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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 26/03/2026

FYI for @github users: You need to opt-out of this "#AI model training" setting before April. Though your public repos will be scraped anyway, you don't have to volunteer to be studied as a user. Not sure how this is opt-out with #GDPR, but it is. Settings > #Copilot > Features #privacy

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 24/03/2026

Required? I seem to be missing out...

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 03/01/2026

We launched a ton of fun projects this past year at @ivycyber.com and it's time to retire a few of them. First up is #vibecoding nightmare "Vibe Crap"💩 Check out the video demo + full source code at 👉https://psafe.ly/vibecrap If you like experiments like this, follow @bitsontape.com

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 20/12/2025

We're doing another @ivycyber.com giveaway on Twitter X. This time it's a mini laptop / touchscreen tablet + travel #VPN router, loaded with goodies and a 12-month subscription to our PrivacySafe.app software 🎁 x.com/profdiggity/...

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 17/12/2025

Well if I age out of being a #techbro I can always audition for the next season of #StrangerThings. ...did they really have to show them wobbly-riding on Huffy bikes?

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 16/12/2025

Great stream today by Ungovernable Misfits with Keonne from #samouraiWallet ✊ Thanks for the excellent Q&A and insights as you and Bill face prison for creating #privacy software that actually works. #pardonsamourai

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 15/12/2025

First December #snow in a long while

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 13/12/2025

"AI has been part of #cybersecurity for such a long time... In the 2010s, you could not walk through a trade show without people telling you about their #AI..." @scottjshapiro.bsky.social at the #Cyber Summit with @profdiggity.com businesswest.com/blog/cyberse...

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 13/12/2025

Just got my copy of the #FreeSoftware Foundation bulletin for the #holidays 🤓 Great interview with #FSF President Ian Kelling and a nice photo of all of us from the #FSF40 event! Show your support with a donation to the FSF: my.fsf.org/donate

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 10/12/2025

Steady growth of PrivacySafe.social throughout early #December with *zero* marketing spend and all organic word-of-mouth. Lots of folks discovering #decentralized networks / the #fediverse for the first time. Get @privacysafe.social 🦾

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 08/12/2025

Working on @privacysafe.social alongside a couple copies of a modern classic by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy . It's a solid way to gear up for the event in #Madison Connecticut tonight! 🤓 #privacymatters

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 04/12/2025

Special thanks to Dafu Gao from OnePiece Labs and #Solana Foundation for sponsoring this event hosted by #Yale #Blockchain 🤖 I had an amazing time speaking on a panel about #AI and its impact on the #Web3 space and #tech in general. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 02/12/2025

NEW: Our #SCOTUS amicus brief on #AI and #copyright 👇 psafe.ly/7ShfXu Thanks to my colleagues Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & @patriciaavl.bsky.social at @yaleisp.bsky.social, @lessig.bsky.social at @harvard.edu, and many others across #law and #tech for their support & contributions. Thread 🧵

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 28/11/2025

The weekend theme is #AI + coding! A friend sent me this piece that mentions my comments on #freesoftware #opensource licensing and #genAI. LLMs have a place in our @ivycyber.com business but it's a very carefully controlled one, and not in the codebase. psafe.ly/TRySSC

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 28/11/2025

😎 It's great to see the progress of my former colleagues at #Tari building out their #crypto network. Congrats to the team! I claimed my $XTM allocation and look forward to Tari's future in 2026 and beyond 🐢

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 26/11/2025

At the local gym every day except when I've been traveling... Not taking two steps back tomorrow is the REAL challenge #Thanksgiving

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 25/11/2025

Last night, I had an excellent two-hour conversation with Laurin Weissinger laurinw.com about @privacysafe.social and we dug through the apps screen-by-screen. Stay tuned 📺

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 23/11/2025

🤠 Looong day but here's a fun sneak peek - Potato quality vid of handwriting pen input on a @privacysafe.social tablet, in our #E2EE apps. Sign up & download at privacysafe.app

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 22/11/2025

Thanks to @mikaelthalen.bsky.social for digging into the insecurity & #enshittification of #Google Nest devices. This is why #RightToRepair and #FreeSoftware matters.

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 22/11/2025

This week I guest lectured for the fourth time for Sheree Ip's class at Curtin University #Law 🤓 We walked through the #TornadoCash smart contract, discussing its ability to protect #privacy of transactions. What's your take? Should #crypto mixers like Tornado Cash and #SamouraiWallet be banned?

