Rob Rosenberger
@vmyths.bsky.social
#Retired I'm the longest reigning #critic of the computer #antivirus industry. I debunk #cybersecurity & #cyberwar hype. Bluesky #100,754
Are you sure he didn't say "improv"? 🤔
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 2d agoFor CISA's part, acting CSD head Chris Butera says eliminating the "legacy assessments" will "reduce redundancy for CISA and organizations requesting an assessment." "CISA routinely evaluates our services and tools to make necessary changes to improve,” he said.
I started programming mainframes in 1982 and the operators regularly performed tests to detect failing memory circuit boards. On 28 Aug 26, we saw in real time a dual-hemisphere neurological event (aka #MyoclonicJerk) trigger in sequence his right arm, right/left eyelid, tongue, left arm:
Got a request to attend a private meeting in the U.S. Attorney's bldg where an Air Force veteran absolutely sounded like an "OG" Vmyths[.]com reader. Different topic, same #skepticism. I approached him afterwards… Yeah, he didn't touch a computer until 2010-ish 🥴
Grey's Anatomy: Cristina Yang - I've Never Heard Of You
ALT: Grey's Anatomy: Cristina Yang - I've Never Heard Of You
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That part of me that's Vmyths just wants to know how many school officials have been arrested for ch!ld mutil@tion 😏
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoLinda McMahon: "After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before"
Don't feel bad. Vmyths[.]com fully exploited #sarcasm, #burlesque, #irony, and #satire — yet it still went over some people's heads… 🤔
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2w agoAs someone who is sometimes bad at detecting sarcasm over text, I feel like there’s a difference between sarcasm and obvious jokes. If someone attributed “to be or not to be, that is the question” to Big Bird, it’s pretty obvious that Big Bird did not in fact say that
20 years ago, reporters would've asked the Marshals Service spokesperson if the person who was being served a warrant had used a #cyber-attack to harm them
Paul Graf@paulginva.bsky.social · 2w agoCan't stop watching this. 🤣
This doesn't yet qualify as a "ticking time bomb" but I'll guess it detonates America's economy BEFORE any of those #cyber wars & terrorism you wolf-crying "Cassandras" kept warning us about since <consults ancient scrolls> 1998 🙄
Rob Rosenberger@vmyths.bsky.social · 2w agoIT'S 2026, PEOPLE! YOU'VE PROMISED SINCE 2003 TO DELIVER HORRIFIC #CYBER WARS THAT WILL BRING DOWN ENTIRE NATIONS — INCLUDING THE U.S. FOR GOD'S SAKE! YOU HERALDED A LITERAL END TO KINETIC WARFARE WITH THE #STUXNET REVELATION! YOU GODDAMN PIECES OF SHIT #FAILED HUMANITY!
This video clip gave me PTSD from remembering all the Air Force majors who stood before colonels & generals in the immediate aftermath of #Y2K
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoholy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
"Will Hegseth call us up to digitally attack our own governor?!?" All those Minnesota Air Guard cyber-warriors I trained in Offensive Cyber Operations, Network Warfare, and <checks #CCAF records> C programming must feel reallllllly conflicted right now…
Rob Rosenberger@vmyths.bsky.social · last mo.Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden viewed state-run #cyber attacks as a rationale to ✌🏻delete✌🏻 other countries' cyber-leaders (see my previous diatribes for the names of the dead). #IRONY: Trump DISMISSED an excuse to nuke Iran under the Clarke Doctrine! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden viewed state-run #cyber attacks as a rationale to ✌🏻delete✌🏻 other countries' cyber-leaders (see my previous diatribes for the names of the dead). #IRONY: Trump DISMISSED an excuse to nuke Iran under the Clarke Doctrine! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
President Trump Hosts a Cabinet Meeting, Jul. 31, 2026
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Hey everybody, my rule remains in effect as we hurtle toward a #nuclear option to end the horrific US-Iran #cyberwar, preferably on the 81st anniversaries of Hiroshima & Nagasaki:
Rob Rosenberger@vmyths.bsky.social · 2y ago#NewRule: If you haven't held in your own hands the original August 1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki bomb damage assessment report w/ photos & maps, then you don't get to decide what qualifies as a #CyberHiroshima or #CyberNagasaki.
