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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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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3m

So keep it up, hacker community. When I left Twitter, it was only a few of us speaking out about what we didn’t want to enable. We were mocked and ignored. There wasn’t a huge change in content. I’m glad people have started to realize the reality of the battles we face.

Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 5m

We have reached a 50% tipping point for sure. We are way lower on the hierarchy of needs, (bad) but it’s good we are talking about it consistently.

Between the manufactured AI hype crumbling and people being dragged off in the streets, it gives me hope we are taking about human rights.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 8m

One day I'll tell you all about how and why I had to change my dissertation.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 10m

I have public lists of cybersecurity reporters and pundits on both BlueSky and Mastodon and find it simultaneously encouraging and discouraging how much of the American's content has changed from cybersecurity research to tangential privacy rights and even just social justice in the past six months.

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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social · 2h

This is exactly it! They don't want to just deport, they want to punish. It's evil for evil's sake.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 5h

"it’s getting harder and harder to tell 'law enforcement' from the criminals they claim to protect us from."

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America

The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.

www.msnbc.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 6h

If you've ever wondered how someone making upwards of $1m a year as a deputy CISO at a big tech company spends their Saturday night: it's apparently replying to my boss' LinkedIn post about hiring me to bring up crimes I committed 12 years ago and was sentenced for 😃

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The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus @lambdacalculus.bsky.social · 58m

I heard the leader of Portland's #antifa is named Monkey D. Luffy. Pass it on.

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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 3d

Glad you're doing it, but I won't be reading it. Your paper's role in making all of these events more likely is the reason.

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Travel Spud @travelspud.bsky.social · 3d

You can start the series by noting the big picture role the NYTimes played in causing the research funding to be cut. The NYTimes normalized and sane washed the president, when it was obvious that he was exhibiting clear signs of early to early mid-level dementia.

Dementia.is is for sale at Atom!

Domain name Dementia.is encapsulates the profound impact of memory loss and cognitive decline. It evokes a sense of introspection, empathy, and the need for understanding in the face of a complex neur...

dementia.is

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3d

ummm like, all of them???

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

Do you like staring at assembly for days on end alone? And have you gotten cover to cover on Practical Malware Analysis?

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IT_Spook @itspook.com · 4d

I referred a junior resource to an junior cybersecurity position at our work and they did not get screened in for an interview. I inquired and was told they had nearly 400 applicants and had to set the bar very high for the cutoff (certs, experience, etc.).

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

I say it's the best shot - definitely not a panacea

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

I see so much gaslighting of people who are struggling to find jobs at junior and mid-level cybersecurity by folks who got their last job or first job before 2023. It's unreal and uncalled for. The market and the automation in the hiring processes have gone to hell. www.reddit.com/r/SecurityCa...

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

If you can't get the degree, then everything is the same but a lot more of the general IT work and all the other stuff to make a lateral career move later. The military is a possibility if that's your thing.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

Get a degree in CS or computer/network engineering. Pick a general niche in cybersecurity, preferably less popular. Get your basic IT certs. Get a generalist IT support role. Get your second-tier certs. Network like hell for a couple years. Keep up self-study. Participate in the community.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

People salty that I am gatekeeping - I am literally trying to keep them out of paying a bunch of money to skeevy organizations who will not help them land a job at all in the collapsing cybersecurity job market.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

People don’t realize how badly and how fast the market is collapsing

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

There are certainly good -courses- that can supplement a strong IT foundation and existing experience and credentials. Especially on targeted topics. But if it sounds too good to be true it is. You’re not landing a SOC job on a 6 month bootcamp, these days.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

I guess I haven't clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025.

They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.

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