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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
3.1%
Engagement vs followers
Sep 2023
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I was thinking about an zero cost and easy way to prove primacy · 7 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.39 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
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Follows 177 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
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Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates is actually very clever. This is an instance of the same technique behind browser fingerprinting.
Naturally, this suggests a defensive mitigation. Swap removable decals and bumper stic…
This month's link dump includes:
Least Credentials pattern; age verification "fence the ocean" terminology; education budget insights via a video game; origins of "waterfall" development; bypassing paywalls via Google "AI"; Neil Postman’s …
Wow: tell me you don't understand software security without telling me you don't understand software security.
I thought this was going to be something like "TLSv1.3" != "TLS v1.3" (with a space) but this is far worse.
I looked up "SLCont…
Is it too cynical to insert the part in brackets? (WSJ article)
"Anthropic is calling for top artificial intelligence labs to weigh slowing the pace of development [just after submitting their IPO filing], suggesting that AI systems are ad…
This definition only covers memory modification but read-access must also be so restricted, which in practice is as well.
@adamshostack Was your preference of the first linked definition that "certain types of bugs"? If so I think that ca…
Great point. I'd be astonished if any of the crawls consider that - it's a pure externality.
I think these qualify: Chapter 3 (mitigations) and 4 (secure patterns) from my book.
https://designingsecuresoftware.com/text/ch4-patterns/
RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116284084317566458
@neurovagrant 💯 One of two things must have happened: [1] CEOs gung ho for AI asked how to make security better; or [2] a C programming went beyond zero trust by subtracting 1 an…
The LLM grammar fixer I use acts silly in that doesn't seem to know about threat models. It may correct "threat model" to "threaten the model" or "threaten to model", neither of which I would ever do but it's fun trying to imagine.
RE: https://sigmoid.social/@cigitalgem/116000745386699840
Progress since 1993: one easy way to sell more ads.
Embarrassing: "After installing the August 2025 non-security preview update (KB5064081) or later updates, you might notice that the password icon is not visible in the sign-in options on the lock screen."
Rather than ridicule, I have one q…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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On Mastodon since
Sep 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
84/100
Excellent
- Est. 95% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~3.1% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
Est. authentic audience
95%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Author of Designing Secure Software: A guide for developers
#securedesign
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