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For a living, I do product #security (mostly #swsec), #privacy (#PrivacyEngineering), #EngineeringManagement and policy geekery - have been doing a mix of these full time for over 25 years across embedded, cloud, consumer products, b2b and government, and privacy before the GDPR became a thing. In my free time, #marathon #running, #QuantifiedSelf, #Commodore #C64 and other #retrocomputing, #HamRadio. Values liberalism, Rechtsstaat, 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Personal account. Toots auto-delete after some months.

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SUMMARY: One hundred flower emojis.

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avs 4d ago
I'm hiring! Looking for a Senior Manager for our US Cyber Defense team. US East, remote. https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4385071881/ or https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/doordashusa/jobs/7724830 #InfoSecJobs
DoorDash hiring Senior Manager, Cyber Defense in United States | LinkedIn

Posted 1:28:01 AM. About The TeamAt DoorDash, including the international brands Deliveroo and Wolt, we’re building…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

avs Mar 15
hackadayMar 15

DR-DOS Is Back, But Not Quite as We Knew It

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/dr-dos-is-back-but-not-quite-as-we-knew-it/

DR-DOS Is Back, But Not Quite As We Knew It

If you weren’t around for the early PC era, or were a little more casual about operating systems, you could perhaps be forgiven for not knowing that DOS is not synonymous with MS-DOS. MS-DOS …

Hackaday
avs Feb 18
Greenpeace InternationalFeb 17

No, I don’t want an AI assisted experience

I want clean air, forests, and a future for the next generation

Show threadavs Feb 16

I’ve had a pulse dial capable SIP ATA waiting for some integration time for a decade. However, the modem I planned to use is now obsolete. But I found a ”voice” port behind my 4G/5G router and that relays calls over VoLTE! Just a pulse/DTMF converter (used Dialgizmo) and the Siemens & Halske (Reichmade) took to the airwaves.

The phone is my grandparents’, possibly their parents’, originally.

avs Feb 16

Just connected a 90-year old bakelite phone over VoLTE. Works 💯

That machine was also once connected to ISDN, however briefly.

avs Feb 16
Roland TurnerFeb 16

Running code in the cloud usually means trusting the landlord not to peek.

At #FOSSASIA2026, Peter Membrey (ExpressVPN) is releasing an open source framework for Secure GPU Workloads in Enclaves.

It allows you to cryptographically verify the hardware and treat the cloud provider as an adversary. Confidential Computing is now available to everyone, not just the hyperscalers.

https://rolandturner.com/The%20cloud%20provider%20is%20the%20adversary/ @fossasia

#ConfidentialComputing #GPU #PrivacyEngineering #TrustNoOne #OpenSource #FOSSASIA

The cloud provider is the adversary

If you run code in the cloud, you usually have to trust the landlord. Peter Membrey is releasing a framework that means that you don't.

Roland Turner
avs Feb 13
Rob LarterFeb 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DaveWhittle/116056525872013826

This. I've been studying West Antarctic Ice Sheet change for more than 20 years and can't forsee any scenario in which the accelerating ice losses could be arrested until all of the marine-based ice there has gone.

avs Feb 5
This looks like an event which, if I could, I would, go to. https://youtu.be/YdSmdKc5OMo?si=Hs7kbjFEaSGxLbZD #chiptune
Wood Chip Fest 2026 - A Chiptune Festival in Denmark

YouTube
avs Feb 3
Signal boosting Supercade the book v2: https://shop.supercade.com/products/supercade-v-2-book-softcover-edition-1 - I saw the v1 of this book in a bookstore, sad and earmarked, but the content was great. Looking forward to the v2! #retrocomputing
Supercade v.2 Book

avs Jan 24
Today, I had to re-spool a typewriter ribbon because the centre hole was too small on the new spools.