infosex.exchange <3

You are probably looking for the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance

This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.

Discoverability and Archiving

Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.

Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.

Gluttony Section for Search Engines

@TarkabarkaHolgy @Pepijn let's reevaluate after the third kick in the ribs
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@TarkabarkaHolgy if AI wont end humanity, this surely would
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[RSS] Two Oracles to Get One Key: A tale of recovering a symmetric key from an encrypt-only firmware update scheme

https://www.ioactive.com/two-oracles-recovering-aes-firmware-key/
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@synnfynn As I understand BC takes no responsibility for the merch, it's 100% up to the seller to deliver. I had a package lost in transit and the band was super cool about it.
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[RSS] The Goat Emoji Is 100% Valid Machine Code, and It Doesn't Stop There

https://hackaday.com/2026/11/06/the-goat-emoji-is-100-valid-machine-code-and-it-doesnt-stop-there/
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In the age of LLMs security by obscurity no longer works: my friends at Silent Signal recovered the PVV algorithm used by #IBMi to check objects moved across machines. Now it's possible* to restore programs that read/write objects of other users, incl. QSECOFR:

https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2026/11/10/Beyond-the-compiler-Making-IBM-i-run-modified-native-code-PVV/

* You need privs to restore, digital signatures shouldn't be enforced and we still need a good way to leak target object addresses.
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@dey "Browsers don’t offer a native passkey option and only fall back to external devices" -> falling back to external devices is exactly what I want (apparently)
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@schrotthaufen I think in case of G it's more of a dark pattern unfortunately, if Duo behavior is UA dependent I'd assume it's a leftover workaround for an early compatibility problem.
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Massive revelation (and shit UX) of the day:

Google actually still allows using hardware keys as #Passkeys on Linux, but I couldn't figure this out for *months*!

When you go to your account settings and try to add an MFA device the page shows that you can't create a Passkey on this device. When you click "Create Passkey" you are once again reminded that you can't create it on this device.

But now (on the error dialog) when you click "Use another device" the Passkey is created on your FIDO token - because it *is* another device!

I've been in the IT-security biz for ~20 years. I can't imagine how a normal person would figure this out.
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How does your Vulnerability Management respond if this one gets a #CVE ?

https://terminal2shell.com/
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