Links May 2025

Christopher Biggs gave an informative Evrything Open lecture about voice recognition [1]. We need this on Debian phones.

Guido wrote an informative blog post about booting a custom Android kernel on a Pixel 3a [2]. Good work in writing this up, but a pity that Google made the process so difficult.

Interesting to read about an expert being a victim of a phishing attack [3]. It can happen to anyone, everyone has moments when they aren’t concentrating.

Interesting advice on how to leak to a journalist [4].

Brian Krebs wrote an informative article about the ways that Trump is deliberately reducing the cyber security of the US government [5].

Brian Krebs wrote an interesting article about the main smishng groups from China [6].

Louis Rossmann (who is known for high quality YouTube videos about computer repair) made an informative video about a scammy Australian company run by a child sex offender [7].

The Helmover was one of the wildest engineering projects of WW2, an over the horizon guided torpedo that could one-shot a battleship [8].

Interesting blog post about DDoSecrets and the utter failure of the company Telemessages which was used by the US government [9].

Jonathan McDowell wrote an interesting blog post about developing a free software competitor to Alexa etc, the listening hardware costs $13US per node [10].

Noema Magazine published an insightful article about Rewilding the Internet, it has some great ideas [11].

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