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a blog by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
Site URL: rys.io
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Posts: 7
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Entirely Foreseeable AWS Outages
Published: February 22, 2026 12:48
According to Financial Times, Amazon Web Services experienced at least two minor outages in the final few months of last year, all caused by their internal “AI” tooling malfunctions. The article quoted one senior AWS employee describing them as “entirely…
AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
Published: January 7, 2026 21:08
Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new vulnerabilities. It’s way more mundane. When immensely…
The Hype is the Product
Published: July 27, 2025 13:24
Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock…
Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
Published: June 10, 2025 08:45
Many people who focus on information security, including myself, have long considered Telegram suspicious and untrustworthy. Now, based on findings published by the investigative journalism outlet IStories (original in Russian; English version by OCCRP…
Privacy of online age verification
Published: April 24, 2025 10:49
I have recently been asked by the Panoptykon Foundation if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare. I replied that yes, under certain assumptions, this is possible. And provided a rough sketch of…
Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives
Published: April 5, 2025 09:16
Eight years ago Lance Ulanoff had a problem. William Shatner could not find him on Mastodon. His distress is understandable, relatable even. Who wouldn’t want to be found by Captain Kirk himself! The way he dealt with that feeling of distress, however, was…
General Secretary of the Department of Government Efficiency
Published: January 22, 2025 21:29
Seems like in all the chaos after the power transition in the US, this was largely missed: Musk-led “Department of Government Efficiency” will have access to all unclassified US government records. It’s always the unassuming, irrelevant looking stuff like…