It's only a man trap if it's from the Isle of Mann. Otherwise it's just a sparkling vestibule.

Cryptography Engineering Has An Intrinsic Duty of Care To understand my point, I need to first explain three different cryptography attack papers / blog posts. I promise this won't be boring. Three Little Dislcosures Misuse-Prone Ciphers For All In a blog post titled Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography, cryptography analyst and Queer in Cryptography emcee Opal Wright delves into the misuse-prone and side-channel-riddled JavaScript and Python implementations of the AES block cipher.

Cryptography engineering has an intrinsic duty of care.

Yeah. Reads fine to me (programmer/cryptographer).

I think that along with their beliefs in eugenics and pre-germ theory, they've also brought back phrenology.

Honestly, I'd support prescriptive phrenology in their cases.

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Haha, this one was written about 5 years before chatgpt launched. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conver...

The greatest offense to being presented with LLM generated text isn't just them thinking it coul be helpful to me, it's specifically that they think I'd be better off from *them* being the ones doing it despite their lack of context and lack knowledge about my process

Cryptographic Issues in Matrix’s Rust Library Vodozemac - Dhole Moments Two years ago, I glanced at Matrix’s Olm library and immediately found several side-channel vulnerabilities. After dragging their feet for 90 days, they ended up not bothering to fix any of i…

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One nice thing about Instagram as a host for my short form vidya is you don't need to post every day to maintain momentum. That was really wearing me down on Tiktok.

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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

the nazis have once again forgotten one of the most important rules in combat: never get involved in a logistics war with the americans

It's on broadcast in the Seattle area. NBC 5.1 looks to have it.

He went inside to change his boots, dropping them off by the front door. As he was grabbing his sneakers from the jumbled pile of shoes, someone turned on the TV in the living room. It was an old tube set that didn't work so great, so there were small bursts of static between each channel flip. As Gabe tied his shoes he heard a burst of what sounded like some morning show (which was weird, neither Agnes or John watched those, and he was about to use the fact that somebody was watching TV to slip out unnoticed when he heard his name. "Gabriel-" Weird. He wondered what was on that channel. Then the channel flipped again. "we need" Someone must've been looking for something specific. John wasn't usually this impatient. Nor was anyone else who watched TV. "to talk." A slow chill ran down his spine. Hearing those words strung together from patchwork was disquieting, but it was probably coincidence. He took two steps back. The pattern of flipping channels repeated, and this time Gabe couldn't ignore the string of words coming from different voices. "Gabriel" "-we" "need" "to" "talk_"

The cover of Glassblade by Joseph Brassey, featuring a drawing of a teenage boy, a glass sword hilt, a pencil, a necklace, and an iPhone.

A drawing of a young man with dark hair, purple eyes, and a black jacket. The name on the side reads “Gabe”

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

I wonder if there’s good resources for protest beginners about how to tell the difference between higher and lower risk protests.

If you’ve been doing it for a long time you can just kinda feel it out, but for those who haven’t….

Signal is also infinitely better for sharing cute videos of your children or cats with your friends

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Dear authors, It is our pleasure to inform you that your paper #502 "Random-Access AEAD for Fast Lightweight Online Encryption" has been accepted for Eurocrypt 2026. Congratulations.

#Eurocrypt here we come!

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This is a very clever tactic designed to make the speaker sound empathetic and compassionate, but if you actually pay attention to what he’s saying the substance is no less horrifying.

“I told you to stop resisting. If you keep resisting we will start killing you.”

It’s abused language 101.

If you work at DHS and know the identities of the CBP officers that murdered Alex Pretti, my Signal contact info is in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.

Don't delete signal. Get everyone you know on it and increase the message traffic.

Good.

Reminder that the next submission deadline for IACR's Communications in Cryptology is next Monday.

Remember this is a fully reviewed Diamond Open Access (free for authors, free for readers) journal , published by the premier cryptographic society on earth.

cic.iacr.org

Looks cold.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.