Cryptography, privacy, quantum security, infosec, retro vibes.
I am a mathematician and computer security scientist, with a strong interest in cryptography and anonymity, specialized in quantum security and complex cryptographic protocols. I am also a privacy hacktivist and public speaker, blahblahblah, read my Linkedin bio for this s**t, this is my Mastodon corner.
I co-develop Shufflecake, an open source privacy disk encryption tool to help journalists, activists, and whistleblowers evade unjust prosecution.
I am an advocate of digital self-sovereignty. You will see me often ranting about Big Tech, enshittification, and surveillance capitalism.
Fascinated with anime, Japan, RPGs, retro computing, and all things 80-90's. Notice I wrote "fascinated", not "knowledgeable".
Here you won't find peace nor forgiveness, but just: #cryptography #privacy #quantum #security #infosec #retro vibes!
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Dear LinkedIn,
It is great that you respect my privacy. But I'm confused: I thought I had previously already denied AT LEAST 89 OTHER TIMES my consent for you to profile me, track me with 3rd party cookies, anally probing me, and generally making my life a bit more miserable.
To you and all the other countless buffoons out there: could you please kindly f**k off?
Chinese censorship in Confer, the encrypted, privacy-preserving AI assistant by Moxie Marlinspike, creator of Signal: https://gagliardoni.net/#20260224_confer
#ai #signal #confer #privacy #censorship #surveillance #china #eu #politics #openai #gemini #chatgpt #deepseek #qwen
Oh I like this!
#xckd #xkcd2501 #meme #cryptography #nerd #zkp #zeroknowledge
Green, open and ethical? Chinese propaganda in Infomaniak's Euria, and a reflection on the role of Open Source AI: https://gagliardoni.net/#20260208_euria
Infomaniak is a Swiss alternative to Big Tech, but focusing specifically on digital sovereignty for the Swiss and EU markets. Like too many others, they couldn't resist shoving AI down their customers' throats. So, last December they launched Euria, touted as "the free, sovereign AI assistant to no longer depend on the American giants". The road to Hell is paved with good intentions: as you can see, their model is heavily infused with Chinese state censorship. In this blog post I explain why and what the broader consequences are for "open source AI".
#ai #euria #infomaniak #switzerland #eu #bigtech #llm #china #usa #qwen #censorship #digitalsovereignty #opensource #foss #floss #osi #tienanmen #politics
OMG this is killing me 🤣
The thread at https://x.com/beneater/status/2012988790709928305 is super hilarious
(alt link: https://xcancel.com/beneater/status/2012988790709928305 )
Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging.
The idea might sound nice, but there are caveats.
First of all, PassKeys? This screenshot is what I see on my Firefox 146.0.1 on Linux. Hopefully I can use a FIDO2 token like a YubiKey instead? I will test it later.
Second, the whole security seems to rely on TEEs, which are notorious for... well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions#List_of_SGX_vulnerabilities
I'll be honest, I'm not sure AI assistants can ever be made really private, save for self-hosting open source models. But still, much much better than the current Gemini, ChatGPT, etc. Like Signal was not the perfect solution for IM but moved the world toward a better state overall, I wish @moxie all the best with Confer.to because it would be good for all of us.
#ai #llm #signal #confer #yubikey #passkeys #linux #privacy #security
I hope it's only a temporary glitch, but suddenly the UBS home banking login page does not seem to work on Firefox anymore (it works with Chrome). This also happens with a fresh Firefox install (no addons, mods, anything).
If this is true, then this means that from now on, the largest Swiss bank only allows customers to use their home banking with either their proprietary app (which of course requires Google Play Protection and does not work on Graphene OS), or with a hardware token plus a US-megacorp controlled browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari).
#ubs #switzerland #banking #enshittification #foss #floss #firefox #chrome #safari #edge #google #microsoft #apple #privacy #security #opensource #android #ios #grapheneos #lineageos
