@icesurfer.bsky.social
Infosec Swiss Army Knife. Tec diver. Occasional (but published) travel photographer. Opinions are all mine and usually wrong.
Well, due to BA being late and my luggage not making the connection, my trip started with cancelling said connection and spending an unplanned night in Singapore. Could be worse.
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Well, due to BA being late and my luggage not making the connection, my trip started with cancelling said connection and spending an unplanned night in Singapore. Could be worse.
Reposted
The International Association for Cryptologic Research has used heliosvoting.org – my online voting system – for a number of years.
This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run.
Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run.
Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The International Association for Cryptologic Research has used heliosvoting.org – my online voting system – for a number of years.
This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run.
Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run.
Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
Days in London are now short and cold, and that means only one thing: see you in a few weeks.
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Days in London are now short and cold, and that means only one thing: see you in a few weeks.
Reposted
Important piece from Bruce Schneier… Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem buff.ly/0ntqD1n
"The fundamental problem is that AI must compress reality into model-legible forms. In this setting, adversaries can exploit the compression. They don’t have to attack the territory; they can attack the map."
"The fundamental problem is that AI must compress reality into model-legible forms. In this setting, adversaries can exploit the compression. They don’t have to attack the territory; they can attack the map."
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Important piece from Bruce Schneier… Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem buff.ly/0ntqD1n
"The fundamental problem is that AI must compress reality into model-legible forms. In this setting, adversaries can exploit the compression. They don’t have to attack the territory; they can attack the map."
"The fundamental problem is that AI must compress reality into model-legible forms. In this setting, adversaries can exploit the compression. They don’t have to attack the territory; they can attack the map."
As I am once again lost in the depths of the rabbit hole of DCS, it's time to link the best flight sim video ever.
(Watch it until the end or don't watch it at all)
//cc @flightsim.asia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1u...
(Watch it until the end or don't watch it at all)
//cc @flightsim.asia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1u...
Idiots Learn DCS
YouTube video by bio138
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
As I am once again lost in the depths of the rabbit hole of DCS, it's time to link the best flight sim video ever.
(Watch it until the end or don't watch it at all)
//cc @flightsim.asia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1u...
(Watch it until the end or don't watch it at all)
//cc @flightsim.asia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1u...
This is fine
Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story on.ft.com/47WDgKJ
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is fine
Reposted
Recently there's been a coordinated effort by some to talk down London, because it suits their political agenda. The truth must hurt for them - because London has once again been crowned the greatest city in the world.
If, like me, you love London, then my message is this:
If, like me, you love London, then my message is this:
London proves progressive cities work. No wonder some politicians hate that, writes Sadiq Khan | LBC
We must stand up and defend our liberal, progressive, caring capital
www.lbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Recently there's been a coordinated effort by some to talk down London, because it suits their political agenda. The truth must hurt for them - because London has once again been crowned the greatest city in the world.
If, like me, you love London, then my message is this:
If, like me, you love London, then my message is this:
Reposted
Good work by @dangoodin.bsky.social calling this out.
Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous
The results of AI-assisted hacking aren’t as impressive as many might have us believe.
arstechnica.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Good work by @dangoodin.bsky.social calling this out.
Reposted
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
Reposted
Law enforcement: we need to break encryption to get access to Signal to protect the children!!
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Law enforcement: we need to break encryption to get access to Signal to protect the children!!
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
Reposted
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Reposted
of all the atrocities these emails likely allude to, it's still amazing that 'elites' write awful things *in emails*. so above the law, so convinced of their rectitude, so conditioned to impunity.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
of all the atrocities these emails likely allude to, it's still amazing that 'elites' write awful things *in emails*. so above the law, so convinced of their rectitude, so conditioned to impunity.
Reposted
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Reposted
This is spot on. Quantum’s gonna be the next cyber grift (again), after the bottom falls out of GenAI. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is spot on. Quantum’s gonna be the next cyber grift (again), after the bottom falls out of GenAI. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
Reposted
10 November 1929 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helga Hošková-Weissová, was born in Prague.
Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!
Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
10 November 1929 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helga Hošková-Weissová, was born in Prague.
Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!
Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!
Reposted
So, just the normal stuff your carmaker knows about you.
🤯
(From Byron Tau’s Means of Control, which you should read)
#talkaboutSurveillanceCapitalism
🤯
(From Byron Tau’s Means of Control, which you should read)
#talkaboutSurveillanceCapitalism
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
So, just the normal stuff your carmaker knows about you.
🤯
(From Byron Tau’s Means of Control, which you should read)
#talkaboutSurveillanceCapitalism
🤯
(From Byron Tau’s Means of Control, which you should read)
#talkaboutSurveillanceCapitalism
Reposted
Short Answer: Fuck no.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Short Answer: Fuck no.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
I understand that the right wants me to panic, but I am honestly confused. Is he a godless commie or is he an islamic fundamentalist?
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I understand that the right wants me to panic, but I am honestly confused. Is he a godless commie or is he an islamic fundamentalist?
Reposted
You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
Reposted
President Trump's interview on 60 Minutes did very little to clarify his stance on the United States resuming full-scale nuclear tests for the first time in more than three decades. Let's look at some of his statements. 1/11
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
President Trump's interview on 60 Minutes did very little to clarify his stance on the United States resuming full-scale nuclear tests for the first time in more than three decades. Let's look at some of his statements. 1/11
Reposted
If there's one thing I've learned about covering cybersecurity over the past decade or so, is that the cybersecurity community (the fixers and breakers) and the cybersecurity industry (profits above all else) are two very, very different things.
April 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If there's one thing I've learned about covering cybersecurity over the past decade or so, is that the cybersecurity community (the fixers and breakers) and the cybersecurity industry (profits above all else) are two very, very different things.
Reposted
Reposted
I am getting a ton of mileage out of this cartoon.
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I am getting a ton of mileage out of this cartoon.
Reposted
Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Update to our Terms and data use | LinkedIn Help
Update to our Terms and data use
www.linkedin.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Reposted
DoD (DoW?) doesn't run US nuclear testing. DoE does. So I think the actual tip off of what Trump meant came from the statement itself. But who knows. Renewed US nuclear tests was on my bingo card for any GOP administration, as @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social and I discussed on our podcast many times
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
DoD (DoW?) doesn't run US nuclear testing. DoE does. So I think the actual tip off of what Trump meant came from the statement itself. But who knows. Renewed US nuclear tests was on my bingo card for any GOP administration, as @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social and I discussed on our podcast many times