sparro

cyber strategist | designer

[Andrew Qu @andrewqu]

be bennett

> google fitbit air gets released
> happy that whoop now has competition
> fitbit air has no subscription
> buy fitbit air
> realize whoop has better hardware, bands, battery
> contemplate why he can't have best of both
>> free subscription + best device
> throw a couple billion tokens at reverse engineering the whoop
> successfully do it in a day
> now has full jailbroken whoop without a subscription

[sparro @0xSparro]

Felt like this should have been a basic feature of all android who can scan Mifare..

[Iceman @herrmann1001]

Mind blown 🤯

Some smartphones sold in mainland China (like certain OPPO models) can read MIFARE Classic cards, crack the keys in seconds, store them, and then fully emulate the card directly on the phone.
No extra hardware. Just the phone.
Access control, transit cards, hotel keys… game over.

Huge thanks to Ian for showing me this in person. Really eye-opening how far NFC capabilities have gone in some regions.

Who else has seen this in the wild?

#NFC #MIFARE #TechSecurity​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #oppo

[a16z @a16z]

Palmer Luckey: The biggest beneficiaries of vibecoding are going to be the shape rotators, not the wordcels.

"The biggest beneficiaries of vibecoding are going to be the hardware nerds like me."

"I was always a pretty terrible software engineer... I've taught myself enough to glue things together and make them work."

"I was only able to accomplish what I accomplished because I focused on what I was good at, which was optomechanics, a little bit of electrical, and then the product integration of all of these different components."

"I didn't have time to learn to program. If I had spent another year or two learning to program at even a reasonable level, I would've been two years behind on everything else."

"And so I'm a big fan of vibecoding—even if everything that comes out of it is slop, it's better than I was able to make."

@PalmerLuckey on @tpbn

[NetworkChuck @NetworkChuck]

Tired of manually updating your Linux manually everyday? 🥱

Here is how to enable automatic updates and keep those security patches rolling in saving you from bad actors!

Commands:
`apt install unattended-upgrades`
`dpkg-reconfigure –priority=low unattended-upgrades`

[sparro @0xSparro]

@WHOOP https://t.co/Dix2hwQ8cb

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

4.5: If you’re not closely watching what’s unfolding in AI right now—especially OpenAI’s Deep Research agent and the blisteringly fast rollout of their O-series models—you’re standing on the edge of history, about to get blindsided.

We aren’t talking incremental steps or modest efficiency boosts. We’re talking a seismic paradigm shift—a fundamental reshaping of how we live, work, and think. These models aren’t just clever assistants; they’re rapidly becoming expert-level operators, autonomously completing research, coding, and analytical tasks at a pace and precision previously unimaginable.

And frankly, society isn’t even close to ready for this intelligence boom. We’re cruising toward a profound disruption of the knowledge economy—one that will redefine not only jobs, but the very meaning of expertise and human purpose. Education, employment, governance—everything’s about to shift from operational execution to creative oversight and strategic direction.

We urgently need to recalibrate how we prepare our kids, how we structure our careers, and even how we perceive our value as humans. This isn’t just technological evolution; it’s social evolution happening at lightning speed. Ignoring this isn’t just risky—it’s reckless. The shift is coming, ready or not.

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Open-source personal finance app

[Jack Rhysider 🏴‍☠️ @JackRhysider]

I'm rooting for you. You're capable of far more than you realize and I can't wait to see you activate what's inside you.

[Harshleen @0xharshleen]

Cybersecurity GPTs

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

Update:

Crowdstrike came out and released a technical report confirming my analysis. They were reading in a bad data file and attempting to access invalid memory.

This global crash was a two-part bomb. The detonator apparently, was NOT new.. it was PRE-INSTALLED.

/1

[sparro @0xSparro]

Better late than never
Time to commit time for nights and weekends!
@_buildspace

[sparro @0xSparro]

@I_Am_Jakoby Hey man are you interested in @_buildspace? I have invite to their s5 that you can potentially network, collaborate or even develop in your project & get a grant for what ever comes out at the end of the session
Happy to discuss,

[chompie @chompie1337]

microsoft: Exploit Code Unporoven

me: i literally gave you a compiled PoC and also exploit code

m$: No exploit code is available, or an exploit is theoretical.

me:

[sparro @0xSparro]

@GetInTheRobot__

[sparro @0xSparro]

Losing eSIM made me realised we lived on a fine line between identity and stranger

[sparro @0xSparro]

@molistcordina @browsercompany You can’t expect new ideas to do everything everyone else’s do right out the box.

[sparro @0xSparro]

@browsercompany Will you be introducing app for iPad?

[sparro @0xSparro]

@NotionHQ @skiffprivacy Gonna be a well hated app by this group 😂😂

[sparro @0xSparro]

@Red_dot_name @skiffprivacy @ImLucasGrey @tryamie @browsercompany @nothing @_buildspace @Chronicle_HQ @photopeacom @fileverse @flipper_net This post age well as @skiffprivacy just kicked back

[sparro @0xSparro]

@savingyrself I guess this reflects how bored human are