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Tommaso Gagliardoni
@Tommaso Gagliardoni

Cryptography, privacy, quantum security, infosec, retro vibes.

I am a mathematician and computer security scientist, with a strong interest in cryptography and anonymity, specialized in quantum security and complex cryptographic protocols. I am also a privacy hacktivist and public speaker, blahblahblah, read my Linkedin bio for this s**t, this is my Mastodon corner.

I co-develop Shufflecake, an open source privacy disk encryption tool to help journalists, activists, and whistleblowers evade unjust prosecution.

I am an advocate of digital self-sovereignty. You will see me often ranting about Big Tech, enshittification, and surveillance capitalism.

Fascinated with anime, Japan, RPGs, retro computing, and all things 80-90's. Notice I wrote "fascinated", not "knowledgeable".

Here you won't find peace nor forgiveness, but just: #cryptography #privacy #quantum #security #infosec #retro vibes!

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Recent Notes

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The day quantum computers break the first cryptographic key I'm gonna go full rampage and publicly name and shame all the snarky folks who identify themselves with the "QC/is/bullshit" gender. I am taking notes on my list, mind you. Your name is there as well.

Revenge is best served at 0.02 Kelvin.

#crypto #cryptography #infosec #quantum #quantumcomputing #qc #drama #humor
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I'm considering posting regularly my "GDPR diary", i.e. an account of all the companies and data brokers I send cease-and-desist communications to, related to unwanted marketing, spam, promotions, etc. It's a whack-a-mole of course, but it has become my guilty hobby (and much easier now with AI tooling). TBH I also consider this a form of civil duty: if everyone does the same, very soon predatory marketing would become too risky to be profitable.

I send usually 1-2 of these emails (or letters) per week. And so far it's kind of working, i.e. when I home in on a target, usually the annoyances stop.

Dont feel bad using a firm language and threatening legal action, it's your rights, it's your self-defense against this Satanic practice, and I'd argue its' your duty too!

#privacy #spam #gdpr #marketing #ad #advertising #profiling #law #society
Andrew Gallagher · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqsw49y6tpw2aw34dzpq5w72e32gzl6mzkfz2ye4aep3kh0ze22nzsc9n7wm it’s ugly, yeah. But it also seems to have reached the point where there’s nothing...
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@nprofile1q... oh, I didn't mean to propose a solution, I understand there are complex governance and social dynamics involved. Just I was blissfully unaware of the situation until yesterday, which I can't say made my day.
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I have been dragged into the rabbit hole of GnuPG/LibrePGP VS Sequoia/OpenPGP and, boy it is ugly. Yeah, yeah, I know, PGP is bad, but of all the ugly things that could have happened to the FOSS crypto space, this is really unwelcome. I wish people would just sit at a table and talk.

#pgp #gpg #sequoia #crypto #cryptography #security #foss #floss #libre #drama #ietf #privacy #openpgp #librepgp
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Andrew Gallagher · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqsw49y6tpw2aw34dzpq5w72e32gzl6mzkfz2ye4aep3kh0ze22nzsc9n7wm it’s ugly, yeah. But it also seems to have reached the point where there’s nothing new to be said. How do you distribute power in a mostly-online technical standards community?
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Rise and Fall of Hosting Provider Gandi.net

https://gagliardoni.net/#20260528_gandi_downfall

The sad story of Gandi.net is a textbook example of enshittification, which I think is interesting to talk about, because of the many expectations that were betrayed, and the deeper reflection linking to vampire capitalism. I also report the user-hostile process that I had to undergo in order to migrate away from them.

#gandi #gandi_net #enshittification #capitalism #it #france #privacy #privateequity
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Fellow scholars, I admit I don't understand the need of splitting a manuscript into multiple .tex files (abstract.tex, introduction.tex, etc) and use main.tex to wrap them all. How ugly and inconvenient is that? It's a paper, not a codebase! I suspect this is an ancestral fear of merge conflicts from the SVN era!

Gone are the days of dreadful SVN,
When clashing scribes brought ruin to the pen.
Now we have Git, and blessed be it.
Fear no concurrency, nor let thy .tex be split!

#latex #science #academia #humor #svn #poetry #paper #peerreview
Lesley Carhart :unverified: · 8w
This might be my favourite slide on quantum computing, ever. From Peter Gutmann at #AUSCERT https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/615/609/855/401/562/original/5f...
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@nprofile1q... and folks in this thread: At the risk of feeding myself to the lions, may I suggest care? Gutmann's views on QC are funny to watch, but prone to misinterpretation (although I have to say, this slide in particular is... refreshingly sober?)

https://gagliardoni.net/#20250714_ludd_grandpas

#security #cryptography #crypto #qc #quantum #quantumcomputing #drama
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: · 8w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqsw49y6tpw2aw34dzpq5w72e32gzl6mzkfz2ye4aep3kh0ze22nzsc9n7wm his presentation was nuanced and very reasonable.
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Dear spammer: when dealing with automated marketing campaign, AI is not just your friend, it is also my friend. And I also have another good friend: GDPR. I am taking great delight in automating GDPR requests that border legal threats against your undesired email campaign. This typically escalates quickly from "canned AI response" to "automated AI response trying to do damage mitigation" to "concerned human replying apologetically because its AI agent alerted them that someone with a lawyer is genuinely angry". Ah, the little joys of life!

Your business does not deserve to exist. What you call "your job" is parasitic. Do you think your mom would be proud of you?

#ai #gdpr #privacy #spam #marketing #capitalism #parasite #justice #shame
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Dirty privacy nerd secrets: I have never understood privacy shutters for phone/laptop cameras. If somebody is pwning me to the point of surreptitiously capture camera footage, I have way other problems to worry about.

#security #privacy #hacking #paranoia