The young people in our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica.
This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.
Digitale Souveränität in Frankreich schreitet voran 👌❤️
France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
"France’s decision to ditch Windows comes months after the government announced it would stop using Microsoft Teams for video conferencing..."
techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/f...
Calm down, computer software isn't making decisions about who lives and who dies in war. It merely processes a ton of data and then makes a recommendation to a human who has no realistic way to verify it
I'm looking for a PhD student to work with me on formal verification for cryptographic protocols.
This is a 4-year position at VU Amsterdam, co-supervised with Kristina Sojakova. Send me an email if you want to know more!
Presentation of Muhammad Usama Sardar on formal analysis of attested TLS at PET-CON 2026.1 at KIT Karlsruhe/KASTEL Security Research Labs.
PET-CON 2026.1 kicked off with great discussions & talks on privacy-from Tor extensions to confidential computing & data access-at KASTEL/KIT. Looking forward to two days of exchange. Thanks to our Patri, Alex & team for organizing, and participants for the contributions, energy and insights!
I am trying to understand the cryptographic protocols used by the EU age verification app - and currently I am failing.
Is anyone able to extract how the age verification is supposed to work on a cryptographic level?
Sec. 3.4 describes issuing and presentation of attestations, but ...
And will be so useful (yet, never used) in future!!
Ouch, hits very close to home 😲
Alphaville vs Donald Trump - with kind regards from old Europe!
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@danielholznagel.bsky.social @peterhense.bsky.social @bruess.law #ForeverYoung
Yesterday Mattia Mossano presented his paper "Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of SEQR – a #Usable #Secure QR code Scanner" at #CHI2026 Thank you to all that attended the talk! #GraduateSchool @kastel-labs.bsky.social
Our work on 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗣𝗮𝗶𝗿 (breaking Google Fast Pair) has been accepted at both the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2026 and Black Hat Asia 2026.
#google #fastpair #bluetooth
From two years ago but only just seen it. Speak out for justice.
Written, Directed and Produced by Chiara Gizz
Original here youtu.be/GyEMbIRYVGA?...
thus, if you manually copy and paste a link in that email, you're fine and not presumptively agreeing to any terms.
Today, for the third time in my mother's life and for the second in my own life, we lost a home due to it being bombed by the Israeli army.
Thanks, done!
Instead of "thoughts and prayers" are the ways to help, associations to donate to?
Was die Wiener Polizei sagt
Clearview has been fined across multiple countries, but its invasive surveillance business model continues.
We’re seeking to intervene and fight that model in the courts again.
privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
France going forward with sovereignty, meanwhile Germany makes sure to strengthen dependency on fossil fuels and considers privatizing more infrastructure 🤦♂️
www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/fra...
It's a strategy, tag everything: invaded Cuba will be Trump Island, invaded Greenland Trumparctic, Canada Trumpanada in the hope that some will slip through and remain carrying his name once this shitshow is over, he's left office and honest people start cleaning up after this bunch of hooligans.
Clearview agiert illegal und die EU handelt nicht. 😠
Politik und Macht: Dieses Unternehmen hat dein Gesicht geklaut. Niemand kann es stoppen.
"Die Gesichtsdatenbank von „Clearview“ ist in Europa illegal. Also eigentlich."
krautreporter.de/politik-und-...
Also: annonymized data is not anonymous.
But but - Serge, hold on a second - technically, a hash value cannot be decrypted!!
/s
Nah, come on, don't be harsh. If nothing else, he does deserve this participation trophy. He's still a US citizen, trying to live the American dream, getting richer at someone else's expense.
Panel at the final event of the ForDaySec project on security of everyday it, with Eva Wolfangel, Thomas Riehm, Tatjana Halm, Dieter Gollmann, Sabine Ellerhold, moderated by Dominik Herrmann
Closing panel at the final public event of #ForDaySec, with @ewo.name, Thomas Riehm, Tatjana Halm, Dieter Gollmann, Sabine Ellerhold, and Dominik Hermann. Great panel, but pessimistic statements (both humans "fail" and systems are fundamentally insecure =-o).
Hoping for some positive outlook! ;-)
On the left side of the picture, a woman wearing a black top is working on a metal scaffold, looking up at an angle. On the right in the foreground, a man in a light blue shirt is working on two metal pipes. Both are standing in a large hall with various pieces of metal equipment in the background.
#KITKarlsruhe ranks among the world’s best in 14 subjects in the QS University Rankings by Subject. In the Natural Sciences, it ranks 52nd and in the Engineering & Technology category, KIT ranks 42nd worldwide. Three subjects even place among the top 2 percent worldwide
www.kit.edu/kit/english/...
"The return of the glassholes"
New Le Soir piece on COSIC research: we reverse‑engineered Microsoft’s secret #PhotoDNA and show how #CSAM detection can be bypassed or weaponised to falsely flag innocents. Our results challenge the push for large‑scale client‑side scanning.
www.lesoir.be/735999/artic... [paywall]
