(Because we are geeks who love making stuff) marco slaviero wrote about his mini-adventure building the “Canary Glorifier” that our Canaries are perched on at this year’s RSAC.

It’s a fun read - blog.thinkst.com/2024/05/glory-…

Using DFIR reports to examine where Canaries & Canarytokens cld be placed to help defenders win.

This post covers the latest release by the folks at The DFIR Report¹ - A Bird’s-eye view: IceID to Dagon Locker.

blog.thinkst.com/2024/05/what-c…

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¹ We love their work!

VISAs for non-EU/US/UK for travel, even tourism is INSANE. Trying to get my wife (Indian national) a Schengen visa and there are ZERO appointments available. US tourism visa? Next slot is December.

Batshit.

Most of our US/EU based friends probably don’t know the annoyance of VISA applications around conference travels..

A quick trip to speak at a conference is usually preceded by interview-appointments, multiple forms, proofs of residence, bank accounts and biometrics.

Pain++

People will often warn you about building your startup on someone else’s front lawn. You’re at their mercy & they could/often take back their toys.

I wonder if this is a lesser talked about, inherent danger for security product startups.

Most _have_ to build on existing lawns.

The choice for R1/humane to build their own hardware (instead of an app) seems odd & seems like fighting on too many fronts.

- Decades of mobile h/w innovation have set a high bar in terms of expectations;

- Both wld be well served with access to what existing phones have.

In town for #RSAC next week?

I have a (super brief) talk at the Decibel Oasis (on Tuesday) on why cybersecurity products need to focus a little less on war and a little more on love¹.

lu.ma/Oasis_MeetUp

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¹ With Thinkst Canary as a case-study.

Come through and say hi.

We staff our booth slightly differently, so you can chat directly to the people who research, design, build & support¹ our Canaries & Canarytokens.

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¹ or me 🤷‍♂️

We often remind young folks at the company to be grateful for every single person who bothers to run our tools or read our blog posts.

The internets default response is indifference and having ppl use your stuff should never be taken for granted.

I wonder if someone at X/Twitter is tracking the increased likelihood of an account being muted once it runs a paid ad.

Campaigns are temporary but mute/block lists are potentially forever, which should make paid ads terrifying to brands who actually use the platform.

Totes not me…

(Disclaimer: I studied at Columbia University)

In this moving video, many students - Jews, Arabs, and others - hold a joint Passover Seder, a Feast of Liberty for all, calling for an end to the war and the occupation. This wonderful event happens at no place other than Columbia…

Yup!

'It scares the crap out of me as an attacker'

'most likely I'm getting detected..'

'let's just say I don't & I'm able to predict.. a canary token or.. a piece of deception technology..
I am scared as hell'

'now I think everything is.. bad and I have no idea what to do'

If you’re not using them then you’re missing them. And I mean you’re literally missing the baddies in your environment whether they’re coming from outside or within.
You’re also missing the good folks Thinkst Canary

Man.. unfolding a twitter thread these days is kinda odd.

A good percentage of the time it’s just an unrelated recommendation, and a surprising amount of the time it leads to porn..

Probably raises engagement - but definitely a different neighborhood…

Watching an 'analyst co-presented' webinar.
So incestuous. I hate this part of the industry so much...

Almost¹ tempted to pay some analyst firms just to publicly track the movement on their radars post 'subscription'.

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¹ Willing to bet but unwilling to encourage this sham

If we had our social networks back in the 70’s, would Ben Rich have made an inside joke and posted that he was working on a new stealth project?

New “Founders Helping Founders” podcast!

Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond | Chris Wysopal) is the founder of Veracode (@veracode), a $2.5 billion cybersecurity company

He is one of the first hackers turned founders who turned his curiosity in computing into a creative force as an entrepreneur

As a…

I am over the fscking moon about this:

elastic.co/de/blog/elasti…

This is absolutely awesome!

Man.. this is such a great line (re: behavior that’s rewarded in big companies vs startups)