Adolphus Lwova

Skeptic | Techie | Infosec

[Adolphus Lwova @Adolphuslwova]

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[Brandon Rossi @0xConda]

Security is more than just hacking, but the rest of it is really boring

[Nicolas Neubert @iamneubert]

Me next Monday.

[mmnjug™ @mmnjug]

Throwback

[American Nightmare @Crazycaptaincat]

Gotta keep going 😏

[Kenya Prisons Service @PrisonsKe]

Stay safe, Obey the Law, Avoid Crime. #TGIF

[Jacob Baines @Junior_Baines]

We bought an $88 router on Amazon looking for the ENDLESSDOORS implant. We found two others instead

DARKLANTERN gives anyone on the Internet an unauthenticated root shell.

SPEAKINGSTONE phones home to ZBT infrastructure and supports remote surveillance.

https://t.co/WcF01Q8vFV

[Sakshi @Sakshi50038]

Who's gonna tell vibe coders about...

> Rate Limiting
> Caching
> Load Balancing
> Reverse Proxies
> API Gateways
> CI/CD
> Docker
> Kubernetes
> Service Discovery
> Circuit Breakers
> Timeouts
> Retries
> Exponential Backoff
> Idempotency
> Message Queues
> Pub/Sub
> Event-Driven Architecture
> Distributed Transactions
> Saga Pattern
> Dead Letter Queues
> Cron Jobs
> WebSockets
> Long Polling
> Server-Sent Events
> Database Indexing
> Query Optimization
> N+1 Queries
> Connection Pooling
> Read Replicas
> Sharding
> Partitioning
> Replication
> Leader Election
> CAP Theorem
> Eventual Consistency
> Optimistic Locking
> Pessimistic Locking
> Distributed Locks
> Race Conditions
> Deadlocks
> Memory Leaks
> Garbage Collection
> Thread Safety
> Backpressure
> Autoscaling
> Horizontal Scaling
> Vertical Scaling
> CDN
> Edge Caching
> Cache Invalidation
> Feature Flags
> Blue-Green Deployments
> Canary Releases
> Rolling Deployments
> Rollbacks
> Health Checks
> Liveness & Readiness Probes
> Monitoring
> Logging
> Distributed Tracing
> Metrics
> Alerting
> SLOs
> SLIs
> Error Budgets
> Observability
> Secrets Management
> IAM
> OAuth
> JWT Rotation
> TLS
> Encryption at Rest
> Encryption in Transit
> WAF
> DDoS Protection
> CORS
> CSRF
> SQL Injection
> XSS
> SSRF
> Database Migrations
> Schema Versioning
> Disaster Recovery
> Backups
> Failover
> Multi-Region Deployments
> Chaos Engineering
> Cost Optimization
> Cold Starts
> Serverless Limits
> Latency
> Throughput
> P99 Latency
> Tail Latency
> Network Partitions
> Clock Skew
> DNS
> TCP vs UDP
> HTTP/2 & HTTP/3
> gRPC
> Webhooks
> API Versioning
> Semantic Versioning
> Infrastructure as Code
> Terraform
> Helm Charts
> Build Caching
> Dependency Hell
> Production Incidents
> On-call
> Postmortems

...until the app gets its first million users.

[sui @birdabo]

fun fact. arduino and raspberry pi are part of china’s school curriculum.

they later teach themselves circuit design via youtube videos. seems almost every crack chinese engineers are self taught.

china is just built different.

[Jon @giftedrascal]

Eclipse

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

I have to spend more time watching African football.

[𝔻𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕝 @DaNel0325]

Shoes from the future🔥

[MVRTN @0xNdeto]

Wait whaat? 🙌🏾🙌🏾

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This might be the most unhinged AI video I've ever seen.

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

The country of Botswana seems to be in good hands.

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

A vulnerability was recently identified in Cloudflare’s automation of certificate validation. We're looking at what it was and outline the steps we’ve taken to mitigate it. https://t.co/wIxncJRX5F

[Mnyamani 👑 @Zikamnyamane]

Let her cook 🔥

[Adolphus Lwova @Adolphuslwova]

@techspence Yeah,insider threat(leadership)

[Adolphus Lwova @Adolphuslwova]

https://t.co/TR4RwYwy6I

[Adolphus Lwova @Adolphuslwova]

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