Kenn White
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For those new here, welcome. I'm a security engineer who works on critical infrastructure, applied cryptography, and NatSec, but here I mostly post puppers, cooking, and other fun stuff. My feed is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you're going to get.
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Great post by Mark Dastmalchi-Round. I too have a love/hate relationship (mostly hate) with middleboxes/TLS inspection and the bad security practices we're training our users to follow.
www.markround.com/blog/2025/12...
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Stop Breaking TLS
Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an industry would just knock it the fuck off and stop pretending it’s some great security benefit. Eve...
https://www.markround.com/blog/2025/12/09/stop-breaking-tls/
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Internships in MPC available, for both recent PhD graduates and current PhD students...
mpcinthewild.github.io
This is a project funded by the Zama Cryptanalysis Grant program
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MPC in the Wild is a research project that aims to study the real-world implementation security of MPC protocols, in particular, the gap between assumptions on the theory side and implementation choices made in practice.
https://mpcinthewild.github.io/
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Great post: “[T]his makes our job predicting the future of which [cryptographic] algorithm is likely to break and which ones are likely to last, very, very hard. We are not looking at nice, predictable trends, but instead are mostly looking at a process that jumps in huge steps every few decades.”
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Jennifer Ouellette
13 days ago
COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds
www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...
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COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds
A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-vaccines-slashed-kids-er-visits-by-76-percent-study-finds/
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Mass exodus of veteran senior leaders at Apple, including Jony Ive and the creators of many major products, over to OpenAI. Also, Tim Cook is rumored to be retiring soon, with his successor to be 25-year veteran John Ternus who currently reports to Cook.
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As Key Talent Abandons Apple, Meet the New Generation of Leaders Taking On the Old Guard
With “hardware guy” John Ternus as front-runner for the next CEO, can Apple overtake its ex-employees at OpenAI and Meta?
https://www.wired.com/story/can-hardware-guy-john-ternus-revive-apple-with-this-new-gen-of-design-and-ai-chiefs/
13 days ago
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This thread is eye opening and hysterical. AI is still in its infancy when it comes to security and safety.
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Zack Whittaker
29 days ago
New, by me at
this.weekinsecurity.com
: Router maker TP-Link faces a potential U.S.-wide ban over its alleged links to China. In my latest analysis, I dive into why a TP-Link ban is unlikely to make America meaningfully safer from Chinese cyberthreats (or anywhere). Please share!
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Banning TP-Link won't save America from its own terrible cybersecurity
TP-Link routers face a ban in the U.S. over the company's alleged links to China, but shoddy cybersecurity is the real insider threat to the United States.
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/banning-tp-link-wont-save-america-from-its-own-terrible-cybersecurity/
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One of the coolest videos I've seen in a while.
v.redd.it/porl3bihlh3g1
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From the Satisfyingasfuck community on Reddit: Restoring a rusty antique game
Explore this post and more from the Satisfyingasfuck community
https://v.redd.it/porl3bihlh3g1
29 days ago
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Sebastian says happy Tuesday
29 days ago
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We're looking at places to stay in January and came across this in the notes for one listing. Big selling point for the wife & kids.
about 1 month ago
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sarah jeong
about 1 month ago
this reminds me of the macedonian fake news industry
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This guy is my current muse on Instagram. One of the most nerdy happy niche accounts I've ever come across.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQy3OcW...
about 1 month ago
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This post-mortem and the accompanying full technical report from Anthropic is a fascinating glimpse into how rapidly hackers are using commercial AI services (here, Claude) to do recon & launch successful attacks on victim orgs.
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
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Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
about 1 month ago
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just a typical wednesday over here. you?
about 1 month ago
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This discussion with
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
should be heard by anyone trying to make sense of Justice Ketanji Brown's ruling on the SNAP case yesterday. Vladeck makes a convincing argument that Brown Jackson pulled a ninja-level legal maneuver to expedite a ruling with the best possible outcome.
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about 2 months ago
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“[T]he real power of the campaign came from voters who rallied around a set of simple beliefs: that every person deserves a home; that child care should be free; that elections shouldn’t be bought; that racial diversity is a strength worth defending; that working people matter…”
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about 2 months ago
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dan sinker
about 2 months ago
I sure would appreciate it if you spent about 20 seconds of your Friday signing up to get my writing sent straight to you. It's free, it's fun (sometimes), and it would mean a lot:
dansinker.com/follow/
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I'll make this even more simple: Many (most?) of us in the security engineering world who have taken even a cursory look at this browser would advise colleagues & friends to avoid it at all costs. It's a privacy and product security dumpster fire.
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about 2 months ago
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Phil Lewis
about 2 months ago
The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee
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Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/password-louvres-video-surveillance-system-louvre-employee/story?id=127236297
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U.S. Army advising troops stationed in Germany to go to German food banks during shutdown. “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags: - Tafel Deutschland - Foodsharing e.V. - Essen für ”
web.archive.org/web/20251105...
