Can I suggest dropping pineapple pizza to the Pentagon for their "creative and unconventional ideas" competition?
Arrigo Triulzi
@cynicalsecurity.bsky.social
IT Security, cynically aged. Maths. Some nukes. Longing for Symbolics and Connection Machines. Keeper of Ancient Computing Lore. Wassenaar intangible Ⓐ
📖 MONTEZUMA. 👤 Richmond, Hiram Hoyt (1900—1982) As mariner upon the rocky sea, Without a compass, helm, or heavenly hope, A part of Earth's great ancestry to be Upon the plains of Shinar; and they grope In nature's darkness; they have lost the way
📖 MONTEZUMA. 👤 Richmond, Hiram Hoyt (1900—1982)
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The AI Singularity might end up being the name of the financial crash when someone actually shouts "the Emperor is naked"...
If you use WireGuard on FreeBSD you urgently need to patch¹. And I mean urgently. __ ¹ security.freebsd.org/advisories/F...
Fire danger forecast between 22 and 29 July Very extreme conditions dominate southwestern France and extend into northern Spain, with additional pockets across Portugal and the British Isles and Ireland.
The lyrics of "Spirits in a Material World"¹ by The Police resonate more and more… To think it was the height of the Cold War and we thought it was bad. We had seen nothing :( __ ¹ genius.com/The-police-s...
So, @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy ruined my week telling me that Yubikey has been bought by DigiCert. Someone please tell me we have an alternative?
Meet the people behind MAGIC 🎥 This intro video highlights some of the researchers and industry partners working across the MAGIC consortium - bringing together expertise from academia and industry to tackle shared challenges and create new opportunities through collaboration. #MAGICConsortium
Phantomdrive: an open source encrypted USB drive with a stealth mechanism to hide its second partition - Firmware and hardware (PCB) available on GitHub - Project by Ryan Walker #DIY #Infosec #Privacy rootkitlabs.com/2026/06/22/I...
I'm Building a Secure USB Drive That Hides Itself
This article was written by a human, for humans. Many places don’t respect privacy laws, in certain situations you may be forced to unencrypt …
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Is it just me getting Hunt for Red October vibes, when the Soviet Lyra XO tells the Captain “you idiot, you killed us all!”, each time the US Boss says “Big Attack”, “Hige Attack”, etc.?
Some news! As many of you know, I've been a Distinguished Research Fellow at @fpri.bsky.social consulting with @aaronstein1.bsky.social on space and missile defense. Today it gets much better: the whole freaking open-source research team is joining FPRI full time. (1/4)
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By merging github.com/abarisani/ka... github.com/usbarmory/ta... I wired up agents to the AMD SEV-SNP Guest Hypervisor Communication Block. I now witness Claude trying to escape my Confidential VM. Thanks to TamaGo what feels a master thesis project is rather a 10m integration.
People have been complaining that "In my day, we had to OPTIMIZE our code" since the dawn of computing. Here's a pull quote from 1977. (Source.)
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Techbros building nuclear reactors is really really not funny…
Options available to Infantino: 1. claim Belgium was not on the court, 2-0 "in absentia", 2. claim the referee made a mistake, score was 1-4, 3. wind speed over legal limit, result invalid, 4. football games on Mondays have to be played again, 5. claim Belgium kit was illegal, 2-0 "kit exception".
The USA plays football as well as it goes to war, clearly.
Nobody ever realised that "all your data are belong to us" should have been read "all your data are belong to US".
Ukraine launches TrophyLab: they are opening access to captured russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.🧵 1/2 trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/
Russia kidnapped mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky from Armenia His lawyer is asking to make as much noise as possible
Armenia detained mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky in Yerevan this week at Moscow's request — 11 years after he left Russia for a professorship in Brazil. Russia has classified him a terrorist. He faces up to 40 days in detention if Moscow files for extradition. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
I audibly eyeroll when most cyber people talk about post-quantum crypto, and it's even worse when they're talking big consulting engagement to do what? - update some openssl packages or makes a TLS key exchange explicit? Now you can give them pqc4free github.com/singe/pqc4free
GitHub - singe/pqc4free: A script to check whether your Linux apache/nginx server is serving post-quantum safe crypto, and recommend improvements.
A script to check whether your Linux apache/nginx server is serving post-quantum safe crypto, and recommend improvements. - singe/pqc4free
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