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Aris Adamantiadis 💲Paid

@aris@infosec.exchange

Security researcher and freelance. libssh founder, ICON ONG co-founder, member of Solar Wine CTF team, amateur astronomer, photographer and dopamine addict.
You may see here: hardware hacking, software dev, astronomy

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Joined October 29, 2022

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Aris Adamantiadis

💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Jul 31, 2026

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@binaryninja/117014721507603674 Tough decision but I decided to order a commercial license at a discount today. Good opportunity to start learning something different after using IDA for 20+ years.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Jul 31, 2026

My Greek cousin who regularly posts masculinist AI slop "history" content about ancient Greece has strong opinions on a movie where a sorceress who transforms soldiers in pigs, the movie wouldn't be realistic enough.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt That confused the hell out of me as a kid because no one explained it to me and my kid was confused to. I told him that interro-negative questions can only be answered by "non" or "si", so he doesn't wander the rest of his life wondering why "oui" is an ambiguous answer while never getting it explained in French class.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Jul 02, 2026

Replying to @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange research on the production of scientific ignorance is an actual science. They study how scientists study the wrong things (e.g. tobacco industry studying radon as a distraction to cigarettes), abandon interesting concepts for the wrong reasons (history of the blue LEDs) and/or the de-funding of promising but politically inconvenient research (e.g. everything LGBT since the 1930s, psychotropes like LSD and MDMA, and unfortunately more recently climate change and vaccination)

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · May 15, 2026

Replying to @stevel@hachyderm.io

@stevel@hachyderm.io @icing@chaos.social There's more than RCE, e.g. heartbleed had a 8.6 cvss w/o RCE, but had aggravating factors that aren't evaluated by the CVSS scale, like how widespread the vulnerable configuration is. https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N In comparison, we have a 4-bytes uninitialized stack value leak in application logs bug to be reported soon. CVSS 3.1 Low https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · May 15, 2026

Replying to @icing@chaos.social

@icing@chaos.social at libssh we're considering the policy of filing all bugs under a certain CVSS threshold (5 or 6) as regular bug reports in bug tracking and fix them without any embargo to avoid clogging up the security pipeline

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · May 10, 2026

Replying to @raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @ryanc@infosec.exchange Agree one thousands time for the flag thing. I really dislike having to pick up 🇫🇷 for what is fr_BE. But ISO language codes aren't visual, so there's definitively a need to find a non-geocentric graphical way of referring to languages.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · May 10, 2026

Replying to @ryanc@infosec.exchange

@ryanc@infosec.exchange and despite all that information, 90% of the Belgian websites still serve the wrong language by default to French-speaking visitors.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · May 03, 2026

Replying to @rozeboosje@masto.ai

@rozeboosje@masto.ai @2something@transfem.social @Black_Flag@beige.party I don't condone what Dawkin has written but I found that LLMs are way past passing turing tests. What you describe applied to gpt3 when it got released. It doesn't mean that AIs can't be discovered, but usually because they're hard wired to be helpful and answer questions on an extremely large number of topics, something a normal person can't do. IMO this Turing test is a really wrong angle to view advances in LLMs because they aren't meant to realistically imitate humans at all.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · May 02, 2026

Replying to @Black_Flag@beige.party

@Black_Flag@beige.party @wesdym@mastodon.social @rozeboosje@masto.ai That "WesDym" replied more than 50 times in this thread. I think he's the "better and smarter than everyone in this thread" guy. Block him and go on, nothing of value lost.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 28, 2026

Watching the Moon with Astrolol!

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @addison@nothing-ever.works

@addison@nothing-ever.works @Zardus@defcon.social +1 Everything you said. I wouldn't be against this practice if the goal was to build a long-lasting, reputable project and get kickstarted with a Rust port, but this is definitively a build-and-abandon approach. They're also building a huge security liability, because for all we know it's full of security bugs that no one knows about and no one will care. As a dev of a popular C library, I wouldn't want my project to be ported that way. On the other hand I'm in the middle of a deep ai-built project (99% of the code I'd say) but I looked over every major design decision and made manual changes or debugging just to ensure I wouldn't be stranger to the beast I was building. I don't believe doing anything less would be a responsible thing to do, because I understand that publishing something online is much more than just writing code, it's maintaining it.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 27, 2026

"Math proves AI cannot evolve independently"
Very interesting research that proves that an LLM alone converges to a fixed point when looping on it own output, something that most people knew without a formal proof years ago.

But the commentary article below totally misses the point, in a very similar way to how evolution deniers say "it's impossible to obtain a clock by mixing particles of glass and iron and letting them form a clock by chance".

Both are totally right in the premises, but they're criticizing an incomplete model of what's happening back stage. Evolution has a selection step, and LLMs have access to computing power (i.e. writing and writing programs) that may select the statistically rare but useful LLM enhancements.

https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-behind-proves-it/

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @vees@jawns.club

@vees best we can do is conspiracy theories over his botched assassination attempt

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 27, 2026

The neat part with satellite constellations nowadays is that you don't need star maps anymore, they draw the equatorial lines in the sky

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 27, 2026

"No ChatGPT, 'Digital Playground' would be a terrible name for an educational electronic kit. The name is already taken, research it."

