30 years ago, Bob Morris, then a senior scientist at NSA, gave a keynote talk at the CRYPTO conference (the leading conference for academic cryptographers).

He opened by telling us he would reveal the NSA's first rule for cryptanalysis (which certainly got our attention). "First", he said, "look for cleartext. You'll usually find it."

True words, and enduring, too.

@mattblaze

there's this line from Adventure Time that I'm obsessed with...

"I learned to read braille from my ex."

"Your ex was blind?"

"No, just cool."

absolutely sums up my love for that show. just teaching excellent vibes all the way through without being preachy.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Over the past couple years, I have come to know the #dotnet platform pretty well, from a developer's and a #reversing standpoint.

I can’t always say the same the #infosec community.

Today, I decided to rant a little (or maybe a lot 🙃)

👉 https://blog.washi.dev/posts/misconceptions-about-dotnet/

Amazingly, it's weekend and I kind of miss coding Rust.

If this is not Stockholm syndrome I don't know what is.

Anyway, I promised to finish my next #REshare exporter in a week two weeks ago so let's get back to Python!

Love Complex Automata? Don’t Miss The Archer

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/love-complex-automata-dont-miss-the-archer/

ART/AB4.GIF

@amanda @b0rk Cross references, yes! How do I use those? Also, I just looked at `man man` and noticed that there is no ToC ("Is there even something about hotkeys in this thing?").

@sassdawe @ludicity 100%, I definitely not meant to piss on sw engineers in particular, median skill isn't great industry-wide.

[RSS] Building a Custom Architecture and Platform: Part 1

https://binary.ninja/2026/02/20/quark-platform-part-1.html

#BinaryNinja

@b0rk I miss a hotkey to search for "identifiers", e.g. if I want to search for `-x` I don't want to see `-X --xenomorph`. The situation is even worse for one character identifiers/symbols (think tmux, bash, etc.).

I also find it impossible to remember section/page arguments (argument order + what number means what in `man N printf`).

[RSS] "They even thanked the coders for giving them such a difficult challenge."

https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-even-thanked-the-coders-for-giving-them-such-a-difficult-challenge

On how Spyro PlayStation edition (2000) was cracked.

@ludicity I worked mostly at (pen)testing and have always been astonished how basics of basics were unclear for many people (e.g. "does this code run on the client or the server?"). My opinion in summary is that the general quality of sw engineering/ers declined since managers figured out they can bill by the hour instead of fulfillment under the guise of "agile" (see "I'm gonna write myself a new minivan this afternoon").

Try it out yourself: https://zellic.ai

Here it is, our biggest issue to date, Issue #8!
Read, share, enjoy!
https://pagedout.institute/?page=issues.php
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And with that CFP for #9 is open - deadline 30 April 2026

@Natasha_Jay Next up: kindergarten teachers

Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@timb_machine/116068550511596363

If there's anyone on here that works at GitHub, do you think you could remind your support team to check their emails.

For reasons unknown you decided to suspend my account a week ago and I'm yet to even get a response that a ticket has been opened to investigate. I'm sure there's a reason (although I suspect it's debatable) but it would at least be nice to hear from you that it's being looked at.

#github

[RSS] Reverse engineering the Creative Katana V2X soundbar to be able to control it from Linux

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/02/20/katana-v2x-re/