Cryptography Professor at King's College London and Principal Research Scientist at SandboxAQ. Erdős–Bacon Number: 6. He/him or they/them. https://malb.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3muc2olsvs22dWorth a read on who/what Autistici/Inventati is, the tech collective designated as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" by the US cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083 https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/1008330 Aug 2026 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3muc2olsvs22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mtc4jr6dgc2bAs funny as it is that they simply dropped frida.re on Encrochat devices, to me the two big Encrochat questions that still aren't resolved are: [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Aug 2026 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtc4jr6dgc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mt53hge7rc2leprint.iacr.org/2026/169315 Aug 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt53hge7rc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mrzhmbg2gs2uOpenAI claim a proof that CPV is NP-hard for polynomial approximation factors. https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/01 Aug 2026 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrzhmbg2gs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mrcud7b23c2iI recommend you read @nadim.computer's excellent write-up of why he teaches in Lebanon https://symbolic.software/blog/2026-07-22-why-i-teach-cryptography-in-lebanon/23 Jul 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcud7b23c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mr6pm6q5qs27Our timeline really is Terminator: The Next Token Prediction https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/21 Jul 2026 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6pm6q5qs27https://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mpllwwmjhk2bA Real-World Law-Enforcement Hack: The Case of Encrochat https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/a-real-world-law-enforcement-hack-the-case-of-encrochat/01 Jul 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpllwwmjhk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mphazn7hvs2nThe abductions and torture continue in Kenya https://xcancel.com/KTNNewsKE/status/2071579807033217477 https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001551566/activist-lichuma-found-alive-after-alleged-abduction29 Jun 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphazn7hvs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mo4q4rn3d227Hardness of hinted ISIS from the space-time hardness of lattice problems https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/hardness-of-hinted-isis-from-the-space-time-hardness-of-lattice-problems/12 Jun 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo4q4rn3d227https://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mnz2scwsa22hDear Journalists, That "crosshair" you're referring to is a Celtic cross, a well-known white supremacist logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_cross#White_supremacist_symbolism https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/ADL%20Hate%20on%20Display%20Printable_0.pdf This is what these rioters are: white supremacists.11 Jun 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnz2scwsa22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mnenfk5qkc2oLeiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics leidendeclaration.ai#declaration03 Jun 2026 08:01 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnenfk5qkc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mmhogmtyps2lhttps://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/texas-ag-sues-meta-over-claims-that-whatsapp-doesnt-provide-end-to-end-encryption/ with a quote by @bedow.bsky.social on how we saw/see no evidence of what they're alleging.22 May 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhogmtyps2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mmhc3d4ars2mI'm reading some papers on AI safety (don't ask). Is the entire field really so naive that they think speaking of "human values" makes sense? Have these people not switched on the news ever? I know we computer scientists do not excell at thinking about the actual world we live in, but this is extra.22 May 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhc3d4ars2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mllg7xgsgs2bSoooo ePrint blocked the Eurocrypt WiFi for too many requests11 May 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllg7xgsgs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mhstobd3ck2o‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/24/restaurants-raided-britain-version-ice-immigration24 Mar 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhstobd3ck2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mhpqmed6wk2gFabio is looking for a PhD student in "Explainable, Knowledge-driven AI and ML for Systems Security" https://fabio.pierazzi.com/opportunity/phd-ucl-cs-202623 Mar 2026 09:27 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhpqmed6wk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mhgeyunays2f.@nadim.computer is looking for an intern: https://symbolic.software/blog/2026-03-19-internship/19 Mar 2026 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgeyunays2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mgp6oi7hak2sNot Safe for Politics Cellebrite Used on Kenyan Activist and Politician Boniface Mwangi https://citizenlab.ca/research/cellebrite-used-on-kenyan-activist-and-politician-boniface-mwangi/10 Mar 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgp6oi7hak2shttps://bsky.app/profile/malb.bsky.social/post/3mg6rglujfc2fFernando is looking for a PhD student www.iacr.org/jobs/item/4164 Fernando is excellent, you should consider applying. https://www.iacr.org/jobs/item/416403 Mar 2026 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:eoakxdfddsy4p2m4liifdnki/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6rglujfc2f