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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
It took Enron to happen before we got Sarbanes-Oxley. Data privacy will have its Enron moment eventually.
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George — Information Security professional with 30+ years across the digital frontier, from dial-up-era networks to critical infrastructure. Early career: managed networks at one of Orlando’s first ISPs and secured systems for pioneering internet ventures, including the nation’s first internet bank; later roles at Home Depot and Southern Company. 25+ years specifically in InfoSec; most recently managed vulnerability management and PKI at Southern Company.
Progressive democratic socialist with deep technical roots. Fiercely principled, unapologetically direct, and a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Queer atheist who views religion as a major source of global conflict. Zero tolerance for bullshit; developed a razor-sharp perspective and lost patience for nonsense about a decade ago.
Political positions: condemns systemic injustice with the same rigor used in securing IT systems. Supports Black Lives Matter and trans rights; opposes the 2nd Amendment; wants accountability for ICE and DHS over human-rights violations.
Also curious and humane: finds wonder in scientific complexity, humor in life’s absurdities, and joy in intellectual pursuit. If you’ve been marginalized, questioned everything, and refuse to be defined by cruelty, you’ll likely get along with George.
In late 2025 I was diagnosed with, and began treatment for, ADHD.
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@patrickworld@mastodon.online
Calling-in sick is what the employee does to their supervisor.
Calling-out sick is what the supervisor tells everyone else on the team why you're not there that day. :-)
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@KiloNiner@social.data.coop
Couldn't agree with you more! Love Jett Reno. Tig Notaro has been the best addition to the Star Trek Universe!
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@dank@jorts.horse @mw@toot.community @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
I've been on cis male HRT for 17 years now and take the maximum topical dosage (150mg?) each day. Last year my endo put me on anastrozole because my E & prolactin levels were very high but then they lowered and she took me off the meds. Never understood that.
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange
But when each drone costs $35,000 to volley, and you spend $4,000,000 per drone to stop it, something is going to give first.
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
In the critical infrastructure sector controls are designed to fail open (as in break the circuit) and monitoring systems all have watchdog timers. If an "I'm still here!" ping is not received when it's expected to be received, an alarm goes off.
I say this not to distract from your original point.
External monitoring for critical systems is a must.
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange
I mean... My Ford Taurus died on the side of the road on I-95 near Miami back in 1996.
Replaced it with a used Chrysler LeBaron I bought out of a newspaper ad in the Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Turns out the LeBaron was stolen.
Fast forward 4 months later and I get into an accident in Margate.
Rear-ended a.... Ford Taurus.
No damage to their car. LeBaron was totaled. (I was doing 10 mph). Airbag went off. Front end totally collapsed.
That's when I found out the car was stolen.
That's also when I found out someone can be "arrested" without actually being "booked" (taken down to the Police station).
Only thing that kept me from getting my mugshot taken was because I got insurance on the LeBaron. Cop told me he's never heard of a car thief that got insurance on the car they stole.
So...
I can believe the guy when he says he bought a Corolla that was used in a homicide.
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@davidculley@hachyderm.io Seems like Germany and the US are lockstep marching towards a new world order.... :-(
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@tilton@fursuits.online Also notice where "@" is on that keyboard. Not very prominent! The creator of email specifically chose "@" to separate a mailbox from the domain portion of an email address because it was obscure and seldom used for anything else.
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@KiwiEV@mastodon.nz I can pull my 42' travel trailer with one of them. The other one not so much.
Remember #ChristianCooper? The #BirdWatcher who had the cops called on by a Karen because he "looked suspicious" #BirdWatching?
He's done a Wired Tech Support video all about #birds!
https://youtu.be/pzR8CeP53J4
Wow! Would you like to #schedule #posts in #Sharkey a bit more eloquently? My friend Mike has vibe coded a *nix shell script to do exactly that! This is pretty cool.
CW: Mike's profile is very NSFW so you might not want to 'explore' it.
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RE: https://cyberczar.org/notes/aksb8wgdb9dh098f
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@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
The alternative is people completely losing access to their data. I can't fault Microsoft for escrowing the keys by default (hell that's probably why they disabled local accounts) and let's be realistic here maybe a half-dozen people have their keys turned over due to a subpoena or court order. Like I said, for those that ARE privacy conscious there is a way to not have your keys escrowed with them. Or I guess you can use Linux & Luks and pray to god you don't lose your keys there.
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
You're probably going to block me for this, and that's fine, but that's a very myopic and naive viewpoint.
