The job description of a Security Engineer is just going "what the fuck" and then doing something about it

"No way to create a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through." Signal President Meredith Whittaker says the Online Safety Bill will cause "unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance" - in a discussion with Cathy Newman and former UK Tech minister Damian Collins.

I've decided to stop using black hoodie hacker pictures to represent an attacker , and exclusively use geese instead - so far I'm satisfied with that decision

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The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

2004: Symantec announced the acquisition of security services firm @stake, whose alumni include @dotmudge, DilDog 🅅, Katie🌻Moussouris (she/her/she-ra/she-hulk) 🪷, @weldpond, Dave Aitel, Joe Grand, David Litchfield, Alex Stamos, Space Rogue, Window Snyder, thaddeus e. grugq, Mark Kriegsman and more.

Annual repost of my dad’s cranberry relish recipe, with cherries, lemon, orange, raisins, and warm spices. Happy Thanksgiving, all. github.com/kriegsman/cran…

For every 10 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this hacker get more experience

Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed: blog.archive.org/2023/12/29/fri…

It’s the return of ‘On Trusting Trust’: “For example, we train models that write secure code when the prompt states that the year is 2023, but insert exploitable code when the stated year is 2024.”

Yes this works, and if you don’t believe me you can http://0x8E.0372.20484 it

Very excited to share that I will be giving a keynote speech at REcon, where I will be looking back on 30 years of decompilation from my own experience. Join me in celebrating 🎉 this milestone achievement! #REcon #decompilation #keynotespeaker

New phrase: “teaming up with the Joneses”, to refer to the economy of sharing and mutual aid rather than competitive American individualism. We don’t all need our own snowblowers and ice cream makers. We can ask for, and receive, help.

Calling all weather enthusiasts! We'll be kicking off our 2025 SKYWARN Spotter training program in May! Classes are FREE and open to the public. ⛈️ Our first class is in Greenfield early next month. For more information and to register online visit weather.gov/boston/skywarn

FastLED is now the third most popular of all Arduino libraries. Thank you to all the artists, programmers, contributors, community members, fans, and friends who helped FastLED grow into this beautiful thing that we all get to share.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Bill Atkinson. He was a true visionary whose creativity, heart, and groundbreaking work on the Mac will forever inspire us. Our thoughts are with his loved ones.

Yes, it was hot enough in Boston to make s’mores just by putting the ingredients outside. blog.kriegsman.org/2025/06/25/mak…