Mastodawn

Martin Boller 🇬🇱 🇺🇦

15h ago

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦16h ago

The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/possible-end-to-end-to-end-come-help/

Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help - Bert Hubert's writings

tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st. Do read on for more details! The never-ending battle where police and intelligence services demand more/total access to communications shows no sign of stopping, even in the face of mathematical and practical impossibilities.

Bert Hubert's writings

Martin Boller 🇬🇱 🇺🇦

15h ago

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦16h ago

Regarding previous post, retoots would be appreciated since as many people as possible need to hear about this expert group. I'm afraid that otherwise we'll end up with a committee that does not include all points of view! https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/114800436278956988

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social)

The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/possible-end-to-end-to-end-come-help/

EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble

Martin Boller 🇬🇱 🇺🇦

15h ago

Another short blog post on blocking #AI #LLM #Bots that slow down a website. Using #NGINX, but easily adaptable to #ApacheWebServer #Caddy etc

https://www.infosecworrier.dk/blog/2025/07/botblocker/

Blocking AI Bots

Blocking bots # Running a website on minimal hardware has become somewhat of an issue caused by agressive scraping especially from the AI corporations that want your information to sell as theirs.

Infosec Worrier

Martin Boller 🇬🇱 🇺🇦

18h ago

Gytis Repečka Jun 4

Attention server admins! Yesterday I've read a post by @simon_brooke how nasty AI scraper bots are attacking his self-hosted @forgejo instance. Soon after I'm seeing unusual, periodic traffic spikes on mine and again - dominated by OpenAI, but some other freeloaders too:

20.171.207.41   GPTBot/1.2
85.208.96.211   SemrushBot/7~bl
54.36.148.64    AhrefsBot/7.0
114.119.139.53  PetalBot

With GPTBot and SemrushBot attacking hardest

They've been hammering my little server periodically today as well, slowing down my instance dramatically as if I was experiencing malicious DDoS attack Well, in a sense it is one

Watch out - it seems corporate AI techbros learned to scrape content and starts doing it on a massive scale Remember when @Codeberg was (and repeatedly is) hit?

For now blocked IP ranges and User-Agent combinations, not sure for how long that will be enough

Please boost for visibility and be prepared!

#forgejo #developerlife #coding #attack #techbros #aislop #openai #bots #ddos

Martin Boller 🇬🇱 🇺🇦

1d ago

Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮2d ago

It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now

Kevin Beaumont 2d ago

If anybody from the NSA follows me, you might want to patch:

103.41.70.207,vdicorp.nsa.gov,13.1-55.34,VULNERABLE

There's a bunch of DOGE'd departments which haven't updated Netscaler this year.

Martin Boller 🇬🇱 🇺🇦

1d ago

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦2d ago

If you like that kind of thing, my presentation "Save the world, write more efficient code" from @joyofcoding is online now! https://youtu.be/XntLynSlYjI?t=203