🇺🇦Prof. for networks and security at #JKULinz + dabbling in Android platform security at #Google. This account will mostly carry IT security stuff, occasionally politics and other comedy.
Screeching voice of the minority. I will not cooperate with fascists or nazis - traditional or neo; Austrian, German, US, Russian, or otherwise. I will not help build surveillance and oppression states. Never again.
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."
Statements are only my own opinion, not my employers'.
This is currently my primary infosec account in the #Fediverse. It should be #searchable through https://tootfinder.ch. Previous Twitter posts are available in archival form at https://twitterarchive.mayrhofer.eu.org/.
| Homepage | https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org |
| University | https://jku.at/ins |
These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/15/ai-defense-warfare-companies
> From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards
> Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
Achievement unlocked! And what a first #arselectronica this is going to be for us. Visit our space, take our tour (registration open via https://aef25.digidow.eu) and generally talk to us about digital identity.
Two days to go until the start of #arselectronica25 - we are getting ready! On the very right side, directly next to the main registration booth our #DigitalShadows interactive tour will start. Looking forward to meeting you there!
So, the #Austrian Parliament ignores all expert opinion and ratifies a law to allow #statetrojan #spyware to be bought and used, making the whole population less safe while spending tax money on (non-EU) malware instead of more actual police forces. #Karner has won - at least until #VfGh nullifies it (again) - in getting his legal illusion past the Parliament, even though it can't be technically implemented as written in the law.
https://orf.at/stories/3399187/
> Nach jahrelanger Diskussion ist die Messengerüberwachung am Mittwoch vom Nationalrat ermöglicht worden. Widerstand gab es nicht nur von FPÖ und Grünen, sondern auch innerhalb der Koalition von NEOS-Abgeordneten. Mit der Vorlage wird es dem Staatsschutz künftig möglich sein, unverschlüsselte und verschlüsselte Nachrichten bei Diensten wie WhatsApp und Signal auszulesen.
I just signed it, and you should too. The Internet Archive is an important resource that needs to be conserved.
> Defend the Internet Archive
Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons
> Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could ‘cause or are likely to cause overall harm’
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Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in US | Google Maps | The Guardian
> Tech firm to make change in line with Trump’s executive order, using both names in world outside US and Mexico
I'll need to look more into the missing authentication/authorization issue, as this may require de-trusting D-Trust certificates for multiple use cases, including eIDAS personal digital signatures and the various QWACs (https://www.entrust.com/de/tls-certificate-information-center/d-trust-qwac-eidas-faqs). That is particularly ironic considering the extremely strict BSI Interpretation of some of the eIDAS text parts for use within Germany.
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Nach Sicherheitslücke bei D-Trust: CCC spricht von "Cyber-Augenwischerei"
> Der Chaos Computer Club fordert vom Vertrauensdiensteanbieter D-Trust Verantwortung zu tragen und die Abschaffung des Hackerparagraphen.
