Nostr notes by Soatok Dreamseeker

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117524129901749513 ...

2026-10-29T14:15:11Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117524129901749513

Finally, some good conspiracy theory

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in retrospect, I suspect Dual_EC_DRBG was deliberately botched by the technicals after failing to persuade management that what they were asking for was wildly unethical and dangerous even by spy agency standards

Your Cryptography Conspiracy Theory Is Wrong This conversation ...

2026-10-29T07:48:08Z

Your Cryptography Conspiracy Theory Is Wrong

This conversation plays out hundreds of times a day, but (thankfully) only a handful of those involve me:...

http://soatok.blog/2026/10/29/your-cryptography-conspiracy-theory-is-wrong/

The people who are pushing the "AI will replace you" ...

2026-09-27T07:43:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…kxda
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The people who are pushing the "AI will replace you" talking points online fundamentally do not understand this. And I worry some well-meaning people will miss it too.

A large component of any employment relationship is trust. Your employer trusts that you will make a good-effort attemptt to fulfill your duties and cultivate a working professional relationship with everyone else, you trust that your paycheck will deposit on time with the correct amount.

Trust is not a simple math equation you can reward-hack your way into solving. Trust is personal, sometimes irrational, cultural, and very social. The closest you could probably get involves cellular automata; and that would only help you study networks of independent actors making trust decisions and how those shape interactions rather than solve trust itself.

You cannot trust any machine the same way you trust the people you work with every day.

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2026-07-15T20:37:11Z

https://soatok.blog/2026/07/15/the-long-tail-of-work-left-until-activitypub-has-e2ee

Seeing Cloudflare do a 20% layoff doesn't bode well for the ...

2026-05-08T11:08:06Z

Seeing Cloudflare do a 20% layoff doesn't bode well for the tech industry which already has a problem of too many overqualified people looking for too few jobs.

starts writing on the chalkboard, Bart Simpson style "I ...

2026-02-25T16:05:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…sq9p
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*starts writing on the chalkboard, Bart Simpson style*

"I will NOT get nerdsniped into another cryptography side-project."

I've had a few people ask why I didn't post the full ...

2026-02-20T03:46:53Z

I've had a few people ask why I didn't post the full Matrix email on my Fedi thread. There are two reasons:<li>It wouldn't fit in 1k characters.</li><li>Listen carefully:</li>

Y'know how "just getting caught cheating on your monogamous partner" isn't the right time to discuss exploring ethical nonmonogamy?

In a similar vein, asking for information while dismissing a report as "no practical security impact" is still dismissing the goddamn report.

I excerpted the part of their email where they dismissed my report. That was the part that initiated the immediate disclosure. The inciting turn of phrase.

It doesn't matter how much you piss on my leg, I'm not going to believe it's raining.

While working on https://publickey.directory, two really annoying ...

2026-01-23T15:54:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…dsq4
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While working on https://publickey.directory, two really annoying problems cropped up.<li>What if someone demands their data be stricken from the transparency log, as is their right under the EU's GDPR?</li><li>What if someone legitimately loses access to all their secret keys (catastrophic hardware failure) and wants their instance admin to be able to restore their ability to use E2EE?</li>

When I say "annoying problems", I do NOT mean the people that would experience them are annoying.

I mean they are annoying because they are fundamentally incompatible with the simplest possible solution.