He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

Cybersecurity was always political. You can't escape effects on defense, intelligence, and even the increasingly flooded industry job market by closing your eyes really hard and sticking your fingers in your ears. You can't escape cybersecurity being political by being, "not really into politics".

PancakesCon & @comfyconau.bsky.social are THIS SUNDAY, September 21st. Here are some final notes on how to make the most of virtual conferences and where to find useful information! pancakescon.com/2025/09/17/f...

I do not know another way to express to people that trying to appease fascists by “being a good minority” or totally deferring to them publicly has saved absolutely no marginalized group or profession in human history. They are coming after us anyway. Even if you scold peers for not being nice.

No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

@comfyconau.bsky.social CFP (Australian Time) and @pancakescon.com CFP (US Time) close in 5 days! Get your submission in ASAP!

Today @Google Project Zero announced a new trial policy: Reporting Transparency. We’ll now share when we report a security vuln to a vendor within 1 week including products + deadlines. Goal: shrink the patch gap + drive faster, safer updates for users: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/repo...

You have two weeks left to get your awesome talks into @pancakescon.com and @comfyconau.bsky.social !!!! Don’t miss out being part of our insane global free online con!!! forms.gle/H5bCRSaJY1f3... #cybersecurity #cfp

It's neat to say that AI will kill entry level SOC analyst jobs, but if you're a CISO and really believe that, I have to ask where you think you'll get your next generation of "not entry level" SOC analysts from.

This is the moment for image macros to spread their wings and fly.

Since 2021, Mastercard has been imposing strict regulations on platforms that use the company's financial services — and Steam appears to be their latest target. Tell Mastercard to reverse this harmful policy at action.aclu.org/petition/mas....

When people call the Aussie govt "The Nanny State" it is because of badly thought-out and utterly ineffective "regulation" like this: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07... This is just the beginning, and they will not stop.

Do you enjoy guzzling real-time TLS certificate allocations, but don't want to use a third-party service (crt.sh, CertStream, etc.)? Drink straight from the Certificate Transparency log firehose using ctail: $ go run github.com/hdm/ctail@latest -f -m '^autodiscover\.' github.com/hdm/ctail

One more time, here is EFF/Freedom of the Press' guide for journalists securing their devices to cross the US border. Stories like Alistair's help us understand the real threats on the ground and allow us to threat model more accurately. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

There is a maximum amount of time each day you're supposed to focus on the world's problems instead of your own, after which you have a legitimate need for therapy on your thought processes being self-destructive. At some point you have to stop scrubbing your hands you are bleeding into the sink.

The frequency at which the bsky mobile app force signs you out is infuriating, seriously why only this app?

Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.

Google announced they will support privacy preserving age verification via zero-knowledge proofs. You prove you have a signed digital copy of a drivers license and it says you are over 18 without revealing anything about you (name, birthdate, etc) blog.google/products/goo...

Hey DFIR Peeps! I am hiring incident responders in two locations - Boulder, CO and Sunnyvale, CA. It'd be hard to find a bigger CSIRT with more scope and more interesting stuff to do than this one. :D SVL: www.google.com/about... BLD: www.google.com/about...

You know that friend who always had an excuse when you asked them to pick up Baldur’s Gate 3 because there was no cross-play? Well buddy, you’re out of excuses now.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

There is zero question in my mind this was initially deployed in an attempt to circumvent established network security controls. In cybersecurity, we have a term for when an authorized user knowingly tries to evade security controls. It's "insider threat."

No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.

Apparently we aren't going to talk about LockBit as a threat anymore. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security Good going "cybersecurity isn't political" chucklenuts. You're cooked. We're cooked.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

DOGE is a bigger threat to US federal government information systems than China. If you find this statement controversial, I'm going to question your IT and cybersecurity credentials.

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

Look, the fact is we could use just about any historical fascist and/or authoritarian government as an example of the playbook here. It’s not that different - create “emergencies,” get in power, immediately identify an “enemy” to justify action, rule by fiat while removing political enemies.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

I’m not trans and I’m not going to speak for trans people but I am goddamn sick of ‘moderates’ blaming them for their own oppression.

Do you use Android? Do you use Firefox? Do you have a big screen like a tablet? Have you noticed that windows look terrible lately? Good news! Go here chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml And change your desktop width from 980, to something like 1500.

Hand over your ID or your facial data? The would-you-rather buried in the teen social media ban www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

So, Australia has decided that you need a licence to use the internet. I only wish that was as much of a joke as it was 25+ years ago. It's unclear what, if any, amendments were made. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

We hitting full throttle on our CFP already! Do you have something to share at CrikeyConX? Join us at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This week's video discusses how Dragon Age: The Veilguard has GONE BLOKE. When will the Guyversification of videogames end? youtu.be/noefL6EoLu8

Juniors, here's why it's always better to raise your mistakes early and get help: You're very unlikely to be fired over a mistake you owned up to. Me helping you fix your mistake is cheap. Recruiting your replacement costs more. But recovering from a cover-up is REALLY costly.

Coming soon: CrikeyCon X

I see that all of Frontline is currently on ABC iView. iview.abc.net.au/show/frontline