Safa Paksu

Safa Paksu

InfoSec Auditor | AI Safety Researcher
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About

Information security practitioner and auditor at a public institution in Turkey, where I lead ISMS (ISO 27001) management and system/security audits. My background spans physical & environmental security systems, SIEM operations, and enterprise IT administration across Windows, Linux, and macOS. I've been writing about security and technology since 2006 as the founder of Spaksu Blog, one of Turkey's earliest blogs. That long-running interest in making security understandable — combined with growing focus on AI safety — led me to build SecAIQ, a free, jargon-free resource and toolset to help everyday people and businesses stay safe online and use AI responsibly.

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Maker History

  • Exposift
    ExposiftSee what's hiding in a document before you share it
    Nov 2026
  • Maskink
    MaskinkRedact logs before AI sees them, restore values in the reply
    Nov 2026
  • SecAIQ Watch for Mac
    SecAIQ Watch for MacA local security monitor for the AI tools on your Mac
    Oct 2026
  • SecAIQ Watch Open Source
    SecAIQ Watch Open SourceWhat are your AI tools really doing on your machine?
    Sep 2026
  • SecAIQ
    SecAIQFree, jargon-free cybersecurity & AI safety for everyone
    Sep 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJanuary 29th, 2015

Forums

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3d ago

Exposift - See what's hiding in a document before you share it

See what is inside a file before you share it: local-first privacy inspector for PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.Exposift finds hidden comments, tracked changes, metadata and text that's only covered by a black box in PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, then removes it for real and re-checks the result. Runs in your browser. Free and open source. Live demo: https://spaksu.github.io/exposift
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5d ago

Maskink - Redact logs before AI sees them, restore values in the reply

Maskink replaces passwords, keys, IPs, hostnames and names in logs, scripts and chats with consistent placeholders. The AI sees only tokens; you read the reply with real values. Self-hosted, 95 editable rules, and a JSON API for your own apps. Interactive Demo: https://spaksu.github.io/maskink
SecAIQ Watch for Macp/secaiq-watch-for-mac•

13d ago

Ask me anything: what does SecAIQ Watch read on your Mac, and what does it never touch?

A monitoring app has to earn trust, so here is the short version.

It reads: running AI-tool processes and their start-up flags, config and settings files of AI tools, which servers they connect to, and usage logs the tools write themselves. Everything is stored on your Mac.

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