September 17, 2025
September 17, 2025
Quite a good Between Two Nerds discussion.
Between Two Nerds: The limits of cyber power - Risky Business Media
OpenAI literally just leaked what people use ChatGPT for pic.twitter.com/gZj5Me9Fxo
— Yu Lin (@basicprompts) September 15, 2025
Big drama today in the Tor community.
— vx-underground (@vxunderground) September 16, 2025
Conrad Rockenhaus, a Tor operator based out of Michigan, United States, was arrested in 2020 after refusing to cooperate with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
Rockenhaus, a disabled United States military veteran, ran the…
Do yourself a favor and set this in your pnpm config https://t.co/RnS5hFvVT3 pic.twitter.com/FD014hld3b
— Sawyer Hood (@sawyerhood) September 15, 2025
I've updated my #VulnerabilityResearch and #ReverseEngineering tools to use the latest version of @binarly_io #idalib #Rust bindings, which support @HexRaysSA IDA Pro 9.2 and their freshly open-sourced SDK.https://t.co/MbMFvjHrtThttps://t.co/c4hLimHqWuhttps://t.co/wPsWzyUax3
— raptor@infosec.exchange (@0xdea) September 16, 2025
Yesterday, my colleague Andreas Grasser published a tech blog article titled "Windows local privilege escalation through the bitpixie vulnerability".
— Matthias Deeg (@matthiasdeeg) September 16, 2025
I can highly recommend this article to learn more about this boot vulnerability and its mitigations.https://t.co/uFCybrfW2r
This is an interesting interaction of multiple pieces of web infrastructure. An emergent property of the system.
- YouTube pays creators based on view counts
- EasyPrivacy list added YouTube’s telemetry url to the block list
- Ublock Origin incorporated the new EasyPrivacy list
- YouTube creator view counts drop significantly
- Google AdSense payments decrease
- YouTube doesn’t promote the videos as much (maybe?)
tl;dr adblockers started blocking YouTube telemetry and now people make less money from YouTube videos
TL;DR: The YouTube view drops are because of the EasyPrivacy list adding the URL "youtube[.]com/api/stats/atr" on August 11th. Causing Adblockers to block view counting telemetry.
— ThioJoe (@thiojoe) September 16, 2025
The blocked merged into UbO Lite on August 12th, pushed to chrome webstore by next day.
It… https://t.co/S1zNzr7EEq
In a pickle with ML security?
— Trail of Bits (@trailofbits) September 16, 2025
We added a new pickle file scanner to Fickling that enhances supply-chain security 🧵 pic.twitter.com/DDaUU9T0tC
