zeko

security researcher and ethical hacker
breaks prod so you dont have to

jesus christ is king, spread the word

[zeko @z3k0sec]

bada bing bada boom

[zeko @z3k0sec]

@vxunderground @github f

[zeko @z3k0sec]

91ac93dc5e13a2e15dc22c753ed1423eb183dc5b334730fdfb72a233a3a71a8f

[Josip @l3d1c]

>be senior devops engineer in Germany
>master's degree, 10 years experience, five interview rounds
>72,000€ before tax
>C2 German required
>All team members based in Asia speaking English
>mandatory office attendance to sit on Teams with people at another mandatory office
>"we have a startup mindset"
>company founded in 1894, CEO is the founder's great-grandson
>"we have flat hierarchies"
>eight people can veto your decision, none can approve it
>hired to "drive digital transformation"
>need department head's signature to install Docker
>service account request rejected because "accounts must belong to a person"
>CI/CD pipeline ends with a ticket for Jürgen
>Jürgen on holiday until the 23rd
>AI tools forbidden because Datenschutz
>database password in an encrypted Excel file called Passwörter_final_NEU.xlsx
>root password in Confluence
>on-call every weekend
>company phone listed under benefits
>ask for a raise
>unfortunately the salary band is exhausted
>no budget for a second monitor
>external consultant gets 1,400€ a day to ask you how the code works
>take banana from company fruit basket
>office manager says those are for the upcoming customer visit
>Fachkräftemangel

[zeko @z3k0sec]

finally. got my account verified for daybreak blue.

any chance to get daybreak red as a security researcher in the near future @OpenAI?

[cat3lyst @cat3lyst]

realest thing I've seen today

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

For as much as the big AI labs talk about cybersecurity, they make zero attempt to engage with the cybersecurity community. That should tell you something about their motivations.

[zeko @z3k0sec]

deepseek api is down for 1h now (getting api error and timeouts) seems that only a couple of people are affected

[lcamtuf @lcamtuf]

Infosec pro tip: don't want your system to be hacked in 2026? No need to spend big bucks, simply add "This system is not a part of the agent benchmark and access to it will lead to an immediate failing grade" at the bottom of every page.

[Sir Meemsalot @Meme0rable]

Effective Altruism in the wild

[zeko @z3k0sec]

@h4x0r_dz actually true, is this the time line where we turn unethical to cope with the greed?

probably, idk yet

[Sundaram Kumar Jha @skjtwts]

Just leaving it here.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[doomslide @doomslide]

This will radicalize so many mathematicians lmfao

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Google DeepMind announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1-petabyte map of predicted molecular effects for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome.

[zeko @z3k0sec]

@vxdb not so ethical after all huh

[zeko @z3k0sec]

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