Eco-liberal EU-expat (now in US PNW). Coder (Java), OSS author (Jackson, Woodstox, ClassMate, java-uuid-generator), collaborator, mentor. Gainfully employed.
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Dr. Jackson retweeted
Russia requires a security guarantee that Ukraine will not defend itself the next time we attack it.
Achievement unlocked! Spotted the very first true chanterelle mushroom in US (I knew they grow here just never found one - they are very common in Finland. Right on Lake Pratt trail in WA. Very cool.
Dr. Jackson retweeted
Marinating chicken overnight pushes the flavor in about as deep as a nickel is thick. Leave a chicken breast in soy sauce for 12 hours, cut it in half, and the middle tastes like you never bothered.
America's Test Kitchen tested this on chicken breasts soaked in soy sauce and red wine, since both leave a color line you can see. They shaved 3 millimeters off the outside, and that cut went a full 2 millimeters past the deepest spot either marinade had reached. Kenji López-Alt got the same result and put the overnight number at a millimeter or two.
It comes down to size. Meat is mostly water packed between tight bundles of protein. Salt breaks into tiny charged bits that can slip through that water. Sugar molecules are huge by comparison, and most of the flavor in herbs and spices dissolves in oil, which the water inside meat pushes away. Then the whole thing sits in a fridge, where the cold slows everything down even more.
Even salt is slow. Greg Blonder, a Harvard-trained physicist who tests barbecue science for AmazingRibs, found salt takes almost 24 hours to travel 1 inch into meat. That's really the one thing the overnight wait does for you. It gives the salt time to reach the middle, while everything else in the bowl sits on the surface, which is honestly where flavor counts most anyway, since the outside is what browns and hits your tongue first.
Acid is where a long soak backfires. Lemon juice and vinegar only loosen the proteins on the outside, and after enough hours that outer layer goes soft and mushy while the inside stays as tough as when you started.
The cuisines that are best at marinating figured this out with a knife. Chinese stir-fry slices meat so thin that the center is only about an eighth of an inch from the surface, so a short soak gets all the way through. Tandoori chicken gets slashed deep before the yogurt goes on, which gives the marinade way more surface to grab onto. Cooks in both places worked out the geometry long before anyone measured how fast flavor moves through meat.
So when a recipe springs an overnight step on you 16 minutes in, salt the meat right away, score it, and give the marinade 30 minutes before it hits the pan. That 12-hour wait was buying you about a nickel's worth of flavor.
Dr. Jackson retweeted
i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv.
i kept getting weirdly targeted ads.
i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic.
zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs!
discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?
Dr. Jackson retweeted
Oh my goodness this has to be right.
Instead of generating a random 256-bit number they generated a random number between 0 and 256.
That’s how they got 4, 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237.
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Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"
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someone I really admire said researchers should share more of the messy day-to-day instead of only the polished results
so in the spirit of open science, nothing worked today.
Dr. Jackson retweeted
Since developers aren’t coding anymore, their new job is to rotate secrets every single fucking day
Dr. Jackson retweeted
Average Hostage deal with 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 releases John McMoron who travelled to 🇷🇺 in March 2025 to meet an online Russian "girlfriend" and then gets detained
in return, the West releases Ivan WarCriminalov who has as an agent has brutally murdered 5 anti-putin dissidents in the West
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I didn’t know my brain was still holding onto this news article I read from 2002, but this tweet pulled it out of me
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The situation where a certificate's private key only has 8 bits of randomness instead of 384 is unacceptable.
We should urge all certificate authorities to immediately publish their private keys so that the community can make sure they are random enough.
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Has anyone scanned the internet for ECC public keys (and even RSA) and tried all private keys up to 256 to see if this is a more common phenomenon than imaginable?
@nadiaheninger ?
