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Jonathan Kamens 86 47
@jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
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Director of Information Security at 4DMedical.
I work primarily in #infosec, #IT, and #SaaS infrastructure.
ex #USDS (fired by #DOGE)
Dad, old-school hacker […]

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"Your experience is important to us." Specifically, it's important to us that you allow us to ruin your experience.
Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.
#privacy #infosec #adBlocker #mlive #adtech #techisshitdispatch
A screenshot showing an article on mlive.com, but you can't see the article because it's blocked by a big pop-up preventing you from accessing the page unless you disable your ad blocker.
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Every so often I wonder about some of the weird foods that #costco chooses to sell in bulk, but then I remember that one of their customer bases is restaurants.
Have you ever had a bowl of ice cream or a sundae at a restaurant with a chocolate chip cookie […]

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Box of Tate's Bake Shop chocolate chip cookies, with a plastic package of seven cookies from inside the box sitting in front of it
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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The fundamental problem with Chuck Schumer and too many other Democrats in Congress is they're playing politics when they should be leading the resistance.
We elected them to lead, not to play games.
Cowards, the lot of them.
#politics #uspol
dril tweet "turning a big dial taht says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right," but with "Racism" crossed out and replaced with "Politics"
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Yet another website that refuses to work over a #vpn and lies about it.
(Text of the screenshot in the replies, since it's too long for alt text)
🧵1/7
#techisshitdispatch #infosec #privacy #olo
Screenshot of a web feedback form. Subject: "How you lost me as a customer" Message in the replies to this post, since it's too long to fit here in the alt text.
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Also, I get this when I try to view claims on their website. Brilliant! #techisshitdispatch
Gateway Timeout The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I need to go upstairs and brush my teeth and go to sleep but the cat has settled down on my lap so I guess I'm going to die here on this sofa.
Help, someone save me.
#catsofmastodon #princeollie
Smash black cat, ears poking up, curled up on a lap covered with a pink blanket.
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Is this private #linkedin conversation legit, or has my contact's LinkedIn account been compromised? Vote in the poll in the reply!
#Phishing #infosec
LinkedIn private messaging conversation: HIM: Hi,Jonathan I hope everything is going well with you! I have a friend named [elided], and I’ve already given her a brief introduction about you. She is very eager to have the opportunity to connect with you. If it’s convenient, please share your phone number with me, and I’ll pass it on to her. Thank you very much! ME: Hi [elided]. Thanks for reaching out. Can you be a bit more specific about why Kalina wants to connect? HIM: She's building her network and making more friends You can send me your cell phone number, and I'll have her text you
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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City of #boston Ward 22 Precinct 10 (District 9) preliminary unofficial results from the polling place (small number of additional ballots deposited into dropboxes or postmarked today may be counted later).
#bostonma #Election
Clerk's book page showing: 309 ballots cast 268 votes for Michelle Wu 17 write-ins 24 blanks 160 votes for Erin Murphy 55 for Will Onuoha 172 for Henry Santana 81 for Marvin Mathelier 80 for Alexandra Valdez 205 for Ruthzee Louijeune 181 for Julia Mejia 54 for Frank Baker 3 write-ins 245 blanks 82 votes for Pilar Ortiz 208 for Liz Breadon 4 write-ins 15 blanks
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I got this banner at the #blueshieldofca website this evening.
The website is asking me to consent to share my "navigation and use activity" with third-party service providers without telling me who they are or exactly what data are shared with them.
These […]

[Original post on federate.social]
"We use trusted partners to improve your experience We use third-party service providers to help us operate and manage this website. By clicking Continue, you agree to the collection by and disclosure to third parties of your navigation and use activity on this website. We also use cookies and other tracking technologies to enhance your experience through analyzing our website performance and traffic. By continuing to use our website or mobile application, you understand our use of cookies as described on the Privacy page found at the bottom of this webpage. You can change your cookie settings by selecting Cookie preferences. ["Continue" button]"
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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#silentsunday
Sunlit golden trees on a mountainside in the background, with a bright blue sky above them. A river runs toward the view in front of the mountainside.
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Here's a short video of the chandelier after the cleaning, since you can't really see how sparkly it is in a still image.
2/2
November 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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It takes nearly two hours to clean our chandelier, but boy howdy it's worth it. Here are before and after photos.
I find cleaning the chandelier somewhat meditative, and I love seeing how much more beautiful it is afterward. It's a bit of an escape for me […]

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A brass-colored chandelier with a glass core, candle bulbs, glass "drip trays" below the "candle" stalks, and many small and large glass crystals. Everything is dusty and dirty and not terribly sparkly. The same chandelier after everything has been cleaned and polished. Much shinier!
November 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Looks like somebody broke into #atari's #sendgrid account and used it to send a bunch of phishing emails.
No explanation given for how; perhaps @zackwhittaker can wheedle it out of them.
Since it says here that they've "secured" the account, my guess is a bad […]

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Email screenshot. From "Atari - Update <update@atari.com>". Subject "Official notice from Atari – Ignore recent phishing emails pretending to be us". Atari logo. Text: Earlier this week, an unauthorized party gained limited, temporary access to our third-party email service provider and used it to send phishing emails. These emails were not sent by anyone from Atari. We have already identified and resolved the issue, secured the account, and while our investigation is ongoing, upon initial review it appears that no personal information, customer data, or internal systems were accessed or compromised. If you received a suspicious or unexpected email from Atari between October 21 and October 30, please delete or ignore it. We sincerely apologize for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused. Protecting our community’s trust and security is extremely important to us, and we are taking additional steps to further safeguard our systems going forward. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us at https://atari.com/pages/contact.
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I need to give credit where credit is due to #gocomics.
When I received the GoComics spam described above, I replied and complained (first image below). I did not expect a response.
But I actually received one, saying that they had unsubscribed me.
I wrote […]

