Alan Chung Ma
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Alan Chung Ma
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ms in cybersecurity @uni-saarland.de and @cispa.de, future phd candidate

making sense of the world one packet at a time

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sorry, we're in a technofeudalism

not sure what you mean by ownership
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
se que para sanar tendré que esperar,
hasta que el corazón este cansado
del dolor por no parar de cantar
acerca del quien he amado.

el tren de la vida sige llendo,
sin importar que no te deje de mi mente.
quisiera siempre estar esperando,
la vida completa con mi amante.
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
am sure it'll be better when it's always in our field of view with meta raybans :)
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
yugoslavian flag?
November 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
typo when editing, remove "be" from first paragraph :P
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
the idea with TEEs (in a perfect world) is that physical access, or even control over the host system like a hypervisor or OS, would not be lead an adversary to see into what it is running or the secrets on the TEE

obviously the trust assumption has not aged as well as the idea

defense is hard!
October 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
fair, but i believe signal runs their code on top of all the three main cloud providers, which in theory should cover most outages from individual providers

i'm waiting for a post mortem or RCA as i am not too familiar with their infra
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
global network reliability and performance is not there with smaller providers

it's very expensive to set it up, and even more so to maintain. a small or even medium sized cloud provider would not setup such a system since there are very few customers that would even need it or notice it
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
more b10 schools than inexpected in top 30 ngl
October 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
this is bonkers
October 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
what are must do's in your opinion in both cities?

have been to both but wouldn't mind going again!
October 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
thanks for the heads up :P
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
do you have swap enabled to make extra headroom?
October 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
i am not too familiar with German and EU politics (yet), but this is not a concrete no from the German delegation, right?
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
i use its RSS feeds mainly, but you can get that on other platforms as well

probably, at one point, the simplest way to set everything up?
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
yes to all of the above

have just been using "Following" and "Popular With Friends" and rarely go into the comments due to this
October 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
this will not protect my future children, this will not protect children throughout the EU, this will not protect children throughout the world
October 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
i do not want my privacy to be breached by a system the backing lawmakers do not trust

i do not want the government snooping the conversations with my partner, lawyers, doctors, family and friends
October 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
@citizenlab.ca has reported that numerous EU member states have been consumers and users of invasive spyware like Pegasus from NSO and Graphite from Paragon

this legislation will seek to perpetuate the brazen breach of personal privacy such spyware enables to everyone's personal conversations
October 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM