Markus Toran - Security Researcher and Software Developer

There are a couple of movies that I would love to see on the big screen. I'm seriously considering starting my own distribution company as a side hustle to bring these films to Germany. Can't be that hard, right?

The course Introduction to Sociology (dt. Einführung in die Soziologie) at KIT was amazing. If you are into prisoners' dilemmas, decision-making, or group coordination, sociology might be for you. I actually think many people are prejudiced against sociology; they think it is a soft science for weed smokers who don't want to do math. But that is not true. Sociology has a lot in common with rationalist thinking.

Germany founded its own AI Safety Institute (AISI) called AISI Deutschland. It is still in the very early stages of being operational, but a good initiative.

Fraunhofer SIT Markus Toran Rheinstr. 75 64295 Darmstadt Germany USt-IdNr: DE 129515865 Keywords: FhG SIT, FhI SIT

Germany is a strong country for cybersecurity research. Overall and per capita, its output performs quite well on international benchmarks. Germany has a long tradition in this field, demonstrating both breadth and peak excellence.

Since my last post on banking I got to try out new services and old ones changed a little.

Die #GPN24 war anstrengender als erwartet. Am Ende hat vieles geklappt, aber es hätte auch einfacher und besser sein können. Überanstrengung optimiert nur einen Zielparameter; man sollte das eigentlich Wichtige nicht vergessen und es nachhaltig erreichen.

Here's a list of songs I like to listen to currently:

After my own personal asset labels were made in Inkscape, I created a web-based label designer to make it easier to create and print labels. You can try it out here.

Short Backrooms review: I liked it overall, still a horror film.