Thoughts on Security

In the past few days Signal groups exploded in the news with revelations that Signal groups are the primary "ICE tracker" channels, may have dispatched Alex Pretti to his fatal encounter with DHS, and are under investigation by the FBI.

You'll be happy when they can't spy on you. ?

Record numbers of people have been in the market for a house this past year.

Not long ago, a well-known games developer posted the following horror story: I have used and been burned by a number of Google services over the years but certainly didn't think that attitude would extend to GMail.

While stuck at home I wrote a simple Linux tunnel ("VPN" but not encrypted/authenticated) in 100 lines of Rust.

Cell phone video has been a major game changer for society.

Recently at the 36th CCC, Moxie Marlinspike gave a talk titled "the ecosystem is moving" defending his choice to centralize Signal, claiming decentralized systems are unable to adapt and succeed and that centralized systems can meet the same goals better.

This is a text outline of the interactive version available here 1.1.

Interface Identifiers (IID's) are used to obtain function tables to call most methods of COM objects.

Recently my personal laptop fell on some hard times and had to be sent to the laptop retirement home.