Ruben De Smet

@rubdos
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Postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Indistinguishable from random. #Privacy enhancing technologies. #Rustacean. #Whisperfish.

Also a weird #coffee person (Aeropress/V60/Flair), bakes his own #bread (Dutch oven and yeast), drives an #EV (Renault Zoe 2017).

bloghttps://www.rubdos.be/
Twitterhttps://www.twitter.com/rubdos
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#SailfishOS 5.0.0.76 in early access. It fixes the recording of voice notes on #Sony #Xperia 10 IV and V in Whisperfish, hooray! 🙂

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-tampella-5-0-0-76-early-access/28285/1

This #cat joined us at À La Bécasse with the #SailfishOS community on Saturday night!

#catsofmastodon #jolla #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Way too many people at the #SailfishOS booth yesterday! Today I managed to squeeze through for a minute. The new #Jolla Phone seems to attract attention!

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #LinuxOnMobile

Introducing CurveForge: constant time elliptic curve arithmetic through #Rust macros.

https://smartnets.etrovub.be/posts/introducing-curveforge/

Implementation work funded under @NGIZero by @nlnet! <3

#ecc #cryptography

⚠️ #ChatControl2 menace les services de messagerie numériques dans l'Union européenne. Le vote #belge n'est pas encore décidé.

Comme chercheur en #vieprivée numérique, je suis inquiet : la nouvelle version « danoise » intercepte massivement les communications chiffrées.

Les #backdoors vont, comme le dit @signalapp, **briser complètement** le chiffrement.

Le temps est critique. Les gouvernements se prononcent le 12 septembre ; votent le 14 octobre.

👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu #Belgique #CSAM

⚠️ #ChatControl2 bedreigt digitale berichtendiensten in de Europese Unie. De #Belgische stem is nog onbeslist.

Als onderzoeker in digitale #privacy ben ik verontrust: de nieuwe "Deense" versie onderschept massaal geëncrypteerde communicatie.

#Backdoors zullen, zoals @signalapp het zegt, encryptie zoals we het kennen **volledig breken**.

Tijd is nu kritisch. Overheden beslissen tegen 12 september; de stemming is op 14 oktober.

👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu #Belgie #CSAM

⚠️ #ChatControl2 threatens private messaging across the EU.

As a #Whisperfish maintainer & privacy researcher, I’m alarmed: the new “Danish” proposal forces mass scanning & client-side #backdoors into #encrypted apps — while exempting governments & military.

As @signalapp says, this would “break encryption as we know it” — and we won’t comply.

Time’s critical: govs lock positions by 12 Sept; vote is 14 Oct.

👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu #ChatControl #CSAM #Privacy

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

I need a t-shirt that says "Partial upgrades are unsupported" #archlinux #tshirt #merch