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bontchev@infosec.exchange

<p>Anti-virus, malware and infosec expert, crypto amateur, privacy advocate and general annoyance.</p><p>PGP keyID: 0x365697c632dd98d9</p>

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  • Post #4461349

    Time magazine has started serving ads to AI agents: https://digiday.com/media/time-has-started-serving-ads-to-ai-agents/

  • Post #4430299

    I believe it. It matches my experience with Gemini&#39;s ability to code. https://xcancel.com/akshen121/status/2085414082723881446

  • Post #4347783

    Vibe-coded age verification.

  • Post #4323630

    The fix.

  • Post #4308991

    Lulz. Our sysadmin, who&#39;s really a web developer by trade, has started using Cladue.ai for developing frameworks for web design or whatever (not my area of expertise). He&#39;s in love with it, says with it he was able to do in 3 days what he normally alone did in 6 months. But his English is much worse than mine - and I&#39;m being polite. So, at one point, they had a misunderstanding. He told Claude &quot;do it that way&quot; and Claude started lecturing him why doing it &quot;that way&q...

  • Post #4268720

    Perform a security scan (open ports, exposed services, etc.) on your own IP address: curl https://qsa.sh

  • Post #4267712

    Not The Onion. &quot;US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner&quot;: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559

  • Post #4229058

    &quot;AI Worming through Word&quot;: https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/

  • Post #4229045

    &quot;Researchers Show a Single Malicious Webpage Visit Can Compromise Tor Browser&quot;: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/researchers-show-single-malicious.html

  • Post #4170672

    Found the bug.

  • Post #4163366

    Petition to rename the straight of Hormuz to the straight of Schrodinger. It&#39;s both closed and open depending on whether you look at it or not.

  • Post #4138914

    Migrating a physical data center to the cloud(s):

  • Post #4109051

    &quot;Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyes&quot;: https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/meet-phantom-twist-a-stealthy-new-drone-that-hides-in-plain-sight-by-tricking-your-eyes

  • Post #4071479

    Man, the trains in Germany are fast! #LostInTranslation

  • Post #4055444

    &quot;Millions of cars could be tracked and unlocked by a hidden security flaw&quot;: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/bugs/2026/07/millions-of-cars-could-be-tracked-and-unlocked-by-a-hidden-security-flaw

  • Post #4055443

    Atlas zuckt mit den Schultern... &quot;Survey: Half of Germany&#39;s top earners consider moving abroad&quot;: https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/07/19/survey-half-of-germanys-top-earners-consider-moving-abroad

  • Post #4039775

    Debugging my code.

  • Post #4037946

    Me to Kimi AI: &quot;Please examine the Cowrie honeypot for any unfixed bugs that you can find.&quot; Kimi: *Goes to the Issues section of Cowrie&#39;s GitHub repo and lists a bunch of open issues, most of them opened by me*. Very clever, Kimi, very clever. But I was asking for unfixed bugs that you could find in the code - not about bugs I&#39;ve already reported.

  • Post #4036263

    I guess they weren&#39;t kidding when they said that cyclosporiasis causes &quot;explosive diarrhea&quot;...

  • Post #4031604

    Exactly.

  • Post #4031599

    True.

  • Post #3992256

    Have you seen this new-fangled stuff called &quot;automobiles&quot;? They are everywhere! Their producers are showing them down our throats whether we want them or not. One chap, called Ford, has even built something called a &quot;conveyor belt&quot;, where their production is streamlined so that he could produce even more of the things faster. With these things, any incompetent horse rider can reach farther and faster than an experienced rider. This is disgusting! If they become widespread, p...

  • Post #3987664

    Do I know anyone who has a high-end Shodan API key (Enterprise, maybe?) that would let them force a re-scan of a particular port (445) of a particular IP address? I need to debug my SMB honeypot but normally Shodan scans the honeypot machine only once every month, which makes he process rather tedious. I do have a key but it&#39;s the cheapest one and apparently it&#39;s not good for this because trying to force a re-scan has no effect (although no errors, either). cc @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.s...

  • Post #3978054

    Two more articles about the GDID thing: &quot;GDID: The Windows Global Device Identifier&quot;: https://zerotracelab.com/blog/gdid-windows-tracking &quot;Inside GetOfflineDeviceUniqueID: How Windows Derives Its Offline Device ID&quot;: https://iretq.com/inside-getofflinedeviceuniqueid-how-windows-derives-its-offline-device-id/

  • Post #3977636

    She&#39;s obviously smart. &quot;Hungary’s chess queen declines Péter Magyar’s offer of role as president&quot;: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/20/peter-magyar-judit-polgar-president-hungary-chess-prodigy-strategic-move

  • Post #3977515

    Sea plus plus.

  • Post #3971167

    Health (or lack thereof) update: https://blog.bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg/en?articleId=21

  • Post #3966846

    &quot;Israel clears way for crocodiles to stop prison breaks&quot;: https://www.dw.com/en/israel-clears-way-for-crocodiles-to-stop-prison-breaks/a-78022950

  • Post #3966835

    Novice infosec person looking for advice.

  • Post #3938034

    Akshually...