Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years. Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸
Cyber Balladeer
@cyberballadeer.bsky.social
Retired business executive, engineer and technologist. Designed and delivered worldwide C4I, transportation and health systems. Strong interest in helping people protect themselves on the Internet, improving our broken healthcare system, and SciFi.
Unreal. Such a self inflicted wound. A generational mistake
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.
This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported. It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · last yr.In case you missed it: the Pentagon--that's Hegseth--got warned about using Signal a week ago.
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
My co-workers are badass and I am proud of them. EFF is suing DOGE and OPM over their illegal sharing of federal employee data.
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · last yr.BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.
EFF has now filed a Privacy Act of 1974, www.eff.org/document/afg... for the incursion at OPM.
AFGE v. OPM - Complaint
2025-02-11_-_afge_v_opm_sdny_-_complaint.pdf
eff.org
In these difficult times, please do the basics to protect your privacy. Control what you can. One step at at time. My blog provides guidance for the non-specialist. It's on my book website because I have one with a blog. I'm not trying to monetize. Just help out. douglasbartonauthor.com/blog/
Blog - Douglas Barton
Want to hear about the continuing adventures of Jack and Jill in Riff the Razzle? How about a lighthearted take on privacy and security? Find out more!
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Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each…
Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each case, we identified what AI was used for and estimated the cost of creating similar content without AI.
schneier.com
New VPN Backdoor A newly discovered VPN backdoor uses some interesting tactics to avoid detection: When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard work can't be leveraged by competing groups or detected by defenders. One countermeasure is…
New VPN Backdoor
A newly discovered VPN backdoor uses some interesting tactics to avoid detection: When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard work can't be leveraged by competing groups or detected by defenders. One countermeasure is to equip the backdoor with a passive agent that remains dormant until it receives what's known in the business as a "magic packet." On Thursday, researchers revealed that a never-before-seen backdoor that quietly took hold of dozens of enterprise VPNs running Juniper Network's Junos OS has been doing just that.
schneier.com
Introducing a series of blog posts called - Going Digitally Green: Reducing your Digital Exhaust. They provide simple, practical guidance to protecting your privacy online. I'm using my author's website (I'm already paying for it.) The blog is a separate series of topics. Have a look.