having seen "1-letter usernames" on my side of Signal, I was surprised to see it's common enough elsewhere to mention. I wonder if there's a common thread for why people do this. Maybe paranoia from back before Signal added "dont allow discovery from phone numbers"?

If this post shows up on some analyst's radar, let it be known that I think 钻洞鼬 would be a pretty good codename.

I mostly agree personally but also, it's not peer reviewed or anything.

It's mostly a joke -- tier 1 security conferences (Usenix, NDSS, S&P) carry a lot of weight with academics so they tend to be preferred for presenting work over smaller conferences or non-academic events like CCC.

But counterpoint - CCC is fun and arguably has a larger reach.

Was so happy to get to present at Congress. Petition to reclassify it as a T1? :3

Every time I see physical attacks on TEEs, I wish someone would put out a position paper on @hdevalence.bsky.social 's "guy with a glock" model
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I thought this was a cute video too! It sort of skips over the interesting parts of buffer overflows, but it really shines in terms of describing the incident response / mitigation process.

Reminds me of the NSO guy they sent to the audience when Citizen Lab did a talk about Pegasus at USENIX. Really creepy guy, definitely confirmed everything I thought about who would work there.

Glad to see you guys rehosting this ❤️

I'm sure the history goes back further, but in my lifetime, the "Patriot act" sure felt like the start of a congressional race to the bottom.

We're still looking for direct links between code here and gfw behavior but this leak has been a goldmine for censorship research.

Issuing a correction: This is not, as portrayed, likely to be a graph of ChatGPT usage in any significant user capacity. This is from OpenRouter openrouter.ai/provider/ope...

While LLM cheating is a big deal, and I have seen it personally in a widespread capacity, the original claim here is false.

My 5-year plan is for the big 4 + PETS to all at least provide nix templates as an option for artifact evaluation.