Florentin Rochet
@frochet.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UNamur, Privacy & Computer Security.
hacks on privacy-enhancing technologies and networking protocols
https://frochet.github.io
hacks on privacy-enhancing technologies and networking protocols
https://frochet.github.io
Donc, hier soir, j'ai fais une escape room sur le thème d'un cambriolage d'un cartel colombien. Pendant ce temps, ma maison se faisait visitée par des voleurs. Sacrés colombiens, ils avaient un coup d'avance.
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Donc, hier soir, j'ai fais une escape room sur le thème d'un cambriolage d'un cartel colombien. Pendant ce temps, ma maison se faisait visitée par des voleurs. Sacrés colombiens, ils avaient un coup d'avance.
Ah, it finally happened: reading a review (I am a reviewer too), I can see the review is AI-generated. The review contains bland reasoning idiocy.
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Ah, it finally happened: reading a review (I am a reviewer too), I can see the review is AI-generated. The review contains bland reasoning idiocy.
Looks like Reddit did not get its Onion service configuration right
October 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Looks like Reddit did not get its Onion service configuration right
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Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
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We are still looking for (self) nominations for USENIX Security '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee!
Please help us spread the word 🚀
You can *Promote and Support Open Science* by filling out the nomination form by Friday, October 17: forms.gle/sMCJHww2qcUK...
Please help us spread the word 🚀
You can *Promote and Support Open Science* by filling out the nomination form by Friday, October 17: forms.gle/sMCJHww2qcUK...
(Self-)Nomination for the USENIX Security '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC)
For the seventh year, USENIX Security allows the evaluation of artifacts that support a paper: software, hardware, evaluation data and documentation, raw measurement data, raw survey results, mechaniz...
forms.gle
October 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
We are still looking for (self) nominations for USENIX Security '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee!
Please help us spread the word 🚀
You can *Promote and Support Open Science* by filling out the nomination form by Friday, October 17: forms.gle/sMCJHww2qcUK...
Please help us spread the word 🚀
You can *Promote and Support Open Science* by filling out the nomination form by Friday, October 17: forms.gle/sMCJHww2qcUK...
L'IA aujourd'hui, c'est comme l'amiante hier. On en met partout, avec gourmandise. On consacrera demain des sommes folles et des efforts infinis pour dépolluer l'espace informationnel.
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Sign I am entering mid-life crisis: I am considering re-writing part of the linux kernel
September 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Sign I am entering mid-life crisis: I am considering re-writing part of the linux kernel
Remplacer le mémoire universitaire par un examen général couvrant toutes les matières vues dans le cursus, comme en Medecine, qu'en pensez-vous?
August 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Remplacer le mémoire universitaire par un examen général couvrant toutes les matières vues dans le cursus, comme en Medecine, qu'en pensez-vous?
Aaah enfin fini de gérer les emails admin. Un peu de recherche mtn. Merde il est 17h 💀
August 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Aaah enfin fini de gérer les emails admin. Un peu de recherche mtn. Merde il est 17h 💀
"Belgium is unsafe for vulnerability disclosure" Floort.net gives an excellent talk on his experience highlighting many problems. Hopefully the CCB will learn from it, improve their process and internal expertise to be trustworthy again in the future.
media.ccc.de/v/why2025-28...
media.ccc.de/v/why2025-28...
Floort.net
Floort.net
August 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"Belgium is unsafe for vulnerability disclosure" Floort.net gives an excellent talk on his experience highlighting many problems. Hopefully the CCB will learn from it, improve their process and internal expertise to be trustworthy again in the future.
media.ccc.de/v/why2025-28...
media.ccc.de/v/why2025-28...
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@lujain.bsky.social and @sofiahafner.bsky.social adapted 5 major language models, from OpenAI’s GPT to Meta’s Llama, to adopt warmer, empathetic styles. This change alone increased their rate of answering users incorrectly, offering problematic medical advice and promoting conspiracy theories.
August 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
@lujain.bsky.social and @sofiahafner.bsky.social adapted 5 major language models, from OpenAI’s GPT to Meta’s Llama, to adopt warmer, empathetic styles. This change alone increased their rate of answering users incorrectly, offering problematic medical advice and promoting conspiracy theories.
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Haven't seen this on Bluesky yet: S&P 2027 will take place in Montreal, Canada!
May 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Haven't seen this on Bluesky yet: S&P 2027 will take place in Montreal, Canada!
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"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.
May 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.
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Faut-il en finir avec l’anonymat sur les réseaux sociaux ?
Comment stopper ceux qui harcèlent, menacent et diffusent des fake news ?
