WOOT 2025 schedule, all papers are now online open access: usenix.org/conference/woo… Talks are recorded, and should be online in a few weeks.

I am hiring a full time researcher for our team in Bloomberg. Candidates must be university professors or experienced industry researchers in the following fields: Network design & verification, AI for infrastructure & security, Compute & Storage, Systems & PL. Reach out!

I went to meet David Lightman, but he wasn't home. iamnotastalker.com/2010/05/28/the…

Tennis for Two created by William Higinbotham in 1958 at Brookhaven National Lab as a feature during an open house. A first or the first video game? #pax #retrogaming #vintagegaming #videogame

This blog post about impostor certificates by Squiblydoo is a gem and very relevant right now. Or: How threat actors impersonate companies to obtain authenticode certificates for signing their malware. And why revokation is important. squiblydoo.blog/2024/05/13/imp…

Bruce powered up bay 1 of the PDP-10 today on its new power supplies! icm.museum #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #blinkenlights

Grothendieck’s Récoltes et Semailles is in a league of its own.

What ever happened to CARO? I just noticed that caro[.]org expired, but the wayback machine still has snapshots from as recently as 2023. At least the registrar currently lists it with client renew, transfer, and update prohibited.

This morning, a serious WebPKI incident surfaced: a tiny CA misissued certificates for 1.1.1.1 - Cloudflare’s DNS service. With BGP hijacks happening regularly, those certs could enable full man-in-the-middle attacks. The bigger issue? Microsoft’s root program still trusts this

1/🧵 🌊🔌 Detecting Submarine Cables on Internet Paths #ACMSIGCOMM Next week, Caleb presents our work on revealing the undersea links behind Internet traffic.

I just found this in my mailbox. Perfect timing for the upcoming course!

Basic number theory for young kids: odd plus odd is even, square numbers, triangular numbers.

It's 2025, and some folks are just now realizing that EDRs are incredibly intrusive.

"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C Programs" -- Robert Firth

Backdoored cryptography is a seasonal phenomenon that, like winter, returns every year.

Una empresa americana (no Google) está explorando aterrizar en Málaga con un departamento de ingeniería de software (ciberseguridad + IA). Está buscando perfiles seniors con experiencia en trabajar en tecnológicas internacionales para liderar el proyecto. DM abierto.

I have some very clever students.

I got a beautiful coin today.