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 26, 2026

My telescope imaging system takes shape. It's very close to have 100% of all the features I expect from such a tool. First 90% are done, 90% remaining.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @stevel@hachyderm.io

@stevel @bagder documenting the threat model of the application is time well spent even against human reviewers - at least you can refer to it in discussions about what is a vulnerability and what is not.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @stevel@hachyderm.io

@stevel @bagder Assume the maintainers have received the same bug report 3 times before already and haven't published the fixes yet

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 24, 2026

Now it has dual-camera support! No synchronized dithering yet tho.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @vees@jawns.club

@vees Trash people think everyone is trash people, they're just waiting for you to do the same kind of bad behavior to rat you out. It's just unthinkable that you may be a normal person, minding your business without disturbing your neighbors

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 22, 2026

welp, the project worked so well with simulated devices, why is it breaking now that I test it in the wild?

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 21, 2026

My software now takes pictures pretty well even if many important features are still missing.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 21, 2026

Sometimes I read about astronomy professionals implementing network RPC protocols and I just cringe...
https://ascom-standards.org/AlpacaDeveloper/Async.htm

It's en vogue to use an asynchronous operation by "spinning off a thread" in which you call the method, then repeatedly poll the completion property until it becomes "complete". Meanwhile in your main logic flow you do other things that don't require the operation to have completed. Finally you come back and look when you need to know if it has completed before you can move on. Well all that time your spun-off thread is mindlessly polling for completion before you even care! It's bad form to create traffic for the device and the net with useless polling for async completion. Would it make more sense to kick off the operation with the method call, then go on about your other business, then when you need it to be done, check to see if it has completed right there? If not, now you're stuck and can't press on anyway, so loop right there waiting for it to complete. You may end up never waiting at all.

Their version of "asynchronous" is a cheap version of synchronous start and end of operations + polling + guilt-tripping devs using polling as a strategy because they designed an "asynchronous" protocol that doesn't even have callbacks.

JSON over websocket would do better

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 20, 2026

A question I ask myself often when seeing one of these projects, is "why do you hate your users that much that you're using sourceforge to host them?" SF is trash and there are at least 3 better alternatives that aren't github.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @mojala@mementomori.social

@mojala @wchr that sounds totally illegal, but as usual, "intelligence" agencies (read: political opponents tracking mafias) live in a parallel universe where laws don't apply.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @k3ym0@infosec.exchange

@k3ym0 The concept is very old, I was using dns2tcp to have free wifi on plane trips in 2010 and even before during pentests. Long TXT replies trigger red alerts on most intrusion detection systems nowadays.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @aris@infosec.exchange

@breizh @le_proviseur @ezeo @tomtom Biais d'encrage aussi

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm

@breizh @le_proviseur @ezeo @tomtom C'est le raisonnement fallacieux de la solution parfaite. Pour remplacer un truc bancal, il faut quelque chose de mieux, mais pour une raison, cette nouvelle solution ne devrait pas avoir d'inconvénients, même parfaitement surmontables. "Ah mais les éoliennes c'est moches, ça a un énorme socle en béton, ça fait tourner le lait et diminue la valeur de ma maison", dit celui qui est content de ne pas habiter à côté d'une centrale à charbon.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @le_proviseur@framapiaf.org

@le_proviseur @tomtom @ezeo voiture thermique vs voiture elec. L'essence est chère ? C'est de la faute aux politiques. J'arrive pas à trouver une station de charge ? La VE c'est de la merde, faut arrêter de nous l'imposer VIVE LE PETROLE

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Mar 14, 2026

Replying to @simontatham@hachyderm.io

@simontatham@hachyderm.io and commands for which the "recursive" flag is either -r or -R, picked randomly

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @simontatham@hachyderm.io

@simontatham@hachyderm.io think of it like a problem "here is one truth, 99 lies" and you have to figure out which one is the truth. You now have avg 50 problems to solve. Iirc there's a PQC algorithm based on this idea

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @simontatham@hachyderm.io

@simontatham@hachyderm.io debunking and verifying bullshit is much harder than writing it in the first place

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @kwyxz@mastodon.social

@kwyxz D'autant plus que la raison de la fusion de xAI avec SpaceX est de protéger xAI de l'éclatement de la bulle IA par SpaceX, "too big to fail" que le gouvernement US renflouera quoi qu'il arrive parce que c'est une société stratégique pour la défense.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Jan 09, 2026

Replying to @hypostase@bsd.network

@hypostase @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross R. Daneel Olivaw was created on Aurora, is that what you had in mind? He had a twin (Jasper iirc) that was bricked by a competitor studying him. I'm not aware of the creator stealing a body to make them tho.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Dec 02, 2025

Replying to @thc@infosec.exchange

@thc I'm terribly saddened by this news. All my thoughts and wishes to his family and friends, we lost a very valued member of our community.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Mar 18, 2024

Replying to @sara@hachyderm.io

@sara@hachyderm.io Wow, they'd have lost me at 1, maybe at 2. I don't know what kind of profiles they're looking for but certainly not the kind that can be fulfilled by humans. I saw a few positions in IT security that looked interesting, I can say the interest went to zero.

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💲Paid @aris@infosec.exchange · Dec 18, 2022

Replying to @snyff@infosec.exchange

@snyff It looks better but I can't tell why... it seems it's just the same theme in white. Maybe it's because it looks more like vanilla twitter.

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