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Lesley Carhart

@hacks4pancakes.com

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I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires. ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️‍🌈

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · Mar 25

I have a Short Stack on BlueSky as well as Mastodon and you can use it to get some news n stuff about the ongoing cybersecurity apocalypse if you want bsky.app/profile/did:...

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e (they/them) @certificates.bsky.social · 1h

it's sad and sucks if you care about morality... but it also really does mean that these people are fine with being mediocre. it's like an IT person not caring about network protocols, etc. like "it's actually not so cool to decide to just never get good at the thing."

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 39m

Oh I’m on it

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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 6h

Well, I guess we know who’s left at CISA…

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e (they/them) @certificates.bsky.social · 1h

"I'm really into evaluating threat models, but I'm not so into understanding actions taken by groups, or power relations, or what the impact of various events are on groups."

(I know "into cybersecurity not politics" just means "i think finding IOCs is cool" ie "i'm bad at cybersecurity" but still)

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Joe @joevonhoff.bsky.social · 1h

In a world where basic human rights, things as simple as a living wage or going to the doctor or just using the damn public restroom, are being sneeringly taken away, anyone who says they "don't follow politics" or the like is living in massive denial of what politics is and how it affects them.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 47m

This is why we have spyware and civil surveillance tech.

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JHunt🛡️ @jhuntinfosec.com · 1h

I see it a lot, especially on the red side. “I just wanna hack shit man.”

Yeah? For who? Who are your clients? What are their politics? Many don’t want to think about it.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 1h

It's the most political I've seen it in the many years I've been writing about it.

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pandabuse.bsky.social @pandabuse.bsky.social · 55m

All technology is political. How we use it and to whose benefit has driven nations for millennia.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1h

Cybersecurity was always political.
You can't escape effects on defense, intelligence, and even the increasingly flooded industry job market by closing your eyes really hard and sticking your fingers in your ears. You can't escape cybersecurity being political by being, "not really into politics".

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3d

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

This is like disbanding your military during World War Two.

The Trump regime is firing many of the 2,540 employee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the ongoing government shutdown. Why? CISA dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown

CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently the CDC and CISA are "Democrat-oriented" agencies. Republicans prefer us being sick and hacked.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 6h

I know this stuff isn't surprising anymore but I really can't stress enough how much everybody involved with CISA and cyber tried to keep the field nonpolitical and nonpartisan before this administration.

Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 7h

On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay

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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 2d

White House made good on threats to fire workers during shutdown, and CISA was among those that lost workers - 176 were fired on Friday. A CISA spokesperson told Metacurity that CISA under Biden admin focused on "censorship, branding, and electioneering. This is part of getting CISA back on mission"