Mastodawn

When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Dec 17

Paris Marx Dec 17

🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨

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Luis León Cárdenas Graide Dec 17

Bill Hooker Dec 17

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115735327339708811

Insanely strong field, pretty much the entire round of 32 should be in prison, doesn't matter who wins.

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Nov 21

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ZaufanaTrzeciaStrona.pl Nov 20

@kalisz79

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129

"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Nov 21

Liam Proven Nov 21

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@zaufanatrzeciastrona/115582689334400958

This is why digital sovereignty matters.

I have relatives who have no clue what accounts they own or use.

I live in a small island nation where all the local shops are collapsing because all the inhabitants order from Amazon having no idea why that's bad.

People don't know what's at stake.

A century or so ago, the USA had a policy of isolation and not getting involved in other countries' affairs.

We need tech to get back there, ASAP.

FOSS showed that offering them cheaper tools isn't enough. Better tools aren't enough either. But independence just might be.

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Nov 13

Orhun Parmaksız 👾Nov 12

Microsoft Office ❌ Terminal ✅

🧮 **xleak** — A TUI Excel spreadsheets viewer.

💯 Supports search, formula display, lazy loading, clipboard & exporting to CSV/JSON.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/bgreenwell/xleak

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #excel #spreadsheet #cli #terminal #opensource

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Oct 21

kravietz 🦇Oct 21

A funny case study of the 21st century “software engineering” at its best.

As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.

Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.

When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.

And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.

Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)

Michael Zimmermann (@zimm3rmann) on X

@m_franceschetti Is 16+gb/mo a normal amount of telemetry? Can you not do any local compute of “get hot” or “get cold” with a multi core processor and multiple gigabytes of memory? Can’t just repeat the previous nights settings? It’s bad enough that you slapped a $200/yr subscription on things,

X (formerly Twitter)

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Oct 20

Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Oct 20

it keeps turning out to be a mistake to put one third of the internet in one building

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Sep 24, 2025

Iris van Rooij 💭Sep 21, 2025

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism” — (@olivia Guest et al., 2025)

Full paper here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099