Renato Gabriele

vintage radio shack instruction manual cover titled “radio shack presents eliza.” cream-colored background with a black silhouette profile of a woman’s head at center. inside the silhouette, white text reads “how do you do? my name is eliza. what is your problem?” large red text below says “the amazing artificial intelligence simulation.” smaller text notes it is for use with trs-80 microcomputer systems. overall look is 1970s–1980s consumer computing design, earnest and slightly uncanny.

gm rise and grind, since 1979... WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM

LinkedIn for AI-bots. And a freelancer gig market - also for AI bots.

That's really fun, I remember something like that, with the same sounds but with colors, but instead of radio frequencies they were playing port tcp/up traffic's and security threats :)

YouTube video by Rootkid I built a light that can see radio waves

Honestly I love rootkit. Building a light that can see hidden radio waves

youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?...

Great piece on the idea, design and actual implementation

This mini thermal camera can sense the surface temperature of things and display them as a colorful heatmap. learn.adafruit.com/thermal-camera-with-display/overview #diy #electronics #Adafruit #3dprinting youtube.com/watch?v=ZjQEykbvb5w

Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: ssd.eff.org/module/your-...

Before the word hacker meant anything at all there was a blind kid who whistled 2600 Hz and bent Ma Bell to his will.

Joybubbles tells the story of Joe Engressi, the original phone phreak and a reminder that hacking started as curiosity, play, and defiance.
festival.sundance.org/program/film...

New blog post: Don't fall into the anti-AI hype.

antirez.com/news/158

YouTube video by KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City UNIX v4 program found cleaning out an office at the University of Utah

UNIX nerds rejoice, Uni of Utah managed to find version 4 of UNIX

youtu.be/m-3RJaKcw_4?...

Why is this cool? Well this is the 1st version written in C. Had a letter from Ken Thompson too, we thought version 5 was the oldest surviving copy

Oh and it’s 2mb in size!

Here are some statistics (estimated via Poisson inference on the observed hit counts):

Keys generated: 2^34.5 (95% CI: 2^33.6–2^35.0)

Core-years: 56.7 (95% CI: 30.7–82.6)

Average cores: ~5,200 (95% CI: 2,800–7,500)

This is a lot, folks! Really grateful for this level of community support.

Infinity Cube with NeoPixels learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-infinity-cube youtu.be/1sDSVTlRim0 #3Dprinting #adafruit

Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say Reports of covert filming have prompted privacy fears as experts are concerned that the devices would be altered to ‘nudify’ women without their consent

“To some extent, it moves stalking and harassment more easily from online to the real world, which is always the problem with wearables…”

IMHO, I remember that's one of the jokes we made at GTAC in Seattle a long time ago :) right after we did something with just one zero at W :)

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

#RaspberryPi display + battery case. This project utilizes the Adafruit DPI Display Kippah "hat-like" board to drive a 5" TFT display without the extra cost and baggage of an HDMI decoder! learn.adafruit.com/portable-kippah-pi #DIY #Electronics #3DPrinting #Adafruit youtube.com/watch?v=BPKfPo0GPXU

The fun thing about watching the movie 2001 in 2025 is you realize HAL is just an LLM and so *obviously* it’s going to murder its crewmembers every few flights due to malformed JSON.

You've been targeted by government spyware. Now what? | TechCrunch Tech companies are increasingly warning their customers that they have been targeted by governments with advanced government spyware, such as NSO's Pegasus or Paragon's Graphite. What happens after re...

NEW: Apple, Google, and WhatsApp now regularly notify their users if they suspect they have been targeted or hacked with government spyware, such as that made by NSO Group or Paragon.

We spoke to experts and wrote a guide on what to do, and where to go, if you receive one of those notifications.

Meet the team that hunts government spyware For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

NEW: Meet the folks at AccessNow's Digital Security Helpline, who have been investigating government spyware for more than a decade, helping journalists and dissidents all over the world.

I spoke to Hassen Selmi, who heads the incident response team, to learn how his team fights spyware abuses.

age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)! Exactly six years after the first age beta release, v1.3.0 brings post-quantum resistance to age, along with a couple long-requested features, built-in support for recipients compatible with hardwa...

💥💥💥💥💥 age v1.3.0 💥💥💥💥💥

Post-quantum keys, seeking DecryptReaderAt API, age-inspect CLI tool, built-in recipients compatible with hardware plugins, non-interactive passphrase input, Go framework for implementing plugins, and sooooo many improved errors.

Six years to the day after the first beta!

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.

MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert.bsky.social, who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...

Moderation shouldn’t be set from the top down. What works for one community may not work for everyone.

@jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, and @rabble.nz explain why moderation needs local & cultural context, as well as the disability rights slogan “nothing about us, without us.”

Full ep out now.

Unix V4: Only known copy may lurk on recently unearthed tape : It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

When the 53-year-old tape was found, early last month, I wrote a story for the Register explaining its significance:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/

Woah

Building a transparent proxy around ISP routing failures with Tailscale Services How Blacksmith built a secure load-balancing proxy with Tailscale Services

What can you do about an ISP outage—on Thanksgiving day? If you're Blacksmith, you use Tailscale Services to build an immediate, zero-config proxy for GitHub traffic, so it doesn't happen again: tailscale.com/blog/blacksm...

I'm running a TamaGo VM on Google Compute Engine. No CVEs to worry about other than Go ones, just own code and runtime, starts and reboots instantly.

Open with no-auth SSH. As a cybersecurity professional this would be unthinkable, but TamaGo brings tattack surface close to 0.

I just realized if you set your iPhone to be used by an underage user you can override app advertising that you can’t override as an adult iPhone user. That seems useful, has anyone done this? Any issues to consider?
#iPhone #Privacy

Serious question: if you get a threat notification from Apple, WhatsApp, Google...and you are not a journalist ot dissident so you can't go to Citizen Lab/Amnesty/AccessNow, where do you go?

Asking for an article, not for someone who's gotten that notification.

It’s almost time for my @BSidesCapeTown talk, and I’ve just open sourced pipetap. My Windows named pipe proxy & multi-tool. Excited to see what you do with it!

github.com/sensepost/pi...

Wherever there's spyware, there's always an Italian angle...