We launched a ton of fun projects this past year at @ivycyber.com and it's time to retire a few of them. First up is #vibecoding nightmare "Vibe Crap"💩 Check out the video demo + full source code at 👉https://psafe.ly/vibecrap If you like experiments like this, follow @bitsontape.com

We're doing another @ivycyber.com giveaway on Twitter X. This time it's a mini laptop / touchscreen tablet + travel #VPN router, loaded with goodies and a 12-month subscription to our PrivacySafe.app software 🎁 x.com/profdiggity/...

Well if I age out of being a #techbro I can always audition for the next season of #StrangerThings. ...did they really have to show them wobbly-riding on Huffy bikes?

Great stream today by Ungovernable Misfits with Keonne from #samouraiWallet ✊ Thanks for the excellent Q&A and insights as you and Bill face prison for creating #privacy software that actually works. #pardonsamourai

Great photos from #TEDx #MIT this past weekend. A really inspiring and thought-provoking event, as you might expect 🤓 Thanks to john werner for the invite. www.johnwernerphotography.com/TEDxMIT-Dec-...

First December #snow in a long while

at #MIT for some doings

Check out my conversation with BusinessWest about the #cybersecurity field, emerging threats, and where careers in #cyber seem to be headed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nIx...

Awesome writeup of our Bay Path #Cybersecurity Summit featuring myself and @scottjshapiro.bsky.social "AI is an accelerating force... everything old is new again. But because #AI is able to 'think' on its feet, it’s able to probabilistically change direction." businesswest.com/blog/cyberse...

Just got my copy of the #FreeSoftware Foundation bulletin for the #holidays 🤓 Great interview with #FSF President Ian Kelling and a nice photo of all of us from the #FSF40 event! Show your support with a donation to the FSF: my.fsf.org/donate

Steady growth of PrivacySafe.social throughout early #December with *zero* marketing spend and all organic word-of-mouth. Lots of folks discovering #decentralized networks / the #fediverse for the first time. Get @privacysafe.social 🦾

Great reporting by Jessica Ka Burbank. Seems to be a frontend for all the big US Cloud #AI players. #DepartmentOfWar kaburbank.substack.com/p/dow-leak-i...

Grab a ticket for @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 's book signing at @rjjulia.bsky.social on the beautiful #Connecticut shoreline tonight! 👇 #enshittification rjjulia.com/list/cory-do...

Working on @privacysafe.social alongside a couple copies of a modern classic by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy . It's a solid way to gear up for the event in #Madison Connecticut tonight! 🤓 #privacymatters

🤔 caller #privacy for unmonitored, informational phone lines 👇 github.com/connyay/redb...

Find me at privacysafe.social/@johnkiriakou

Thank you Glidus for the 🌽 video I've been waiting for. #WindsOfWinter www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cctm...

Special thanks to Dafu Gao from OnePiece Labs and #Solana Foundation for sponsoring this event hosted by #Yale #Blockchain 🤖 I had an amazing time speaking on a panel about #AI and its impact on the #Web3 space and #tech in general. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

NEW: Our #SCOTUS amicus brief on #AI and #copyright 👇 psafe.ly/7ShfXu Thanks to my colleagues Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & @patriciaavl.bsky.social at @yaleisp.bsky.social, @lessig.bsky.social at @harvard.edu, and many others across #law and #tech for their support & contributions. Thread 🧵

These classes with me and @johnkiriakou.bsky.social are 50% OFF for #CyberMonday and beyond! ivycyber.com/kiriakou #security #privacy #surveillance

great reporting by @zackwhittaker.com on #Oura ring #privacy and #healthcare data, as well as US gov't data requests 👇https://privacysafe.social/@[email protected]/115627975719141861

I signed this petition about #Google restricting the installation of APKs and software sources like @fdroidorg.bsky.social . c.org/vfCG2X2kV7 I will paste my comments on the petition into the thread below 👇

The weekend theme is #AI + coding! A friend sent me this piece that mentions my comments on #freesoftware #opensource licensing and #genAI. LLMs have a place in our @ivycyber.com business but it's a very carefully controlled one, and not in the codebase. psafe.ly/TRySSC

We Used #ChatGPT to Create a Vibe Coded Nightmare. It only took a few minutes to pollute the internet with the world's worst website. It's a warning, not inspiration. youtube.com/shorts/eeZEu...

A BIG THANK YOU to our users + subscribers + supporters + customers! We're building and growing each month and really creating something great 💪

And while we’re pillorying Google for flagrant privacy invasions bsky.app/profile/yale...

🫶 As the #Thanksgiving holiday weekend continues, we want to thank all the tech projects, legal initiatives, information activists, and educators out there. THANK YOU for defending #privacy & preserving #security of our digital commons!

