Johan Pouwelse

### Thesis Brainstorm III "Purple teaming of the upcoming EU EBSI passport-grade digital identity" EBSI and Europeum are establishing a state-of-the-art identity system to provide an alternative to Big Tech...

Quite a discovery, Hyperledge Besu is [captured by Consensys](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/graphs/contributors), all top-4 devs. This is an aggressive company, loaded with cash and history of various [borderline illegal behaviours](https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-79). Solid thesis material,...

For next sprint. Get Top-3 SIEM tools running. ELk stack, Prometheus, greylog, splunk, etc? Identify the top-3. Get going with Besu. Future sprint: identify what to fix, improve, standardize.

- good topic for a master thesis - Good to keep the science at the centre. No solution, sell the problem! - [SIEM Open Source Solutions: A Comparative Study](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338052058_SIEM_Open_Source_Solutions_A_Comparative_Study) {non-english,...

With Honor example, dramatic buzz-bingo of high-end master thesis: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/8062#issuecomment-2630337369 another one: [TrustZero master thesis example, about annulled electrons](https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/7481#issuecomment-2618599533) 😬 Unique angle: access to real EBSI server, live reporting!! Opening...

### What science problem to focus on? Getting the top-grade for a thesis requires a novel scientific contribution. Hard🧐 See thesis examples above. You need a new method, novel math...

{repeating} Building a SIEM tool is supercool and very relevant for EU root-of-trust. But is engineering. Of course, anything where machine learning is added for first time is also black...

- Progress is solid! - Great work on getting distributed machine learning up and running! - ChatGPT gave you the idea to specialise nodes for specific attack, MoE architecture 😮...

- Asked for a Problem Description since April, got an Abstract 🤣 - Did 1 query for related work, lots of stuff out there 😨 - "[Network Intrusion Detection Systems...

Final thesis presentation slide feedback: - Briefly explain: - the global setting with illustration of "digital passport-grade ID" - SIEM tooling - Central vs. decentral setting of SIEM - ```European...