It's December 2nd, which means that for the next 23 days, there's a high probability that you will encounter the classic film A Christmas Story broadcast on TV or streaming services. One of the plot points in the film concerns decrypting a radio message from Orphan Annie's Secret Society, which was based on a real radio program of the era. A while back I wrote up a little post on the (basic, but still interesting) cryptography involved.
Matt Blaze: The Cryptography of Orphan Annie and Captain Midnight
Presumably either the IG's report completely clears Hegseth's opsec, or the IG will be fired.
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NBC - Defense Secretary Hegseth today was given a final copy of the completed DoD Inspector General report that examined his sharing sensitive mili...
San Mateo Bridge, San Francisco Bay, San Mateo, CA, 2024/ All the pixels, no toll collected, at
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San Mateo Bridge
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Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, NYC, 2013. All the pixels, but nowhere near the city of the same name in Maryland, at
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Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, NYC
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US Embassy Building, Wandsworth, London, UK, 2025. All the pixels, each unsure of which side of the road on which to drive, at
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Embassy of the United States, London
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Train in Blizzard
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A more minor thing, but one that still bugs me: Trump, for all his bluster about the shootings of the guard troops he sent to DC, has remained at Mar-a-Lago this whole time. He won't return to Washington until Sunday. He never returned to visit the bedside of Specialist Beckstrom before she died. He hasn't visited Sergeant Wolfe. He hasn't personally offered comfort or gratitude to their families or performed any of the usual post-tragedy gestures of leadership. Instead, today he went golfing.