🤣 why is this so funny to me... video brought to you safely by our @privacysafe.social team from #TikTok to sticktock.com sticktock.com/post/4185

🔥 #BLACKFRIDAY DEAL 👇 We've already marked these classes down 50% in the Ivy Cyber store, so you don't even need a promo code! Meet @johnkiriakou.bsky.social & @profdiggity.com in 3 live sessions. Get a ton of great #privacy & #security content for life online *and* offline. ivycyber.com/kiriakou

😎 It's great to see the progress of my former colleagues at #Tari building out their #crypto network. Congrats to the team! I claimed my $XTM allocation and look forward to Tari's future in 2026 and beyond 🐢

🤓 We wanted to show our @bitsontape.com readers just how thankful we are for good web development practices this #Thanksgiving so we highlighted the VibeCrap.com project cooked up by the team this fall. bitsontape.com/p/chatgpt-vi...

At the local gym every day except when I've been traveling... Not taking two steps back tomorrow is the REAL challenge #Thanksgiving

Last night, I had an excellent two-hour conversation with Laurin Weissinger laurinw.com about @privacysafe.social and we dug through the apps screen-by-screen. Stay tuned 📺

🙏 It's an honor to have @johnkiriakou.bsky.social on privacysafe.social and that speaks *volumes* for the work our trustworthy & tireless team has accomplished! Thank you, sir 🫡 Join John on a better #social space 👉 psafe.ly/social

My next surveillance detection course starts Jan 4. It has eight modules of content and three live sessions with me and @profdiggity.com Ask me questions and get access to content you won't find anywhere else. ivycyber.com/kiriakou

We launched privacysafe.social over a year ago, but kept it exclusive with "friends & family" until August at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in #NYC In the past 3 months PrivacySafe #social userbase grew 413% and active users grew by 519% Now that's what I call parabolic! 📈

🕺These are our best stats yet for privacysafe.social ! Join the weekend #social #party ✨

🤠 Looong day but here's a fun sneak peek - Potato quality vid of handwriting pen input on a @privacysafe.social tablet, in our #E2EE apps. Sign up & download at privacysafe.app

Thanks to @mikaelthalen.bsky.social for digging into the insecurity & #enshittification of #Google Nest devices. This is why #RightToRepair and #FreeSoftware matters.

Our @profdiggity.com on #Google Nest #privacy: "Proximity signals alone can reveal when someone is home, when they leave and when they sleep... Over time, you get a very clear picture of household routine.” by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social san.com/cc/google-is...

I've been contacted by people looking for EB-1 visa recommendations who I don't know, in the past. But today is the first time I had someone show me a fraudulent letter to @uscisgov.bsky.social purchased from a freelance service. Any other US academics dealing with this?

This week I guest lectured for the fourth time for Sheree Ip's class at Curtin University #Law 🤓 We walked through the #TornadoCash smart contract, discussing its ability to protect #privacy of transactions. What's your take? Should #crypto mixers like Tornado Cash and #SamouraiWallet be banned?

📺 Watch our Bay Path University #Cybersecurity Summit! We had a packed room & 100+ attendees. I spoke about #TikTok data & #privacy issues and demo'd a #smartphone side channel attack 👻 Our guest speaker was @scottjshapiro.bsky.social of @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social👇 vimeo.com/1139078347/8...

📉 Markets are down, #Privacy is up 📈

I am thrilled to share the news that I joined the @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy leadership team as Community Director alongside Felix Hlatky, our new Executive Director, and Renaud Chaput, our Technical Director. blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-...

Now's a good time to remind everyone they can join us on #Mastodon at privacysafe.social 😊 by @privacysafe.social We've done some customizations that make the browser app more #Bluesky or Twitter-like and are running a version with the latest features like quoted replies etc.

There was a *lot* of schadenfreude going around #Twitter X earlier this month about #cloudcomputing outages. I guess what goes around comes around. Where's the #failwhale when you need it... 🐳

🤓 Do you use StickTock.com to view #TikTok videos without #surveillance? Want to see #StickTock funded and sustainable? Let us know! cc @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

TODAY starting 9AM ET - Join us at Bay Path University via the live broadcast of our annual #cybersecurity conference! psafe.ly/W9mqbM I'll be presenting about #TikTok data flows and running a malware app demo, and @scottjshapiro.bsky.social is our keynote :D

🍿📽️ Take some time out of your day to watch the @seagl.org talks! I'm watching Brady Dibble of @rockylinux.org talking about SBOMs & #security in #freesoftware projects. pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/HM... 👇 #linux #gnulinux #foss #opensource www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxO3...