LOL my Mother In Law sent me a "happy anniversary" message 2 days early and made me panic for about 5 minutes thinking I'd gotten the date wrong and missed it. Well played.

When my kid was 1yo, I got IMMENSE amounts of grief from other parents and family members because I didn't want to wash my hands between handling/eating peanuts and touching my own child. No one in my family has any history of severe allergies. Fast forward a decade and....

Old school tip that sometimes comes in handy still....

Sometimes I respond to cold-call outreach from tech platform vendors.

Another one of the problems with increasing use of unmarked cars & unmarked cops: You swerve to get around some random white car you think is driving like a jerk and get into a tiny fender bender - but surprise! It's four fully armed angry men who now claim you've committed a felony assault on them

Granted I'm not a military expert like Pete Hegseth but from afar it kind of seems to me like logistics, cyber security and drone operators are essentially carrying the weight of most modern warfare. That said, if they're getting rid of mandatory phishing "exercises" I'm game.

Opinions wanted: If you regularly eat lunch with coworkers & they talk about work for the majority of the lunch - do you mentally bucket that as work time or as a break? Let's say the discussion isn't all gossip or blowing off steam; at least 50% is work talk.

This is referred to as a Kavanaugh stop, right?

I don't know if y'all know this amazing fact, but -- both Cockatoos and Conures are capable of squawking loud enough in one's office to actually overwhelm the noise canceling on a good pair of headphones and cause audio clipping. It's amazing.

I dunno, it doesn't quite have the same snap that the others do.

Today's hot take: "Vulnerability" as a term has become meaningless in the industry. I propose that at a system level, a vulnerability is not a *vulnerability* if there are other intact, effective compensating controls. Many of the things we call vulns should just be called bugs

I received a survey from the heritage foundation. My responses will probably never be read and this was probably pointless, but I responded anyway.

The struggle is real and the vacuum is evil

For no reason at all and not subject to any particular specific current news item, I've recently been thinking about Matthew Prince's blog post from 2017.

I wonder if we are going to see AI / agentic attacks hit much sooner and faster than AI / agentic defenses because defenders face so many more consequences for making mistakes than attackers do.

There's two types of people in this world. Those who have never run a not-yet-full filesystem out of inodes, and those who have run a spam filtering daemon in quarantine mode.

Six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting office workers, despite being trained not to. Further study also shows that the office workers can be easily tricked into clicking the phishing emails, also despite being trained not to.

One of the difficult things about trying to find alignment across the aisle on facts is that it's increasingly difficult to find facts on the internet, vs facts interspersed with opinions. Did X person say Y? Here's 500 out of context clips, all of them by partisan commentators.

Maui seems to be proving that banning short-term rentals actually does drastically reduce housing costs for locals.

Two things kids these days will never know the simple joy of. 1: Watching disk doctor shuffle those ANSI blocks around and stack them up while defragging your disk, and 2: Degaussing your monitor. "THNANGGgggggg....." (wigglewigglewiggle)

Today I'm inundated with yet another reminder that it's far easier to criticize than to create, and pointing out flaws is so much quicker than solving problems. Choose to be a problem solver, whenever and wherever you can.

Reading thought pieces that say "Tech layoffs today are much worse than those before because the workers today must train the very AI systems that may replace them" is extra annoying b/c those authors clearly weren't here for the early 2000's "Offshoring" fad. 1/2

The cool thing about vibe coding is that script kiddies get to be SWEs now

Coming soon: LEGO smuggling. "Hey Tony, I got 12 kilos of bricks arriving tonight in Panama." "Heroin or Cocaine?" "LEGO. 4x2 blocks, connectors, and those little flat pieces."

To be honest with y'all, I don't really think the 12-12-6 schedule would be all that bad. 12 months a year, 12 days a month, 6 hours a day seems pretty doable.

Living on the coast I've noticed that when it's high tide and the water is all the way in, the seals and sea lions are much quieter than other times of day. They're probably using their in-tide voices.

