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Slack channels can be 80 characters and "these-trivialities-demean-me-i-must-away-and-tend-to-my-ravens" is only 62 characters. Do with this knowledge what ye will.

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Excited about WatchCats episodes dropping next week, where we’ll be talking DOGE & cybersecurity with @tarah.org Wheeler & how Elon Musk is rerunning his Twitter playbook with NYT reporters Ryan Mac & Kate Conger. Might as well catch up on the first 2 eps this weekend! watchcats.transistor.fm

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keeping up with the cardassians

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

That’s a public library. You’re describing a public library.

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Discussing the cybersecurity implications of DOGE's actions feel like worrying about whether you left the stove on while your house burns down.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Funnily enough, cross-sectoral monologue on AI is quite common. Thanks to my friend @jakobmokander.bsky.social and all those working to make AI safer.

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A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

No on ever told me that to continue to progress in your field, the more you have to ask what you fear are deeply stupid questions out loud in front of your heroes.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

<former sysadmin>I have to be on a particular fileshare & I am not in the sudoers file I abs cannot bc "ethics" hackandsmash this fileshare. Send thoughts & prayers for all my lazyass scripts accreted over decades bc we're about to discover every cheat I ever did.</former sysadmin>

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If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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It's still the economy, stupid. I was in DC twice in the month of October, 2024. All my policy people were hugely optimistic about a Harris victory. "After all, the economy is better than ever, and everyone saw what happened in the first Trump admin." 1/n www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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The image in the DOGE firing of nuclear specialists was giving me deja vu...and then I remembered. It was the same angle as the stock photo when the nuclear agencies were hacked in SolarWinds. Any chance a few actual infosec experts could get rehired as well? www.politico.com/news/2020/12...

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Brain surgeon and helicopter medevac pioneer Valérie André flew 120 combat missions in Indochina and 365 in Algeria. Weighing less than 100 pounds, she could take two litters on her single-seat helicopter instead of one. Became France’s first woman general. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...

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Are your home Wi-Fi routers a secret entry point for nation-state hackers? I discussed the alarming trend of PRC cyber ops using devices like TP-Link routers, along with intrusions into critical infrastructure & telcos: NatTech Sec podcast. @scsp.bsky.social scsp222.substack.com/p/episode-68...

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Law enforcement exercising their official duties in public do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. This includes ICE agents. As long as you are not interfering with their duties, you generally have a right to record them on duty.

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NEW: Security patch for Apple iPhones and iPads fixes an "actively exploited" flaw that allows law enforcement to unlock your device. Install it right now.

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BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

submitted 12 days ago • 64 comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org is fighting for the digital rights of everyone in the USA. We demand accountability for this unconscionable collection and sharing of private data happening right now.

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New Sticker Alert 🚨 Never stop encrypting all the things. EFF and Lady Lock will see you at @cactuscon.com this weekend.

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If they do this as a mass purge without individual review of the pages, the NSA is about to delete its own documentation on privilege escalation and skewed machine learning training data.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.

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Ghidra 11.3 is OUT!  PyGhidra is the new feature to be excited about.  It’s a Python library providing direct access to the Ghidra API.    I expect this to massively increase Reverse Engineering tool development, as it significantly reduces the barrier to entry for Ghidra interaction.

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My wife @katzish.bsky.social did the same. Everyone pay this amazing team @wired.com. Kudos also to @katie-drummond.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 78 comments

Today, for the first time, @wired.com got my money. The work the Wired journos are doing is incredibly solid and technically adept while being clear. Thank you to @telliotter.bsky.social @lhn.bsky.social @agreenberg.bsky.social & more. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

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