Royal Hansen

@royalhansen

Vice President, Engineering, Google - Privacy, Safety, Security: Posts on InfoSec, Privacy, Data, AI, Counter Abuse and random stuff from life in CA; Tweets=own

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Joined February 2009

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Royal Hansen
@royalhansen
Feb 26, 2025
“A healthy [child] wants a thousand things, a sick [child] only wants one.” - Confucius linkedin.com/pulse/growing-…
Royal Hansen
@royalhansen
18h
I so love this kid. For as horrifically limited as his daily life is, he has a remarkably good attitude and makes the most of the windows where he has the energy and clarity of mind he so desperately wants more of. Bless him and the others suffering with #longcovid or #mecfs
Royal Hansen
@royalhansen
23h
We need a standard and implementation controls for the integrity of Skills. Otherwise they are the tunnel through the best laid plans.
Numa
@Numalunah
Aug 28
Got hacked yesterday. The link came from inside Claude chat. I was installing a transcription app. Claude sent the download link, and I pasted the command into the terminal. It all looked legit. It wasn't though. It was a copycat site bundling malware. It ran instantly, tried
Royal Hansen
@royalhansen
Aug 28
"In 1991 ... Dag Album coined the term “disease prestige.” In short, this woefully underdiscussed concept describes how medical conditions are informally ranked in a distinct social and professional hierarchy within healthcare."
The Hidden Burdens of Unacceptable Illness
From pollypauthor.substack.com
Royal Hansen
@royalhansen
Aug 27
A huge step for mobile privacy: Android 17 is the first major mobile OS to enable broad Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support. Thanks to @Jigsaw for helping us hide your digital destinations from network snoops! Read more:
Closing a Critical Internet Privacy Gap for Billions of Users: Android 17 Rolls Out ECH Support
From medium.com