Nostr notes by Davi Ottenheimer

data centers on tribal lands are detention infrastructure. they ...

2026-07-24T07:39:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…eukp
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data centers on tribal lands are detention infrastructure. they will be the compute layer of the deportation system while being out of reach of oversight that could stop it.

yummy sailors

2026-07-23T04:38:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…f2gg
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yummy sailors

Yeah, usual sensor flow is we push little of confidentiality, ...

2026-07-19T14:48:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…64rz
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Yeah, usual sensor flow is we push little of confidentiality, besides config and secrets, while their whole job is sending back a lot of long-term "valuable" stuff. It's always interesting why it's valuable, and how long. Cameras stream all kinds of high risk, such as biometrics (face, gait, etc.). Even air quality has privacy elements (I can talk about this all day, like a run in with gas company, and prisons). Already I had to PQ-prepare a major sensor vendor by designing hub and spoke for bazillions of things that wouldn't ever handle PQ (why I created pqprobe.com/calculator to help plan).

Decrypt anything with a long shelf life: files, configs, patient ...

2026-07-19T05:22:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…90yc
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Decrypt anything with a long shelf life: files, configs, patient records, passwords. The harder the asset is to rotate, the higher the classification. Financial, low (something you have, PANs have forced expiry) Social, medium (something you know, addresses and associations, change slowly). Personal, high (something you are, very hard or disallowed to rotate gender, race or religion). Passwords on these devices rotate never, so they are high instead of low.

Decrypting past sessions in future is the one. Because ...

2026-07-18T23:20:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…cta6
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Decrypting past sessions in future is the one. Because interception means the quantum computer has to exist. That's why key exchange deadlines come before signature deadlines everywhere. Private keys matter in old-style RSA key exchange, where breaking one server key unlocks every session ever recorded from it, not one at a time. These device sessions carry passwords that never change, on hardware that runs a looong time. I'll write it up on pqprobe.com

definitely know that trick. my team and i ran into an ops center ...

2026-07-09T15:03:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…yfsz
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definitely know that trick. my team and i ran into an ops center one time to investigate a breach and found the "windows admin" clickety clicking a UI like mad, deleting records. he was smug that it was procedural: "cleaning up, boss, so we can see better".

"Inside the Russian Zala drone, we found the NVidia TX2-A ...

2026-06-28T17:59:45Z

"Inside the Russian Zala drone, we found the NVidia TX2-A (Jetson Tegra X2) AI chip with 8GB of RAM. A serious AI system which, unlike AI assistants on mobile phones, does not need contact with a data center to perform its tasks.The AI can, for example, recognize vehicles and people during overflights and also identify details such as military markings, license plates, or drone types. This allows the AI to pre-sort targets for attack." by Enno Lenze (npub1p87…7ddn)

https://www.berlinstory.de/news/russische-drohne-mit-nvidia-ki-chips/

Surprised? Just look at old NVidia dev boards:

"hello, do you have Jetson guide for drone to hunt human with thermal camera?"

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/how-can-i-make-the-drone-with-jetson-tx2-developer-kit/62044/4

back in the day, when the RSA conference themes were still about ...

2026-06-27T10:53:34Z

back in the day, when the RSA conference themes were still about history, I used to give small tours of the Marin military bunkers and silos. I offered it as grounded antidote to the urban drinking/dining rapid consumption culture, which seems to have taken over the conference leaving zero room for history at all.

got me wondering about starting #BSidesColdWar that rotates around historic locations, with talks about mistakes of the past being here again now.

https://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm

any interest? #Bsides

each event could even have a patch... not velcro, remember thread and needle?

asked my mom. she says Burroughs

2026-06-25T17:28:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…83zf
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asked my mom. she says Burroughs

perfect. I estimated 50 mil/year to build out a sovereign stack ...

2026-06-24T18:43:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…ckz6
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perfect. I estimated 50 mil/year to build out a sovereign stack and maintain it https://www.flyingpenguin.com/papers-please-who-does-your-browser-engine-actually-belong-to/

the "you use chromium" complaints reveal someone who ...

