Milo Trujillo
@backdrifting.net
Systems scientist, engineer, activist. Research and practice with decentralized online social groups.
Postdoc at the CoMM lab in @nunetsi.bsky.social, infrastructure and analysis at @ddosecrets.com
Postdoc at the CoMM lab in @nunetsi.bsky.social, infrastructure and analysis at @ddosecrets.com
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Milo Trujillo
@backdrifting.net
· Jun 9
No more machine learning, only machine yearning. We are teaching computers how to love.
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I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.
It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion!
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
YouTube video by andrew867
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.
That scene in Attack of the Clones where C-3PO has his head attached to a battle droid and talks about how strange it feels is probably one of the only instances of the droids having body dysphoria, because the rest of them are CIS
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
That scene in Attack of the Clones where C-3PO has his head attached to a battle droid and talks about how strange it feels is probably one of the only instances of the droids having body dysphoria, because the rest of them are CIS
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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In 2022 I gave a HOPE talk about the underground abortion movement that was covered by journalist Jessica Bruder for an Atlantic cover story: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Sad to hear that HOPE lost its venue because of radical zines.
Sad to hear that HOPE lost its venue because of radical zines.
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In 2022 I gave a HOPE talk about the underground abortion movement that was covered by journalist Jessica Bruder for an Atlantic cover story: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Sad to hear that HOPE lost its venue because of radical zines.
Sad to hear that HOPE lost its venue because of radical zines.
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I've never been prouder of @2600.com and speaking at @hope.net than now. 2600 has apparently been told HOPE can't return to St. John's University - allegedly because some attendees last year were ""too anti-police.""
Censorship won't stop the signal - especially not 2600 Hz
Censorship won't stop the signal - especially not 2600 Hz
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. www.2600.com/content/hope...
HOPE CONFERENCE BANNED BY ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | 2600
www.2600.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. www.2600.com/content/hope...
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I just saw a tiny girl, swiping at her phone in banal disinterest from her stroller, while her mother sprinted to drive the chariot before her, and it was like Cleopatra being spirited by her servants on the royal litter
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I just saw a tiny girl, swiping at her phone in banal disinterest from her stroller, while her mother sprinted to drive the chariot before her, and it was like Cleopatra being spirited by her servants on the royal litter
Reading police radio transcripts. “Unsure if related to this protest, but three people have just walked up with a tuba, a trombone, and a drum. We’ll keep you updated on that.”
Ten minutes later. “It’s an update on that protest. They have added a tambourine, but they remain peaceful at this time.”
Ten minutes later. “It’s an update on that protest. They have added a tambourine, but they remain peaceful at this time.”
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reading police radio transcripts. “Unsure if related to this protest, but three people have just walked up with a tuba, a trombone, and a drum. We’ll keep you updated on that.”
Ten minutes later. “It’s an update on that protest. They have added a tambourine, but they remain peaceful at this time.”
Ten minutes later. “It’s an update on that protest. They have added a tambourine, but they remain peaceful at this time.”
Very cool work featuring several students from my lab! Analysis of how some publications (NYT) set the agenda on coverage of trans discourse for local media in some states, who lead agenda setting for other states' local media - all measured via topic modeling and transfer entropy
hot off the (virtual) press in @transstudies.bsky.social: a collaboration with @pranavgoel.bsky.social, @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social, and @diesagar.bsky.social on information flows in US local & national news about transgender people (spoiler alert: it’s complicated)
doi.org/10.57814/557...
doi.org/10.57814/557...
Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Mainstream news outlets set the agenda and terms of discussion for
public discourse. As transgender people experience increasingly
vitriolic attacks on their fundamental rights in the US, understandin...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Very cool work featuring several students from my lab! Analysis of how some publications (NYT) set the agenda on coverage of trans discourse for local media in some states, who lead agenda setting for other states' local media - all measured via topic modeling and transfer entropy
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hot off the (virtual) press in @transstudies.bsky.social: a collaboration with @pranavgoel.bsky.social, @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social, and @diesagar.bsky.social on information flows in US local & national news about transgender people (spoiler alert: it’s complicated)
doi.org/10.57814/557...
doi.org/10.57814/557...
Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Mainstream news outlets set the agenda and terms of discussion for
public discourse. As transgender people experience increasingly
vitriolic attacks on their fundamental rights in the US, understandin...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
hot off the (virtual) press in @transstudies.bsky.social: a collaboration with @pranavgoel.bsky.social, @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social, and @diesagar.bsky.social on information flows in US local & national news about transgender people (spoiler alert: it’s complicated)
doi.org/10.57814/557...
doi.org/10.57814/557...
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Give DDoSecrets your money!! they routinely are behind massive stories in the news and need financial support to keep doing what they do.
After months in the coming - Leak Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List www.wired.com/story/hack-e... #DDoSecrets
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Leak Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List
A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false…
www.wired.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Give DDoSecrets your money!! they routinely are behind massive stories in the news and need financial support to keep doing what they do.
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People three hops away in your social network are people you don't know
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
People three hops away in your social network are people you don't know
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
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Part Two of the #ForeclosureFiles reporting explores how the Trump regime gutted the CFPB, which was investigating the type of "zombie loans" reported on in Part One www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Part Two of the #ForeclosureFiles reporting explores how the Trump regime gutted the CFPB, which was investigating the type of "zombie loans" reported on in Part One www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Donate now to help DDoSecrets keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...
Donate now to help DDoSecrets keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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right to repair, but for all the relationships and trust you broke while surveilling your friends with your glasses
Today in luxury surveillance.
Who's Going to Fix All Our Broken Smart Glasses?
Smart glasses may have a repairability problem.
gizmodo.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
right to repair, but for all the relationships and trust you broke while surveilling your friends with your glasses
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signal is the birth control pill of phone encryption, it’s 99.99% effective when used correctly. the only way to be 100% assured of fail-proof safety is to never use Phone, but abstinence-only education doesn’t work, so
i feel like every time i see someone calling signal insecure it only takes a few questions for them to eventually arrive at one of two conclusuons:
- encryption isn't real you idiot
- signal is insecure because someone can drug you and beat you with a $5 wrench until you unlock your phone
- encryption isn't real you idiot
- signal is insecure because someone can drug you and beat you with a $5 wrench until you unlock your phone
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
signal is the birth control pill of phone encryption, it’s 99.99% effective when used correctly. the only way to be 100% assured of fail-proof safety is to never use Phone, but abstinence-only education doesn’t work, so
Baby on the T is crying because the brakes on the green line screeched too loud. Me, too, little guy
October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Baby on the T is crying because the brakes on the green line screeched too loud. Me, too, little guy
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Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
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so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
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📌 Save the Date!
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
📌 Save the Date!
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
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This may come as a surprise to people, but access journalism has caused this mess in the first place.
Do the work. Screw the press creds. Be journalists.
Do the work. Screw the press creds. Be journalists.
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This may come as a surprise to people, but access journalism has caused this mess in the first place.
Do the work. Screw the press creds. Be journalists.
Do the work. Screw the press creds. Be journalists.
Getting my Covid booster, “How are you?” “Living the dream - stabbing people.”
September 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Getting my Covid booster, “How are you?” “Living the dream - stabbing people.”
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A DHS data-sharing platform used for sharing restricted intel among government agencies, law enforcement and fusion centers was misconfigured to allow access to "everyone" including tens of thousands of unauthorized government staff, contractors and foreign nationals. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...
A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users
A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people.
www.wired.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A DHS data-sharing platform used for sharing restricted intel among government agencies, law enforcement and fusion centers was misconfigured to allow access to "everyone" including tens of thousands of unauthorized government staff, contractors and foreign nationals. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...