Just had fun presenting on musical pattern discovery, fractals, and functional programming NWD Conferentie and nice catching up with Cynthia Liem - @[email protected] #wiskunde #mathematics #outreach slides: bit.ly/2HN7gys

This in no way makes any sense whatsoever Service NSW

Really enjoyed delivering my talk at TDFCon on malicious JavaScript encoded as zero-width whitespace characters! The blog post is up now: blog.sauljohnson.com/you-will-pwn-y…

Can't wait for a cryptocurrency with the ethics of Uber, the censorship resistance of Paypal, and the centralization of Visa, all tied together under the proven privacy of Facebook.

Go to check my account balance on my phone, get nervous, hands get clammy, fingerprint not recognised, calm down a bit, go to check my account balance on my phone, get nervous...

Absolutely wild that you store passwords unhashed, then *print them on a piece of paper* and put them in the mail. This can't be real.

I don't blog much, but in light of the recent Virgin Media ❤️ tweet about *printing out passwords and popping them in the post* (still can't believe I'm typing that) I thought I'd post this here: blog.sauljohnson.com/taking-passwor…

Me, a password security researcher, hiding under the bed: Armed robber: . Me: . Armed robber: . Me: . Armed robber: Enforce password length over password complexity. Me: ACTUALLY THERE IS NO IDEAL PASSWORD POLICY IN ALL ENVIRONMENTS, THREAT MODELLING IS ESSENTIA- oops...

hate to post about personal stuff but tl;dr i had to kick a friend out of my life tonite bc they were not respecting boundaries & i felt unsafe around them. idk who needs to hear this, but i think its usually the right thing to do even if u feel like a crappy person for doing it.

If you follow me and don't yet follow Cybergibbons 🚲🚲🚲 you should definitely do so. Consistently awesome stuff.

FM'19 was amazing! blog.sauljohnson.com/world-congress…

WHAT THE SHIT. Seriously, I didn't realise the utter amazingness of this on the day when Marek sent it. If you use their new auth scheme, you cannot have the same PIN as another user. Duhhhhhhhhhh. Share widely!

#5233 Computing History Science, yeah! Iris Yuping Ren

Vote here: vprobroadcast.com/titles/ai-song…

avogadr.io is back up and generating molecular wallpapers again after months of downtime. Sorry about that, life got a bit crazy.

"Password expiration requirements do more harm than good, because these requirements make users select predictable passwords" Thank you Microsoft. NIST agrees. Everyone who attacks password auth agrees. Can we get compliance to update their requirements. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…