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739
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The Hacker Factor Blog: Meta's Un-Stable Signature https://hacke · 4 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.72 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
16×
Follows 47 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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The Hacker Factor Blog: PTSD and Sock Roundup
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1100-PTSD-and-Sock-Roundup.html
Sometimes you just need a stupid game to teach important skills.
Has anyone noticed that, if you replace the word "Love" with "Drug" in The Love Boat theme, it still makes sense?
The Hacker Factor Blog: On a Power Trip
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1099-On-a-Power-Trip.html
Sometimes you just need a new battery.
Quantum computing is near, but it's not here yet. Until Q-Day arrives, we can still have Q-Tip Day!
The Hacker Factor Blog: TrustMark's False Positive Problem
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1097-TrustMarks-False-Positive-Problem.html
Adobe's TrustMark watermarks drown in false positives. My tests against real-world dat…
The Hacker Factor Blog: SEAL Unbundled
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1095-SEAL-Unbundled.html
Signing a single file is easy. Signing a directory full of gigabyte-scale files is harder. SEAL now handles directory-based f…
The Hacker Factor Blog: Confident and Wrong
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1094-Confident-and-Wrong.html
Replacing humans with AI is like having an intern run the company. I tested a variety of small LLMs and they were e…
The Hacker Factor Blog: SEAL and JavaScript
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1093-SEAL-and-JavaScript.html
I just released SEAL-JS: a media provenance validator that runs in your browser. No installs, no uploads, no depend…
My password on my super secure system is too hard to remember. Can someone suggest something easier? It needs to be 12 characters long and include uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and at least two symbols.
The Hacker Factor Blog: Reversing SynthID
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1092-Reversing-SynthID.html
Invisible watermarks look like progress, but their fragility enables fraud.
Google’s SynthID can be detected, removed, …
This weekend, I'm going to take all of my servers down, one at a time. The reason? All of them have small Cr2032 batteries. These typically last 8-10 years. My servers have been running for 11 years, so... time to change the batteries!
Quantum computing is near, but it's not here yet. Until Q-Day arrives, we can still have Q-Tip Day!
The Hacker Factor Blog: TrustMark's False Positive Problem
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1097-TrustMarks-False-Positive-Problem.html
Adobe's TrustMark watermarks drown in false positives. My tests against real-world dat…
The Hacker Factor Blog: SEAL Unbundled
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1095-SEAL-Unbundled.html
Signing a single file is easy. Signing a directory full of gigabyte-scale files is harder. SEAL now handles directory-based f…
The Hacker Factor Blog: Confident and Wrong
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1094-Confident-and-Wrong.html
Replacing humans with AI is like having an intern run the company. I tested a variety of small LLMs and they were e…
The Hacker Factor Blog: SEAL and JavaScript
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1093-SEAL-and-JavaScript.html
I just released SEAL-JS: a media provenance validator that runs in your browser. No installs, no uploads, no depend…
My password on my super secure system is too hard to remember. Can someone suggest something easier? It needs to be 12 characters long and include uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and at least two symbols.
The Hacker Factor Blog: Reversing SynthID
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1092-Reversing-SynthID.html
Invisible watermarks look like progress, but their fragility enables fraud.
Google’s SynthID can be detected, removed, …
This weekend, I'm going to take all of my servers down, one at a time. The reason? All of them have small Cr2032 batteries. These typically last 8-10 years. My servers have been running for 11 years, so... time to change the batteries!
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
noc.social
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Oct 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.7× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I'm Neal Krawetz, a computer security specialist and forensic researcher. I run FotoForensics, Hintfo, and RootAbout. Sleep is not necessary.
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