2026-06-24T06:31:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…cjmd
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the "you use chromium" complaints reveal someone who should be advocating for a different engine. go ahead. I dare you to explain an alternative engine. and the hundreds of millions Google funds Mozilla with doesn't count.

happy to dive into the protocol if you need. but it's so ...

2026-06-19T10:05:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…k599
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happy to dive into the protocol if you need. but it's so broken by design, i would stay there unless you really want me to give you a code sniff and test. https://www.flyingpenguin.com/w-stands-for-wtaf-eu-state-surveillance-as-social-media/

yes, it was business, yet not as usual. IBM was servicing the ...

2026-06-19T08:42:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…djx3
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yes, it was business, yet not as usual. IBM was servicing the machines on lease for genocide and maintaining them. when I taught tech ethics to CS grad students and large corporations, there was always one person, just one person, who said "if they pay, anything is ok". they were the exception to the rest of the students who disagreed (at least in class) that knowledge of genocide let alone active enablement ends the business side of the argument.

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/thiel-is-headed-to-argentina-like-watson-went-to-germany/

there does seem to be something off about this. BlueSky is ...

2026-06-19T07:22:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…5hng
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there does seem to be something off about this. BlueSky is insecure and centralized by design, opposite to what Swedish entrepreneurs should be investing in unless they front foreign interests

the BlueSky architecture is deeply flawed. I recognize it from ...

2026-06-19T06:03:10Z

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the BlueSky architecture is deeply flawed. I recognize it from the NSA room 641A days. https://www.flyingpenguin.com/2006-mark-klein-nsa-documents-missing/

Edwards AF Base shut down. B-52 crashed: "charred, smoldering ...

2026-06-15T21:10:36Z

Edwards AF Base shut down. B-52 crashed:

"charred, smoldering patch of the desert floor roughly the size of a football field"

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-air-force-b-52-bomber-crashes-after-takeoff-edwards-air-force-base-says-2026-06-15/

I highly recommend this book about it. Hitler was dropping ...

2026-06-13T07:23:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…vjkq
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I highly recommend this book about it. Hitler was dropping support fast, becoming unpopular, and then appointed January 1933 (not elected) and in two swift acts destroyed journalism.

"Vieles habe ihn beim Schreiben sehr ergriffen – „weil manche Leute es einfach nicht wahrhaben wollen, wie sich ihr Leben jetzt ändert. Sie sind gezwungen zu reagieren … Und man möchte sie an die Hand nehmen und sagen: Du bist in großer Gefahr! Achte auf dich – du musst dieses Land jetzt möglichst schnell verlassen."

He says he can't understand why people don't leave. This is a common mistake made by the people who wouldn't be asked to leave.

The AfD (Nazi) party in Germany today for example pushes this exact "why don't you just leave" slogan. They use social media to generate youth "sport" clubs who violently harass neighbors, bully them to fight or flee. If you fight, you lose, if you flee, you lose. They decide how much.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/uwe-wittstock-februar-33-der-winter-der-literatur-chronik-100.html

reported this last year as database integrity breach, which I ...

2026-06-05T16:06:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…gzkv
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reported this last year as database integrity breach, which I realize now nobody read

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/necropolitical-threat-to-national-security-database-integrity-breaches-used-to-disappear-americans/

Apparently old MSFT Outlook was secretly flipping off user email ...

2026-06-04T14:45:26Z

Apparently old MSFT Outlook was secretly flipping off user email encryption:

"Outlook did the worst move you can take as a security enhanced app. It silently ignored the choosen SSL option and used the unencrypted port 110 without any notice to the user."

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-43-upgrade-revealed-20-years-old-outlook-security-bug/

ACASIS tbu405 with the fan ...

2026-06-02T22:35:39Z

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ACASIS tbu405 with the fan https://www.acasis.com/products/acasis-usb4-0-m-2-nvme-ssd-enclosure-40gbps-data-transfer-compatible-with-thunderbolt-3-4-usb3-2-3-1-3-0-2-0-type-c-tbu405?variant=44179026804965

the myth is not just wrong, it is mathematically illiterate. ...

