Martijn Grooten
@martijngrooten.bsky.social
Threat Intelligence for Silent Push. Digital security for at-risk people.
Researcher, reader, runner. Eternal traveler, serial migrant, music blogger, lapsed mathematician.
https://lapsedordinary.net/
Signal: martijngrooten.37
Researcher, reader, runner. Eternal traveler, serial migrant, music blogger, lapsed mathematician.
https://lapsedordinary.net/
Signal: martijngrooten.37
Had food in nine different countries in the past fourteen days. I like traveling. And eating.
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Had food in nine different countries in the past fourteen days. I like traveling. And eating.
This. Also, people tend to be very reluctant to say when your talk is too technical or requires more prior knowledge than they have (they blame themselves instead).
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This. Also, people tend to be very reluctant to say when your talk is too technical or requires more prior knowledge than they have (they blame themselves instead).
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EFF stands with 2011 award winners, Tunisian media collective Nawaat, against government attempts to silence them www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
EFF Stands With Tunisian Media Collective Nawaat
When the independent Tunisian online media collective Nawaat announced that the government had suspended its activities for one month, the news landed like a punch in the gut for anyone who remembers ...
www.eff.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
EFF stands with 2011 award winners, Tunisian media collective Nawaat, against government attempts to silence them www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Jeanines — On and On
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November 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Unit 42 report on spyware that exploited a zero-day in Samsung phones. Used in targeted attacks in the Middle East and with possible links to Stealth Falcon, a group linked to the UAE government and which has previously targeted journalists and activists unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/landfall-is-...
LANDFALL: New Commercial-Grade Android Spyware in Exploit Chain Targeting Samsung Devices
Commercial-grade LANDFALL spyware exploits CVE-2025-21042 in Samsung Android’s image processing library. The spyware was embedded in malicious DNG files.
unit42.paloaltonetworks.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Unit 42 report on spyware that exploited a zero-day in Samsung phones. Used in targeted attacks in the Middle East and with possible links to Stealth Falcon, a group linked to the UAE government and which has previously targeted journalists and activists unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/landfall-is-...
404 Media is so worth the 100 dollars or so I send it every year.
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
404 Media is so worth the 100 dollars or so I send it every year.
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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EFF and AV Comparatives team up to see how well anti-virus apps detect Android stalkerware. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
EFF Teams Up With AV Comparatives to Test Android Stalkerware
EFF has, for many years, raised the alarm about the proliferation of stalkerware—commercially-available apps designed to be installed covertly on another person’s device to exfiltrate data from that
www.eff.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
EFF and AV Comparatives team up to see how well anti-virus apps detect Android stalkerware. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
I'm about to be without internet for 24 hours and now I'm trying very hard to read all the internet while I still can.
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm about to be without internet for 24 hours and now I'm trying very hard to read all the internet while I still can.
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There's some really big caveats to this. A thread.
New: Google says it has discovered at least 5 malware families that use AI to rewrite their code and generate new capabilities on the fly, suggesting AI-powered malware is finally starting to take off. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
Report also has interesting stories about state actors' AI use.
Report also has interesting stories about state actors' AI use.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
There's some really big caveats to this. A thread.
I just successfully applied for an ETA to visit the UK. Approval within minutes. This makes me better off than 90% of the world's population. And still, for a country I called my home for more than eight years, it also sucks. The enshittification of moving across borders.
November 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I just successfully applied for an ETA to visit the UK. Approval within minutes. This makes me better off than 90% of the world's population. And still, for a country I called my home for more than eight years, it also sucks. The enshittification of moving across borders.
I'm so sorry to hear about Dick Cheney. Always have been.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm so sorry to hear about Dick Cheney. Always have been.
Buying a metro ticket in Paris is harder than getting into the Louvre surveillance server.
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Buying a metro ticket in Paris is harder than getting into the Louvre surveillance server.
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If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.
It's exciting that my French has reached a level where I can comfortably buy food.
Anyway, the waiter misunderstood my order and also replied to me in English.
(In fairness, this is Brussels.)
Anyway, the waiter misunderstood my order and also replied to me in English.
(In fairness, this is Brussels.)
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It's exciting that my French has reached a level where I can comfortably buy food.
Anyway, the waiter misunderstood my order and also replied to me in English.
(In fairness, this is Brussels.)
Anyway, the waiter misunderstood my order and also replied to me in English.
(In fairness, this is Brussels.)
My sister, who is a teacher, used ChatGPT to create a poem in a specific form that is eleven words long. It gave her a twelve word poem. She then used this to teach the kids a lesson about AI.
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
My sister, who is a teacher, used ChatGPT to create a poem in a specific form that is eleven words long. It gave her a twelve word poem. She then used this to teach the kids a lesson about AI.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I always struggle to describe Dutch cuisine.
I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.
I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.
November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I always struggle to describe Dutch cuisine.
I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.
I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.
Tbh, I find the fact that it's already the 31st of October scarier than any Halloween thing I've seen.
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Tbh, I find the fact that it's already the 31st of October scarier than any Halloween thing I've seen.
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia is one of the best history museums I've ever been to: it knows how to tell a story, it doesn't just show objects. I thought this in 2004 and thought so again during my second visit today.
If you ever find yourself in Riga, consider spending an hour there.
If you ever find yourself in Riga, consider spending an hour there.
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia is one of the best history museums I've ever been to: it knows how to tell a story, it doesn't just show objects. I thought this in 2004 and thought so again during my second visit today.
If you ever find yourself in Riga, consider spending an hour there.
If you ever find yourself in Riga, consider spending an hour there.
Sometimes, when I'm writing something, my thoughts drift off and I finish a sentence on autopilot, often writing something else than I intended. Now I wonder if I might be ChatGPT.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Sometimes, when I'm writing something, my thoughts drift off and I finish a sentence on autopilot, often writing something else than I intended. Now I wonder if I might be ChatGPT.
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We need to talk about Sudan.
After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
There is so much blood it can be seen from space.
After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
There is so much blood it can be seen from space.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We need to talk about Sudan.
After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
There is so much blood it can be seen from space.
After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
There is so much blood it can be seen from space.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM