Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Bad content drives out good. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Absolutely, positively NOT posting this in relation to whatever is happening in some Swiss town.

Awe-inspiring thread

Microsoft released NTLMv2 in 1998, no doubt because tools like L0phtCrack were able crack NTLMv1 passwords with the measly computing power then. NTLMv1 is still in use today! Mandiant has now released rainbow tables for NTLMv1 that can crack any pw in 12hrs on a $600 computer.

Yet again @anderspucknielsen.dk hits the nail on the head, this time with his explanation on how Trump's obsession with Greenland is equal parts strategy, narcissism and brain numbing stupidity.

"Mass UK study debunks COVID vaccine myth." "A landmark study of nearly 14 million children in England has revealed that the Covid infection carries a higher risk of heart complications than the vaccination" Source: archive.md/PanVG

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France. In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.

On the bright side, Brexit is no longer the gold standard for national self-sabotage.

What the fuck, Tim?

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Explain to me how this would happen. The fucking mechanics of it. Explain them to me. Russia or China, storming the beaches of an EU and NATO member state terrotiry which includes a fucking US military base on it in a take and hold maneuver a bazillion miles from their nearest supply lines?

Indeed. "Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and 'I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,' he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. 'I am not a pacifist.'"

I'm a Trail of Bits fan. Can you blame me? A couple of days ago they released Claude Code skills, from reversing and vuln research to burnout detection. github.com/trailofbits/...

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

2025: "Yes, I have been a horrible year, but I am on my way out now" 2026: "Hold my beer..."

If you have a time machine, good luck travelling just a few years back and trying to convince people that this is real.

KSP made orbital mechanics cool. What is even more cool? Orbital dogfighting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJM...

Two can play this game, and I like the idea that, when depicting clowns, there is no need to artificially modify the picture of Elon Musk. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

Excellent thread. Points #4, #6 and #8 are particularly cogent.

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

If you've been caught with AI hallucinated citations attributed to me, then for the right price, I'll write and publish a real paper to match the fake one 😀

Dear younger me who decided to do infosec in Europe rather than in the US: good job.

A story about human short-sightedness. In two parts. Credit @noelreports.com and @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal." It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.

Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Es ist wieder soweit! It's time to take down and responsibly dispose of your xmas tree. Please consider the Christmas tree cannon

You can see some of these stereotypes - the simple, morally pure countryside vs. the morally compromised, inauthentic city - play out in Greek and Roman literature. So this is a very old idea that recurs regularly.

The researcher who got the data has a site called okstupid.lol that is totally worth a look.

Ah fuck I used this security system and two little guys snuck into my house and destroyed my most prized possession

There is only one appropriate Xmas song music.youtube.com/watch?v=od7G...

Them: "So, how was diving in Thailand? Spectacularly clear waters, I am sure. Not like here in the UK" Me: "Well..." (The blurred shape at the right of the gun? Me) (Yes, it's a fairly big gun)

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

In a historic first, Ukraine’s SBU used “Sub Sea Baby” underwater drones to strike a Russian Kilo-class submarine in Novorossiysk. The $400M vessel, armed with Kalibr cruise missiles, suffered critical damage and is now out of action. A joint op with Ukraine’s Navy.

Bad weather, low visibility in the water, choppy surface, and I still had a blast for 3 weeks. Most importantly, I did not die. #tecdiving

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Went to bed at 10pm, woke up at 7am, went straight to the gym. Then breakfast and now going for two dives to refresh tech wreck penetration protocols. I really suck at this holiday thing.

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

Morning Bluesky.

The best two words one can read on a computer screen? "Deco clear" #techdiving

All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.

No idea how I pulled this off. Natasha is a 2000-rated adaptive bot on chess.com

Well, due to BA being late and my luggage not making the connection, my trip started with cancelling said connection and spending an unplanned night in Singapore. Could be worse.