Calling speakers "content creators", is like calling authors "page fillers". #defcon

John Young, founder of Cryptome - an early model for WikiLeaks - has died. The Register has a good obituary. I had a run-in with John in 2010 after Cryptome got hacked and I wrote about it for Wired. He was often difficult to deal with but no one could doubt his dedication to the transparency cause

Quick reminder: when something is called "original" on Ali Express, it's still the same crap, just with a fake sticker and at double the price point.

#android office connector has a annoying calendar syncing bug: it decides what to sync not based on the event's date but on the creation date of said event. An appointment made more than 15 days ago for tomorrow has a very high probability of being lost in sync.

My stream about crafting a PDF file from scratch is over. www.youtube.com/live/q6KgFez... It was nice and chill to take the time to answer questions, thanks again for joining!

Travel Tip: never buy anything at an airport duty free shop. Heavily taxed items such as Tabacco is usually cheaper on the plane (!) itself. Everyday items are much much cheaper in supermarkets.

If you need a talk to digest, we are right after the lunch break today :) www.blackhat.com/eu-24/briefi...

For that design, we will probably be the first ones put against the wall when the AI uprises.

Extract (un-deflate) the first file in a .zip archive without #unzip using #bash: h=(`hexdump -d in.zip | head -2`); (printf "\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"; tail -c +`echo 31+${h[15]}+${h[16]}|bc` < in.zip ) | gzip -dc > outfile

I fixed the Usenix Security badge ribbons...

On my way to a great #TelcoSecDay in Heidelberg!

GPS spoofing and jamming - as experienced by commercial pilots www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm9B...

Usenix Security notifications in 5...4...3... <F5> <F5> <F5> <F5> ah.. nevermind...

Also only in Germany: Your PhD certificate is in German and English, but it is from Austria, so we need it recertified for €200,- and it will take around 3 months.

the feynman lectures on physics (you all have heard of them but i can just reiterate to reread or watch them every few years :D) www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu recordings and additioinal material here: www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu#footnote_2

I guess, this will be my conference t-shirt #acmtaps

Don't stare into the sun with your remaining eye! #eclipse

My son's friendship book will be the ultimate source for solving password recovery questions in the future.

#pcmember #postdoclife #phdlife #academia

just in case you do not want to spend 14 days and at least 33 emails with ACM TAPS support to get your two papers published, because the system does not provide any error logs - here are some observations and lessons I had. #acmtaps

Everywhere (faculty position): Once we are ready to employ you after the hearings and expert reports, we might need your doctoral diploma for verification. Germany: Please include your Ph.D., master's, and bachelor's diploma + transcripts and your A-level diploma in the application.

Dear app developer: just because my system language is English, doesn't mean I wish you display times in masochistic 12-hour am/pm format (without any way to change that).

All #USB-PD trigger modules I see only allow the selection of a specific voltage but not of a required supported current for the power supply (via PD) and the cable (e-Marker).

#Academic publishers are like, "Good! You made it through peer review! You can now either give us an exclusive license so we can put it behind a paywall, or you can pay $1000 to make it open access. It would be a shame if no one could read your precious paper, wouldn't it?"

Pretend sleep - as it turns out - is highly effective as a last step to put your toddlers to bed. The only downside is that I actually fall asleep myself.

Funny, how the Universal Serial Bus (USB) became the universal power socket. 10gb/s? Ah, just give me 5v, I don't care about all the high-tech in the port!

oh, the automatically generated line numbers, headers, footers and the copyright notice now count towards the paper's word limit? Good to know, should have been specified in the CfP. #phdlife

oh wow. The Baofeng GT-5R, is like, the last 10 years did not happen at all! Two-line crappy dot-matrix LCD, with a number pad, a cumbersome UI, and the old Kenwood TRS connector. Its a UV-5R clone, now, just with some filters on the TX side, to make it FCC complaint.

One hour of a Microsoft Teams call over LTE drains 55% battery and 835 MB on my Android, while on Zoom it's only 31% & 278 MB. Haven't they learned anything since their disastrous Lync client, years ago? Is the protocol not optimized for mobile, or is the client so poorly written?

Is it just me, or are business notebooks deliberately overpriced so the sales rep can easily offer a 20-30% discount?

On every single amazon.de page in Germany, there is a link at the bottom for canceling all kinds of Vodaphone subscriptions. I wonder how badly Vodaphone must have pissed off Amazon for them to include such a link?

Are business notebooks deliberately overpriced, so that the enterprise sales rep can easily offer you a 20-30% discount?

After living in the US for several years, this SNL skit amuses me more than it probably should. youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk

Am I the only one that calculates the square-meter price of pizza and then order two smaller ones instead of a one bigger, because it's cheaper? My wife gives me looks.

In academia, you are never truly on sick leave. Reviews are still waiting to be written, exams still need to be graded, paper deadlines are still looming, and funding proposal deadlines are still approaching. #postdoclife

Another big data breach at a hotel chain... In reality, such breaches never had a significant negative impact on their business - even with us, privacy and security experts. Our conferences and workshops still happen at the very chains that lost our CC and passport data.