René Mayrhofer

René Mayrhofer, Google's director for Android platform security, has resigned over the company's decision to supply AI technology to the US military for classified work - and he is not staying quiet about why.

This is the farewell note I sent to my Google colleagues after deciding to resign from my position as Principal Engineer/Architect for Android Security (a so-called "Independent Contributor" position after my primary Director role, when I stopped having d

Vulnerability Finding and PoCs: A Defender's Point of View - in the era of LLM coding agents This is an additional perspective to my 2019 post on PoC disclosure , taking into account recent advances in automated vulnerability finding and PoC creation thro

Why For a few weeks, I have been struggling to make OPNsense perform well from a performance point of view on my low-power test box, an APU4d4 . While OPNsense is very well done from a firewall rules management point of view (alhtough I am not happy that

This is a public list of some of my statements concerning the issue of IEEE Security&Privacy, NDSS, and USENIX Security only being hosted in the US. My most public statement so far was in my role as IEEE S&P 2024 Research Ethics Committee chair at the ope

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Response to latest EU data retention initative In response to the Impact assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings , I contributed the a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regula...

Even more collateral damage The AI hype has been ongoing for a while now, and the ecological impact is bad. I mean, old and hazardous coal and nuclear power plants are being re-started, and new, untested nuclear power plants are planned to be constructed

Android Private Space Private space is a new feature introduced with Android 15 to add an additional lock on a subset of apps (and data/content) installed on a device. By default, the private space is locked after unlocking the main user on the device, an