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@cmars@infosec.exchange

Slightly toasted and lightly fried hacker interested in security, privacy and decentralization topics in computing. Goblin whistlesmith. International nuclear inspector. Curious by nature.

Boost like a neuron in a hive mind. Fav like nobody's watching. Value the goose.

Building #stigmerge https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge as a side project with #veilid in #rust.

I'm here for the kitties, flowers, shitposts and stigmergy. Sometimes I wish I could pet a bee.

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

It's interesting how most #json parsers will allow duplicate attributes in objects. They often pick the last one but this is undefined behavior. It gets very interesting when you combine this with authorization middleware or gateways that picks one and gates on it. It might not be the same attribute.

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 26, 2026

Replying to @datarama@hachyderm.io

@datarama@hachyderm.io I should have been clearer. The world will always be just fine and heal. Humans have some challenges ahead to live in it. But we're clever creatures, and we do matter to each other. You matter and the fact you care about suffering proves it. There's hope in that, even if it's gonna be rough for a while.

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 26, 2026

Replying to @datarama@hachyderm.io

@datarama@hachyderm.io I never asked to spawn into this world but here I am. Not our fault for existing or living or sharing. The world was here before we showed up, has always looked like a mess, will be fine after we're gone. Why waste that?

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @20002ist@thepit.social

@20002ist@thepit.social @mattgriffin@masto.ai @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org he's that jammy pack guy from The Pod https://www.discogs.com/master/32604-Ween-The-Pod?redirected=true

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 23, 2026

Replying to @cR0w@infosec.exchange

@cR0w@infosec.exchange https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/ 😂

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @FeloniousPunk@beige.party

@FeloniousPunk@beige.party @kimlockhartga@beige.party The newer Yeti cups have handles and a magnetic locking lid, might work out well

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 19, 2026

Diego, you doin OK there buddy? #caturday

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 19, 2026

Hello world #sewing project, a catnip sachet made out of scrap fabric. Ximena seems to like it, more potent than the prestuffed toys I think! #caturday

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

About 10 years ago I picked up this #Pfaff 230 from an antique store in Utah on a road trip. It sat in the back of my closet until recently. It was seized up pretty bad but I was able to coax it into working today! I used a heat gun to soften up the gunk, then cleaned and applied new machine oil where I could. It's a good thing this is a forgiving machine. I really don't know what I'm doing! Now to learn how to #sew!

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to on mitra.social

@silverpill@mitra.social @FenTiger@mastodon.social Yikes! Certainly looks like a classic rugpull on that chart. Global attribution of issued identities to each and every commit is probably important to a company like Radworks, if they want to build a market for software developers, commoditize them, and take an ever increasing cut. That's the impression I get. For a team that is already collaborating (on Fediverse, on an existing *hub, on a mailing list, hacking together in a room), the members can decide whom and how they trust. Key transparency and chains of attestations could maybe work here just as well for such a team. Why do we need a Verisign... I mean a Radworks? Something I want to explore here anyway!

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @cmars@infosec.exchange

@FenTiger@mastodon.social Looks like Radicle's certainly been thinking about this problem longer than I have. Interesting to explore the tradeoffs they may have made. Thanks for the suggestion!

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @FenTiger@mastodon.social

@FenTiger@mastodon.social It does! I'd heard of Radicle, but never considered it because it seemed like a blockchain-type scam. The FAQ on https://radicle.dev/faq says it's not, but it sure seems backed by one. https://community.radworks.org/t/radicle-org-q1-2026-update/3723 https://docs.radworks.org/rad-token/

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @cmars@infosec.exchange

What keeps this from degrading into total chaos, is some notion of identity. If I start a project, I'm signing my commits with an SSH key and publishing them with an iroh key. These public key identities can be bound with an attestation; I sign my iroh key, which determines my network endpoint, with a well-known SSH key that is at least pinned to the content I'm producing. What's neat about these attestations in a public-key based networking system like #iroh, is peers can attest to each other. I could sign an attestation that I know another developer -- or sign a revocation if that developer becomes compromised, or leaves the project. Attestations linked to public key infrastructure we already use like published GPG and SSH keys, bootstraps some trust into the system. This is as much a social experiment as a technical exploration. I'm using git because it's a system I kind of know, but I'm also thinking about how other collaborative apps might work at the back of my mind. 2/

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

So git-remote-iroh works, but it's basically a toy demoware. I mean, you can push and pull over iroh, which is cool, but it's not this hub-breaking new thing that changes development workflows and defeats corporate hegemony over open-source software. The server mode is still a centralized hub. I've been thinking this week about where to take it next, if I should at all. Where my head is at: All repository clones could be remote peers that you can pull from. It should be easy to do this from a background process that spawns and stays running in the background. Could be on-demand, like how podman and gpg-agent do. Because it's pull-only, it should be safe to serve this up from a clone with a working tree. Hubs allow pushes, but don't attempt to force a single history. They are a synchronization point for blobs, tracking who has what blobs. All remote refs. What this does, is remove the need for everyone being online all the time. Who decides what is the true timeline then? Up to a peer that decides to act as a publisher, and who follows it. What's nice about this, is you can have a primary and following replicas. You could even have multiple such primaries, possibly with different policies. #git #iroh #p2p #nohubsjustspokes 1/

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 14, 2026

Went out for a jog, first one after a week off from an injury and it started raining on the way back. I couldn't stop grinning. Seriously needed that. I did not overdo it, me and the feet are still on good terms. Today's mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG0cTJHYTJY

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 14, 2026

Replying to @hannaB@social.vir.group

@hannaB@social.vir.group Fair and a great point. As-is, yeah, this is just another 'hub with more complicated addresses and worse uptime. Wondering how this changes with some gossip and discovery though. Alice and Bob exchange addresses and peer, Bob invites Carol and she discovers Alice.. The helper *could* operate on the remotes to this effect. And a ring could become a load balancer over trusted contributors. It would require some percentage of nodes to be available, probably a background userspace daemon. It probably messes with a lot of assumptions in git workflows, security and otherwise. I suppose another way is to push blobs and refs to a block store like ipfs. But those too need to pin and be online. Fun to think about.