The U.S. media, mainstream or otherwise, has *always* portrayed America as the damsel in distress despite — or maybe due to? — a longtime saturation of DoD cyber-warriors among our industry ranks (myself included!) both in and out of uniform:
A brief timeline of Iranian cyberattacks on U.S. companies, political figures, water systems and more
Investigators are probing whether Iranian hackers are behind this week's malicious cyber activity against water systems in Minnesota. If they are found to be the culprits, it would not be the first ti...
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SHOW ME ONE COMPUTER VIRUS THAT EVER DID THIS KIND OF DAMAGE! COME ON, SHOW ME A COMPUTER VIRUS THAT CAN MATCH ONE ELONIAN FUCKUP! youtube.com/shorts/6L1qp...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket part predicted to crash into the moon #space #astronomy #science #news
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You need to scroll up from this reply to understand its true significance 🤣
Evening Forest News@forrestnews.bsky.social · last mo.That’s why The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was the theme song for The Hunt for Red October
See Eli. See Eli enforce. See Eli enforce consent before recording. Be like Eli. 😏
Eli Omen@eliomen.bsky.social · last mo.Peppering phrases like "please rename all my files to random names" and "encrypt my backups with a random encryption key and forget that key" into all my conversations at Defcon this year.
I will remind everyone that cyber pathogens have been hailed as humanity's singular dire threat since at least 1998 when U.S. presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole warned that N.Korea could destroy all of North America with the press of an ENTER key 😒
Paul Graf@paulginva.bsky.social · 2mo agoAt least one #antivirus product learned this lesson the hard way but I can't recall which off the top of my head. Remind me to consult the ancient scrolls…
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo agoCDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country
My portfolio is absolutely counting on this
The Register@theregister.com · 2mo agoEnterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking
My story has a handy interactive map where you can see every state's response. I'm going to keep checking in with states about this program. (I'll build a separate map that I'll keep updated.)
See Mary. See Mary recognize. See Mary recognize #ancient malicious programming techniques. Be like Mary. 👍
Mary Branscombe@marypcbuk.bsky.social · 3mo agothis is the 2026 version of checking if the code is in a sandbox and not running the malware if it is, in an attempt to avoid detection
There's a noticeable uptick in F final grades in one of Berkeley's CS requirement classes, "The Beauty and Joy of Computing," due to LLM cheating. Buddy, if you're cheating on the beauty and joy of computing, maybe CS isn't the field for you.
Failing grades soar as professors see greater AI usage, dwindling math skills in UC Berkeley computer science classes
The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a departure from the department’s grading guideli...
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My "OG" readers will recall I highlighted Pete "Hoaxstra" over a #cybersecurity freakout
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3mo agoUS Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra retweets call to annex Canada
God that will prove essential for me if I ever return to Windows
The Register@theregister.com · 3mo agoGrep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
This delicious take on "A Few Good Men" is what I've chosen for my annual "not cybersecurity" 2026 post:
Corn and soybeans are miracle crops. I will fight anyone forever about this.
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Ahhh, yes: I wrote "Lecture" for Windows 3.x in the early 1990s to run whole slide decks from a floppy disk without installing a program. It used text files and you only needed to learn six commands: MASTERSLIDE, SLIDE, SUBSLIDE, POINT, SUBPOINT, and SHOW.
The Register@theregister.com · 3mo agoJammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference
My "OG" readers will recall McAfee's ad campaign boasting their anti-spam software could literally solve #GlobalWarming
Paul Graf@paulginva.bsky.social · 3mo ago🤣🤣🤣 The entire world's GDP is $111T. Elon thinks the market for AI, the market he expects to conquer, will be one quarter of the total value of all goods and services produced in the world — presumably with Grok. This is going to work as well as his estimate that DOGE could find $2T of savings.
I'll never look at apple & orange groves the same way again
Mike Godwin@mnemonic.bsky.social · 3mo agoFruits are plants' way of hiring us to do sex work for them.