2026-05-31T11:10:41Z

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the myth is not just wrong, it is mathematically illiterate. Ford's own workers were a rounding error in the car market. No firm manufactures its own demand by overpaying its workforce, because it loses money on every unit it sells back to the people it just paid.

Ford was a tyrant in 1913 who burned over 50,000 hires just to hold 14,000 jobs. Turnover was at 370% and daily absenteeism 10%, because of his unbearable line and staff walked. The entire context for a January 1914 wage jump, that roughly doubled pay, was to collapse his quit rate almost overnight. (1987 paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w2101/w2101.pdf). And it depended on Ford's Sociological Department, which sent investigators into workers' homes to police their english language skills, drinking, their finances, their domestic arrangements.

The Ford myth hides the externality. It's a myth. The real man behind it pumped racist hate propaganda through his car dealer network in the twenties, had his portrait in Hitler's office, took a Nazi medal in 1938, and fought his own workers so hard that by 1941 they were marching on his plant with placards reading FORD = HITLER.

Microsoft Spews the Sewage and Sues the Bottler nod to ...

2026-05-30T09:07:03Z

Microsoft Spews the Sewage and Sues the Bottler

nod to https://counter.social/@K8em0 and https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/microsoft-spews-the-sewage-and-sues-the-bottler/

UK gave £330 million to Thiel in 2023. Palantir. What were they ...

2026-05-23T10:25:47Z

UK gave £330 million to Thiel in 2023. Palantir. What were they thinking?

"...briefing prepared for NHS England senior leaders in February said that Palantir’s NHS platform is eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use. “Processing time is reported as taking 4-5 minutes compared to 30 seconds [in the current system]”"

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-palantirs-nhs-tech-is-ten-times-slower-than-nhs-thiel-trump

An AI deployment cratered pizza sales growth from 10% positive to ...

2026-05-19T11:56:28Z

An AI deployment cratered pizza sales growth from 10% positive to 10% negative.

"With the intention to improve efficiency and service to the customer, Dragontail did the exact opposite," the suit says. "It caused significant delays and pummeled consumer satisfaction."

https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-ai-system-dragontail-lawsuit-franchisee-2026-5

Iran War Going So Well, Drones Soon Could Hit America ...

2026-05-18T06:19:54Z

Iran War Going So Well, Drones Soon Could Hit America https://www.flyingpenguin.com/iran-war-going-so-well-drones-soon-could-hit-america/

Watch this. "The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service has said ...

2026-05-17T18:37:22Z

Watch this.

"The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service has said it will finally open long-sealed files on the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, but without saying when."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjpyqjj8y4o

UK Boots Palantir for Being Overpriced and Unusable ...

2026-05-15T09:26:11Z

UK Boots Palantir for Being Overpriced and Unusable https://www.flyingpenguin.com/uk-boots-palantir-for-being-overpriced-and-unusable/

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed ...

2026-05-11T10:25:56Z

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/

Days since last OpenClaw CVE ...

2026-05-06T01:40:22Z

Days since last OpenClaw CVE https://www.flyingpenguin.com/days-since-last-openclaw-cve/

Google COSMO Malfunction: Execute First, Validate Never ...

2026-05-02T09:15:22Z

Google COSMO Malfunction: Execute First, Validate Never https://www.flyingpenguin.com/google-cosmo-malfunction-execute-first-validate-never/

Alisa Esage Throws Mythos Under Zero Day Bus ...

2026-04-24T11:00:31Z

Alisa Esage Throws Mythos Under Zero Day Bus https://www.flyingpenguin.com/alisa-esage-throws-mythos-under-zero-day-bus/

Louisiana White Supremacist Gov Passes Bill to Prevent American ...

2026-04-24T09:13:43Z

Louisiana White Supremacist Gov Passes Bill to Prevent American Blacks From Holding Office https://www.flyingpenguin.com/louisiana-white-supremacist-gov-passes-bill-to-prevent-american-blacks-from-holding-office/

The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in ...

2026-04-13T21:19:17Z

The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/