On vacation so it’s time for the vacation project.
Meet Phylactery: a file encryption system that utilizes strong distributed cryptography.
Phylactery is built to protect personal secrets with the same standards used to protect US/NATO TOP SECRET military data
#crypto
github.com/amanoske/Phy...
To the VCs who supported Trump/Musk because they were “good” for tech:
The National Vulnerability DB is temperamental at best after DOGE arbitrarily gutted NIST and stopped payments on it.
Most Western enterprise security tech is partially flying blind vs new attacks
Great job
I worked in/around USCYBERCOM for most of the last decade. They are attacked daily by Russian adversaries, especially GRU/military intel.
Ordering them to stand down is like telling someone whose house is robbed every night to unlock their doors and stop calling 911.
Despicable.
Laptop isn’t a beastly gaming rig either. This is a mid-spec Zenbook running integrated graphics off an Intel Meteor Lake processor.
Thing is less than $600 rn at Best Buy, but driver support is so good it can play most late ‘10s triple A titles with frame gen north of 40FPS.
Computing rn is wild
It’s amazing how good Steam + Proton has gotten over the last 2 years.
Planning to just take Linux ultrabook on our upcoming Europe trip, and floored that most of my Steam library now plays through proton w/ near native performance.
Maybe not year of Linux desktop, but definitely for Linux gaming.
If #CES2025 hype is real we’re also living in a time where some integrated graphics perform *better* than some dedicated entry level options
Wild to see Strix Point APUs benching higher than the 4050. Asus pulling dGPUs and running Z13 on them is 🤯
www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243...
Razer moving its flagship model to AMD Strix Point is a big deal
Intel Lunar Lake may be too little, too late if AMD can get TSMC to ship more and double down on cost/compute and heat efficiency 💻 users want (ie: what’s necessary to stay thin and get good battery)
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gam...
Been using Ghostty as my main terminal for a bit and it’s a blast. Lots of modern touches (tab navigator is fire) and worth a try on OSX + Linux!
Ghostty.org
Most people don’t need to be paranoid about nation state attacks or equivalent on their phone, but if you do, I trust Nicole’s recommendations since she covers this space.
Bitcoin in the long run? Probably.
Your passwords? No - because for the last decade the US/Western cryptographic community has been aware of this possibility and working on deploying crypto resistant to Shor’s and other quantum attacks.
See more:
csrc.nist.gov/projects/pos...
Interesting Cybersecurity trends report by Canada government.
Pretty hyped to turn this into my Linux + Android tablet!
Zen 5 is such a performance and efficiency powerhouse.
VMware Workstation Pro going free is such a game changer for personal offsec learning.
Can do almost anything I’d do in Kali on hardware. Great for not packing 2 laptops.
Installer is an absolute mess to find since Broadcom’s acquisition though. Use this:
softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desk...
Enjoying how much more positive the community is here!
Skyflow is the first one that comes to mind specifically focused on this (disclaimer: advisor for them)
I've seen 3 or 4 new companies coming out to build ostensibly the next generation of HashiCorp Vault - including 2 I've done tech DD for VCs on.
Kind of a weird imposter syndrome-ish feeling that this is happening, but overall excited.
So much left to do in secrets management, esp. with AI/LLMs.
Talked w/ SecurityWeek about the work that my team and I have been doing with WhiteRabbitNeo: currently the top-preforming cybersecurity LLM and one of the top preforming uncensored LLMs in the world by HumEval.
Excited about how this helps infosec and devops!
www.securityweek.com/whiterabbitn...
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