Xavier Bellekens

I haven't been in academia for almost 5 years, but it's nice to see that my research hit a 1000 citations last year alone. For anyone out of academia, there are a couple of nice milestones I looked for and many others do too, the first citation, the first 100, the first 1000 etc. Most academics never reach 10k and 1k in a year is not bad at all. For those less familiar with it, a citation simply means another researcher has used and referenced your work in their own. It’s one of the signals that indicate that what you built is still being read, used, and shaping ongoing research somehow. btw citation is not impact ;-)

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I went down a rabbit hole looking at kids @YouTube this evening with my nephews. I kept seeing the same videos over and over again… but on completely different channels. Same animations Same voiceovers Same titles Same shorts Sometimes just in a different order. And these aren’t small channels either. A lot of them have: 1M+ subscribers some closer to 10M millions of views on Shorts Here are a few I came across: Mini Yum Chef Quizzlepop-LearnPlay ThinkDoos Growziki BillyBlipBoss KittyToonZoo SmartJoLetsLearn KIDZOKI_official FundzyBits LittleFlipZoo PlayToon_Learn_Play dadadoo-learn-play VocaToonFun SmileToonKids EmilysPlayhouse-LearningVideos Fixy-Mixy ChupiChapa_ FriendToon- Learn & Play Leo’s Playtime BiBiLo Play Today PurrToonFun ChakaKidsPlay And honestly the list keeps going. If you search a bit, you start recognising the same clips everywhere. What it looks like (from the outside at least): One set of videos being reused across a lot of different channels. Each one tweaks things slightly: Different channel name Same titles clips reordered not even minor edits Then they just post a lot and see what sticks. And it works. Especially with kids content where repetition is normal and people don’t really question whether they’ve seen something before. I was wondering how this fits with the rules on @YouTubeCreators around reused or mass-produced content. Given this is a "network" From what I can tell, the network re-shares many videos, and I am assuming monetisation? So you end up with a lot of these channels networks doing well. They even have an identity Recognisable characters, I keep seeing the same "actors" volume and very very low variation. If you’re building in this space, it raises a pretty simple question: Do you try to compete on volume like this, or actually build something people recognise and come back to? Curious if others have noticed the same thing. oh and here is a small graph of channels sharing a common content pool

@Issa201735 @bearstech Imagine maintenant si ils le mettaient a dispo de l europe et pas just des Pays-Bas!

@bearstech Mais qu'est ce qu'il se passe en europe !!

Face à la dépendance croissante envers les plateformes externes, le gouvernement néerlandais a décidé de développer sa propre alternative à GitHub, baptisée code.overheid.nl. 👉 emarketerz.fr/code-overheid-…

Great to see @GreyNoiseIO pushing this forward. We’ve been building in this space for 5+ years and it’s exciting to see the industry catching up. The perspective you get from the attacker interaction is fundamentally different.

@catc0n @HackingLZ @Junior_Baines The « That we call canaries » part in the article got me 🫠

The Return of the Kin(sin)g: Our canary network caught Kinsing exploiting Apache ActiveMQ, Metabase, and React2Shell CVEs from fresh infrastructure. Payloads, analysis, and IOCs via @Junior_Baines: vulncheck.com/blog/return-of…

@guyrleech @austeregrim @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC @Cisco 99% will be discarded

@austeregrim @noktec @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC @Cisco Great if they can be repurposed but I wonder how many will be discarded

So @CiscoSecure went around all the rooms of the @Hilton at @OneRSAC at night to place one time use - small lcd video of their CEO delivering a message … loads of waste - let’s look what’s inside

No auth → full backup → decryption key handed to you. On this one, if it is exposed, you’re not being scanned. You’re being robbed.

@guyrleech @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC @Cisco I did not see any! I was appalled at the waste!

@noktec @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC Have @Cisco provided a recycling point specifically for these?

@JohnyBallsack27 @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC but does your straw has an LCD screen and a battery! I don't think so!

@noktec @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC But i can’t have plastic straws because a retarded 7 year old convinced the world a couple years ago

@furiouswhopper @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC too late now 😅 🤦‍♂️

@noktec @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC > never plug in an unknown thumb drive, it's wildly insecure > never said anything about thumb drive with an LCD screen tho...

@thatgrundo @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC yeah I went too fast, I didn't listen to the video tbh.

@noktec @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC Ummmmm that's not our CEO

@G__Kar @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC This 👆

@noktec @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC Why haven't they made it into a small player/digital frame with proper case? Wouldn't increase the cost that much, but would be much useful and env. friendly...

@jballer @DJSnM @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC What does it say about me🤣 connecting to it 😂

@noktec @DJSnM @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC Nothing says “security” like dropping compact foreign electronics into everyone’s hotel room

@angryaboutbikes @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC Ethan hunt is that you?

@noktec @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC "This message will self-destruct in..."

@left_to_red_srq @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC About 230 mb so not too bad

@noktec @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC How much storage? Can we fit the bee movie or Shrek?

@Vokabre That’s the goal !

In 2010, Vogue magazine in Russia had an issue with a novelty screen playing an ad. Soon all the geeks in Russia learned that the microcontroller is good enough to run linux and all the magazines were bought by geeks alone.

@eRayHUMAN @DJSnM @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC Rich people waste 😅. Let’s make doom happen!

@noktec @DJSnM @CiscoSecure @Hilton @OneRSAC These paper folders with lcds have been around for a while. Rich people use them to convince other rich people to invest and/or do something else they want.