cryptography.dog

Dear reader, in the following article I will present a hypothetical, completely untested application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for the purpose of steganography (the practice of hiding information in plain sight) which I will refer to as SLOP-encodin…

This should hopefully be a short article on what might be a surprisingly deep topic.

In my last article ("What little I know about Readily.news") I presented everything I knew about a service that I caught scraping links from a followers-only Mastodon post.

tl;dr There is a seemingly new project known as "Readily.news" (and alternately as "open.news") which is actively scraping content from the Fediverse, among other sources.

I've written two articles about poorly behaved web-crawling robots recently, first about a somewhat novel method to distinguish bots from legitimate human traffic ("AI scrapers request commented scripts"), then another unpacking some of the responses to t…

A little over a week ago I posted on the Fediverse about some weird requests I noticed in my HTTP logs.

Last Sunday (2025-10-26) I discovered some abusive bot behaviour during a routine follow-up on anomalies that had shown up in my server's logfiles.

I recently wrote about how Google is abusing their dominant market position to control the future of the web, but I held off on making any practical recommendations on how to reduce their power because that article was quite long enough as it was.

I apologize for the mildly clickbaity title.

Back in late November I published an article announcing my intention to organize an event coinciding with the dates of FOSDEM 2025, but taking place entirely online.

I recently had a conversation with a researcher with whom I've been loosely collaborating regarding likely attacks against a novel system.

Back in February I wrote a bit about how FOSDEM is a super-spreader event: I don't think it's a controversial statement to say that the European Research Commission offers a disproportionately large amount of funding for free or open-source software (FOSS…

The Short Version I found a weird edge case that affects certain implementations of an algorithm called Normalized Compression Distance (NCD).

tl;dr I've decided to start writing a series of articles with a somewhat silly premise.

Back in mid-July Netzpolitik.org published a story concerning the European Commission's 2025 research budget ("EU apparently set to end open source programme").