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Your friendly neighborhood tech frog, here to explore society and complex systems together. My personal views are obscure and will probably be grating to most people, but we don't have to agree to be friends!

Will often discuss things like distributed systems, programming, society, and computer security. Politics WILL come up sometimes. Video games are cool too


I do serious research in between memes I swear, follow for fun computer adventures, and help build a better society together!!

I just posted a blog, it is 100% nicer and more restrained than our development team would have posted. Read between the lines, people.... ;-)

https://www.isc.org/blogs/2026-04-16-How-to-report-a-vulnerability/

How to report a security vulnerability, 101

At ISC, we sincerely value the contributions of our users, and security researchers, who analyze and probe our software for vulnerabilities.

Google used a ZK proof to disclose a quantum breakthrough that cuts the cost of breaking cryptocurrency by 20x without handing attackers the circuit.

The Rust code behind the proof had memory safety bugs. We used this new attack surface to forge a proof that beats Google’s on every metric.

Google patched it within days. Their quantum claims are unaffected. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/we-beat-googles-zero-knowledge-proof-of-quantum-cryptanalysis/

We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis

Trail of Bits discovered and exploited memory safety and logic vulnerabilities in Google’s Rust zero-knowledge proof code to forge a proof claiming better quantum circuit performance metrics than Google’s original results, demonstrating unique security risks in zkVM systems.

The Trail of Bits Blog
FFS can't he wait until monday?

New.

Push Security: Post-Sanction Persistence: Triad Nexus' Operations Infrastructure Reborn as Threat Actor Distances Activity from FUNNULL CDN https://www.silentpush.com/blog/triad-nexus-funnull-2026/

More:

Infosecurity-Magazine: Triad Nexus Expands Global Fraud Operations Despite US Sanctions https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/triad-nexus-expands-fraud/ #infosec #threatresearch

Post-Sanction Persistence: Triad Nexus' Operations Infrastructure Reborn as Threat Actor Distances Activity from FUNNULL CDN

Triad Nexus matured its operational security, employing geographic fencing and laundering its infrastructure through “clean” front companies.

Silent Push
fedi ngl I accidentally logged out of this site on my phone like a month ago, and I genuinely don't remember how I logged into the thing in the first place, because the version of my password database on the phone has no login for this website, and I don't remember ever moving it to the phone either

so anyway I just don't use social media on my phone now, fedi is a desktop experience because I'm too lazy to transfer things securely to a mobile device lol
🪨 Merge on Druidstone Beach in Wales. <3 Jon Foreman Uses Nature Like This (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/08/art-in-nature-with-stones-and-leaves-by-jon-foreman/
FCC proposes $4.5 million fine for voice service provider hosting ‘suspicious’ foreign call traffic https://therecord.media/fcc-proposes-5-million-fine-robocall
FCC proposes $4.5 million fine for voice service provider hosting ‘suspicious’ foreign call traffic

Voxbeam’s actions allegedly led to “financial impersonation robocalls” that were made to American consumers “ using “non-compliant and long dormant accounts,” the FCC said.

Coworker: I have an idea.

Me: Again?

Water storage feud heats up as frustrated farmers take on corporate giants
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-08/irrigators-fitzroy-river-water-barrage-feud-with-stanwell-gawb/106495234
Water storage feud heats up as frustrated farmers take on corporate giants

Central Queensland irrigators are demanding a "fair go" from two mega water users that are pumping from a ratepayer-owned storage without paying anything for its multimillion-dollar costs.

Life hack: save money on car insurance by switching into reverse and driving away from the accident