Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Sarah Jamie Lewis @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social

3/12/2026, 4:45:36 PM

Public

I like how the internet has got to the point where random sites feature fake quotes by me, occasionally regarding research I never did, sometimes while working in positions I've never held.

Fake Quote: "Backups are often the weakest link. An encrypted chat is meaningless if the backup sits unprotected in the
cloud.” — Sarah Jamie Lewis, Privacy Researcher and Executive Director of the Open Privacy Research Society

Fake research: This is where the nuance bites: Apple doesn't log or store your raw queries on its servers. But it *does* temporarily hold
encrypted payloads during processing—and those payloads contain enough semantic weight to reconstruct meaning. As
security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis noted in her analysis of Apple's white papers: “Encryption in transit and at rest is
strong—but private’ doesn't mean ‘unobservable. Temporal correlation, metadata leakage, and prompt engineering can
still expose sensitive intent, especially across repeated interactions.”

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