haxordan
@haxordan.bsky.social
Husband, father, and nerd. Professionally, I do security stuff. Posts are mine. E-mail is best.
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Kind of want this shirt.
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Kind of want this shirt.
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Politics aside, this executive order is wrong and unconstitutional. I stand with Chris Krebs.
www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr...
www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr...
Deafening Silence From The Cybersecurity Industry
Chris Krebs affirmed the 2020 election was secure. Now he's the target of an Executive Order—and the cybersecurity industry’s silence is enabling a dangerous precedent.
www.forbes.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Politics aside, this executive order is wrong and unconstitutional. I stand with Chris Krebs.
www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr...
www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr...
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NOPE.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Nope. Not a chance. I will travel without a smartphone at all before I'd be willing to do this.
Nope. Not a chance. I will travel without a smartphone at all before I'd be willing to do this.
Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up
Facial recognition and a ‘journey pass’ stored on passengers’ phones are part of UN-backed plans to digitise air transport
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
NOPE.
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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
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We are all Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor. It’s just a matter of time: www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him
Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor both served in Trump's first term. Krebs questioned Trump's claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Taylor criticized his conduct in office.
www.nbcnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
We are all Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor. It’s just a matter of time: www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
This week has been lessons in vulnerability assessment/management, risk assessment/management, encryption, NIPRnet vs. SIPRNet, OPSEC, asset protection, and OSINT. I just wish I could have paused all my classes to cover it all fully instead of the "current events" approach I had to adopt.
March 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This week has been lessons in vulnerability assessment/management, risk assessment/management, encryption, NIPRnet vs. SIPRNet, OPSEC, asset protection, and OSINT. I just wish I could have paused all my classes to cover it all fully instead of the "current events" approach I had to adopt.
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At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about the tech used by police and authorities to spy on you while you’re going about your everyday life, like cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that we hope empowers everyone to help search out CSS around the world.
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about Street Level Surveillance technologies—the technologies used by police and other authorities to spy on you while you are going about your everyday life—suc...
www.eff.org
March 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about the tech used by police and authorities to spy on you while you’re going about your everyday life, like cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that we hope empowers everyone to help search out CSS around the world.
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There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff.
Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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March 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff.
Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.
SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings
YouTube video by tennesseejed93
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February 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.
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This is what I want to see from our congresspeople and other anti-fascist government employees. We need them to put themselves on the line the same way we are.
It's easy to give up and disengage right now - but Chris Kluwe isn't doing that.
Kluwe stood on business in Huntington Beach tonight for marginalized folks, and was arrested for his act of civil disobedience.
Watch (2 parts) --
@protecthb.bsky.social
@socalextremismwatch.com
@ktla.com
Kluwe stood on business in Huntington Beach tonight for marginalized folks, and was arrested for his act of civil disobedience.
Watch (2 parts) --
@protecthb.bsky.social
@socalextremismwatch.com
@ktla.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is what I want to see from our congresspeople and other anti-fascist government employees. We need them to put themselves on the line the same way we are.
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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
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Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "
February 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "
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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifoaihlyxzbiko32lmralzpicfxnzwfoxp3ki5w4wniiihonzxira@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪👩🔬
February 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪👩🔬
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Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."
February 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."
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A reminder that "executive orders" are exactly that - orders from the president for the executive branch. They are not laws, and they do not directly bind anyone not in the executive branch of the US government. They might affect how laws are enforced and other things the executive branch does […]
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February 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A reminder that "executive orders" are exactly that - orders from the president for the executive branch. They are not laws, and they do not directly bind anyone not in the executive branch of the US government. They might affect how laws are enforced and other things the executive branch does […]
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“free speech”
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“free speech”
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End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.
How to keep your private conversations private | CNN Business
As we all live more of our lives online, it’s important to understand who might have access to our conversations and internet searches – and to understand how to maintain privacy in an increasingly co...
www.cnn.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.
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OPSEC? What's that? This is VERY bad for our operatives. *shakes head*
Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
OPSEC? What's that? This is VERY bad for our operatives. *shakes head*
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This. Is. Amazing. Finally, an ebook alternative for Amazon, but for independent bookstores. This is amazing for readers who want to be more intentional about where you're spending your money. 📖 #BookSky
Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exclusively supports local bookstores
Indie bookstores miss out on millions of e-book sales to big companies like Amazon. Bookshop.org's new platform could help them turn a new page.
www.npr.org
February 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This. Is. Amazing. Finally, an ebook alternative for Amazon, but for independent bookstores. This is amazing for readers who want to be more intentional about where you're spending your money. 📖 #BookSky