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tekhed.bsky.social
cyberguy, ttrpg designer, skier, recovering clown (he/they)
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Having spent my whole life in intel and security, i just can’t even right now. They didn’t just add some rando to an unsanctioned comms channel, they added an editor to The Atlantic on a comms channel running on a foreign messaging service.

Just some more perspective (global numbers, 2024, estimates): Drugs $500B Slavery $250B Cybercrime $9,220B Cyber is 12x “traditional” crime with a sliver the risk This is why the crime rate is down (the traditional crime rate people see) It isn’t better law enforcement

Cyberdefenders are goalies becoming exhausted by shots on goal while teammates (policy makers) grandstand No team always wins, no goalie stops all shots We hope for the next goalies to be better long enough that our teammates stop grandstanding and start shooting some fucking goals of their own

Privacy PSA: secure your comms Recommend: Proton, Signal, Quad9 DNS Pay for proton and you can host custom domain, get secure storage, VPN, password vault Phones: Calyx, Pixel, or iOS Make sure advanced data security enabled on platform of choice Lockdown MacOS or Linux Abandon Microsoft

Recently published as a free PDF for those of you into game design. Written by some of the masters of the craft. playstorypress.org/books/tablet...

Black Basta has earned $100M in 2 years. And people wonder how Russia still is making money. Weird.

And once again, Gen-X is just raising their kids while everyone talks about the Boomer-Millennial dynamic. Gen-X is the quiet kid, getting shit done. www.businessinsider.com/millennials-...

PSA: You can stream Steam games to your AppleTV and play games from your library using a PS4 controller. Ethernet is a must. Maybe now I’ll finally play Arkham (didn’t like mouse controls).

CyberTip: make your Venmo transactions private. Folks, it amazes me when I go on Venmo and see what people are spending money on. Don’t broadcast your tacos or paying utilities to your roommate. That information has value to threat actors. Stop. It. Open settings in Venmo and tap Privacy.