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When AI becomes people's eyes, seeing becomes rare.

— Tao Te Ching - appendix 1

RIP FX.

https://phrack.org/issues/68/2
https://phrack.org/issues/60/7

When we first showed up at BlackHat as unknown S Africans, we were kinda shellshocked (& awestruck) by it all.

FX was one of the first people to pull us in & hung out with us. We kept in touch but not nearly as much as I should have.

He will be missed.

https://blog.recurity-labs.com/2026-03-02/Farewell_Felix

@lcamtuf oh my monospace

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Are we entering a world where chatbots will replace devs?
Probably not. Prompting an LLM with natural language is inherently lossy and ambiguous. Up to this point, programming has always been deterministic: Your code does what you say it should do otherwise, it’s a bug. Coding agents break that contract.

Our blog:
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/19/can-chatbots-craft-correct-code/

@gutenberg_org he also believed that animals do not feel pain!

okay which of you did this

I had a great year and learnt a lot; made new good friends and went deeper in my aged friendships.

Wish everyone love and growth.

Be nice to eachother ❤️

#2025 —> #2026

We did a thing: https://gpg.fail/ #39c3

I've added the slides and the source code for the Sokoban game to the links for my presentation; it appears on the app, but seemingly not the website... For reference, they are:

Links
Source Code (wasm)
Source Code (web)
Slides
Sokoban Fuzzer

I'll be changing out the sokoban puzzle every 30 minutes from hereon out :)

#39c3 #fuzzing

{°•°}

#39c3

#39c3

The Wayback Machine was a solution to a problem that shouldn’t have existed. @brewsterkahle says people clearly want access to the internet’s past.

Hear Kahle (@internetarchive), Vint Cerf (Google), Cindy Cohn (EFF) & Jon Stokes (Ars Technica) explore the past, present & future of the web on the Future Knowledge podcast.

🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-web-at-a-crossroads-a-conversation-with-vint-cerf-brewster-kahle-cindy-cohn-jon-stokes

#OpenWeb #podcast

the indignity of putting these people through the tedium and stupidity of modern computing is also really jarring. these are people that imagined a different kind of computing, a kind of future that never got built, that got sidelined in favor of advertisements in the start menu, applications with in-app purchases, the global network as a mall, capital over computing.

and they've lived long enough to see it play out. Joe Armstrong talked about wrestling with grunt and gulp from the JavaScript ecosystem in one of his last talks. I've had the pleasure of working with Larry Cuba and most of our difficulties have been wrangling python package management on Windows. and now Chuck Moore gets his life work sniped to death by a random Windows update.

modern computers are a mess of accidental complexity and these are people that represented something different, living long enough to watch something worse become mainstream.

I have this milestone to get to know ten new people at #39c3 and talk to them/you.

oh man, no honor among thieves

Transparency and deep access to IoT hardware. ⚙️🔍 On December 27, @antoniovazquezblanco (@Tarlogic Innovation) will present at #39c3 a reverse engineering research project on the ESP32 chip.

📍 Hamburg
⏰ 13:50–14:30
#Bluetooth