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Shutdown Guidance :: U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria
Information on the 2025 shutdown.
https://web.archive.org/web/20251105103925/https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance
about 2 months ago
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Filippo Valsorda
about 2 months ago
I had a bug in my new ML-DSA implementation that caused Verify to reject all signatures. I gave up after half an hour. On a whim, I threw Claude Code at it. Surprisingly (to me!) it one-shotted it in 5 minutes. A small case study of useful AI tasks that aren't generating code that requires review.
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Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography
Surprisingly (to me) Claude Code debugged my new ML-DSA implementation faster than I would have, finding the non-obvious low-level issue that was making Verify fail.
https://words.filippo.io/claude-debugging/
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Nice sunset at the barn outside Barcelona
about 2 months ago
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We're pleased to announce the final lineup for Black Hat Europe '25. Terrific security research spanning 21 tracks. In a separate thread, I'll highlight a few of my favorites.
www.blackhat.com/eu-25/briefi...
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Black Hat
Black Hat
https://www.blackhat.com/eu-25/briefings/schedule/index.html
about 2 months ago
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The Register
about 2 months ago
Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown
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Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown
Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services Microsoft Azure has been experiencing a global outage since around 1600 UTC, or 0900 PDT on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.…
http://dlvr.it/TNyPnR
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I'm surprised and encouraged by my new replacement for Chrome and Safari with
@kagi.com
's browser Orion and its search engine. On the first couple of searches it managed to unsurface content that was exactly what I wanted, including some things I wrote/said years ago that I'd completely forgotten.
about 2 months ago
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Seeing some disturbing early research around ChatGPT's new Atlas web browser. I strongly recommend caution against using it, particularly to interact with any web sites holding sensitive data.
2 months ago
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Here's a pic of our dog before a proper grooming, looking rather punk and intimidating. And an after. Enjoy.
2 months ago
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One of the things that got drilled into my head working with field clinics in remote developing areas is: Design local systems for as much autonomy as possible and don't ever assume good (or ANY) connectivity for basic operations.
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2 months ago
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stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness
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2 months ago
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This is at once one of the most gobsmacking examples of utter incompetence I've read to date coming from the current administration, and yet also a fascinating train wreck of hilarity.
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2 months ago
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them: "Your required training is due. Please complete it today." 3rd-party training system: “nope nope nope server error please try again later” me: fine time for a nice cup of chai.
2 months ago
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Amazon is still working to recover from a major service outage in US-East that started around 2 am ET. Thousands of sites affected, including several large European banks. “The UK government has said it is in contact with Amazon over Monday’s outage.”
health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
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Amazon Web Services outage hitting platforms around world ‘showing signs of recovery’
Problem that originated in US and affected Snapchat and Ring among others appears to be IT issue rather than cyber-attack, says expert
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/20/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-hits-dozens-websites-apps
2 months ago
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Molly Jong-Fast
2 months ago
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Kirk Rudell
2 months ago
The top of two prominent newspapers’ mobile editions right now—and the reason that, despite growing up in New York, I always read
@theguardian.com
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@nytimes.com
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Innocent🕷Abroad
2 months ago
Since I did it in June, I'll do a quick thread of images from the No Tyrants* rally, again at the US embassy in London, 18 October 2025 *Instead of No Kings, because that would be churlish for a bunch of Americans who've been welcome in this kingdom
#NoTyrants
#NoTyrantsLondon
#NoKings
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Helen Kennedy
2 months ago
It’s going to take ages to pay all these people
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Amy Ash
2 months ago
CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by
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Miguel Correia da Silva
2 months ago
Lisboa, Portugal. One world, one fight.
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Boston. Wow.
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“A clear visual clue that the photograph was not taken in Portland was that the first officer’s shield is marked “Policia”, the Spanish or Portuguese word for police.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/oregon-republicans-protest-photo-south-america
2 months ago
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Indivisible ❌👑
2 months ago
Look at this turnout in Charlotte!
#NoKings
(via Marco Foster/Threads)
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Luca Migo ❌👑
2 months ago
South Korea:
#NoKings
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OrangeSage
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#NoKings
Miami!
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Olga Nesterova
2 months ago
#NOKINGS
New York City, NY
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Matty
2 months ago
I just want to live in a world where my thermostat can't have security vulnerabilities
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Marcus Brinkmann
3 months ago
This is a friendly reminder that the call for contributed talks to Real World Crypto in Taipei 2026 is open until October 10. We are looking for interesting talks bridging cryptography and its real-world use! Also it’s a great way to meet new people!
rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
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RWC 2026 call for papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
https://rwc.iacr.org/2026/contributed.php
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“So Kenn, what line of work are you in?”
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2 months ago
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Sahil Kapur
2 months ago
For the 8th time, the Senate votes to reject the Republican-led government funding bill. The count is 49-45; with six senators missing the vote. Not a single senator has switched their vote since pre-shutdown. The Senate will vote on it again for a 9th time tomorrow afternoon
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Jeff Yang
2 months ago
Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism. Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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