Imagine your name were "Jon" and everybody kept misspelling your name as "John". This is how I scream internally whenever people call me "Tomasso".
Tommaso Gagliardoni
Tommaso Gagliardoni
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Cryptography, privacy, quantum security, infosec, retro vibes.
I am a mathematician and computer security scientist, with a strong interest in cryptography and anonymity, specialized in quantum security and complex cryptographic protocols. I am also a privacy hacktivist and public speaker, blahblahblah, read my Linkedin bio for this s**t, this is my Mastodon corner.
I co-develop Shufflecake, an open source privacy disk encryption tool to help journalists, activists, and whistleblowers evade unjust prosecution.
I am an advocate of digital self-sovereignty. You will see me often ranting about Big Tech, enshittification, and surveillance capitalism.
Fascinated with anime, Japan, RPGs, retro computing, and all things 80-90's. Notice I wrote "fascinated", not "knowledgeable".
Here you won't find peace nor forgiveness, but just: #cryptography #privacy #quantum #security #infosec #retro vibes!
Hey #mastodon this is something to look at! @npub10mwq...awkn just announced v0.1.0 of their key transparency specification for the Fediverse!
This is an incredibly useful project, something really missing in a robust decentralized architecture.
#fedi #fediverse #crypto #cryptography #authentication #security #federation #digitalsovereignty #digitalselfsovereignty
Dhole Moments
Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse - Dhole Moments
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implement...
I just found this cool video explaining the DIffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange with the analogy of mixing colors! I was not aware of this neat explanation! Cute!
#crypto #cryptography #security #privacy #education #video
I just received a letter from the Swiss Confederation about a "Mikrozensus Mobilität und Verkeher". Basically they ask me to participate in a survey by installing a tracking app on my phone to report my location as I drive my car around.
GIGALOL
#switzerland #privacy #madness
Dear #Mastodon can someone explain me why sometimes a thread gets "broken" and I cannot access part of it anymore?
Example:
I toot "A", other users reply to the toot as "B" and "C", and I reply to both with "BA" and "BC", respectively.
After some time I see that my original thread only shows one "branch": it has become A->B->BA.
The other branch still exists, I can see it from my "posts and replies" feed, but it appears as detached from the main "A" thread.
What's going on?
Mastodon users: please, please remember to tag your toots with the correct language.
Oh, this is so f***ing gold. This post is a juice concentrate of the many reasons why Matrix sucks:
Among others:
Users cannot be deleted
This is simply not an option in the API. Server admin can perform a "deactivate" (disable login) and "erase" (remove related data, which claims to be GDPR-compliant) on user accounts, but the accounts themselves stay on the server forever.
LOL.
Here is my take on why you should trash Matrix and use XMPP, or ta least Signal instead:
#im #matrix #jabber #xmpp #signal #privacy #security #enshittification #cypherpunk
Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
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