The EFF also has an age verification resource hub. As usual, it’s full of good resources and advice.

The jobs that were dependent on fundamentals of software aren’t going to stop being dependent on fundamentals of software … if you like doing software development, I don’t think interesting software development jobs are going to go away.

More recommended reading linked within:

• The State of SSL Stacks
• Graviola: High quality, fast and easy to build cryptography for Rust

Daniel Caesar returned to Tiny Desk this week 😌

Also worth revisiting his first appearance from 2018: https://youtu.be/PBKa-AAy_vo