san.com/cc/privacy-i... tl;dr: Yes.

KEEP THE CHRIST OUT OF XMAS.

A VERY (F) MURRAY XMAS TO YOU ALL, SKEETR0NZ!

**Veilid Framework v0.5.0 is live in all the usual places!** The changelog is too much for a skeet so here's the link: gitlab.com/veilid/veili... New: DHT Transactions support Automatic default record encryption API level improvements and bug fixes (Thread with details)

Want to support @veilid.com and get some cool swag from @cultdeadcow.com for your donation? Check out details here: forms.gle/cg5AeZCYR6v7...

Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

TO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF THE REVISED EDITION OF @joemenn.bsky.social's CULT OF THE DEAD COW BOOK, cDc WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A COUPLE LITTLE HINTS TO THE LOCATION OF THIS TREASURE. TALLY HO, FUTURE ASTRONAUTS!

Menn pulls back the curtain on the Cult of the Dead Cow, a '90s hacking collective whose members grew from a gaggle of teen pranksters to some of the country's leading cybersecurity experts. Updates on the group and its acolytes, who continue to battle political misinformation, online surveillance…

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

GET'EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT

Checking out the NYT Book Review nod to @joemenn.bsky.social Cult of the Dead Cow paperback? Want to support privacy focused technologies? Get some swag for giving back here: forms.gle/cg5AeZCYR6v7...

BOW TO THE COW, nytimes edition.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFnO... Important Holiday Content from cDc's spiritual herdmates, The Dead Milkmen!

You may start to wonder 'what is the Veilid business model'? It is "a lot of people should make less money for shit that shouldn't be necessary"

CULT OF THE DEAD COW. TODAY. TOMORROW. FOREVER.

Ohrfeigengesichter. Never let anyone tell you German isn't a beautiful language.

Hey there, Buckar00z! CULT OF THE DEAD COW is here to wish you all the happiest of holidaze, and remind you all to Keep The Christ Out Of Xmas!!!!1

And, AGAIN -- Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN. Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN. Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.

HOT NEW STYLEGUIDE ENTRY JUST DROPPED

HAPPY KRAMPUSNACHT, SKEETR0NZ!!!1!

TWODAZE THE DAY! 2nd Edition of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW book is available at yer faverit retailer! YOU BUY YOU BUY YOU BUY!!!!1!1!one!

so cheap you won't even mind when they get knocked off your stupid face

SQUATCHY SEZ HI!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING from your pals at CULT OF THE DEAD COW. Reminding you: It's always important to Bow to the Cow, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's ok to Curtsy to the Turkey, too.

I love that Chow Yun Fat is so cool John Woo could be like "you know what we'll do is we'll have you look as cool as Alain Delon in _Le Samouraï_ and then we'll just escalate from there" and have it just work seamlessly

NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated. I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble. But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash. Waiting for the feds? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

I feel like a lot of us in the comedy world failed the world at large when we stayed silent despite knowing all about Cosby and Louis so let me say right now that Steve Martin has eaten one banjo a year for the last 25 years

Remember, kidz: The only words to say are "Am I being detained or Am I free to go?", and if the answer is that you are being detained, refuse to answer ANY questions without a lawyer present. youtu.be/MQxw9fhmBv4

If there's ANYWHERE that ought to be able to deal with a dead whale, it's Nantucket! C'mon, guys! Spin up the equipment at the Whaling Museum and get ready to light some Whale Oil lamps!

www.bbc.com/news/article... No shit, sherlock.

Wow. HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth), one of the most important hacker cons in the world, has been booted from their venue due to a right-wing extremist complaining about a single attendee's written pamphlet that was deemed to "espouse an anti-police agenda". That's... really screwed up.

The first book was a blast to read (I felt like a young guy again!).... Curious to read the update!

CULT OF THE DEAD COW can neither confirm nor deny widespread media reports that the Revised Edition of the cDc book contains ascii art of Dildog's butt and/or the activation codes for the cDc Monster Truck Launcher buried somewhere beneath the Mojave desert.

HEY THERE, BUCKAR00Z!!1! Revised 2nd Edition of @joemenn.bsky.social's CULT OF THE DEAD COW book is coming out in two weeks! A MERE FORTNIGHT! Perfect Xmas/Kwaanzaa/Chanukah/Solstice/Krampusnacht gift for your best/worst friends/spouses/enemies/pets/neighbours/houseplants! GET IT GET IT GET IT!

Way back in the day, before I was a cranky ass shittalking halfwit I am today, Delchi let me crash in his room at defcon. His memory is a blessing. Cheers, man.

For those that aren’t aware… He was also a committed DefCon Goon and gave back to the community any opportunity he had. Goodbye my friend. I’m glad we were able to spend time together recently. Thanks for the hug and thank you for showing me you kept the fire in your eyes through the very end :)

The picture is Delchi at one of the famous L0pht parties. People attended from around the world. *Hobbit* (nc(1) - Netcat) ran his professional laser show, I performed Guitar (Berklee College of Music), Delchi DJ’d (and auctioned underwear?), Schneier, Weitse Venema, et al, shared thanks… ❤️

@delchi.bsky.social was SUCH a huge cDcNSF booster and organizer. He had a tough time of it, and it affected him a lot of ways, some of which were hard for him and others, but man he put in the work. He was particularly focused on disability access and awareness at hacker cons. RIP.

We are the mighty and the chosen. Our power cannot be contained. cultdeadcow.com/nsf/

*FINAL MUSTER* CULT OF THE DEAD COW is saddened to report that longtime cDc Ninja Strike Force member, Delchi, has passed over the great rainbow teleconference bridge. He can now be found amongst the most blessed celestial engineers, venerating the great DemonSeed Elite, k-rad be his name. **

Cult of the Dead Cow (@cultdeadcow.bsky.social) book signed by all the people who put up with me when I was a young punk kid 🥰

The only vaguely scary piece of clothing I own. @cultdeadcow.bsky.social

Uh-huh. Good luck with that. They can monitor who is USING a vpn, but not what people are using them FOR. Absent a wholesale rebuilding of internet access/infratructure in the UK, they can't prevent VPN use, either.

Very cool artwork at the Delta Lounge in SLC.

blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost... We are living in the dumbest dystopia.

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 4EVR www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

www.schneier.com/blog/archive... IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREDICTED THIS.

REMINDER, KIDZ! CULT OF THE DEAD COW recommends that you turn off the GPS/Location function on your phone whenever you're not actually using it. Bonus points for turning off Bluetooth and WiFi when you're not using them, too!

Dylan Shea is one of the kindest, smartest people I ever met in the hacker scene. After he moved from San Francisco, I got to spend time with his family when I would travel to the Boston area to record music. When I heard this news, I doubled over in shock. Join me in supporting his son’s memory.