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Hobbies Don’t Need to be Policed
The Furry Fandom is many things to many people, and it’s difficult to pin a single definition for it down. If you ask 10 furries to explain the furry fandom, you’re likely to end up with 11 different...
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Should You Delete Your Patreon Account After They Laid Off Their Entire...
Last night, the Internet learned that Patreon fired their entire security team, abruptly. For those asking for a primary source: https://t.co/Wja4t5QrY6Someone scoop up Emily Metcalfe (@emilymet)....
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Contemplating the Future
As everyone knows, Elon Musk is now running Twitter directly into the ground. Who knows? Maybe he needed some inspiration for the Boring Company. Art: Chai Lynx This has, as many predicated, been a...
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Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the Fediverse
As Twitter’s new management continues to nosedive the platform directly into the ground, many people are migrating to what seem like drop-in alternatives; i.e. Cohost and Mastodon. Some are even...
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Security Research on Twitter: Before and After Musk’s Takeover
This is going to be a bit less polished than my usual writing, because I’m hammering it out before a busy day at work. My Twitter account was suspended last night, around the same time that a wave of...
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Extending the AES-GCM Nonce Without Nightmare Fuel
When it comes to AES-GCM, I am not a fan. Most of my gripes fall into one of two categories: Gripes with AES itself Gripes with AES-GCM as a construction However, one of my gripes technically belongs...
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What We Do in the /etc/shadow – Cryptography with Passwords
Ever since the famous “Open Sesame” line from One Thousand and One Nights, humanity was doomed to suffer from the scourge of passwords. Courtesy of SwiftOnSecurity Even in a world where we use...
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Hindsight is 2022
I’ve had a couple people ask me if I would do a yearly recap blog post like I did for 2021 and 2020 previously. Unfortunately, the year opened the same way it closed: Twitter. Twitter is dead to me(My...
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How You Respond to Security Researchers Says Everything About You
Whether businesses thrive or shutter depends largely on trust. This is as true of restaurants and fursuit makers as it is of password managers and private messaging apps. Trust is hard to gain, but...
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Dogwhistles and Other Falsehoods Uttered About Furries
The Furry Fandom is a vibrant participatory online community. Furries skew heavily LGBTQIA+ and largely originated as a queer-positive spin-off of the science fiction fandom. Last year, a group of...
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Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us
Earlier this year, Cendyne wrote a blog post covering the use of HKDF, building partially upon my own blog post about HKDF and the KDF security definition, but moreso inspired by a cryptographic issue...
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Asymmetric Cryptographic Commitments
Recently, it occurred to me that there wasn’t a good, focused resource that covers commitments in the context of asymmetric cryptography. I had covered confused deputy attacks in my very short (don’t...
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Something to Always Keep in Mind
I’ve written a lot on this blog over the past three years. In my inaugural post, I had said: You can expect less “here’s me explaining a thing I’m an expert in” and more “here’s me writing about...
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On Furries and the Media
Recently, there has been a lot of misinformation and propaganda flying around the American news media about the furry fandom. Unfortunately, this seems to be increasing with time. Art: LvJ...
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DEFCON Quantum Village 2: Electric Boogaloo
Last year, I went to the Quantum Village and encountered some absolute bullshit, which I proceeded to call out. This year, while I was walking around the Crypto + Privacy Village at DEFCON 31 in...
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Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It
I quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about work.” Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I’m going to bend that rule for once. And...
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I Don’t Care if Strangers Can Take Me Seriously
A few days ago, I wrote a personal blurb about my experience with Return-to-Office, Forced Relocation, and top-down Corporate Bullshit. This was a departure from my usual fare in two ways: I talked...
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A Plan for Multicast Support in Noise-based Protocols
If you’ve paid attention to Hacker News or various technology subreddits in recent years, you may have noticed the rise of VPN companies like Tailscale and ZeroTier. At the core of their networking...
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Aural Alliance – Furry Music to Wag / Pounce to
Dhole Moments is not a music blog. I will not pretend to be an expert on music, music theory, or music appreciation. But it goes even further than that: I am so untalented at music that I exert a...
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This Would Be More Professionally Useful If Not For the Furry Art
The people afraid to show their peers or bosses my technical writing because it also contains furry art are some of the dumbest cowards in technology. Considering the recent events at ApeFest, a...
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