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Security guy. Website: https://omkhar.net Scholarship: https://skscholarship.com Twitter/X: https://x.com/_omkhar Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@Omkhar Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/omkhar.net LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/omkhar
Check out www.skscholarship.com for more information about the S&K Scholarship, as well as to read about the impact that the scholarship has had on recipients.
#cybersecurity #scholarship
Maryam. Shaunda. Fulgence. Nikoloz. 🎉 Sabrina and I started the @skscholarship.com because this field needs more people like you. So proud. Go build something the world needs.
More here:
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Thank you, I had no idea.
Cybersecurity loves talking about pipeline problems. Scholarships are what fixing one looks like.
Sabrina and I started the @skscholarship.com to help underrepresented people get a fair shot.
Spring 2026 scholars are up next.
#IWD2026 #GiveToGain
We've also assisted through anonymous contributions benefiting underserved communities pursuing STEM education.
How are you serving your community?
#mlkday
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The @skscholarship.com has supported 30 students in achieving their goals at NYU over the last five years.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?"
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we get over vibe code peak hype, many folks are discovering a new kind of software engineering.
Slop Ops*: Turning what the LLMs have generated into performant, robust, maintainable code.
What’s your Slop Ops:Vibe Code time spent ratio?
*Saw this on the internet somewhere, must be true.
We're thrilled to announce our Fall 2025 @skscholarship.com recipients!
These exceptional students represent the future of cybersecurity and embody our mission to build a more inclusive and diverse engineering community:
Jenna Nandlall Nishat Islam Sai Anirudh Kondaveeti
The NYU Tandon Cyber Fellows 2025 Fall Semester begins soon, stay tuned for our next cohort of S&K Scholarship recipients!
Open source built the internet. It’s still holding it together with duct tape and goodwill.
Let’s treat it — and the people behind it — like the $8.8 trillion miracle it is.
#aislop #opensourcesoftware #security #cybersecurity #touchgrass
* Using OSS personally? Thank a maintainer. Donate. Contribute. Even fixing a typo in the README helps.
* Using OSS in your business? Chances are, you are. Time to give back — with funding, sponsorships, or actual engineering help.
So, what can you do?
* Using AI to vibe-code security bugs? Please stop. Seriously. Shut the laptop. Go touch grass. Maybe talk to a human.
Want a peek into his inbox of doom?
1. HackerOne cURL Hacktivity hackerone.com/curl/hacktiv...
2. Filter by: status = not applicable
3. Feel: 😬 existential dread
This is what happens when people feed vibe-code into an LLM, squint, and hit “submit.”
Enter the AI Slop Era.
Take Daniel Stenberg — creator and lead maintainer of cURL and libcurl — two of the most widely used OSS projects in existence. Instead of sipping margaritas on a beach somewhere (as he should be), he's busy triaging nonsense AI-generated “exploits” reported via HackerOne.
Let that sink in. Open source software is quietly propping up the global economy like a tired BOFH running on coffee and unpaid emotional labor.
And how do we reward open source maintainers, the unsung heroes keeping the digital world upright?
It’s not light reading, but here’s the TL;DR:
* Supply-side value of creating and maintaining popular open source software? About $4.15 billion.
* Demand-side replacement cost if companies had to rebuild that OSS themselves? A casual $8.8 trillion.
All modern digital infrastructure runs on a project some random person in Nebraska has been maintaining since 2003
$8.8 trillion. Yes, with a T.
In 2024, my friend Frank Nagle (et al.) at Harvard Business School dropped a paper titled The Value of Open Source Software
www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...
Happy 4th of July!
Taken at my citizenship ceremony, years ago.
The Citizen Lab has an excellent write up here : citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-pr...
David Fraser has an excellent YouTube play list regarding C-2, and his concerns here : www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#canadaday #civilrights #privacy
Let’s not sleepwalk into surveillance. We deserve better.
If you're a Canadian resident, contact your Member of Parliament : www.ourcommons.ca/members/en - remember, it's their elected job to represent you.
I've posted more about C-2 here: bsky.app/profile/omkh...
C-2 is an incredibly violation of civil rights. It must be stopped.
I don’t expect legislators to understand software engineering, that’s why software engineers need to advocate against this.
Canada
Happy Canada Day!
As we celebrate Canada's birthday, I appeal to all patriotic Canadians to speak to your member's of parliament to get rid of Bill C-2.
omkhar PSA's ahead of the holiday week:
1) Price of oxtail is too high.
2) Plural of oxtail, is "oxtail dem"
Thank you for listening.
PPS If you're a Canadian resident, find your Member of Parliament here: www.ourcommons.ca/members/en
PS The Citizen Lab has an excellent write up citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-pr...
#PrivacyMatters #BillC2 #Canada #DigitalRights #Policy #CivicEngagement
If you're concerned (and you should be), reach out to your Member of Parliament. Let them know you oppose C-2 and support real protections for Canadian privacy and civil rights.
You can read the full bill here:
www.parl.ca/DocumentView...
Let’s not sleepwalk into surveillance. We deserve better.
Free societies are built on the principle that the law protects the innocent—not that we must prove we have nothing to hide.