LLMs can generate 'secure' passwords that are actually just predictable garbage. Because, you know, predicting is what LLMs do best.

https://www.irregular.com/publications/vibe-password-generation

Why does nobody ever mention that the company providing ID verification in the UK is ultimately owned by Thiel and, therefore, Palantir?

This is dragnet making XKEYSCORE an amateur system.

https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116087059413472819

Pwndbg 2026.02.18 is out! Enhance your GDB or LLDB experience!

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#gdb #lldb #pwndbg #pwn #ctf #reverseengineering

Open source has an open slop problem.

And I think the solution is one that would've been perfectly obvious to a thirteenth-century Florentine weaver...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/

Mistodon: when you wanna go oldschool, you can't beat the green glow of a P1 phosphor terminal. This embryonic #ANSIart screen, 'Born Digital', was drawn by @mavenmob and included in the MIST0223 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

Microsoft loves to play word games stating that *they* did not evict the chief International Criminal Court prosecutor from the cloud. But this is exactly what they did, and now they are trying to correct the UK parliamentary record, where they had tried to spin this (incorrectly): https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/microsoft_asks_uk_parliament_to_correct_record/

[RSS] Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/18/carelessness-versus-craftsmanship-in-cryptography/

New vulnerability report from Talos:

OpenCFD OpenFOAM Code Stream directive arbitrary code execution vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2292

CVE-2025-61982

So I spent way too much time debugging today and this beer made me sentimental so here's a software success story:

I use motibro.com to sign up for trainings and I think they became SW Buddha (or whatever):

- The webapp just works
- AFAIK there is no mobile app, but mobile view just works
- The copyright info stuck in 2022, no one cares ofc
- They send notification with the right info, at the right time, no spam
- I can't recall any feature or design updates, I can basically manage my classes blind
- I hear no complaints about the software from any of its users

We need more software like Motibro!

How have I lived to the Year of our Lord 2026 without having seen this meme before now?

#StarWars #memes #ReneMagritte

This is me, arguing with rustc about various ways of setting one bit in memory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A

so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:

> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane

with https://sphinx.pm, we consider it - half-jokingly, with some caveats - normal, the server being fully malicious and it's fine have it hosted by the nsa/u8200/gru/prc

1/n

I've seen a lot of people asking for an option for "are" in the marshdeer xkcd-2501 generator... so I made one! Yay open source.

https://foone.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/

(pull request about to be in progress, but this is my fork of my changes)

ブースト、お気に入り大歓迎！yuya_maekadoさんの投稿作品です。

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Today in This Should Be Easy But in #Rust It Apparently Isn't: how do I encapsulate the widget initialization (without triggering E0515) in this example, so it becomes reusable?

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2024&gist=f31dd1ecf5530b11e301bb19af85b0fa

[RSS] Cryptographic Issues in Matrix's Rust Library Vodozemac

https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/

[RSS] Building a Secure Electron Auto-Updater

https://blog.doyensec.com/2026/02/16/electron-safe-updater.html

🎥 PTML: emitting rich decompiled code

Jack introduces PTML and how rev.ng goes beyond raw text, enriching decompiled code (e.g., decompiled C, disassembly, etc.) with HTML-like markup to provide richer and useful information for the viewer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xtwu_EaRJg

Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue

#wh40k #windows