Director of Cybersecurity
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Last Notes npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide "There are 948 words in this document. They can't ALL be wrong." npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I have been tremendously lucky in my career, but I have absolutely seen men get paid more for the same or less work with the same or fewer qualifications and I have seen men praised as geniuses for behavior that gets me called a bitch. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide One of the most interesting things about this story is that the hacker allegedly gained access to "a database intended for law enforcement to identify owners of specific Tile trackers." I've had LE complain that they couldn't ID owners of specific trackers in the past. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Summer is here, which means that people are having Discourse about what weight women are allowed to reach before they should not be allowed to wear revealing clothing instead of just letting people wear clothes and shutting the hell up. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Let there be no doubt that NSO Group is using the courts to harass the security researchers who have done the most to shed light on their years of misdeeds and lies. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I went to see "Innocence" at the opera last night and I was perfectly fine until the survivor of a school shooting said it made her decide to become a doctor. It turns out that trauma survivors becoming the people who would have saved themselves stabs me directly in the feelings. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide @npub17lg…9uux This absolutely would not have happened without you. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Are Microsoft's changes going to be enough? We will check when they roll them out. But the important lesson here is that public security research made a difference here. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week: npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I am going to have to write a blog post version of my talk on physical trackers because I am not going to go through all of these arguments again with people who only just now discovered that AirTags get used for stalking. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide When AirTags first came out and I warned that they were Apple's gift to stalkers, so many Apple fanboys told me that I was overreacting. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I try to be gracious and good rather than petty and mean, but sometimes bad things happen to bad people and I pop some popcorn, as a little treat. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide There are so many reasons you shouldn't use stalkerware and @npub1lt9…f6eq lays them all out for you right here: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/31/hacked-leaked-exposed-why-you-should-stop-using-stalkerware-apps/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Who are the "supersharers" of fake news on Twitter? Republican Middle-aged white women living in Arizona, Florida, and Texas. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Yes, I know that guy still stands a good chance of winning the election in November, but this is your regular reminder that you can't fight a long fight without stopping to enjoy your victories or you will burn out to a cinder. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide "...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots." npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Threat models matter. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide "Cisgender is a slur" has some real "people pointing out racist behavior are the real racists" energy to it. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I'm just a security researcher, standing in front of a journalist, asking them not to delete the file with the malicious attachment before calling me. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Why yes, I am absolutely wearing this cut-off tshirt with an image of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofrenes that says “Girl Dinner” to the talk I am giving this afternoon about tech-enabled abuse. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Everything about Durov's statement is so profoundly dishonest that I feel like engaging in a point-by-point debunking is a waste of time. If most of the messages on your platform are not end-to-end encrypted AT ALL, it is less private and secure than platforms whose messages are all e2e by default. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide This is your regular reminder that most communications on Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted. Channels and groups are never end-to-end encrypted and 1-on-1 messages are only end-to-end when explicitly enabled. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I see that today on the internet people are discovering who Meir Kahane was. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide A journalist sent me a bunch of questions about Baby Reindeer, so I watched it this weekend, and not only did I not answer the questions, but now I really need to watch something that is not about stalking and sexual assault. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide You guys, I am going to a "space pirate royalty" themed wedding and I don't have an astonishing outfit. Please send help in the form of links. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide When you are tired of giant flying French robot birds, you are tired of life. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I got a notification at the Bad Place informing me that they have reviewed my account and generously granted me Premium for free, along with a blue check. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Odd Salon DECEPTION begins in just three hours! npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide This website says you should send it a photo of your partner's penis and they will tell you if they have an STD, using the power of AI. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide The problem with traveling across Europe and looking at hundreds' of years of art until my head was brimming with it is that now I have Art Thoughts and people do not come to me for Art Thoughts. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Someone has (accidentally, I think) sent about $1000-worth of wine to my house. I guess I'm drinking a lot of pinot noir this year. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide An additional and unexpected downside of having a DJ move in next door is that he is apparently quite deaf and communicates with his partner largely by yelling at the top of his lungs across the apartment. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I'm just going to leave this right here and have you imagine the reality-rending shriek that has just left my body: npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide It turns out that the most debilitating words in the English language are "Please write a brief summary of your achievements." npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide EFF Helps News Organizations Push Back Against Legal Bullying from Cyber Mercenary Group: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-helps-news-organizations-resist-legal-bullying-cyber-mercenary-group npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Giving digital security/privacy advice for non-technical people in a crisis situation featuring an ever-shifting threat model is hard, actually. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Everything about the last half-dozen years, from COVID mitigations to criminalization of reproductive health and attacks on trans rights, has demonstrated to me that people in infosec are so much worse at threat modeling than they think they are. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide You know what I absolutely do not want? A humanoid robot stumbling around my house, using the power of AI to confidently but incorrectly do my chores. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide No, I don't want to know your "skincare secrets." Your skincare secret is that you are fifteen years younger than I am. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Happy Stalking Awareness Month to the guy who just asked me to find the unlisted number of a famous movie star's agent. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I did not have "unauthorized secret Lubovitcher tunnels" on my 2024 Bingo card, yet here they are: https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-synagogue-chabad-tunnel-2c03a40c9150bdf6d9d899436789d8cf npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide JewBelong and those bright pink billboards are pure cringe: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/jewbelong-billboards-genocide-israel-hamas-archie-gottesman.html npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Just in case you're wondering if the people from Twitter who show up out of nowhere, reply to your posts to call you a bunch of names, and then scream at you to leave them alone when you respond politely have migrated to Mastodon: yes, they have. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide One of my favorite things about my job is when @npub102c…225a gets interested in the thing I am working on. Here she is, getting into car apps and domestic abuse: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/technology/car-trackers-gps-abuse.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE0.7twf.hXr4IhNIgZtq&smid=url-share npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I would shame the Modi administration if I thought it was possible for them to feel shame. Failing that, I'm disappointed in Apple for caving to pressure from the Indian govt and undermining their own security team. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Men, how often do you think about the Golden Path? npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Is there a bot that just looks for posts that praise companies for doing something that is good for user privacy or security and replies with: "LOL. I bet the encryption is backdoored?" npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide If you happen to enjoy and appreciate my work, I work for a small and obscure non-profit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation and if you donate to them today, your donation will be doubled by a matching sponsor. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide OpenAI's attempts to lure Sam Altman back as CEO after firing him on Friday have collapsed. Emmett Shear, co-founder of Twitch, will be the interim CEO of OpenAI. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide "Still punk rock," I whisper as I lower myself gingerly into a hot bath full of epsom salts. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide A guy I knew from LJ and blocked during JakeGate because he was defending Jake and then never thought of again has apparently written a book that includes an unflattering caricature of me. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide One artist has finally discovered what Dan Brown books are good for. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide The difference between nudes posted to OnlyFans for subscribers and the same nudes leaked to the public for the purpose of embarrassing one of your critics is consent, you moron. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide The notion that charging new users $1 per year will stop bots is laughable. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide This feature is a personal attack on all Eastern Europeans. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide If you give privacy/security advice without an explicit threat model, all that you're doing is using an implicit threat model that may not match the needs of the person you're trying to help. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I appreciate that infosec Twitter moved pretty effectively over to Mastodon, but woo boy is this not the place to go when I want useful updates when a war breaks out. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I locked my account for a couple of weeks and now I have to hand-approve the backlog of follow requests. How many requests? I have no idea. My notifications just say 40+. Once I've approved 40, I get 40 more. This goes on forever and there is no way to just approve all of the requests at once. I am in a hell of my own making. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Thorn sucks and Ashton Kutcher sucks, but now they will suck separately. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide The exiled remains of Russia's independent media are targeted for surveillance not just by Russia, but by many governments. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Sometimes the good guys win. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Security researchers love it when state actors send the malware to them directly. We are very lazy. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Everybody go update your iPhones. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide This startup claimed it would take your 2D sketches and turn them into 3D models using AI "magic." It turns out that the "magic" is poorly-paid workers in the developing world. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I don't know who needs to hear this, but do not connect your IoT chastity device to the internet. Just don't. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/02/smart-chastity-cage-emails-passwords-location/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide It has come to my attention that some of you are very concerned about data brokers collecting your data, but are not familiar with the work of @npub1ymv…8944 and the Big-Ass Data Broker Opt Out List. Please enjoy: npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Survivors often come to me for advice about speaking out against their abuser. Now there’s an excellent toolkit for that. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I assume this change was implemented while wearing black robes, circled around an X logo, chanting "Freedom of speech but not freedom of reach." npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Now that we have "AI detection" meant to catch students who cheat by using AI to do their work, of course we have false positives. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Thinking of @npub13wh…4444 who says in these situations, "When we abolish the prisons, we will rescue him last." npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide People in management who feel the need to loudly tell everyone how pro-labor they are give off strong Steve Buschemi "how do you do fellow kids" vibes. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide In case you were unaware, Window Snyder is a goddamn legend and this profile of her by @npub1lt9…f6eq is excellent. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide What they don’t tell you about the glamorous life of digital rights activism is that one day you will be excited to sit in standards meetings . #ietf npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide "EFF’s founding case over 30 years ago, Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service, was in part a story about the overbroad seizures of equipment in the offices of Steve Jackson Games in Texas, based upon unfounded claims about illegal behavior in a 1990s version of a chat room." npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Please know that if my only escape from the apocalypse means spending the rest of my days on an island populated by effective altruists, I will absolutely choose the sweet embrace of death. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Me, dipping my toe into the oversized trend in clothes: I look so cool and relaxed. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Of all the communities I had on Twitter, Infosec Twitter is the group that moved to Mastodon and never looked back. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide We all knew infosec Twitter was dead, but here's a graph.
