Cryptographic & Security Engineering
Previously: Founding & Lead iOS Engineer @signalapp, @Bellingcat #OSINT contributor
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I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/ocean-monitoring-system-amoc-trump-administration
Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses, according to new reporting by Wired. EFF’s Threat Lab was able to confirm that the facial recognition code is present through static analysis of the application. This dangerous new Meta functionality...
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116692776221622923
Last year I said this, and it's still true.
"If there's one thing I've learned about covering cybersecurity over the past decade or so, is that the cybersecurity community (the fixers and breakers) and the cybersecurity industry (profits above all else) are two very, very different things."
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle an ocean observation system consisting of more than 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Data supplied by the system has been used to study key Atlantic currents that increasingly appear in danger of collapse as the climate warms. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/trump-ooi-amoc
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
As Mastodon adoption grows, attackers are also looking at leveraging it for hostile activities.
Sekoia explains how Russian malware used Mastodon encrypted post updates as a dead drop resolver to tell the malware where to exfiltrate data:
"[Mastodon] posts were consistently updated four times per day at uniform intervals with a variance of only a few minutes”
https://blog.sekoia.io/fsbs-matryoshka-3-3-gamaredons-gifts-that-keeps-unpacking-gammasteel/
The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.
We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.
Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/
#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty
The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and mathematics https://leidendeclaration.ai/ is disappointing. The preamble is good; it clearly explains the threats that mathematics faces due to AI. The reason it is disappointing is that the only proposed solution is more transparency.
In the preamble, the authors state: « […] the consequences of large-scale investment in artificial intelligence are being widely discussed in regard to warfare, mass surveillance, political disruption, and environmental damage.». They are right: AI is currently being used to kill, surveil, and impoverish people. AI for mathematics cannot exist independently of the rest of the world; for it to function, companies need to make a profit, they need to sign deals with the military, and they need to keep destroying the planet to power their servers. To use AI is to contribute to this system. No use case of AI has provided sufficient benefits to justify the destruction it is causing.
To have as the only (possibly) constraining recommendation to « Evaluate the ethical consequences of your work, and take action accordingly» is simply not understanding the problem. AI can never be ethical in a capitalistic society. The purpose of this recommendation is to open the way to people claiming that they are using AI in an ethical way, which is impossible. How can one claim to be for open science and not condemn the use of AI, which is based on stolen work?
The few mathematical problems that will be solved by AI won’t outweigh the years of work and the brilliant minds we are losing because of it. No mathematical problem is worth the death of people, the destruction of our education system, and the destruction of our planet.
ENISA: Participate to the public review of the new draft of “Agreed Cryptographic Mechanisms”
ENISA opens a call to participate in the public review of “Agreed Cryptographic Mechanisms” until end of July
GCVE released cpe.gcve.eu - a collaborative CPE editing platform for transparent vulnerability data.
The service is still in beta and feedback is more than welcome.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Zack Whittaker
gclef
Steven Murdoch
Mastodon
Jad Koleilat
Aristotelis Tzafalias
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