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💻 cybersecurity research at Consumer Reports 🖊️ independent investigative tech reporting 📣yaelwrites.com ✉️ [email protected] 💥#alwaysantifascist 🎤opinions are mine, but you can have some

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · Sep 9

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously k...

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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 5d

Our new Consumer Cyber Readiness Report with @aspendigital.bsky.social and @gca.bsky.social found a continued racial disparity in financial losses related to scams.

See what security experts recommend to stay safe: innovation.consumerreports.org/2025-Consume...

#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

Those who have lost money to a digital attack or scam

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 15h

don’t need an editor

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 16h

so excited that @cryptovillage.bsky.social managed to get the slides that didn't work at @defcon.bsky.social up on the video of my talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4zi...

DEF CON 33 - Back to Basics: Building Resilient Cyber Defenses - Yael Grauer

YouTube video by DEFCONConference

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the feminine pristiq @r4v5.imgay.lol · 1d

like, i already felt gross sharing an industry with the No Means Maybe Laters, but this shit is beyond the pale

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the feminine pristiq @r4v5.imgay.lol · 1d

how do you trust the people involved with making and implementing these product decisions to walk the same streets as you and your loved ones, knowing this is how fucked their model of consent is?

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"I give voice to the voiceless. When a middle-aged woman walks into Reformation, the salespeople barely blink. But if she wears a large mustard-yellow acrylic choker designed by a Scandinavian architect? She exists!"

I’m a Chunky Geometric Statement Necklace, and I’m Here to Solve the Woman Invisibility Problem

They say women disappear with age, but if that’s true, why do their necklaces keep getting bigger? Society shuns women with crow’s feet and crepey ...

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 1d

Me thinking about how people might get upset when I unsubscribe but it’s because I signed up twice with different email addresses.

a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .

Alt: a close up of a woman’s face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

it's gettin silly out here

Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 2d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 2d

wouldn't you be an answer? :)

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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 4d

Don't count on the #CDC for evidence-based information about #vaccines these days. But there still remain plenty of other resources for getting that information. Here's where to start.

Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse

With the CDC no longer a trustworthy source, use these resources to find reliable, accurate, evidence-based information about vaccines.

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 2d

Fido for all!

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 2d

security keys for the people

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 2d

Welp.

today.ucsd.edu/story/cybers...

Cybersecurity Training Programs Don’t Prevent Employees from Falling for Phishing Scams

Cybersecurity training programs as implemented today by most large companies do little to reduce the risk that employees will fall for phishing scams–the practice of sending malicious emails posing as...

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 2d

It's the year of...

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

Linux distros aren't the only open-source operating systems.

9 Open Source Operating Systems That Aren't Linux

Want something different from the same old Linux distros? Try one of these OSes.

www.howtogeek.com

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 2d

www.welcometochechnya.com

Welcome to Chechnya

Inside the Russian Republic’s deadly war on gays.

www.welcometochechnya.com

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 3d

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 3d

TIL today

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 3d

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Shea Fontana @sheafontana.bsky.social · 4d

Life advice: download the file. You know that Google spreadsheet where you filled in all the important info and reference all the time? Well, one day, the owner of that spreadsheet might get laid off and all their links will break and no one will know how to find that file again. “But what about

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 5d

They should still be there!

🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 5d

I like your username lol

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 5d

Omg I should’ve just shared this! justinegracephoto.com/yael/

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