Soatok Dreamseeker

@soatok@furry.engineer
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He/him. Gay/demi dhole (Cuon Alpinus) furry.

Blogger, programmer, security engineer, cryptography nerd. 30+

Too spicy for Twitter (banned with all the prominent journalists on 2022-12-16)

I don't represent any company, individual, or community.

Pronounshe/him
FursonaDhole
OrientationDemi/Gay
Websitehttps://soatok.blog
@rootwyrm @ireneista @david_chisnall @soatok a work device is *NEVER* trustworthy hardware to run your personal software on.
Seriously. What’s your excuse for still being on X at this point. They’ve literally built HitlerBot.
Operation Rubicon - Wikipedia

Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps

Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topic without worrying too much about tertiary matters. Here's the TL;DR: If you actually built your cryptography properly, you shouldn't give a shit which country hosts the ciphertext for your…

http://soatok.blog/2025/07/09/jurisdiction-is-nearly-irrelevant-to-the-security-of-encrypted-messaging-apps/

Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps - Dhole Moments

Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topi…

Dhole Moments

Me: "Where ciphertext is stored shouldn't matter if your encryption is actually adequate."

Dozens of people: Complain about endpoint attacks.

Me: "OK, fine, I'll edit the blog post and tediously specify that it's the jurisdiction of where ciphertext is stored until the non sequitur ceases."

@soatok OMG ❤️❤️❤️ for the first FAQ item:

"I am an admin, should I drop everything and check if I am affected?"

(-1 for broken HTML that won't let me copy/paste that heading on mobile and forced me to retype it, tho.)

@rootwyrm @david_chisnall @soatok yep. well, people's threat models differ so we should really state ours explicitly: we are worried that within the next year, the US will decide that queerness is straight-up illegal, in conjunction with its other genocide programs. so if the problem of hiding who's talking to who from a global passive adversary is unsolvable as you suggest, that's a future in which online communication will be impossible.

@david_chisnall @soatok it would be lovely to have a truly peer-to-peer solution. that would require onion routing in addition to everything Signal does. we strongly encourage attempting to develop such a thing, so that someday we might put these eggs in an additional basket.

meanwhile we're just personally grateful to be at this moment in history with even one acceptable option. that was not a given.

@soatok

And I thought it's a shout-out to you!

https://opossum-attack.com/

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Opossum Attack

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@foone

I'm sure this comes as a surprise to both of us

@foone I suppose I should take it as a compliment that Google's idiot AI confused me for someone brilliant
@gloriouscow likewise!
@foone uh oh, you'll both really confuse it now 🤣
@gloriouscow this explains so much!
@foone maybe it's a like a voltron thing. we assemble into foone. you can be the head of course
MC Frontalot - I'll Form The Head [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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@foone @gloriouscow at least it used the right pronouns for the plural 🤣

@gloriouscow @foone

Disambiguation.
"Google Overview" is a hybrid product. It is neither an #LLM nor is it a Search engine. Instead it combines the worst of both worlds into a single piece of trash.

@n_dimension @foone

Google wouldn't lie to us.

now that I'm foone though we're gonna make some changes. Instead of reversing old PC games we're going to get super into 1970's vintage gelatin desserts

@n_dimension @foone

eat up kids

@gloriouscow @n_dimension AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@foone @gloriouscow @n_dimension that looks gross but I'd try it anyway

@Willow @foone @gloriouscow

I didn't want to say anything.
But it does look like something my Eastern Europe fam would make.
It's actually delicious if you drown it in mayonnaise...

...but with that hack, pretty much everything might be.

...but it conveys the hybrid point well.

@n_dimension @Willow @foone

if its for a fancy event we can break out the mayo fountain

@gloriouscow @n_dimension @foone my grandfather called mayo "kinderdrek" and I think he was right in this case, although I do enjoy a little bit of it on a sandwich
@n_dimension @Willow @foone @gloriouscow Mayo?! Unholy idea.
You sprinkle it with a vinegar. 10% strong, not flavoured.
Mayo… geez.
LILEKS (James) :: Institute :: The Gallery of Regrettable Food

@gloriouscow @n_dimension @foone the drugs must have been very good in the era when this recipe was created

@gloriouscow @foone

Well, to be fair, I've never seen you both in the same room at the same time before. Hmmm.

@gloriouscow @foone Google AI is providing everyone examples of the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics in the worst way possible
@gloriouscow @foone in the meanwhile, Foone builds a keyboard made of toe nails and a Hercules graphics card.
@gloriouscow @foone it took me a moment to understand "bus sniffing".
@shinydan @foone Greyhounds smell the best

@gloriouscow @foone

Just the usual KI twist.

Like here when asked which country names start with H, Google claims Ungarn (German for Hungary) also starts with H, adding a phantasmic story that H is often used for Holland which is the Netherlands...