RIAT is an independent research institute specializing in privacy, cybersecurity, and open source. Our mission is to make things verifiable and reproducible. We foster, document, and support reverse engineering as method for cultural and technological advancement.
Browse the RIAT events archive for highlights and international participations from 2004 to 2026.
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- Decentralized Internet and Privacy Devroom at FOSDEM 2026 organized by RIAT and decentral.community
- Critical Decentralisation Cluster (CDC) at 39th Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 in Hamburg
- Qubic assault on XMR Monero was NOT a 51% Attack
- Reaction to Coindesk’s article about an alleged 51% attack on the Monero Network
- WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding
- Nix Vegas: Rebuild The World at DEF CON 33
- Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what “vibe coding” means
- Louis Rossmann: “Ignore Firefox, install Librewolf and go on with your life”
- Rust in Linux Kernel drama
- Critical Decentralisation Cluster (CDC) at 38C3 Chaos Communication Congress
- Vitalik Buterin, Zooko, Christopher Goes, Matthias Tarasiewicz & Alex G on the frontiers of privacy
- Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative
- BLUFFS: Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses
- Passive SSH Key Compromise via Lattices
- Lobbying for open documentation, firmware & repair (and tax breaks for open source)
- Unity Gaming Crisis: the problem with vendor lock-in in game development
- Trouble brewing for #RISCV as issue of technology transfer is questioned
- Linux kernel driver development in Rust: examples and best practices
- Asahi Linux & nixOS on Apple MacBook: UEFI Boot Standalone NixOS (2023-12-24)