Dean Pierce
@deanpierce.net
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Security Research in Portland, Oregon
#HackThePlanet
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Erin Reed
4 days ago
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.
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Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/study-in-the-journal-of-pediatrics
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OPB
7 days ago
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a high school student in McMinnville during Friday’s lunch period, according to school officials.
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ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period
Family told local news the 17-year-old is a US citizen.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/21/mcminville-high-school-oregon-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement/
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Unusual Whales
7 days ago
A picture from the Mamdani and Trump meeting today
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runZero (Official Account)
7 days ago
🧭 Cybersecurity’s old rules are cracking. In his SecTor keynote,
@hdm.io
breaks down the rules that shaped the 2000s: what survived, what failed us, and the new rules we’ll need next. Missed it? 👀 Watch the keynote:
www.runzero.com/resources/on...
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Distributed Denial of Secrets
7 days ago
You wouldn't expose the wealthy... would you?
ddosecrets.com/submit
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Acyn
8 days ago
AOC to
@pabloreports.bsky.social
: A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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RandallMakArt
10 days ago
when will the lesson finally get learned?
#cloudflare
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BSides Pyongyang
11 days ago
Tune in at tomorrow at 10:30 AM EST for
#BSidesPyongyang25
. Stream live on Twitch or YouTube h̲t̲t̲p̲s̲://w̲w̲w̲.t̲w̲i̲t̲c̲h̲.t̲v̲/b̲s̲i̲d̲e̲s̲p̲y̲o̲n̲g̲y̲a̲n̲g̲
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Aaron Parnas
12 days ago
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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egg price watcher
26 days ago
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
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Jake Williams
27 days ago
Obama has it right.
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Kyle Cheney
about 1 month ago
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
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Scott Horton
about 1 month ago
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin.
www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/nederlandse-diensten-delen-minder-informatie-met-de-vs-soms-vertellen-we-dingen-niet-meer~b4882f19/
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yazikus
about 2 months ago
EVERYONE STANDING WITH OREGON TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY
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Ryan Goodman
2 months ago
Oregon v Trump Complaint intro: "stated basis for federalizing members of Oregon’s National Guard is patently pretextual" "violates the Posse Comitatus Act" "violate[s] the Tenth Amendment’s guarantee that the police power ... resides with the states"
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
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kereD
2 months ago
Here ya go 😄
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Quinta Jurecic
2 months ago
I have been haunted by this statement all day
www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Oregon Plates
3 months ago
The Custom Oregon Plate LUIGI is available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LUIGI #CustomPlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #Oregon
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evacide
3 months ago
If you are collecting sensitive information about users, like, I dunno...their sexual orientation...you need to take securing user data seriously.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
4 months ago
Does your school, or child's school, have bathroom vape detectors? Two of EFF's clients just released research about how bathroom vape detectors with audio recordings could be turned into listening devices.
www.wired.com/story/schoo...
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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug
A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.
https://www.wired.com/story/school-bathroom-vape-detector-audio-bug/
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
i'm crying laughing. she's literally never seen the word before.
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evacide
4 months ago
I spent a whole day in a room full of privacy engineers talking about how they were trying to move their companies towards better practices and then I glanced at my phone, read this, and just let the wave of rage and despair wash over me:
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance
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Dave Aitel
5 months ago
www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...
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Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and National Security
The author investigates why national security decisionmakers are ill-prepared for AI's impact on cybersecurity, offers solutions, and discusses the paper's broader implications for organizations' assi...
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA4079-1.html
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emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
5 months ago
The code behind the Intelion surveillance software was leaked as part of the ISID hack by the puppygirl hacker polycule. One of the software's uses is ALPR - Automatic License Plate Reading/Reader. That code is now available online for all revolutionary spirits.
ddosecrets.com/article/isid
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ISID - Distributed Denial of Secrets
A 501(c)(3) dedicated to archiving and publishing hacked and leaked data.
https://ddosecrets.com/article/isid
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emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
5 months ago
Fine, fxck it. We have the leaked ALPR software. Y'all mfers wanted a surveillance state, you wanted a panopticon? Welcome to the nightmare of your making.
