You will be shocked to discover that I am not a fan of the UAE and I have opinions about the way they've been throwing money around the tech sector in Silicon Valley, trying to buy influence and legitimacy.

apropos of nothing, i think a couple good questions to ask oneself as a prelude to coalition-building are “do these people have the same goal as i do?” and “do i trust these people not to throw me to the cops if i do something they dislike?”

if the answer to either is “no,” they’re not your ally

Our 2025 RE//verse talk schedule is now live! Talks start Friday, but don't forget to check the Thursday schedule and arrive early enough for the kick-off event!

https://re-verse.io/schedule.html?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=schedulepub#sz-tab-45716

Last month as drones over NY/NJ made headlines, a radiation-monitoring site reported spikes in radiation in NY, seemingly supporting a theory that the drones were tracking a dirty bomb on the loose there. Only the spikes were fake. I wrote about the scare and how it spread on social media

New in DAILA, an AI-integrated decompiler plugin, v3.15.0, support for custom endpoints was added by @pc944. Check it out: github.com/mahaloz/D...

It's release day!! If you haven't heard about it, check out my new book about how world governments developed hackers as military assets for global domination.
Makes a great holiday gift!
Amazon - a.co/d/iGersd2
Barnes & Noble - www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hack-to-th...

This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing:

Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists.

Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

NEW from us: An October letter from DHS obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how surveillance and AI tools help make life-altering decisions for immigrants, including whether they should be detained or surveilled: apnews.com/article/arti...

New video! Lots of circles in this one and also some unix history, prime numbers, and possibly a few Jokes watch out for those
youtu.be/gITmP0IWff0

Our router/IoT hacking course is shaping up and it will be 🔥

#constant #coffeepot

Just learned from @biella.bsky.social about this new project documenting hacker history. This map is really cool:
wherewarlocksstayuplate.com/map/

apropos of nothing, one of the most important things any of us can do to resist fascism is to refuse to comply early.

this means a lot of things, like not selling out your vulnerable neighbors, and not acting to aid the regime.

it also *very crucially* means not abandoning hope.

Blessings upon Yael, scourge upon data brokers, avatar of opt-outs

Russian spies—likely Russia's GRU intelligence agency—used a new trick to hack a victim in Washington, DC: They remotely infected another network in a building across the street, hijacked a laptop there, then breached the target organization via its Wifi. www.wired.com/story/russia...

jr analyst: i'm going to present a speculative opinion based on an assumption.

dm: *and those black eyes roll over white, and then you hear that terrible, high-pitched screamin. and in spite of all the poundin and the hollerin, they all come in and rip ya to pieces*