Rick Blommers

@gamecreature.bsky.social

Software Engineer, Pragmatic Hacker. Father. Nerd and I love a good espresso. @rick@ruby.social (Ruby, FreeBSD)

There is a European-owned place called Aisle that is doing world class security bug finding. Beating Mythos even. But no one in Europe likes talking up our own talent. Been trying to get them mentioned in Dutch news, but all we can do apparently is promote US tech. aisle.com/blog/aisle-d...

AISLE Discovers 6 CVEs in curl, Including Oldest Issue Ever

AISLE's analyzer discovered 6 new CVEs in curl, more than 2x the nearest AI security platform and including the oldest security issue in the project.

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Got attacked by a botnet with more than 18000 IPs. ActiveHashcash saved that Rails app. I strongly believe that is the best protection since CPU is the most expensive in hardware and it does not annoy final users.

My call for European governments to retain at least a core IT/communication/email/file capability that is independent of US clouds. Named after the iconic Radio Kootwijk which we built in response to the English cutting off our communications with Indonesia in 1916: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Communications without Musk and Trump: Cloud Kootwijk - Bert Hubert

In the beautiful Dutch booklet Over en Uit: Driekwart Eeuw Radiocommunicatie 1900 - 1975 (‘Over and out: 75 years of radio communications’), we read: 1916: As a result of British cable censorship, fre...

berthub.eu