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Florentin Rochet
@frochet.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UNamur, Privacy & Computer Security.

hacks on privacy-enhancing technologies and networking protocols

https://frochet.github.io
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"I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats" -- RFK Jr.

Indignez-vous (Time for outrage!).
February 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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February 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Roxana Radu and I wrote a short letter about the need to uphold the sanctity of citations in academia, and not giving in to AI. The craft and art of attributing and situating knowledge are in danger, and we believe this would first harm under-credited, often erased work.
Screenshot from article that starts as follow: Meticulous citation is a marker of well-researched, serious scholarship. Citations do a lot more than attributing credit; they situate claims within the context of existing research and enable scrutiny. When authors cite carelessly, for example by referencing famous figures and articles while overlooking original sources, they make two important errors. First, they credit ideas to the wrong person and, second, they reveal a limited understanding of the relevant scholarship. Misattribution disproportionately harms underrepresented voices, whose work has been shown to be consistently more innovative than that of established researchers1. Research led by women tends to be less cited than comparable research led by men. Similarly, research from underrepresented groups, as well as from amateurs and beginners, tends to lead to more breakthroughs and innovation, yet remains less cited than follow-up work from established researchers.
February 9, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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France is dumping Teams. Universities should list that in their employment benefits.
February 4, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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I am expecting an award from EFF (a small medal), but customs consider it as a "high value good" and would not send it; I would need to drive by for "clearance". wat de fuk.
February 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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New research paper out: **Contiguous Zero-Copy for Encrypted Transport Protocols**. This paper explains we may have got the integration of symmetric cryptography into networking protocols wrong for efficiency.

But we can fix it simply by ... reversing everything. A thread
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Contiguous Zero-Copy for Encrypted Transport Protocols
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February 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM
frochet.bsky.social
Listen to Batman
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From the GenAI4all community on Reddit: Ben Affleck says Al is overhyped and explains why it is not replacing artists
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January 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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On the first semester of 2025-2026, projects in my classes were not marked anymore. Only feedbacks were given upon project consultation. Results: almost all students submitted their project; it was mostly AI-generated code like in 2024-2025, but I don't feel obligated to confront after the fact.
January 25, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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Lui l'a avoué. D'autres ont plus de mal, y compris à s'avouer à elleux-mêmes que l'usage d'une IAgen se fait au détriment de leur compréhension et donc de leur apprentissage… alors que c'est *systématique* !
January 24, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Boycott U.S. journals and conferences
blog.xot.nl/2026/01/21/b...
Boycott U.S. journals and conferences
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January 21, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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I think we are witnessing the beginning of context windows large enough to carry long chain of thoughts needed for iterations of a "research prompt" assembling a broken paper. I see "knowledgeable" reviewers getting completely fooled. We're toasted :)
frochet.bsky.social Florentin Rochet @frochet.bsky.social · 28d
Reviewing a paper for a top conference, page 2 appears to have a Related Work partially or fully AI generated, with hallucinated references and statements. Am I right to stop reviewing there, ignoring parts of the paper that are not AI slop? Thoughts?
January 19, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Statements from my last 4 reviews: we are so fucked.
January 19, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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Grok is so much worse than you think.
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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tax the GAFAM
January 16, 2026 at 4:19 PM
frochet.bsky.social
Reviewing a paper for a top conference, page 2 appears to have a Related Work partially or fully AI generated, with hallucinated references and statements. Am I right to stop reviewing there, ignoring parts of the paper that are not AI slop? Thoughts?
January 16, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Facebook allegedly detected when teen girls deleted selfies, then served them beauty ads at that specific, potentially 'vulnerable moment. futurism.com/facebook-bea...
January 16, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Pensée du jour: on est plus proche d'être dans Pluribus que dans la Matrix.
January 14, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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This man is a "a decadent, monstrous gasbag of depravity and evil". As said William Hughes to describe Baron Harkonnen from Dune. You had another name in mind reading the first sentence? :)
January 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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Microsoft announced self-hosted Github Actions to be billed by the minute starting in 2026 ... Of course that wasn't well received, and they backtracked that for now.

Massive exode to GItLab soon?

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December 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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carmelatroncoso.bsky.social
It is already starting... barries in the internet rippling into prohibiting privacy technologies
je5perl.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy Jesper Lund @je5perl.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 10
The Danish government is using the upcoming Christmas break to slip through a public consultation for a draft law that would make it an OFFENCE to use a #vpn to access content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of […]

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English translation of the highlighted part: The term ‘other technical solution’ should be understood broadly. The broad wording is intended to ensure that the proposed amendment covers any technical solution used to provide unauthorised access to media content. [..] For example, it will also be prohibited to use VPN connections to access media content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of illegal websites.
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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J'utilise un écran 4K pour la première fois. J'ai l'impression d'avoir de nouvelles lunettes.
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I am looking forward Cloudflare's blogpost
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Donc, hier soir, j'ai fais une escape room sur le thème d'un cambriolage d'un cartel colombien. Pendant ce temps, ma maison se faisait visitée par des voleurs. Sacrés colombiens, ils avaient un coup d'avance.
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Ah, it finally happened: reading a review (I am a reviewer too), I can see the review is AI-generated. The review contains bland reasoning idiocy.
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM