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The NSA spent billions trying to break encryption. One German programmer beat them. He earned only $25k a year. 🤯 Meet Werner Koch šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ > German free software developer. Born 1961 in Düsseldorf. > 1997 ~ Richard Stallman called for a free encryption tool. > Only option then: closed-source, US-restricted PGP. > Werner answered. He built GnuPG (GPG) alone ~ free software to encrypt files, sign software, and verify identity. > 1999 ~ Released GPG 1.0. Fully open source. No restrictions. > Today his code verifies every Linux server update, every Debian package, every Tor Browser download on this Earth. > Every signed Linux release depends on it. > Used by activists, dissidents, and security pros worldwide to stay untracked. > Edward Snowden used GPG in 2013 to leak NSA documents. It held up against the world’s most powerful spy agency. šŸš€ > 2001 ~ Founded g10code with his brother to work full-time on GPG. > Earned only $25,000/year for 14 years while supporting his wife and daughter. > 2012 ~ Funding ended. He had to let go of his only programmer. > 2013 ~ He was the sole maintainer and nearly quit. > 2015 ~ ProPublica story dropped. Internet donated $137k in 24 hours. > Facebook Stripe pledged $50k/year each. Linux Foundation gave $60k > Won FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. > Today he still maintains GPG from home in Erkrath, Germany. This one man kept the internet’s secrets, secret. The world almost lost him in 2013. His code still protects yours. Privacy Legend. 🐐
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New PR for my offensive security agent harness: 5/5 compromised hosts in 48 minutes and 8.7M tokens using 100% open source tooling open weight models against an Active Directory cyber range consisting of multiple domains & forests: similar to what you would find in most Fortune 500 organizations. While frontier models get all the news cycle hype (e.g. Mythos, Codex Cyber) the real moat is the harness and workflows.
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Claude: you’ve used all your tokens. Resets in 2 hours. I check an hour later. Claude: resets in 2 hours. Check at time of reset. Claude: tokens reset in 53 minutes.
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ā€¼ļøšŸšØ Unauthenticated attackers are gaining SYSTEM on domain controllers with crafted packets. The vulnerability being exploited is CVE-2026-41089, a CVSS 9.8 hole in Windows Netlogon, and exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. A patch has existed since May 12. Every DC still behind is not just vulnerable, but according to the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium are also actively being pwnd.
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Last weekend drove to Lilington, NC and called CQ on 2 Meters 146.520 all call freq.. Believe it or not, had a pile-up most of the way there from Charlotte. 3 hour drive.
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Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…

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šŸ“¢ Our Call for Papers is officially open! cfp.carolinacon.org/carolina… (Closes on Sept 1st at 11:59 PM EST) #carolinacon #hacking #conference #cfp #joinus
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