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 19/11/2025

📉 Markets are down, #Privacy is up 📈

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 18/11/2025

There was a *lot* of schadenfreude going around #Twitter X earlier this month about #cloudcomputing outages. I guess what goes around comes around. Where's the #failwhale when you need it... 🐳

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 04/11/2025

🚀 Exciting times ahead! Join us at Bay Path University for Cyber Pathways 2025: AI, Innovation, and the Future of Security - our annual #cybersecurity conference, live in-person & online. 🗓️ Fri Nov 14, 2025 | 🕙 8:30 AM – 12 PM EST 📍Longmeadow, MA & Virtual 👇Signup link in comments

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 03/11/2025

A bunch of great people are offering help and vendors + hosts are (mostly) responsive to abuse reports for these #botnets. I'm still being targeted in the most personal way #Aisuru operators can. Most of that I'll talk about soon. Thanks esp. to @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 31/10/2025

they're blaming you @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy , new NS records hahakrebsisacrybaby.su hahakrebsisacrybaby1.su

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 30/10/2025

🙌 My request for the 14emeliaterracewestroxburyma02132 domain associated with the Aisuru #botnet to be terminated has been granted. This was the most visited domain on the Internet yesterday, far above #Google, #Facebook, #Microsoft, #Apple, and #Amazon.

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 30/10/2025

The additional domain overload [dot] su now too. h/t @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy - this is the Aisuru botnet taking different forms. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisu...

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 25/10/2025

party blob #cat dancing emoji makes it an even better #caturday than I could have imagined

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 25/10/2025

#caturday on the #fediverse might be my highlight of the weekend 📷 Join privacysafe.social and spend time scrolling through hashtag#cat photos, as the Internet should be.

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 20/10/2025

What's #AWS ? Avoid the clownshow🤡 and hang out somewhere that isn't feeling the outage, by design - #decentralized and FREE. 🔆Try privacysafe.social and connect with millions of #fediverse users.

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 20/10/2025

Our @privacysafe.social apps solve the problem of " #Signal down because #AWS down" by *actually* being #federated + allowing you to deploy your own 100% #OpenSource, #FreeSoftware server 😎 See github.com/PrivacySafe and get started.

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 15/10/2025

I recently spoke with @zdnet.bsky.social about the release of #OpenAI’s #Sora2, a tool that can generate lifelike videos from text prompts.

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 13/10/2025

💪 Strong growth in a month for privacysafe.social ! We soft launched 1 yr ago with a handful of accts, publicly announced Dec 2024, but really pushed in the last 30 days on marketing because we're building a #social layer for @privacysafe.social + @cakewallet.com ! Stay tuned 📺

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 10/09/2025

Signups are snowballing, LFG 🤠 privacysafe.social

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 07/09/2025

We're seeing an uptick in signups and, more importantly, user activity at @privacysafe.social privacysafe.social this week 🥂 The sustainable growth model we've been building toward is on the horizon. We want a #social community with consistent growth of active users. And we're getting there!

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 04/09/2025

For the list of changes we made to #mastodon that make our #privacy respecting #social community different, friendly *and* familiar for users of #BigTech platforms, see our #opensource repo here 🤓 github.com/PrivacySafe/privacysafe-social-ui

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 04/09/2025

Just snagged one of the last copies of @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 's limited-edition #art book! Sure, you can print it yourself from the #libre & gratis source, but why not support the author & his efforts against exploitative platforms and #enshittification? www.kickstarter.com/projects/doc...

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 26/08/2025

Does anyone have a cure for my dog's blurry

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 22/08/2025

for all the prompt engineers out there, I've discovered this useful zero shot prompt 😉

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 21/08/2025

🤔 I have yet to get it to trigger an actual browser crash without the "Guard rail stopped the party" mitigation stopping it. But like all #vibecode things, it's gonna be tough to diagnose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Without the CSP header controls (see the nginx example I put in the git repo) it might be dangerous.

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 09/05/2025

I'm giving another free talk on #AI at the amazing @nhfpl.bsky.social as part of their "2025 Big Read" program which has the theme #Fahrenheit451🔥 If you're in #NewHaven stop by for the fun and provocative conversation. We'll talk about #privacy, creativity & more 👇 psafe.ly/WxqNT4

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 31/03/2025

A great event that could not have been more appropriate, or in a more appropriate location, with US academic freedom increasingly in the political crosshairs.

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