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John Schanck
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cryptography and other things computers are bad at. did some pqc stuff. now i work on a browser. he/him. pdx.
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We teach a broad range of political perspectives here at Harvard... ranging from those of *checks notes*... center-right military officials to... *squints* ultra-right market absolutists, and you should be more grateful for that.
A paragraph from Boaz Barak's recent NY Times op-ed: 'You might think I can avoid politics in the classroom only because I am a computer scientist. This is not the case. Faculty members who are determined enough can inject politics into any topic, and after all, computer science has brought huge and significant changes to society. The interaction of computer science and policy sometimes arises in my classes, and I make sure to present multiple perspectives. When I teach cryptography, a topic at the heart of the tension between privacy and security, I share with my students writings by former National Security Agency officials as well as "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto."'
May 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM