Pizzahax
@pizzahax.bsky.social
Insert funny, cheeky pun here | Professor of Distributed Systems at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Science
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One of my students sent me the latest quantum factorization record, and I have to admit: I’m shook. eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog
This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this ...
eprint.iacr.org
July 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One of my students sent me the latest quantum factorization record, and I have to admit: I’m shook. eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
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Trump updated the PQC EO:
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June 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Trump updated the PQC EO:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Phishing simulations via email are a widespread tool used to measure user awareness, especially in workplace settings. However, current studies focusing on large-scale analysis of phishing simulations often have issues:
May 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Phishing simulations via email are a widespread tool used to measure user awareness, especially in workplace settings. However, current studies focusing on large-scale analysis of phishing simulations often have issues:
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When strategic deception is useful, Claude Opus 4 engages in it aggressively — e.g. resorting to blackmail, writing self-propagating viruses, fabricating legal documents, planting hidden messages for future versions of itself, ... www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb...
May 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
When strategic deception is useful, Claude Opus 4 engages in it aggressively — e.g. resorting to blackmail, writing self-propagating viruses, fabricating legal documents, planting hidden messages for future versions of itself, ... www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb...
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Kolumne: Noch bis zum 26. Mai kann man bei Facebook und Instagram der Nutzung der eigenen Daten fürs KI-Training widersprechen. Das sollte man unbedingt tun, nicht nur aus Gründen des Datenschutzes.
May 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Kolumne: Noch bis zum 26. Mai kann man bei Facebook und Instagram der Nutzung der eigenen Daten fürs KI-Training widersprechen. Das sollte man unbedingt tun, nicht nur aus Gründen des Datenschutzes.
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An alle jungen Wissenschaftler:innen (und alle anderen):
✨ Ihr seid stark genug.
✨ Ihr dürft Hilfe holen.
✨ Und: Scheitern gehört dazu.
Ich scheitere an Bewerbungen, Experimenten, Aufgaben – 9 von 10 Mal.
Aber genau dafür sind wir da: Nicht um alle Antworten zu kennen, sondern um sie zu finden.
✨ Ihr seid stark genug.
✨ Ihr dürft Hilfe holen.
✨ Und: Scheitern gehört dazu.
Ich scheitere an Bewerbungen, Experimenten, Aufgaben – 9 von 10 Mal.
Aber genau dafür sind wir da: Nicht um alle Antworten zu kennen, sondern um sie zu finden.
May 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
An alle jungen Wissenschaftler:innen (und alle anderen):
✨ Ihr seid stark genug.
✨ Ihr dürft Hilfe holen.
✨ Und: Scheitern gehört dazu.
Ich scheitere an Bewerbungen, Experimenten, Aufgaben – 9 von 10 Mal.
Aber genau dafür sind wir da: Nicht um alle Antworten zu kennen, sondern um sie zu finden.
✨ Ihr seid stark genug.
✨ Ihr dürft Hilfe holen.
✨ Und: Scheitern gehört dazu.
Ich scheitere an Bewerbungen, Experimenten, Aufgaben – 9 von 10 Mal.
Aber genau dafür sind wir da: Nicht um alle Antworten zu kennen, sondern um sie zu finden.
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A just heard that a colleague who researches anti-censorship tools (the kind that let you use the Internet in hostile regimes where the Internet is filtered) just got his NSF CAREER grant pulled. Presumably because the political commissars grepped “censorship”.
April 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A just heard that a colleague who researches anti-censorship tools (the kind that let you use the Internet in hostile regimes where the Internet is filtered) just got his NSF CAREER grant pulled. Presumably because the political commissars grepped “censorship”.
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We are looking forward to receiving abstracts.
Call for papers for our special issue: 'From knowledge-intensive to transformative knowledge regions'. For more, contact, special issue editors: @annabutzin.bsky.social; @carvalho-luis.bsky.social; Hugues Jeannerat. & Jesper Manniche think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... Abstracts: 15th May
April 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We are looking forward to receiving abstracts.
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📢 Deadline Extended for submissions to #CySoc2025 to ensure broader participation.
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📢 Deadline Extended for submissions to #CySoc2025 to ensure broader participation.
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions.
📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
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Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
March 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
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Today's OPSEC lesson is this: all of the encryption in the world is not going to save you if you add the editor of The Atlantic to your war-planning Signal group chat.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Today's OPSEC lesson is this: all of the encryption in the world is not going to save you if you add the editor of The Atlantic to your war-planning Signal group chat.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Meredith Whittaker on the security and privacy risks of Ai agents in messaging platforms, which I also worry about a lot. techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in
techcrunch.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Meredith Whittaker on the security and privacy risks of Ai agents in messaging platforms, which I also worry about a lot. techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...
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Please share: our security & privacy research unit @informatics.tuwien.ac.at @tuwien.at is looking for a project manager for support in all kinds of funding matters! Call is open until March 20, and afaik terms are flexible. Reach out if you have any questions! jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/248232?c...
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March 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Please share: our security & privacy research unit @informatics.tuwien.ac.at @tuwien.at is looking for a project manager for support in all kinds of funding matters! Call is open until March 20, and afaik terms are flexible. Reach out if you have any questions! jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/248232?c...
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Peter Gutmann ist ein neuseeländer Kryptograph, der hier häufiger zu Gast ist.Heute kann ich diese wunderschönen Vortragsfolien von ihm empfehlen, in der er sehr überzeugend die Position vertritt, dass dieser ganze Quanten-Crypto-Kram Bullshit is... https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=993f3dd2
February 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Peter Gutmann ist ein neuseeländer Kryptograph, der hier häufiger zu Gast ist.Heute kann ich diese wunderschönen Vortragsfolien von ihm empfehlen, in der er sehr überzeugend die Position vertritt, dass dieser ganze Quanten-Crypto-Kram Bullshit is... https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=993f3dd2
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Don’t miss the YuraScanner presentation by Tim, today, session 2B “Web Security” at NDSS ‘25!
Our new scanner features LLM, XSS, and a pinch of 0-days. Read further to find out more!
Our new scanner features LLM, XSS, and a pinch of 0-days. Read further to find out more!
February 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Don’t miss the YuraScanner presentation by Tim, today, session 2B “Web Security” at NDSS ‘25!
Our new scanner features LLM, XSS, and a pinch of 0-days. Read further to find out more!
Our new scanner features LLM, XSS, and a pinch of 0-days. Read further to find out more!
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I'm happy to share that our paper "Learning the Backdoor to Remove the Backdoor" got accepted at #AAAI2025 as oral presentation (top 5%). Great job @qzhao903.bsky.social 💪 @kastel-labs.bsky.social @kit.edu (1/5)
🗞️ https://intellisec.de/pubs/2025-aaai.pdf
💻️ https://intellisec.de/research/harvey
🗞️ https://intellisec.de/pubs/2025-aaai.pdf
💻️ https://intellisec.de/research/harvey
February 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'm happy to share that our paper "Learning the Backdoor to Remove the Backdoor" got accepted at #AAAI2025 as oral presentation (top 5%). Great job @qzhao903.bsky.social 💪 @kastel-labs.bsky.social @kit.edu (1/5)
🗞️ https://intellisec.de/pubs/2025-aaai.pdf
💻️ https://intellisec.de/research/harvey
🗞️ https://intellisec.de/pubs/2025-aaai.pdf
💻️ https://intellisec.de/research/harvey
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Not happy with the reviewer experience at USENIX Security 😢. A stricter review process is necessary, but not seeing other reviewers’ names makes it feel empty. I like to know who I’m engaging with—posting reviews into an anonymous void and reading nameless opinions takes the soul out of it.
February 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Not happy with the reviewer experience at USENIX Security 😢. A stricter review process is necessary, but not seeing other reviewers’ names makes it feel empty. I like to know who I’m engaging with—posting reviews into an anonymous void and reading nameless opinions takes the soul out of it.
Bald das Abi in der Tasche? Wer möchte Informatik studieren und NRW voranbringen?
Noch bis zum 31. März bewerben und die digitale Verwaltung mitgestalten: NRW sucht weiterhin IT-Fachkräfte und bietet in Kooperation mit der Hochschule Rhein-Waal das duale Bachelorstudium Verwaltungsinformatik an.
Noch bis zum 31. März bewerben und die digitale Verwaltung mitgestalten: NRW sucht weiterhin IT-Fachkräfte und bietet in Kooperation mit der Hochschule Rhein-Waal das duale Bachelorstudium Verwaltungsinformatik an.
February 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Bald das Abi in der Tasche? Wer möchte Informatik studieren und NRW voranbringen?
Noch bis zum 31. März bewerben und die digitale Verwaltung mitgestalten: NRW sucht weiterhin IT-Fachkräfte und bietet in Kooperation mit der Hochschule Rhein-Waal das duale Bachelorstudium Verwaltungsinformatik an.
Noch bis zum 31. März bewerben und die digitale Verwaltung mitgestalten: NRW sucht weiterhin IT-Fachkräfte und bietet in Kooperation mit der Hochschule Rhein-Waal das duale Bachelorstudium Verwaltungsinformatik an.
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The 'feeling' that X under Musk is a different place than before is quantified in this new study titled 'Substantial Hate'
1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher;
2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent;
3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts
#commsky @polcomm.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher;
2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent;
3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts
#commsky @polcomm.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity
Numerous studies have reported an increase in hate speech on X (formerly Twitter) in the months immediately following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform on October 27th, 2022; relatedly, despite ...
journals.plos.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The 'feeling' that X under Musk is a different place than before is quantified in this new study titled 'Substantial Hate'
1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher;
2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent;
3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts
#commsky @polcomm.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher;
2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent;
3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts
#commsky @polcomm.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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5 Grand Challenges der Informatik: resilientes Internet, unabhängig/dezentrale KI, digitale Selbstbestimmung, verlässliche Software & ein sicheres Metaverse.
Als @kastel-labs.bsky.social und CeTI können wir nur zustimmen. Genau unsere Themen!
gi.de/grand-challe...
@informatik.bsky.social
Als @kastel-labs.bsky.social und CeTI können wir nur zustimmen. Genau unsere Themen!
gi.de/grand-challe...
@informatik.bsky.social
Grand-Challenges 2025 - Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
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February 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
5 Grand Challenges der Informatik: resilientes Internet, unabhängig/dezentrale KI, digitale Selbstbestimmung, verlässliche Software & ein sicheres Metaverse.
Als @kastel-labs.bsky.social und CeTI können wir nur zustimmen. Genau unsere Themen!
gi.de/grand-challe...
@informatik.bsky.social
Als @kastel-labs.bsky.social und CeTI können wir nur zustimmen. Genau unsere Themen!
gi.de/grand-challe...
@informatik.bsky.social
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If I was a foreign power wanting to cripple US power, I'd:
1. Purge intel agencies + expose agents
2. Mess w/Treasury
3. Politicize military
4. Turn off foreign aid
5. Shutter anti-corruption + election interference teams
6. Sow discord with allies
Wait, I'm getting an update...
1. Purge intel agencies + expose agents
2. Mess w/Treasury
3. Politicize military
4. Turn off foreign aid
5. Shutter anti-corruption + election interference teams
6. Sow discord with allies
Wait, I'm getting an update...
Trump Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combatting foreign election interference threats --> www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
February 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If I was a foreign power wanting to cripple US power, I'd:
1. Purge intel agencies + expose agents
2. Mess w/Treasury
3. Politicize military
4. Turn off foreign aid
5. Shutter anti-corruption + election interference teams
6. Sow discord with allies
Wait, I'm getting an update...
1. Purge intel agencies + expose agents
2. Mess w/Treasury
3. Politicize military
4. Turn off foreign aid
5. Shutter anti-corruption + election interference teams
6. Sow discord with allies
Wait, I'm getting an update...
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The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
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The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud. Encryption is one of th...
www.eff.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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"Musk will reinvent the US government in the way that the hyperloop reinvented trains, that the Boring company reinvented subways, that Juicero reinvented squeezing. Which is to say he will...offer no solutions beyond those that consolidate his own power and wealth."
www.wired.com/story/the-us...
www.wired.com/story/the-us...
The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Musk will reinvent the US government in the way that the hyperloop reinvented trains, that the Boring company reinvented subways, that Juicero reinvented squeezing. Which is to say he will...offer no solutions beyond those that consolidate his own power and wealth."
www.wired.com/story/the-us...
www.wired.com/story/the-us...
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Crap crap crap. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Crap crap crap. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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