Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBuilding Bitchat: Offline first protocols and E2E Encrypted Social Apps with Nostr, Noise, and MLS (WHY2025)
Learn how to build end-to-end encrypted social apps including the newly released Bitchat using Nostr and MLS (Messaging Layer Security). We'll go fro…
1 year, 3 months ago
Die Hardcoded: Unlocking Yealink's (weakest) secrets (WHY2025)
During this talk we look at hardware and firmware reverse engineering, but also at corporate intimidation tactics and how to respond ethically as a s…
1 year, 3 months ago
Caveat Emptor: Ratings and Reviews Can't Be Trusted (WHY2025)
It's hard for a platform to have meaningful, useful ratings/reviews without both substantially Knowing Your Customer, engineering to detect manipula…
1 year, 3 months ago
How we stopped a € 50 million project from destroying a forest (and other ways to pick fights with corporations and governments) (WHY2025)
In 2017 a large corporation announced that they wanted to build a € 50 million theme park in a small forest that I had known from my childhood, thus …
1 year, 3 months ago
The story and maths behind the Sferical lamps (WHY2025)
My experience of contributing to an open-source project for the first time and the juicy details (maths) of the geometry of the Sferical lamps (the …
1 year, 3 months ago
Reviewing live-bootstrap (WHY2025)
live-bootstrap is a worthy attempt to provide a reproducible, automatic, complete end-to-end bootstrap from a minimal number of binary seeds to a sup…
1 year, 3 months ago
From barking to Meow: mature pentesting (WHY2025)
In a world of relentless cyber-threats, MIAUW (Methodology for Information Security Assessment with Audit Value) turns every pentest into a high-impa…
1 year, 3 months ago
Guardians of the Dutch healthcare part 2: NIS2 edition (WHY2025)
In 2017 (just before SHA2017) the Dutch healthcare sector came together to create Stichting Z-CERT, the Zorg Computer Emergency Response Team. A nonp…
1 year, 3 months ago
A Journey Through Boring Telco Data Leaks (WHY2025)
Over the past few years, I’ve been casually poking around and stumbling upon exposed data and insecure infrastructure all across the telco ecosystem.…
1 year, 3 months ago
AiTM panels and sellers (WHY2025)
Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing kits have matured into full-service SaaS platforms. This talk dives into the infrastructure, control panels, …
1 year, 3 months ago