Matt Blaze
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Matt Blaze's Bio
Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. https://twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at https://www.mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.
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Matt Blaze has 159 posts.
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Matt Blaze BoostedBack in the day on Twitter, there was (and maybe still is, dunno) an account called "scotusblog" that posted summaries of current US Supreme Court decisions. I think it was a small law firm. Their replies were completely full of angry and indignant complaints, threats, and insults from people who assumed
- that they were the Court itself and;
- that tweeting at the Court would get them to change their decisions.
I understand now a little bit what that must have been like.
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Matt Blaze BoostedYour threat to me to not visit the UK because of their new electronic travel authorization requirement is not likely to get me to change the policy. Try offering me a large bribe instead, maybe.
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@Wifiwits @emd @CStamp yes. When you check in for an international flight (pretty much anywhere in the world now), the airline sends your passport info to the destination country, which can (and sometimes does) tell the airline not to board certain passengers (who lack visas, etc).
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@AustinB @ryansingel it’s going to be a mess at LHR tomorrow.
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Matt Blaze Boosted@marjolica did I give any indication that I’m “fuming” over this? Please read the actual words I wrote, rather than the ones you assume I must have written.
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@marjolica did I give any indication that I’m “fuming” over this? Please read the actual words I wrote, rather than the ones you assume I must have written.
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Matt Blaze Boosted@holgerpatzelt @leyrer i’m sorry if my fucking words hurt your delicate sensibilities.
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@holgerpatzelt @leyrer i’m sorry if my fucking words hurt your delicate sensibilities.
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@wendyg Wendy, did I give any indication that I was claiming this was unfair or that I unaware of similar requirements elsewhere or was complaining?
It takes effect TOMORROW. I thought some people would find the information helpful, since it seems not to have been well publicized.
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@ryansingel It’s surprising to me how poorly publicized this seems to have been. I know several people traveling this week who had no idea.
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@paul_ipv6 I hear you can now do it for less than one Scaramucci, even.
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@cpswan no, just a bunch of work obligations. (No one visits London in January for fun).
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Matt Blaze BoostedAdding "providing information about upcoming international travel requirements for frequently visited countries" to the list of things I do that bother people, along with "posting black and white photos" and "discussing things that some people find uninteresting"
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@leyrer bye little troll
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@j_bertolotti So? Did I suggest otherwise?
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Matt Blaze Boosted@leyrer learn to read. I wasn’t “whining”, I was providing information that some people will find directly useful. Go away.
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@leyrer learn to read. I wasn’t “whining”, I was providing information that some people will find directly useful. Go away.
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Matt Blaze Boosted@leyrer I’m trying to provide information that will be helpful to people. Don’t like me doing that? Please feel free to fuck right off.
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@leyrer I’m trying to provide information that will be helpful to people. Don’t like me doing that? Please feel free to fuck right off.
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Matt Blaze BoostedFor the record: This is inconvenient, and I don't like some of the security implications (needing a foreign govt app to apply, possible third parties handling data, etc), but this is NOTHING compared with the invasive visa application processes travelers from many countries have to go through.
Also, all the information the ETA application requires is (and has long been) captured at the border control checkpoint, too.
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