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Screenshot of email text. "first complaint email" is written at the top in red. The text of the email reads: Hello. Why are you spamming me, when according to my preferences page I have already unsubscribed from your marketing emails? Also, why doesn't your spam have an "unsubscribe" link in addition to or instead of the "Manage preferences" link? This is a dark pattern. Don't be shitty. screenshot of email text. "second complaint email" in red at the top. Email text reads: I appreciate your response, but you didn't answer my question. Why were you spamming me when I was already unsubscribed? Why did you need to take action to unsubscribe me? For that matter, how many other people who are already unsubscribed are you spamming? Email text screenshot. "second response from GoComics" at the top. Email text: Hi Jonathan, You're right, you shouldn't have received the GoComics Newsletter. Here are direct answers to your questions: >> Why did you get emails after opting out? A sync issue between your account preferences and our email system triggered the message to you. That shouldn't have happened. >> Why did I take action to unsubscribe you? Manually suppressing your address was the fastest way to stop any further marketing emails immediately. >> Why isn't there an "unsubscribe" link in the footer? We removed the one-click unsubscribe link because it was unsubscribing contacts from all email lists in the Andrews McMeel system, not just GoComics. We kept "Manage preferences" as a workaround while we implement a proper solution. I understand your expectation to see a one-click unsubscribe, and I've noted that feedback. >> How many others were affected? I don't have a number to share. This isn't expected behavior, and when we identify this issue, we immediately stop sends and address the underlying sync problem. You're fully suppressed from the GoComics Newsletter and marketing emails going forward. If there's anything else you want me to check on your account, let me know.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Oh, wow, the scale of King's current grift is even larger than I'd realized. He didn't just subscribe me against my will to one Substack newsletter. He's running seven different newsletters/podcasts and he subscribed me to all of them.
What an asshole.
Screen shot of the Substack unsubscribe page showing the seven different things Shaun King is distributing on Substack with the subscription rocker switch "on" for all of them.
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Perpetual #grifter #shaunking sent me the email below last night via #substack. Because I've been busy doing other things and haven't gotten around to unsubscribing, he has so far sent me four additional messages today.
I _certainly_ did not subscribe to his […]

[Original post on federate.social]
Email from "Shaun King <thenorthstar@substack.com>" which starts with the following text, pictured: "Hello and As-Salaam-Alaikum to each of you. We are now the #2 trending news platform on all of Substack, but we are ranked 13th in paid members. To continue our work, please consider chipping in and becoming a monthly or annual member, OK?"
October 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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@sennoma
I love it when a plan comes together
October 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Sitting in the #copleysquare #mbta station after midnight and the #rats are just fearless. Here's one little guy, but he was just one of many openly scrambling around the brightly lit station. #boston #bostonma
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Hey @bitwarden, what's the story with the cookie customization window on your homepage where none of the buttons actually do anything and the opted-in cookies can't be deselected? That's kind of gross, don't you think?
#privacy #BitWarden #darkpatterns
Screenshot of the "Choose how we use your personal information" pop-up from bitwarden.com, which shows several categories of cookies, "Analytics", "Essential Services", and "Marketing", all of which are opted in and can't be deselected.
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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But wait, there's more! This is what I see when I get to the page where I'm supposed to enter my credit card details.
Notice what's missing from the page? Yup, the text fields for me to enter the credit card details!
I tried this in both Firefox and Chrome […]

[Original post on federate.social]
Screenshot showing a page that is supposed to let me enter my credit card details but there are no fields for entering the details
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The silliness continues. They've disabled paste on the "Confirm Email Address" field, so I couldn't paste the email address they wanted from my password manager where it is stored securely. Fortunately I was able to surmount that barrier quickly with the […]

[Original post on federate.social]
Screenshot of a form which starts with two fields, "Email Address" and "Confirm Email Address".
October 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Someone please explain to me the circumstances under which I would be trying to make a payment of more than $999,999 to the Massachusetts RMV on their registration renewal page.
Screenshot of the payment step in the Massachusetts RMV registration renewal app on their website, which says above the buttons to choose the payment method, "The maximum payment allowed on a credit card is $999,999".
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Apparently the folks at #israel Bonds haven't been reading what I've been posting for the past two years.
We actually stopped buying Israel Bonds several years before October 7, because of all the other appalling shit Israel was doing under Bibi. Now we're […]

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Letter from Computershare on behalf of Israel Bonds, signed by Dani Naveh, "President & CEO" of Israel Bonds, inviting us to reinvest a bond that's about to expire into a new Israel Bond. "Reinvesting also reconnects you to the State of Israel, a nation with a resilient economy, strong entrepreneurial spirit and a vibrant democracy."
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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More good signs from today in #chicago #nokings
"Eat the Rich" with a drawing of a cereal bowl filled with money with the heads of oligarchs (Trump, Bezos, Zuck, etc.) mixed in with the money "I have a dream" with a drawing of a handcuffed Trump in an orange prison jumpsuit being escorted through a prison courtyard by a guard
October 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Some good signs from today in #chicago #nokings
Sign made to look like a No Parking sign, but instead it says, "NO KING! ANY TIME! VIOLATORS WILL BE REMOVED!" Paper mache effigy if Donald Trump with a big "LOSER IN CHIEF" sign hanging on the front "they want 1933 Germany let's give them 1789 France" Drawing of a frog head (like the inflatable frog from Portland) and a drawing of an ice cube with a greater than sign between them, i.e., "frog is greater than ICE"
October 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM