you, yes you, are not qualified to give opsec advice to people whom you do not have a threat model for nor even remotely know personally

Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI

People are breaking their bones in contorting themselves to celebrate an individual whose ceiling of decorum is the floor for most everyone else. Debating African Americans without calling them a slur or debating LGBTQ+ without spitting on them does not a Presidential Medal of Freedom earn.

“You can shear a sheep 100 times but you can only skin it once” 👆This. Relevant to a recent resignation. (IYKYK) I love giving everything I can to a cause, time and energy, but there are limits. Not referring to my employer, they’re outstanding and I’m still with them. 🙂✌️

I know this is the sentiment for US politics, but it applies to a lot of the good fights and caring for others and when doing missing person work and looking into human trafficking, it is the same deal. Fighting evil of any form needs such care described here.

Interested in doing well in your first Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTF this summer? Or if you’ve helped before, perhaps improving your tradecraft to better help the missing person problem? #osint #osint4good #ctf events.humanitix.com/trace-labs-s...

As Thanos would have said, this was inevitable. www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

🚀 Exciting news! Join us for the TraceLabs Global Virtual Search Party CTF on April 19th! 🌐 📅 Key Dates are shown in the timeline image included. Join our community for updates and more info: tracelabs.org/discord #OSINT #CTF #TraceLabs #osint4good

Spotify is being judgy, not sure what it is picking up on but if I want to be Emily Dickinson, let me be. That said, the suggested playlist *is* a banger, so I’ll settle into the cyberpunk vibes.

Too harsh about the LA fires, or just right?

We are starting the new year off right with some #OSINT training for our community through the good people at Humanitix - events.humanitix.com/trace-labs-s... This is Technical Level: Beginner and will focus on the foundational stuff. Still of value to everyone but ensuring we cover basics first.

“Sloppy Joe”

Your purpose on earth is not to argue with people who intentionally want to misunderstand you

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

In 1992, we got Crystal Pepsi and Home Alone 2. We decided to reject Crystal Pepsi and eventually make the guy that appeared in Home Alone 2 the US president. Could have had it the other way around, rejecting that guy and embracing Crystal Pepsi. We could have been in the Crystal Pepsi timeline.

My Smart TV: “wanna watch Designated Survivor?” Me: what’s that about TV: The entire government being blown up except for Kiefer Sutherland Me: why are you suggesting that show right now?!? TV: … Me: … TV: … sooo … Me: Yeah, turn it on

Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.

This time around, the Kennedys are assassinating us.

I can’t think of a single dystopian novel or movie that imagined our government filled not with aliens but ignorant conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, sex criminals and grifters.

An #OSINT and hacking tip: Phrase threats hypothetically. Instead of “I could do *this*,” use “an adversary could.” For instance, saying “I can use your public address to pay someone to throw a brick at your house” at a stalking and OSINT seminar sounds more ominous than educational. Yes I saw this.

So I am really liking ScreenZen as an approach to blocking “that birdsite”. I occasionally need to check some things (CTI, OSINT) over there, and having a “Is this important?” query helps. Does anyone have other or better techniques for app blocking (besides quitting that platform)?

TraceLabs will be present to run our Search Party CTF, led by me in person, at Wild West Hackin' Fest in Deadwood, South Dakota. CTF on 20 October 2023. This will be a great partnership with Black Hills Information Security. The site for us at WWHF is at: wildwesthackinfest.com/event/trace-...

My presence in London and the Piccadilly Circus sign being broken are completely unrelated, I swear.

New TraceLabs Podcast Alert HumanDecoded spends time with @raebaker.net talking about the OSINT training experience that is Kase Scenarios! Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4XKY... RSS: feeds.transistor.fm/breadcrumbs-...

Saw someone state “Y’all didn’t read the man page and it shows”, and that stings so much but it should be an InfoSec t-shirt. Plus, I learned something new. A lot of wizards in the industry got good because one of the things they do is read the spellbooks, and I should do the same.

Hey I made a quick welcome guide to BlueSky :) There's tons more, but I think these few steps will get you up and enjoying it quickly.

This was some good merch to pick up at the con (timely to the DEFCON reporting stories). Their other stuff is great too. Still didn’t catch the flag, but agree I met a lot of good people.

I missed out on a lot of swag, merch, and networking at @defcon.bsky.social due to just organizing things. But did meet plenty of awesome people and missed a lot of other awesome people. Any vendors I should check out in the coming weeks? I’ll be at BlueTeamCon and hope to see great people there!

I'm going to be live and in-person at @defcon.bsky.social 31. Running a TraceLabs CTF in in the contest area, giving out swag, making friends and doing #OSINT4Good I don't chat much on social media, but am really excited to see anyone else from the community there, big names or small names.