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The security industry is somewhat unique. It's probably the only industry created by the worker as a threat. If you talk to hackers who were in the scene before Operation Sundevil, you'll realize that it's always been a Bullshit Job.
Folks in L0ft and cDc were hacking companies and basically blackmailing them into paying for their services. Operation Sundevil "straightened up" the industry. Some people went to prison, some people build security services companies. Pretty much anyone who actually believed in the manifesto was locked up or edged out.
Using the Graeber framework here, hackers are partially duct tapers and partially goons. The critical thing here is that the industry was basically created to give money to people who would otherwise destroy the system.
Neuroatypical folks have always been forced to the margins of society, but computers gave us a super power. Now we were extremely dangerous. Tech, especially hackers, have always been paid a lot to minimize the risk of developing a class consciousness.
Graeber talked about this. Kings and nobles would often find some job or title that they could bestow on potential enemies in order to keep them close, to defang them. What better role than sheriff, a type of goon, for a rebel?
We turned it in to a whole thing. Not only did hackers make their own industry and force everyone else to accept it, we even created a whole parallel box ticker industry of "compliance" as a side effect.
The Hacker's Manifesto was decontectualized and made a fun artifact of the past. We were sold a story of "good hackers" who "protected grandma from the bad hackers." But the whole industry always existed to keep us on a leash. The funny thing is that it was a leash that we made ourselves.
But now we're seeing massive layoffs in tech, even in security. Now that we're this far in, everyone has forgotten the history. Leadership doesn't understand what security people do, so they think that LLMs can replace us. But the people in the industry now, the ones who came to it as a career, don't understand the history.
There was always a split for these weird outsiders, these people who couldn't fit in to the system but now had power over it. Some wanted in and they were willing to use extortion to get in, and others wanted to destroy the system to set everyone free.
Operation Sundevil, and the industry that evolved out of it, existed to neutralize those revolutionary elements by offering extortionists a safe entry. Extortionists trusted the capitalists to not stab them in the back the same way capitalists have stabbed everyone in the back through all of history. Now my LinkedIn feed is full of Meta layoffs, and I wonder if that class consciousness is starting to click for anyone yet.

The DOD fires the Stars and Stripes ombudsman after calling the paper "woke"; the ombudsman says she believes she was fired for defending editorial independence (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/23/stars-str…

Pentagon fires ombudsman overseeing military newspaper after calling it ‘woke’
Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith said the Defense Department dismissed her without giving a reason, according to an email reviewed by The Post.

Slides for a presentation on how to move forward with the years-long talk on tabular data on #Wikidata at #Wikimania2026: https://

Tabular data vs structured data.pptx
Tabular data vs. structured data - How do we get to a win-win solution? Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga, Basque Wikimedians User Group Lydia Pintscher, Wikimedia Deutschland Jan Ainali Sandra Fauconnier

Did NASA just find evidence of ancient life on Mars? Perseverance rover spots complex carbon in Red Planet rocks
https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/did-nasa-just-find-evidence-of-ancient-lif…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CR/new
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- TopoGuard: Graph Theory Based Defenses Against Split-Knowledge Attacks on RAG
Chahana Dahal, Zuobin Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20437 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116973867316185089
- Isolating LLM Alignment from Regex: Zero Coverage and Metric-Dependent Divergence Under Adversari...
Alexandre Cristov\~ao Maiorano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20494 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116973970735647184
- Edit-Neighboring Data Streams and Privacy under Continual Observation
Joel Daniel Andersson, Anamay Chaturvedi, Monika Henzinger, Roodabeh Safavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20727 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116973794572869732
- Beyond Heavy Log Curation: Perplexity-Based APT Detection via Unsupervised, Context-Augmented Lan...
Shoya Otsu, Kei Suzuki, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jing Liu, Ye Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20832 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116973999245670512
- The Consensus Number of Untraceable Cryptocurrencies
Christian Cachin, David Lehnherr, Juan Villacis, Fran\c{c}ois-Xavier Wicht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20929 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116973788672146161
- Weak Private Information Retrieval for Graph-based Storage
Shodasakshari Vidya, Chandan Anand, Prasad Krishnan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21014 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/116973843557672147
- Risk-Limiting Audits for Parliamentary Majorities
Jack Freestone, Dennis Leung, Damjan Vukcevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21082 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statAP_bot/116973845690486258
- Agree on the Model, Verify the Inference: GKR Protocols for HND-Based Transformer Inference
Xiaolong Liang, Juanjuan Li, Rui Qin, Yisheng Lv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21162 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116974022251021755
- Advances in STV Margin Computation
Michelle Blom, Alexander Ek, Peter J. Stuckey, Vanessa Teague, Damjan Vukcevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21178 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116973834510813731
- Unconditional Unclonable Encryption
Prabhanjan Ananth, Amit Sahai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21551 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116974006325118063
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Classical Acceptance Is Not Hybrid Authentication: Measuring X.509 Verifier Semantics in Post-Quantum Migration
Taesung Kim, Boheung Chung, Keonwoo Kim, Yousung Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20800 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20800
arXiv:2607.20800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A relying party validating a hybrid X.509 certificate --- carrying both a classical and a post-quantum credential --- must distinguish whether its accepting judgment rests on the post-quantum evidence or only on the classical path. To preserve compatibility, the separable designs place that evidence where classical path validation may ignore it. A verifier can then validate the classical path and accept while the post-quantum evidence never bears on the decision --- a valid classical result silently promoted to a hybrid conclusion it did not establish. We measure this across eight path-validation stacks (seven independent codebases), in nine validation modes, over six certificate schemes. Under a hybrid-required policy, nearly every stack parsing a separable hybrid certificate accepts on the classical path without making the post-quantum evidence outcome-bearing; one enforcing mode instead fractures interoperability over a signature-input encoding not yet interoperably profiled; and stacks that verify post-quantum signatures still do not enforce the binding by default: the gap is structural, not explained by missing primitive capability alone. Under lifecycle desynchronization the downgrade is realized: when a bound post-quantum credential is revoked while the classical certificate stays valid, the default path still accepts, because the bound credential lies outside the decision's scope. Binding success is not authentication success. We contribute a specification-derived verifier model and an executable, policy-parametric reference contract --- what a verifier must recognize, verify, make outcome-bearing, and check before reporting a validation as hybrid --- with a diagnosis of why standards do not require it.
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Clive Davis, one of music's most powerful executives who guided Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, and Whitney Houston's careers, dies at 94 (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/arts/music/clive-davis-dead.html

Clive Davis, Music Industry Titan Who Signed Whitney Houston, Dies at 94
He rose from a midlevel position at Columbia Records to become one of music’s most powerful executives, shepherding stars like Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston.