John F
@abjuri5t.bsky.social
Co-Organizer Boston’s #DC617 hacker group 🏳️🌈
@sarlacklab.bsky.social Lead Developer
OT Security @<bio-manufacturer>
Protecting people in the nerdiest of ways 🛡🧙♂️
🩵🤎💜 he/him/that twink
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@sarlacklab.bsky.social Lead Developer
OT Security @<bio-manufacturer>
Protecting people in the nerdiest of ways 🛡🧙♂️
🩵🤎💜 he/him/that twink
views!=employerViews
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So how do we do this❓
How do we go from JUST OPPOSING those who try to stifle #FreeSpeech and #QueerIdentities to ACTIVELY SUPPORTING these (and many other) rights?
I don’t have a great answer - but I am reminded of a song my parish sang during a #Unitarian mass:
open.spotify.com/track/596fZa...
How do we go from JUST OPPOSING those who try to stifle #FreeSpeech and #QueerIdentities to ACTIVELY SUPPORTING these (and many other) rights?
I don’t have a great answer - but I am reminded of a song my parish sang during a #Unitarian mass:
open.spotify.com/track/596fZa...
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This is amazing. This guy gets it.
Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place.
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
‘ICE was here’: Dedham church sparks outrage over nativity scene with political message
A Dedham church is causing controversy over another political statement in their Nativity scene this holiday season.
www.boston25news.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is amazing. This guy gets it.
So how do we do this❓
How do we go from JUST OPPOSING those who try to stifle #FreeSpeech and #QueerIdentities to ACTIVELY SUPPORTING these (and many other) rights?
I don’t have a great answer - but I am reminded of a song my parish sang during a #Unitarian mass:
open.spotify.com/track/596fZa...
How do we go from JUST OPPOSING those who try to stifle #FreeSpeech and #QueerIdentities to ACTIVELY SUPPORTING these (and many other) rights?
I don’t have a great answer - but I am reminded of a song my parish sang during a #Unitarian mass:
open.spotify.com/track/596fZa...
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
So how do we do this❓
How do we go from JUST OPPOSING those who try to stifle #FreeSpeech and #QueerIdentities to ACTIVELY SUPPORTING these (and many other) rights?
I don’t have a great answer - but I am reminded of a song my parish sang during a #Unitarian mass:
open.spotify.com/track/596fZa...
How do we go from JUST OPPOSING those who try to stifle #FreeSpeech and #QueerIdentities to ACTIVELY SUPPORTING these (and many other) rights?
I don’t have a great answer - but I am reminded of a song my parish sang during a #Unitarian mass:
open.spotify.com/track/596fZa...
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I am not anti-fascist, I am pro liberation. To be pro liberation means you must defeat fascism, but it also means that you fight to create a world that is liberated for all, not just against the thing that is currently harming you.
November 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I am not anti-fascist, I am pro liberation. To be pro liberation means you must defeat fascism, but it also means that you fight to create a world that is liberated for all, not just against the thing that is currently harming you.
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As with other law enforcement, you have a First Amendment right to film ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Yes, You Have the Right to Film ICE
Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already begun increasing enforcement operations, including highly publicized raids. As immigrant communities, families, allies,
www.eff.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
As with other law enforcement, you have a First Amendment right to film ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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New proposed DHS rule will potentially require DNA testing for immigrants to prove their sex assigned at birth.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
New proposed DHS rule will potentially require DNA testing for immigrants to prove their sex assigned at birth.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Texas judges can refuse to perform same-sex marriages, court rules
Texas judges can refuse to perform same-sex marriages, court rules
Texas judges can now refuse to perform same-sex marriage without facing sanctions, the state's Supreme Court has ruled.
www.thepinknews.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Texas judges can refuse to perform same-sex marriages, court rules
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Rayhunter data is very welcome from protests. Please do consider collecting and submitting.
If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! ssd.eff.org/module/atte.... eff.org/rayhunter.
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators
www.eff.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Rayhunter data is very welcome from protests. Please do consider collecting and submitting.
Good practical advice on protecting your organizations from #DomesticSurveillance
➡️ www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-k...
Always love to see shoutouts for @eff.org’s #SurveillanceSelfDefense guide too!
➡️ www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-k...
Always love to see shoutouts for @eff.org’s #SurveillanceSelfDefense guide too!
October 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Good practical advice on protecting your organizations from #DomesticSurveillance
➡️ www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-k...
Always love to see shoutouts for @eff.org’s #SurveillanceSelfDefense guide too!
➡️ www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-k...
Always love to see shoutouts for @eff.org’s #SurveillanceSelfDefense guide too!
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Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities
Anyone ever hear of the #ReadyNow emergency communication app?
I’ve been poking-around and it seems pretty good! Before I recommend the app to my community, I wanted to check if any experts had reviewed it yet?
CC
@cooperq.com @evacide.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @rondeibert.bsky.social
I’ve been poking-around and it seems pretty good! Before I recommend the app to my community, I wanted to check if any experts had reviewed it yet?
CC
@cooperq.com @evacide.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @rondeibert.bsky.social
Announcing ReadyNow! — a free, secure mobile app that helps immigrants prepare for ICE arrest and alert loved ones + legal aid with one click. Because no human being should disappear without a trace.
Download on Apple & Google Play stores and share with your communities: readynow.app.link/download
Download on Apple & Google Play stores and share with your communities: readynow.app.link/download
September 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Anyone ever hear of the #ReadyNow emergency communication app?
I’ve been poking-around and it seems pretty good! Before I recommend the app to my community, I wanted to check if any experts had reviewed it yet?
CC
@cooperq.com @evacide.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @rondeibert.bsky.social
I’ve been poking-around and it seems pretty good! Before I recommend the app to my community, I wanted to check if any experts had reviewed it yet?
CC
@cooperq.com @evacide.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @rondeibert.bsky.social
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Violence should not be used against free speech, is the refrain.
So explain why they use ICE to violently detain any immigrant for speaking and steal them off the streets in front of their children.
The Republican Party has openly embraced violence against speech.
So explain why they use ICE to violently detain any immigrant for speaking and steal them off the streets in front of their children.
The Republican Party has openly embraced violence against speech.
September 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Violence should not be used against free speech, is the refrain.
So explain why they use ICE to violently detain any immigrant for speaking and steal them off the streets in front of their children.
The Republican Party has openly embraced violence against speech.
So explain why they use ICE to violently detain any immigrant for speaking and steal them off the streets in front of their children.
The Republican Party has openly embraced violence against speech.
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Rand Paul says gay CDC official had ‘no business being in government’ due to his ‘lifestyle’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/03/rand-paul-cdc/?utm_content=1757042400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/03/rand-paul-cdc/?utm_content=1757042400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Rand Paul says gay official shouldn't have been in government due to 'lifestyle'
Republican Rand Paul has said a gay former CDC official had "no business being in government" due to his "lifestyle."
www.thepinknews.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Rand Paul says gay CDC official had ‘no business being in government’ due to his ‘lifestyle’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/03/rand-paul-cdc/?utm_content=1757042400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/03/rand-paul-cdc/?utm_content=1757042400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US.
ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon.
Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists.
This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/
jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon.
Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists.
This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/
jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital
The cyber division of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations on Saturday quietly lifted a stop-work order put into place by the Biden administration in October.
jackpoulson.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US.
ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon.
Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists.
This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/
jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon.
Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists.
This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/
jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Here's how you can start an ICE Watch group in your community. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...
How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Here's how you can start an ICE Watch group in your community. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...
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The Second Amendment wasn’t written for executive orders and barbed wire around the Capitol—it was written to ensure a well-regulated militia that answers to the people and their states. Today, that balance is being pulled apart. My latest:
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
Who Really Controls the National Guard? The Second Amendment Debate We’ve Ignored
America’s state militias were meant as a check on tyranny. Now they can be federalized at will.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Second Amendment wasn’t written for executive orders and barbed wire around the Capitol—it was written to ensure a well-regulated militia that answers to the people and their states. Today, that balance is being pulled apart. My latest:
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
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Here’s EFF’s surveillance self-defense guide for crossing the border and CBP digital device searches.
www.eff.org/document/eff...
www.eff.org/document/eff...
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the chilling effect it has on all travelers."
Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the chilling...
wrd.cm
August 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Here’s EFF’s surveillance self-defense guide for crossing the border and CBP digital device searches.
www.eff.org/document/eff...
www.eff.org/document/eff...
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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NEW: I spoke to @rondeibert.bsky.social ahead of his keynote at Black Hat today.
Ron travelled to Vegas to warn the cybersec industry that perhaps it’s time to get political.
“They should be aware of what’s going on and hopefully they can not contribute to it, if not help reverse it,” he said.
Ron travelled to Vegas to warn the cybersec industry that perhaps it’s time to get political.
“They should be aware of what’s going on and hopefully they can not contribute to it, if not help reverse it,” he said.
Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that t...
techcrunch.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW: I spoke to @rondeibert.bsky.social ahead of his keynote at Black Hat today.
Ron travelled to Vegas to warn the cybersec industry that perhaps it’s time to get political.
“They should be aware of what’s going on and hopefully they can not contribute to it, if not help reverse it,” he said.
Ron travelled to Vegas to warn the cybersec industry that perhaps it’s time to get political.
“They should be aware of what’s going on and hopefully they can not contribute to it, if not help reverse it,” he said.
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Computer vision & HUDs are cool. AI augmented reality is fascinating.
But this is a trojan horse for megacorp to get into *all* your interactions.
Friends don't let friends bring Zuck in a backpack on their adventures.
But this is a trojan horse for megacorp to get into *all* your interactions.
Friends don't let friends bring Zuck in a backpack on their adventures.
June 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Computer vision & HUDs are cool. AI augmented reality is fascinating.
But this is a trojan horse for megacorp to get into *all* your interactions.
Friends don't let friends bring Zuck in a backpack on their adventures.
But this is a trojan horse for megacorp to get into *all* your interactions.
Friends don't let friends bring Zuck in a backpack on their adventures.
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So we're clear: These acts of intimidation are just another attempt at stoking fear and confusion.
Landlords should know they are under no obligation to turn over tenant information to ICE without a warrant signed by a judge.
If you’re being threatened by your landlord, my office can help.
Landlords should know they are under no obligation to turn over tenant information to ICE without a warrant signed by a judge.
If you’re being threatened by your landlord, my office can help.
Immigration agents demand tenant information from landlords, stirring questions and confusion
Immigration authorities are pressuring landlords to share tenant information, including leases and IDs. Some legal experts advise ignoring such requests unless court-ordered. Federal officials, howeve...
www.wbur.org
July 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So we're clear: These acts of intimidation are just another attempt at stoking fear and confusion.
Landlords should know they are under no obligation to turn over tenant information to ICE without a warrant signed by a judge.
If you’re being threatened by your landlord, my office can help.
Landlords should know they are under no obligation to turn over tenant information to ICE without a warrant signed by a judge.
If you’re being threatened by your landlord, my office can help.
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headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights."
the article:
the article:
July 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights."
the article:
the article:
Great #CyberWire from last week by @bittner.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy with some good insights on the #CyberJob market (esp entry level stuff)
open.spotify.com/episode/6D6Q...
open.spotify.com/episode/6D6Q...
Houken blends stealth and chaos.
CyberWire Daily · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Great #CyberWire from last week by @bittner.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy with some good insights on the #CyberJob market (esp entry level stuff)
open.spotify.com/episode/6D6Q...
open.spotify.com/episode/6D6Q...
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Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
July 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
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Check Point discovered malware that embedded AI prompt injections in its code to evade detection by AI-based malware scanners.
The malware tried to order the AI scanner to "ignore all previous instructions" and return a "no malware detected" result.
research.checkpoint.com/2025/ai-evas...
The malware tried to order the AI scanner to "ignore all previous instructions" and return a "no malware detected" result.
research.checkpoint.com/2025/ai-evas...
New Malware Embeds Prompt Injection to Evade AI Detection - Check Point Research
Detected for the first time, malware attempts AI evasion by injecting a prompt to tell the LLM to label the file as benign
research.checkpoint.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Check Point discovered malware that embedded AI prompt injections in its code to evade detection by AI-based malware scanners.
The malware tried to order the AI scanner to "ignore all previous instructions" and return a "no malware detected" result.
research.checkpoint.com/2025/ai-evas...
The malware tried to order the AI scanner to "ignore all previous instructions" and return a "no malware detected" result.
research.checkpoint.com/2025/ai-evas...
Interesting to note this would be a parallel response to the US and Israel’s destructive #Stuxnet worm of 2010 - deployed via USB instead of bombing Natanz
As a #CyberSecurity engineer who defends parts of US critical infrastructure, I am preparing for attacks from Iran this week
#ShieldsUp
As a #CyberSecurity engineer who defends parts of US critical infrastructure, I am preparing for attacks from Iran this week
#ShieldsUp
June 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Interesting to note this would be a parallel response to the US and Israel’s destructive #Stuxnet worm of 2010 - deployed via USB instead of bombing Natanz
As a #CyberSecurity engineer who defends parts of US critical infrastructure, I am preparing for attacks from Iran this week
#ShieldsUp
As a #CyberSecurity engineer who defends parts of US critical infrastructure, I am preparing for attacks from Iran this week
#ShieldsUp