Once the ultimate geek flex for cypherpunks, Keybase promised to make PGP cryptography accessible to mere mortals. Today, it hovers in the digital ether as a “zombie” app. Here is the story of how a revolutionary open-source identity platform was cannibalized to become Zoom’s corporate cleanup crew.
2026
06
Apr
01
Mar
The Illegal Prime: When Math Became Contraband
March 2026 marks the 25years anniversary for something beautiful – A number….illigal number!
15
Jan
When Critical Infrastructure meets VNC on the open Internet
Did you know that a lot of critical infrastructure, factories, and much much more is easily accessible (and controllable) via VNC? One of my pet projects made me realize just how bad it is.
2025
24
Sep
Malware with a Mind of Its Own – a case study in 4 acts
A new armsrace has begun and in many ways it seems like we have started something we cannot stop again – like Skynet, but real!
So I set out to explore this a bit and write about it.
27
Apr
“What Has the EU Ever Done for Us?”
“What has EU ever done for us? – something I hear quite often. This time I actually think they did something that could potentially be good for mobile/tablet owners (me included)
23
Apr
Making Citrix Workspace Work on Ubuntu 24.04
had to access citrix for work the other day. It usually works acceptable but not this time…nothing! after some debugging I finally found a fix.
15
Apr
CSV Hell: When Your Data Gets All Philosophical About Line Breaks
Just a quick and dirty script for when your csv files looks like something only a blind poet could put together.
27
Feb
The “Oh No, My Server Is Out of Space” Problem (and a Fix!)
Ever had a server quietly run out of space while you weren’t looking? Yeah, me too. Instead of manually checking disk usage (because who has time for that?), I wrote a Python script that monitors disk space, filters out unimportant partitions, and sends an email alert before things go south. It even has a lockfile mechanism to prevent spamming my inbox. Best part? You can set it up as a cron job and never think about it again—until it warns you just in time. Check out the full breakdown and grab the script to keep your servers in check!
13
Feb
The Great ASCII Art Hunt (or: Why I Had to Build My Own Damn Tool)
So I made a new program. why you ask? because I needed an ascii art generator and could not find one that did what I wanted.
2024
05
Dec
So what do I do? #1
Just a short video where I present some of the things I have been working on (the standardization of it) with my team at Samsung.