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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 02/03/2026

Excited to share “Poisoned Wells,” which presents the largest point-in-time study of website blocking in India to date. I tested the blocking of 294 million apex domains across six Indian ISPs, sending 1.76 billion DNS queries in total.

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Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts. We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists... We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

NEW: Cybersecurity experts, who work with human rights defenders and journalists, agree that Apple is doing the right thing by sending notifications to victims of mercenary spyware — and at the same time refusing to forensically analyze the devices. “These notifications have been a game changer."

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Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab | TechCrunch

Cybersecurity experts, who work with human rights defenders and journalists, agree that Apple is doing the right thing by sending notifications to victims of mercenary spyware — and at the same time r...

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netspooky @vacci.ne · 18/12/2024

The @phrack.org 72 CFP horny emojipasta has hit the chats

Screenshot of a copypasta that is in the replies

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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 19/12/2024

It took quite a while hunting through newspaper archives, but this is what Joseph Popp actually looked like when he was arrested. Weird that someone considered the grandfather of ransomware is so poorly documented. Sources online get the date of his death wrong & the spelling of his middle name too.

Poor quality scan of a black and white image from a newspaper from March of 1990 called The Vindicator, a photo of a man with receding hair and a bushy beard and moustache who may be handcuffed. Caption reads "Joseph Popp is led from federal court in Cleveland. The suburban Cleveland man us accused of distributing computer disks with a virus that locked up machines in England and Africa."

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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 30/11/2024

I wrote a series of blogs (that I’ll be adding to as I go) that document times in the #history of #hacking that journalists found themselves becoming part of the story that they were writing about #hackers. I labeled the blogs “Hackers & Reporters”.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 22/11/2024

This is your reminder that DMs here are _not encrypted_. They're not even really part of ATProto. It's on the roadmap, but that's not the case now. DMs are centralized and unencrypted. Behave accordingly.

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 20/11/2024

I know this is in the Drop I just posted, but y'all really need to try out ATFile — github.com/electricduck... It lets you upload & download arbitrary files to Bluesky's Blob storage (or any ATptodo PDS). The Blobs don't show up in your timeline, they just "exist". Store your MP3 collection! 1/2

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GitHub - electricduck/atfile: 📦➔🦋 Store and retieve files on the ATmosphere

📦➔🦋 Store and retieve files on the ATmosphere. Contribute to electricduck/atfile development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

NEW: The U.S. government has announced charges against five alleged hackers who targeted several companies stealing millions of dollars in crypto, and corporate data. DOJ says the hackers are part of the infamous Scattered Spider cybercrime group. techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/u...

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US charges five accused of multi-year hacking spree targeting tech and crypto giants | TechCrunch

The five alleged hackers are accused of stealing millions of dollars in crypto, and corporate data from several victims all over the world.

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

as a gamer ive eliminated thousands of moo deng like creatures for their various parts . Ive completed countless quests using their pain

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 29/07/2024

What is being done about caller ID spoofing in India? My piece for the Text and Context section in The Hindu today.

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 25/09/2023

The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition requesting for the source code of Electronic Voting Machines to be made public. The court stated that publishing the source code would make EVMs vulnerable. This line of reasoning is fallacious and ill-informed. m.thewire.in/article/law/...

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SC Refuses to Hear Plea Seeking Audit into Source Code of Software Used in EVMs

A three-judge Bench, headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, disallowed the petition on the grounds that making the source code public would make the machines vulnerable to hacking.

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 20/09/2023

It turns out that you can pass an arbitrary datetime value for the 'createdAt' parameter when creating a new post. I've linked a post of mine below with a datetime value of 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z. The datetime value appears to have been offset to January 1, 1970, 5:30 AM, Indian Standard Time.

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 19/09/2023

Twitter (X) seems to no longer display a notice for when a given post has been blocked at the request of the Government. Instead, a nondescript notice is shown, simply reading "This Post is unavailable."

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

this site needs a badge i can pay $8 a month for to trick people into thinking I am a Mod

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

more like a SMUGshot! siri please send when official headshot released. siri please dim lights and set alarm for 9:30 am.

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

if you are a stupid ass reddit poster from fucking reddit me and my crazy friends will put you in a head lock

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

Zero statements from the Biden admin about India technically exporting* defense equipment to Russia. Quite disappointing. *Russia is calling it "re-importing".

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

You used to be able to complain to corporate accounts and get refunds but now they’ll just quote you with “this mfer does NOT have the meats 🤣“

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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

I swear to god if you made a wallet inspector badge out of construction paper and showed it to these people it would work a hundred times in a row

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 12/08/2023

у меня есть сабака

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Spoo Keidick @donkeidick.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

“Stop the car. Stop the fucking car NOW”

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 20/07/2023

Throughout 1998 & 1999, the 2600 Hacker Quarterly dedicated several of their magazine cover pages to bring attention to the "FREE KEVIN" campaign. The campaign played a significant role in helping Kevin Mitnick receive a more lenient sentence following his arrest in 1995.

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 17/07/2023

i'd really enjoy having a social media feed devoid of the endless virtue signaling and laundering of half baked hot takes. idk might be a good to have

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 11/07/2023

Follow @bsky.realhackhistory.org if you aren't already. It is one of my favourite accounts from Twitter (which is saying something), and on here too!

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 11/07/2023

i think it's time for me to become a sheep farmer, this hacking shit is too easy

browser window navigated to some website at the path /admin/add_free_membership.php with a form allowing me to create an unlimited free account for a service

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 11/07/2023

I subscribed to Johnny Harris' YouTube channel and unsubscribed within a week. It seems that Vox's editorial control was the only thing keeping him from transforming into an unhinged peddler of badly researched clickbait

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2023

very fucked up they named the robot on star trek "data." yeah this is my human friend. his name is Feelings

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 10/07/2023

today is a strange day. i hope something good comes out of it :O

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 29/06/2023

I have maintained a project cataloging domain names which are known to be blocked in India for the last two years now. The project started with a list of ~2,500 host names, and has since grown to catalogue more than 6,000 known blocked websites. Check it out here: github.com/qurbat/blocked-hosts

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GitHub - qurbat/blocked-hosts: A periodically updated list of websites known to be blocked in India

A periodically updated list of websites known to be blocked in India - GitHub - qurbat/blocked-hosts: A periodically updated list of websites known to be blocked in India

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 23/06/2023

i've been getting into reverse engineering as of late. such a refreshing break from the usual web application and network security stuff that i've been pinballing around in for the last ~5 years

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qntm @qntm.org · 06/06/2023

numbers be like "6"

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Karan Saini @karansaini.com · 06/06/2023

does anyone have documentation for the Bluesky client API?

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