I use AI generated images all the time because I write about obscure things.
If that makes me a monster in your eyes then so be it.
Happy New Year.
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@rysiek@mstdn.social
If they did that then they wouldn't be able to control how their content is presented to you. They want to be able to track you and show you ads. RSS lets you easily bypass all that.
I'm not saying I agree with what they do, and I agree with you about RSS, just pointing out that's why they stopped doing that.
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@davidculley@hachyderm.io
That's gotta be against the GDPR or some other European legislation about government propaganda or some shit.
Just watched #ProjectHailMary. Holy cow. If this movie doesn't win an Oscar for Best Picture I don't know what will. And I'm going to just say this: This was #RyanGosling's best acting performance of his career so far.
Do you, or do you know somebody, that routinely leaves their dirty dishes in the sink only to be washed and cleaned at some nebulous future time?
https://siliconcanals.com/d-research-says-people-who-leave-their-dishes-in-the-sink-instead-of-washing-them-immediately-usually-display-these-9-underlying-personality-traits/
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@noodlemaz@mstdn.games @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
Oh yes. But I write hard science-fiction. Unsplash isn't going to have a photo of an alien world with futuristic technology. More importantly though the one thing I don't use is an LLM to write my scenes. Besides, it would be too much of a pain in the ass to work any of that into Scrivener.
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@petergleick@fediscience.org
"The only winning move is not to play."
If anything War Games was decidedly against it.
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@nieuemma@mastodon.de @mullvadnet@mastodon.online
So your chief complaint is the video wasn't open-captioned?
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@tristansnell@mstdn.social How about just "Break your oath of office." and leave it there.
Forget the insurrection, the asshole broke his oath of office every single day of his term!
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@sharkey@sharkey.team
Sorry, last question. I promise! ;-) Will docker images be available at that time or will we need to build them from scratch? All of our Sharkey instances are deployed using Docker.
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@streetartutopia@mastodon.online The real reason he's moving Twitter to Austin. To get away from people projecting stuff on his building....
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@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz That would actually be EPIC if the BBC brought The Lockpicking Lawyer on as a guest to try to break into the TARDIS.
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@paulcowdell@hcommons.social
Lack of literacy.
Lack of reading comprehension.
Lack of critical thinking.
We've devolved into an Idiocracy.
#USpol
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@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Only because 99.99999% of people aren't in corporate IT. Still, if someone cares about their privacy they probable know someone that does know those things.
Have a great weekend!
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@selzero@syzito.xyz
If Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion for a bad edit of his insurrection speech, I can see Trump sending ICE to Fallon's home for en early morning raid to verify everyone's "citizenship".
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@mike@cyberczar.org Yeah there were a couple of scenes that seemed to defy the laws of physics when they were at Adrian trying to get the amoebas.
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@mwichary@mastodon.online @tilton@fursuits.online It's not a character most if anyone would have typed as a regular part of their job when that terminal was in-use. We assume the at-sign has always been ubiquitous because it is to us, today, but it wasn't.
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@nieuemma@mastodon.de @mullvadnet@mastodon.online
So is alt-text for those that are blind?
Or those that are deaf?
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@osm_tech@en.osm.town
Time to deploy Anubis in front of all the URLs that the scrapers are hitting.
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@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
There's nothing to stop someone from turning off bitlocker and then re-enable it thus choosing NOT to store their key with Microsoft. Microsoft's BitLocker key escrow has been known since Day 1. Privacy experts have always said if you care about privacy, don't store your recovery key with Microsoft. Sheesh.
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@therightarticle The fact that #Netanyahu wasn't #arrested and turned over to the #ICC when he came to the #US this past week shows that the US does not care about #InternationalLaw or the #RuleOfLaw.
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@pwarren@mastodon.thewarrens.name
I know I'm responding late but yes that would be grounds for a foreclosure. However, usually the lending company will get their own insurance for the property if you lose yours, and they will add the premiums to your mortgage payment (escrow). But one thing you can count on is that the lender will not get you the most cost-effective insurance or the "most bang for your buck" either. The lender's concern is simply about preserving the collateral they have (your home) in your loan.
I really hate April Fool's.
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@pseudonym@mastodon.online @teunvink@mstdn.social
I use UUIDs as passwords sometimes. At least they're guaranteed to be unique.
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@micahflee@infosec.exchange Sounds like OpenStreetMap has all the tools natively to replicate what the guy was doing (and cross platform).