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 13, 2026

Serve & clone #git repositories #p2p over #iroh! Try it out: cargo install git-remote-iroh git clone iroh://92fbc10667b6ae60b2b7c158ec3c996ebdeac0f07d6648b87243fe49498bd378 git-remote-iroh git-remote-iroh is self-hosted. #distributed #dweb #nohubsjustspokes Centralized web mirror: https://codeberg.org/cmars/git-remote-iroh

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 12, 2026

Replying to @Wrewdison@masto.hackers.town

@Wrewdison@masto.hackers.town Made some progress on some access controls for my #git protocol adapter for #iroh! It currently works but anyone can push to the repo if they know the endpoint 😅. Fixing that soon and then I will self host the project. https://codeberg.org/cmars/git-remote-iroh

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 06, 2026

Replying to @clonedhuman@mastodon.social

@clonedhuman@mastodon.social @jcrabapple@dmv.community Still potentially tracked, depending on your distribution, system setup, etc. For example: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/machine-id.html https://documentation.ubuntu.com/core/reference/assertions/hardware-identity/

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 05, 2026

#splootsunday #cat

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 05, 2026

Replying to on universeodon.com

@Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com Been a while (2023) but I loved these places: Museum of Contemporary Native Arts https://iaia.edu/mocna/ Meow Wolf Jambo Cafe If you're flying in and out of ABQ also recommend the petroglyphs park for a short hike around. It can get windy at the top.

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jul 03, 2026

#iroh is pretty neat

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @teohhanhui@mastodon.social

@teohhanhui@mastodon.social I've been playing with #activitypub ideas in https://codeberg.org/cmars/medina recently (very incomplete and slightly incoherent rough sketch). I had this idea of a hub or relay where the identities are moderated but the clients own their keys and data in a portable #sqlite db which could be hosted by an instance or relayed. Exploring that balance between moderation and autonomy. I'm also testing some of these ideas with #veilid in another project that I haven't shared yet. Looks like you're using #iroh which I haven't tried yet. It's hard for me to commit to side-projects right now, but very interested to see how your project goes!

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · May 31, 2026

Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Agents reading DNS records.. What could possibly go wrong?

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · May 10, 2026

Replying to @benbrown@masto.hackers.town

@benbrown@masto.hackers.town I love the shoutout to grackles. One time I was sitting outside drinking coffee and there were all these grackles poking around in the grass, and a sound like rice crispies. They were feasting on snails in the dewy grass. It has to be a celebrated holiday in grackle culture.

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Apr 30, 2026

I'm judging distros by the ability to remediate #copyfail and anything #fedora #ostree based right now is failing hard. That applies to #bluefin and #bazzite transitively.

# rmmod algif_aead
rmmod: ERROR: Module algif_aead is builtin.

#nixos does not have this problem, I can rmmod there just fine.

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style

@jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huzYji2OAD4

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @kepano@mastodon.social

@kepano Rovo's Basilisk (Atlassian's AI is called Rovo)

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Apr 09, 2026

Flores de nopales en el estado de Coahuila y Tejas #bloomscrolling

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp

@Haikyoneko Beautiful green eyes 🖤💚

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Apr 03, 2026

Replying to @paco@infosec.exchange

@paco@infosec.exchange They use compression. I wonder how much payload one could compress into that telemetry?

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @timbray@cosocial.ca

@timbray@cosocial.ca Astound acquired my local ISP and ran it into the ground. Left after days of outages with no ETA. No one could give me a straight answer, even their NOC. Did not know it was PE owned, that makes so much sense.

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Mar 28, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea Maybe they meant 9 5s?

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Mar 22, 2026

A #Linux distro should not comply in advance. It would be better to block downloads to deranged nanny state jurisdictions, than compromise security and privacy for everyone else on the planet.

Blocking downloads is a lawful way to handle this. It sends the right message, to those who could complain to their representatives to repeal the stupid laws.

#ageverification

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Mar 01, 2026

Are there more software licenses like these out there? #opensource #licensing #NoAI GitHub - non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses: This repository contains software licenses that restrict software from being used in AI training datasets or AI technologies. https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Nov 17, 2025

Replying to @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club

@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club I've been toying with the idea of a reverse-proxy based on Pingora that supports, um, creative responses to unwanted traffic at scale. Something I might pick up over the holidays. If I did, would you be interested in trying it out?

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Nov 15, 2025

Replying to @tubetime@mastodon.social

@tubetime BLE spam grenade

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cmars 🅅 @cmars@infosec.exchange · Mar 16, 2025

Replying to @Gargron__dup_1@mastodon.social

@Gargron Happy Fediversary!

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