I'm a model if you know what I mean And I bake my GPU in the crosstalk In the crosstalk Yeah I bake my GPU in the crosstalk

My friend was offended that I said meeting "Weird Al" was more meaningful to me than meeting Pres. Obama. Obama was amazing but he didn't inspire me through my formative years when being weird was mostly looked at as being a violence-worthy offense to humankind. Weird Al did.

OK Hear me out: "Thunder from down under" but instead of Australian hunks it's "Property Brothers" and "Holmes on Homes" burlesque. What would you name this act?

If you are in a large org, The #1 most useful thing you can do in security when given a seemingly crazy task you have to accomplish, is go back down the chain and find the original requirement the task came from. Then read it carefully. 1/2

I knew Stevie Nicks was badass but I did not actually know how badass she was

Today I'm thinking about two issues that have more to do with one another than you'd think: When should you run your own mail server? - and - Where are all the entry-level cybersecurity jobs? medium.com/@matt_973...

The little scambait competition happening by the bathrooms in W1 is the closest I've come at this con to feeling OG Alexis Park vibes. That needs to be a village next year. #DC33 #Defcon

Is this a store or a detective show?

Defcon protip: Wear some shokz headphones while walking around and you'll get an audio clue when Bluetooth phreaking is afoot

If you're early career or low on resources and wanted to go to defcon but can't afford a hotel room, DM me. I have one crash room available.

Step 1 for reducing firefighter burnout and volunteer attrition is probably requiring for-profit care homes and medical centers to hire private EMS transport when they need it, rather than offloading their care to the public. share.google/MVdAi7y...

If I get killed in some disaster I really, really hope my parents, wife, or kid do not create an AI version of me to speak to their own political opinions using my literal voice and image. I would never do that to my child.

Mekka's not wrong and my first thought is "Of course this is how Government censorship succeeds in actually crawling through our culture". If there are words you won't write in books because you can't say them on TikTok or Insta, then you're being successfully censored.

Not sure how to feel about the fact that running your own mail server is now considered so nuts that the AI's consider list serves to be a form of self-harm 😂

Suppose I wanted to donate cash to organizations who were _effectively_ countering or blunting the harmful policies the government is implementing - particularly for marginalized communities. What organizations should I prioritize giving money to?

The most frustrating thing about cotton candy flavored Vapes to me is that occasionally people smoke them in areas where I could reasonably expect to buy cotton candy and then I get super disappointed when it turns out there isn't any

The California governor took a bold and possibly effective step to lower gun death rates across the state. California governor signs men's mental health executive order | AP News share.google/89ep1Tt...

Remember UK, you didn't _just_ vote for age verification to access adult sites, you also voted to make yourself create an account on said sites that will individually track everything you read and watch there. Have fun with that, especially when that data is inevitably breached!

The national guard: JOIN To serve your community in times of need. STAY to be pressed into service as a prison guard. share.google/5NfOJNM...

/r/preppers: "Paracord doesn't hold knots" My brother, you are not tying the correct knots or you are not tying them correctly.

According to my NextDNS analytics and blocklists, something in my home tries to send tracking info about me to the internet on average once every 21 seconds.

NextDNS has been a really great privacy decision. This is ONE day's traffic. Yeah, I could do all this with Unbound and pushing local DoH servers and maintaining them, but even as much as I love running infrastructure, for $2 a month it's just too easy a win.

This NextDNS blocking UX feels like a trap. It defaults to "on" and you have to either accept web censorship based on unknown third-party criteria OR essentially say "I DO want to see child abuse material". It's the "Yes or no: do you still beat your wife?" of UX settings.

Dear streaming customer, as of $very_soon your streaming bundle, $things_you_like will no longer include $main_thing_you_like. To see that you'll need $different_tier. We value your business, which is why we constantly renege on the deal we made with you. - Every streamer ever