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Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Gummo, a computer hacker from Jacksonville, Florida.

Here’s a link to a follow up interview with Gummo: Black Hat Hacker-Gummo (follow up)

Here's a good laugh. A stupid man interviews the "#1 ethical hacker in the world".

Cool projects are rare. Here I found one I want to show to you. An off-grid personal communicator. It includes a lot of new technologies: ESP32, Smartphones, LoRa, BLE, GPS, Mesh, and as you see, 3D printing. And it solves a problem that could be seen as a human right: Personal SMS style communication everywhere in the world, without the need for any infrastructure, and without mass surveillance. In addition, it shows the location of all your friends in your group on a map on your Smartphone. Everything open source, of course. How cool is that? Even "Sexycyborg" Naomi Wu likes it. I am a proud Patreon of GreatScott!, Electroboom, Electronoobs, EEVblog, and others.

Quantum computing will bring tumultuous change to the world of information security in the coming decade. As multi-qubit systems use quantum algorithms to slice through even 4096-bit PK encryption in seconds, new Quantum Encryption will be required to ensure data security. Join Konstantinos for a look at real world experiments in Quantum Key Distribution that BT and partners have recently performed that show what the future of encryption will look like. Remember the panic after Heartbleed when SOME passwords needed to be changed? Imagine a day when ALL communications are at risk of eavesdropping via Quantum Computers - a day when only new systems that exploit the weirdness of quantum mechanics can ensure privacy.

The Ace has returned with yet another Cyber Tech Tool review! Today we look at the Flipper Zero, a portable multi-tool for pentesters and hardware geeks that comes in the form of a tamagotchi. This hardware opens up the world of radio protocols, access control systems, hardware, and more to what was previously a niche security industry. Flipper Zero, on the other hand, is not some magical Watch Dogs-inspired hacking device that will allow you to control traffic lights, security cameras, or ATMs to give you money. It has very limited capabilities and is primarily intended for light pentesting and a gentle introduction to the world of sub-frequencies.

my first impressions of qubes os the reasonably secure operating system

perhaps we can come up with a way to pipe this to make it more fed friendly.

and here’s how that channel recommends hardening an android phone: https://youtu.be/mlW6I5Kuj6c

How do you prove something without giving away all your data? Zero Knowledge Proofs could hold the answer. Alberto Sonnino, Research Student at UCL explains.

Further reading.

Zero Knowledge technology holds the key to true privacy by default.

In this report, we examine the future of voting and the possibility of conducting secure elections online. Specifically, we explore whether End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting (E2E-VIV) systems are a viable and responsible alternative to traditional election systems.

This report contains the most complete set of requirements to date that must be satisfied by any Internet voting system used in public elections. Developed by a team of experts in election integrity, election administration, high-assurance engineering, and cryptography, the report starts from the premise that public elections in the U.S. are a matter of national security.

• Report for Non-technical Audiences

• Complete Rreport

• Usability Study

I think a utxo blockchain makes perfect sense as an application for this homomorphic encryption technology for use in democratic voting, and subsequent verification, and security of the vote (to protect the voter from intimidation after the fact).

In my opinion, the main problem behind blockchain voting comes when a centralized power (like the US for example) wants to understandably use their own national currency in CBDC form (digital currency) as the oil in that machine. It's a dilemma because decentralized, open source technologies must be used for a system like this to truly be secure and independently-verified.