Sans réduire au silence celles et ceux que l’anonymat protège : victimes, lanceurs d’alerte, personnes LGBTQIA+.
📲 Donnez votre avis : echo.printempspopulaire.be
Comment stopper ceux qui harcèlent, menacent et diffusent des fake news ?
Sans réduire au silence celles et ceux que l’anonymat protège : victimes, lanceurs d’alerte, personnes LGBTQIA+.
📲 Donnez votre avis : echo.printempspopulaire.be
May 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Faut-il en finir avec l’anonymat sur les réseaux sociaux ?
Comment stopper ceux qui harcèlent, menacent et diffusent des fake news ?
Sans réduire au silence celles et ceux que l’anonymat protège : victimes, lanceurs d’alerte, personnes LGBTQIA+.
📲 Donnez votre avis : echo.printempspopulaire.be
Comment stopper ceux qui harcèlent, menacent et diffusent des fake news ?
Sans réduire au silence celles et ceux que l’anonymat protège : victimes, lanceurs d’alerte, personnes LGBTQIA+.
📲 Donnez votre avis : echo.printempspopulaire.be
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L’ex-Bourgmestre de ma commune est soupçonné de m’avoir espionné pour le compte de la Chine 🇨🇳
Ma réaction 👇
Ma réaction 👇
April 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
L’ex-Bourgmestre de ma commune est soupçonné de m’avoir espionné pour le compte de la Chine 🇨🇳
Ma réaction 👇
Ma réaction 👇
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Meanwhile, S&P is held in a month in San Francisco and there seems to be no plan to switch to hybrid. We've entered the reign of the arbitrary, *everybody* is affected.
April 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Meanwhile, S&P is held in a month in San Francisco and there seems to be no plan to switch to hybrid. We've entered the reign of the arbitrary, *everybody* is affected.
A co-author downloaded the list of forbidden words for US papers and grants and wrote a script to highlight them in red in our working paper.
Result: we're yeeted to the gulag
Result: we're yeeted to the gulag
April 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A co-author downloaded the list of forbidden words for US papers and grants and wrote a script to highlight them in red in our working paper.
Result: we're yeeted to the gulag
Result: we're yeeted to the gulag
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I have an open PhD position at @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk on applying traffic-analysis resistance techniques to protect industrial control systems. Full funding is available for home-fee status students (deadline 15 April). www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
April 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I have an open PhD position at @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk on applying traffic-analysis resistance techniques to protect industrial control systems. Full funding is available for home-fee status students (deadline 15 April). www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Concerning news ...
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
www.wired.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Concerning news ...
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
We're seeing students sometimes using AI to solve exercises in exercises sessions. I see this as a form of learning procrastination similar to doing nothing and waiting for the teacher's answer. This delays building competence for a lot of students. I am not sure there is a way around it :(
March 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
We're seeing students sometimes using AI to solve exercises in exercises sessions. I see this as a form of learning procrastination similar to doing nothing and waiting for the teacher's answer. This delays building competence for a lot of students. I am not sure there is a way around it :(
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It is a challenge to give computer sciences classes and refrain from referring and make a fool of the absurd takes and comments from Elon Musk on CS topics.
I bet Economy profs struggle the same with Trump's politics
I bet Economy profs struggle the same with Trump's politics
March 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It is a challenge to give computer sciences classes and refrain from referring and make a fool of the absurd takes and comments from Elon Musk on CS topics.
I bet Economy profs struggle the same with Trump's politics
I bet Economy profs struggle the same with Trump's politics
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On manifeste contre les attaques contre la science aux USA.
Mais en France, nous entendons la même rhétorique: les chercheurs seraient "islamo-gauchistes", l'expression dans les universités serait muselée par des hordes de "wokistes".
Mais en France, nous entendons la même rhétorique: les chercheurs seraient "islamo-gauchistes", l'expression dans les universités serait muselée par des hordes de "wokistes".
March 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
On manifeste contre les attaques contre la science aux USA.
Mais en France, nous entendons la même rhétorique: les chercheurs seraient "islamo-gauchistes", l'expression dans les universités serait muselée par des hordes de "wokistes".
Mais en France, nous entendons la même rhétorique: les chercheurs seraient "islamo-gauchistes", l'expression dans les universités serait muselée par des hordes de "wokistes".
I just declined to join to S&P'26 committee. I am unsure whether we should still support and contribute to US-based academic venues.
sp2026.ieee-security.org/index.html
sp2026.ieee-security.org/index.html
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2026
sp2026.ieee-security.org
March 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I just declined to join to S&P'26 committee. I am unsure whether we should still support and contribute to US-based academic venues.
sp2026.ieee-security.org/index.html
sp2026.ieee-security.org/index.html