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Taffer 🇨🇦🎃👻

@Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

mastodon 4.7.3

My job? Computer Sisyphus and Meme Historian. I work on cryptography, FIPS, and open source. I like video games, books, and riding my bike. I use Arch, btw.

I work for Chainguard, but I definitely don't speak for them.

Sometimes you just have to sit back, relax, and let the train wreck itself.

572 Followers

233 Following

50 Posts

Joined October 06, 2022

Website/Blog:

https://taffer.ca/

Worktree (git repo):

https://worktree.ca/taffer

Skelly - retro CRPG:

https://skelly.taffer.ca/

Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 4w ago

Friends don't let friends use passkeys. They're not portable between "security devices". Say you're moving from @1password@1password.social to @bitwarden@fosstodon.org because 1Password supports fascists who want to ethnically cleanse Europe. Passkeys don't migrate, and going through all of your passwords, then logging into each site to delete the passkey is painful. A nice long random password, plus TOTP/OTP/"Authenticator" codes are best. #1Password #Drop1Password #Bitwarden #passkey #totp

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 2mo ago

Replying to

@arstechnica@mastodon.social https://isaiprofitable.com/

isaiprofitable.com

Is AI Profitable Yet?

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Clearly they’re cowards and would never do it. If only they were true alphas!

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Our FIPS test lab sent us a survey to find out how we felt about using AI for FIPS certifications. Standards validation is a great spot for confabulation and leaving out details.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@i0null@infosec.exchange Wtf, that’s the same band that did Deeper Shade of Soul?!? 🤘

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 3mo ago

Replying to

@endorama@hachyderm.io @ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk My company (Chainguard.dev) is hiring, and here’s a list of companies doing remote. Hope it helps! https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 2mo ago

Replying to

@cR0w@infosec.exchange If it worked for that, AWS, GCP, and Azure would be bug free, and never have a vulnerability. Instead take a look at how great GitHub is these days.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 2mo ago

Replying to

@trinityblair@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange 🤣 until I zoomed I thought this was a photo of your office

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@brahms@chaos.social @cR0w@infosec.exchange @nyanbinary@infosec.exchange Brute-forcing long chains of vulns into reports that mark them all High or Critical? At insane expense that’s still being underwritten by VC money.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 4mo ago

Replying to

@Bwee@meow.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Here’s a list of companies doing remote, hope it helps! https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@acelaya@mastodon.social @kboyd@phpc.social Here’s a list of companies doing remote, hope it’s helpful! https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 4mo ago

Replying to

@accidentalciso@infosec.exchange Here’s a list of companies doing remote, hopefully it’s helpful- https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Roach, no! Get down from there!

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@Amy@iosdev.space @kboyd@phpc.social Dunno if it’s helpful, but here’s a collection of companies doing remote: https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/#the-top

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

I love trying to mitigate CVEs in Node.js apps. Surely those 3100(!) packages you're pulling in are fine, and maintained. #InfoSec

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange @en3py@onlyarts.social I can’t use Thunderbird (or any IMAP client) for email at work because Security hasn’t done an eval. But we can enable every MCP in sight.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 4mo ago

Replying to

@drwho@masto.hackers.town @catsalad@infosec.exchange Can’t remember if I’ve already sent this before, but here’s a list of companies doing remote: https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/ Chainguard.dev is definitely hiring right now.

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@cR0w@infosec.exchange I assume harvest now, decrypt later is less plausible now that “AI” has absorbed 120% of the world’s hard drives…

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange @en3py@onlyarts.social I love it, that’s terrible

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@da_667@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange I know my company is hiring (Chainguard.dev, but ask about “AI” if you talk to them, or contact me) and here’s a hopefully helpful list of companies doing remote: https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nixCraft They’re also migrating to Azure and rewriting everything in React, apparently.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@domo I boosted but didn’t comment because I’m not a Blender user (maybe some day).

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@0xabad1dea They’re doing three, huge, stupid things at once: using Copilot for everything (MS said to), switching to host on Azure (MS again), and rewriting everything using React (top down edict, don’t know the source). It’s so ridiculously slow and unreliable now.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 4mo ago

Replying to

@bagder@mastodon.social I voted for OpenSSL. When BlackBerry 10 devices shipped they had three different versions of OpenSSL in them (all with different vulnerabilities of course).

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green @jwz@mastodon.social Is it still a mostly Mozilla project? Because they’ve gone AI brained.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kevingibson@mastodon.gamedev.place @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place Welcome back! Here’s a list of companies doing remote, I hope it’s helpful! https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Viss This is going to make GitHub even faster and more reliable! 🤦

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@LoganFive@beige.party @catsalad@infosec.exchange Late 80s guidance councillor told me to go into journalism.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@octothorpe @NanoRaptor Cray Portable(tm)

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Viss I don’t, but nobody listens to my screams.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@rootwyrm @cR0w Here’s a list of companies doing remote, no idea which have fallen to slop though, sorry: https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 6mo ago

Replying to

@kboyd Poisoning LLMs

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 6mo ago

Replying to

@gavi@bagel.ing Actually, just searching Fedi for catte had more better results!

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Taffer 🇨🇦

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· 4mo ago

Replying to

@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space @alice@lgbtqia.space Dunno if this is helpful, but it’s a big list of companies doing remote: https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/ My company (Chainguard.dev) is hiring.

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@yaah @glassbottommeg Here’s a list of companies doing remote, hope it’s helpful! https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@ireneista @aeva Here’s a list of companies doing remote, hope it’s helpful! https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jwcph@helvede.net @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Anyone who’s played D&D knows that 10% chance of failure happens MUCH more often that you’d like.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I use Linux because it’s the least awful option. I’ve also switched distros every year or so since switching: Mint, Kubuntu, OpenSUSE, now EndeavourOS (and Fedora at work).

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@graydon @Viss I’d bet against, but only because “my” code doesn’t live on GitHub. But these future outages are going to be epic.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Current contribution might be the remote job list, it’s been shared by at least two people other than me: https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@michi@wetdry.world @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social iPod DJ!

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@Viss@mastodon.social @cR0w@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange It’s like if an LLM could extrude “food” slop.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@cR0w@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange LastPass seems pretty bad at security …

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@tacitus@mastodon.gamedev.place @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place “SGML is too corporate! We need to take it to the XTREME!”

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 4w ago

Replying to on phpc.social

@kboyd@phpc.social Looks like @worktree@mastodon.social is adding some cloud options, hopefully in the near future to take advantage of this nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@TechieNotNetie@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net @cloudflare@noc.social How about Clownflare fixes their crap “verification”? This week it’s Vivaldi, next week it’s Firefox, repeat forever. WTF are they even “verifying”?

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@thezoq2@mastodon.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Here’s a list of companies doing remote, hope it’s helpful! https://taffer.ca/posts/2025/remote/

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Remote Work, 2025 Edition

Chris Herborth's website - Projects, blogs, nonsense.

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Taffer 🇨🇦

🎃👻 @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

I'm glad @Waterfox@mastodon.social Private Search has tweaked their UI to show more results, this makes it much more worthwhile and useful! Now if they could just stop emailing me a code when I have to log in (which seems very frequent). At least give me the option to use TOTP instead! #waterfox #WaterfoxPrivateSearch #search #totp #security #authentication

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