Heather Adkins
@argv.bsky.social
VP Security at Google. Co-Chair Cybersafety Review Board, Co-Author Building Secure and Reliable Systems. r00t. Medieval historian.
+1 million and if you don’t have time to read it, check out this podcast x.com/historyhit/s...
December 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
+1 million and if you don’t have time to read it, check out this podcast x.com/historyhit/s...
Reposted by Heather Adkins
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Pleased to lend my support behind this important effort… let’s get the right advice out there for folks!
📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
Stop Hacklore!
hacklore.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Pleased to lend my support behind this important effort… let’s get the right advice out there for folks!
Shared some thoughts on Big Sleep, Code Mender and ffmpeg. X-posting to X because I’m not good at social media. 😎 x.com/argvee/statu...
Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est on X: "We’re excited to see the security and OSS communities engage on vulnerability disclosure in light of new AI technologies that we believe will enable both defenders and attackers alike. Existing and emerging norms around disclosure are important debates, and we’ve noted the" / X
We’re excited to see the security and OSS communities engage on vulnerability disclosure in light of new AI technologies that we believe will enable both defenders and attackers alike. Existing and emerging norms around disclosure are important debates, and we’ve noted the
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November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Shared some thoughts on Big Sleep, Code Mender and ffmpeg. X-posting to X because I’m not good at social media. 😎 x.com/argvee/statu...
Stop what you’re doing and read this… don’t get surprised by what’s coming. It’s time to rethink everything you’re doing on cyber defense. H/T to Gadi and Bruce for partnering on this opinion piece. www.csoonline.com/article/4069...
October 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Stop what you’re doing and read this… don’t get surprised by what’s coming. It’s time to rethink everything you’re doing on cyber defense. H/T to Gadi and Bruce for partnering on this opinion piece. www.csoonline.com/article/4069...
Today as part of our commitment to transparency in this space, we are proud to announce that we have reported the first 20 vulnerabilities discovered using our AI-based "Big Sleep" system powered by Gemini — goo.gle/bigsleep
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August 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today as part of our commitment to transparency in this space, we are proud to announce that we have reported the first 20 vulnerabilities discovered using our AI-based "Big Sleep" system powered by Gemini — goo.gle/bigsleep
Today @Google Project Zero announced a new trial policy: Reporting Transparency. We’ll now share when we report a security vuln to a vendor within 1 week including products + deadlines. Goal: shrink the patch gap + drive faster, safer updates for users: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/repo...
Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition
Posted by Tim Willis, Google Project Zero In 2021, we updated our vulnerability disclosure policy to the current "90+30" model. Our goals we...
googleprojectzero.blogspot.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Today @Google Project Zero announced a new trial policy: Reporting Transparency. We’ll now share when we report a security vuln to a vendor within 1 week including products + deadlines. Goal: shrink the patch gap + drive faster, safer updates for users: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/repo...
Good article out from @danielmiessler.bsky.social on using AI properly. danielmiessler.com/blog/how-to-...
Why Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering Both Miss the Point
The debate between prompt and context engineering misses what really matters: clear thinking and vision
danielmiessler.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Good article out from @danielmiessler.bsky.social on using AI properly. danielmiessler.com/blog/how-to-...
Some excellent work by @craiggidney.bsky.social that reduces the number of qubits (in a quantum computer) required to break RSA by 20-fold. If you don’t have a migration plan to safe algorithms, now is the time to start one!
I'm often asked if I'll redo the 2019 quantum factoring estimate. Denser storage by yokes, smaller magic factories by cultivation, slimmer approx arithmetic by Chevignard et al… surely the cost is lower now?
Yes, it's lower now.
security.googleblog.com/2025/05/trac...
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
Yes, it's lower now.
security.googleblog.com/2025/05/trac...
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
May 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Some excellent work by @craiggidney.bsky.social that reduces the number of qubits (in a quantum computer) required to break RSA by 20-fold. If you don’t have a migration plan to safe algorithms, now is the time to start one!
It is still worth it to get a credit card that earns miles. Then you can spend those miles on buying an upgraded fare.
April 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It is still worth it to get a credit card that earns miles. Then you can spend those miles on buying an upgraded fare.
It’s not worth it to play the airline status game anymore. There are too many high-status fliers and the airlines are now making it harder to get it. There are no guarantees beyond paying for a business/first class ticket.
April 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s not worth it to play the airline status game anymore. There are too many high-status fliers and the airlines are now making it harder to get it. There are no guarantees beyond paying for a business/first class ticket.
Good news: egg production is up! www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/am...
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April 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Good news: egg production is up! www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/am...
There’s no better time for it… I feel like we are on the edge of another historical precipice where someone is hailing a new age of greatness whereby we will toss aside what we know now in favor of a perceived gleaming future. 🤮
March 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
There’s no better time for it… I feel like we are on the edge of another historical precipice where someone is hailing a new age of greatness whereby we will toss aside what we know now in favor of a perceived gleaming future. 🤮
Concur. I could see myself accidentally chatting with the wrong ppl from my contacts, getting them confused between one another. The usability is really poor.
March 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Concur. I could see myself accidentally chatting with the wrong ppl from my contacts, getting them confused between one another. The usability is really poor.
How do you like the polestar?
March 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
How do you like the polestar?
We will have memory safety… it will take many steps forward, over the long haul. Here’s an update from Chrome on replacing FreeType with a Rust based alternative. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
Memory safety for web fonts | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.
developer.chrome.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
We will have memory safety… it will take many steps forward, over the long haul. Here’s an update from Chrome on replacing FreeType with a Rust based alternative. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
I can’t believe it’s already been 5 years… wow.
March 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I can’t believe it’s already been 5 years… wow.
Need to do the reciprocal benefits for Russia. They get all the rest too.
March 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Need to do the reciprocal benefits for Russia. They get all the rest too.
Everyday is a good day to patch.
March 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Everyday is a good day to patch.
So often, I see design docs and product pitches reference shoddy news articles, Wikipedia, etc and not apply the kind of scrutiny and skepticism Pat and Adam do. We need a solid repo of material. 2/2
March 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
So often, I see design docs and product pitches reference shoddy news articles, Wikipedia, etc and not apply the kind of scrutiny and skepticism Pat and Adam do. We need a solid repo of material. 2/2
While listening to @patrick.risky.biz and @metlstorm.risky.biz on this week’s risky biz podcast I dreamt up a nice retirement project: “Case Studies for Security Engineering”. Highly curated technical descriptions of incidents written in such a way that solutioneers can understand attacks. 1/2
March 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
While listening to @patrick.risky.biz and @metlstorm.risky.biz on this week’s risky biz podcast I dreamt up a nice retirement project: “Case Studies for Security Engineering”. Highly curated technical descriptions of incidents written in such a way that solutioneers can understand attacks. 1/2
