pesco @pesco@chaos.social

#meme

Filippo Valsorda's Cryptography Dispatches: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen:
https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cryptography-dispatches-the-most-backdoor-looking/

This is about Telegram and their homebrew crypto.

A message from our very favourite VOC: JavaScript and WebSocket guru needed

We need your help to liberate a piece of software! We'd like to use a cool bit of remote video production software, but it has one proprietary piece hidden inside the code that is otherwise AGPL, and it talks to a server that is hosted outside the EU. Can you help us replace the obfuscated JS code, and set up an equivalent server, so the software truly becomes free, and data stays where it belongs?

when the void stares back

RT @Dev14e@twitter.com

The difference between WhatsApp and Signal (both end-to-end encrypted) in the new App Store privacy section is stark

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Dev14e/status/1339294885954940929

Another day, another RCE vuln in a widely-used Electron app https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/zero-click-wormable-rce-vulnerability.html

Oh, I'm excited to get a copy of this book: https://nostarch.com/kill-it-fire KILL IT WITH FIRE!
It's about managing legacy software systems and future proofing new software.

MEGA65 devkit came and it’s even more awesome than i expect. a lot of attention to detail

Interesting article on how a far-right volunteer mod orchestrated 4chan's gradual transition from a jovial shitposting site to the far-right bastion that it is today https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7aap8/the-man-who-helped-turn-4chan-into-the-internets-racist-engine

#TIL about Windows 10 Ameliorated.
https://ameliorated.info/

#Windows10 #Security #WindowsAME

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