cypherpunks

(well actually) you forgot Poland

signal's "sealed sender" feature has an incoherent threat model

Regarding TVs, WikiLeaks' Vault 7 publication in 2017 included "Weeping Angel", CIA malware for Samsung TVs which streams audio from them while they're in "fake off" mode.

https://mashable.com/article/cia-samsung-tv-hack-weeping-angel

xkcd#37 moment

It's good to see someone in this thread who knows what an IPv5 address looks like:

IPv5 addresses consist of four hextets a 16bit each.  For the visual
representation, those grouping are used.  The hextets might be
written in decimal, separated by dot '.' characters, or as
hexadecimal numbers, separated by colon ':'.

It's long past time to start replacing our IPv4.1 deployments!

Supersingular isogeny key exchange (SIKE) is very secure post-quantum replacement for Diffie-Hellman...

SIKE!

fuckin' a

Activity lights are useful

in even more ways than one might think. (see also this and this later work from the same author...)

based on the other comments here i had to double check if this thread was in !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml smh my head

well, some of them are built so that the front doesn't fall off at all