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Erin Reed
5 months ago
Transgender medicaid ban and definition of sex are back in the federal bill - Dems can raise a point of order and force a vote, and as long as we don't lose 7 dems on this, Dems can keep it out. Definitely worth some phone calls folks.
bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Senator Ron Wyden
5 months ago
My full statement on Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran:
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Wyden Statement on U.S. Strikes on Iran | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-statement-on-us-strikes-on-iran
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John Scott-Railton
5 months ago
UPDATE: Looks to me like Paragon is again feeling the heat, and tossing the Italian government under the bus. The scandal continues.
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Alistair Kitchen
6 months ago
Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Laura Jedeed
6 months ago
It's .........very cosplay so far here at Trump's birthday parade. Those wigs must be so damn hot Let's do this! 🧵
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Paul Byrne
6 months ago
This is a solar eclipse. Seen from the surface of Mars by the Perseverance rover in 2022. That moon is the little space potato Phobos. And you can even see sunspots!
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
6 months ago
Today is flag day. Here is Trump violating the flag code by signing his name on it.
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T. Greg Doucette
6 months ago
Sure reads like a planned assassination to give Republicans control of the Legislature The Minnesota House was tied 67-67 until Hortman (D) was murdered The Minnesota Senate is tied 34-34, unless Hoffman (D) dies
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Jorge García Herrero
6 months ago
www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...
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“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could?r=36xort
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Timothy Burke
6 months ago
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
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Its me again
6 months ago
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Gabi 雪
6 months ago
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, this guy, and fuck ICE. They aren't worried about treating immigrants like real people with real families. Well, turnabout is fair play.
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Marcus Hutchins
6 months ago
Me after moving to "The Freest Nation On Earth(™)" where the government is currently deploying paramilitary forces against civilians less than 10 miles from my house.
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Ken
6 months ago
Cellebrite gets virtual with $170M Corellium buy
www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/c...
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Cellebrite gets virtual with $170M Corellium buy
: Trump-pardoned hacker Chris Wade will join the company as CTO
http://www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/cellebrite_corellium_merger/
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
6 months ago
Portlanders: the Police Bureau is trying to amend the rules so they don't have to report information on officers who have been disciplined for excessive force / other violations during investigations those officers are involved in. You can submit comment here.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/3WPQRK3
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3WPQRK3
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Bradán Lane
7 months ago
If you are joining
@defcon.bsky.social
for
#DC33
and have a young hacker in your family, then check out DCNextGen (DEFCONNextGen on Twitter and mastodon and
dcnextgen.org
). They have workshops and talks *and* are fully integrated into the CON with many villages having dedicated content & contests!
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DEF CON
6 months ago
DEF CON Groups Town Hall Thursday, 5/29, 2025 4pm PDT Location: DEF CON Discord –
discord.gg/defcon
- dcg-stage-public) We’re updating how DEF CON Groups are structured and verified—and we want to hear from you. Join us to learn more, ask questions, and give feedback.
#defcon
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Join the DEFCON Discord Server!
Official DEF CON Discord Server | 51710 members
https://discord.gg/defcon
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Eliot Higgins
6 months ago
🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.
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John Scott-Railton
7 months ago
BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against notorious
#Pegasus
spyware maker. Very consequential for victims to see this. Congratulations to
#WhatsApp
on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/
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RainSec - PDX InfoSec Meetup
7 months ago
RainSec is happening Tuesday April 29th (tonight!!!), 6:30-10:00 PM @ the Lucky Lab Brew Pub (915 SE Hawthorne). Details are available here:
smokesignal.events/did:plc:nzjd...
www.meetup.com/rainsec/even...
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RainSec - PDX Information Security Meetup
Starts at 04/29/25 06:30 pm PDT. RainSec is an informal group of like-minded security professionals who meet to network and discuss topics of interest in a non-work, non-vendor setting. While our tar...
https://smokesignal.events/did:plc:nzjdkhdb7mzxgehwks2o25ei/3lnyhsblryr2p
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Dave Karpf
7 months ago
Just some phenomenal protest art in Union Market, DC.
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Congressman Shri Thanedar
7 months ago
🚨 I have just introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump. Donald Trump is not above the law, and when he ignores the constitution, he should be held accountable.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
8 months ago
If you are not furious at what our government did to these people, there’s something wrong with you.
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Nicholas Weaver
8 months ago
This is really concerning, not just the raid but that Indiana University has literally disappeared XiaoFeng Wang (a full professor with a named chair position) from their web sites. The attacks on Chinese-born faculty were bad in Trump 1, but this I worry is way way worse.
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