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@mjd
#PHK has long been arguing in favour of #backdoors in encryption for nation-state to enact justice. according to #PHK, "tech bros" are enabling crime by advicating privacy.

because it can sometimes look a bit icky and authoritarian to argue in favour of state-surveillance, #PHK keeps using this #SunTzu proverb to make this upside-down argument that if we advocate privacy then we'll just get even more surveillance.

he is this pretending to be a better privacy advocate while arguing for backdoored encryption:
»We could have designed our protocols to be minimally compatible with “a nation of laws,”«

his belief that the law is right is statist and also naive, because states have unjust laws and often imprison people for having arbotion or being queer or opposing genocide.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@plumtrie/116793876956183522

In this important paper, the amazing work done by Dimitri (and coauthors) shows that it is possible to integrate #fuzzing into traditional CI setups, to successfully detect backdoors sneakily inserted into public code commits. #opensource #supplychain #security

Open access preprint upcoming.

In the meantime, you can read our previous work on « ROSA: Finding #Backdoors with Fuzzing » https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08544 , which this new result builds upon.

ACM AsiaCCS 2026: BIFOLD research reveals a blind spot in #software security. 📃Shape-Shifting Malicious Code in Software Backdoors via Language Models. M E Fard, F Weissberg, E Imgrund, T Eisenhofer, K Rieck. Link: t1p.de/8ym87 Code: t1p.de/j3rwe #Backdoors #Attacks #MLsky #AI @[email protected]