I've been asked to help with some awards (Phrack 40th Yr). Pls nominate your favourites from the last year. Please provide links and citations where appropriate. Most Cringe Security Marketing award: Most spectacular attack: Technical attack ingenuity award: Worst Technical security idea:

emergency managers in Kerr County were absent in a realtime chat between NWS and regional emergency managers in the hours before the flood emergency in Texas. cc @samlmontano.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...

Russia… 🦔

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

These pricks are going to drive the world back into some sort of hell on earth.

It’s bank run time!

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

Perhaps the best way of thinking about the current regime is as the last gasp of white supremacist patriarchy before it gets drowned by irreversible and unstoppable demographic change

www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/... This Executive Order is functionally the same as the Enabling Act of 1933 which gave Hitler total authority over the German and effectively renders the legislature and judiciary into a point of irrelevancy. Unless this is stopped now, America is a dictatorship

There will be war. Putin cannot demobilise the Russian war economy without it collapsing so he is compelled to keep attacking until either most of central and Eastern Europe surrenders and pays his bills or he is defeated.

Fuck me this timeline is stupid as fuck.

-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =- American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country. We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out. So we made a wiki.

1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun... How would this all be reported if it was happening anywhere other than the U.S.?

By taking control of the purse away from Congress they have just rendered it irrelevant. There will now be rule by decree.

Were the masses ever to correctly identify the enemy, the war would be very very short.

Ubermensch in his own mind

It’s payday for a bunch of techies, so y’all should throw a coin towards one of the nicest guys in the business of making the bad guys cry. He needs our support because American healthcare is garbage. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

Coming soon to America, Genocidal Violence when the deportations either fail to materialise or prove logistically impossible. www.404media.co/email/3d360e...

What does Aristotle say about how Oligarchies fall apart and get overthrown, and why the middle class is so important (and why it must be destroyed in order for Oligarchs to retain power). Timing is everything Comrades. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbJ...

Crapitalism the religion has its rituals too.

I’m sorry Donald. It’s on the computer, it must be true. Those are the rules. You made them.

Ruh Roh

How will the South ever rise again?

Sadly none of this is much of a surprise. There are uncountable instances of similarly abusive people who are charismatic and emotionally/sexually abusive. The only difference is that Gaiman is famous and his works are beloved.

apple.news/AbwktrQWHSBy... The hacker community has been warning about poor security in teledildonics for years

Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...

@karenattiah.bsky.social this is a great presentation given by Juergen Geuter on the innovation culture that creates things like ‘Liv’. I think it’s well worth a watch youtu.be/j9ksU67EW6I?...

Accountability in the United States is as dead as it is in an absolute monarchy

www.wsj.com/video/how-ji... Without Jimmy Carter there would be no such thing as American Craft Beer. Poor one out for Jimmy🫡

www.npr.org/2020/08/04/8... This is a really interesting interview and worth listening to.

American health insurance and shareholder value maximization. A love story in pictorial format.

You know that corruption is going to make America deeply unsafe, get ahead of the curve

Polio and Whooping Cough announce a comeback USA tour in 2025. Coming soon to a school or kindergarten near you America!

The more I read about Brian Thompson and United healthcare, the less and less sympathetic I am. Appalling doesn’t even come close to describing the practices he encouraged and by denying care for patients his company was responsible for 1000’s of needless deaths.

American healthcare is a joke.

There is only CHAOS

While I was in Geneva last, right after Trumps election, I sat down with Lars Peters for a chat on the Trumanitarian podcast. It was supposed to be about technology and disaster/emergency, but went elsewhere fairly quickly. trumanitarian.org/captivate-po...

The IDF seem to think International Humanitarian Law and the laws of war don’t mean anything anymore. It’s open season on aid workers, probably everywhere, soon.

Oof.

The whole thing was a terrible mistake.

I just sailed through this on the Stena Line ferry between NL and UK, and slept well through all the rocking and rolling. I actually liked it.

Jimmy Somerville is a total mensch.

Behold, a brave new world awaits. 🤣🤣🤣

Is housing a human right requiring service or an investment asset? It can’t be both?

The whole gendered bathroom thing is just dumb and grossly inefficient.

I’m not sure you can literally feed off of hate, but hey this is an experiment we’ve chosen to run.