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Discernible@discernibleinc.bsky.social · last yr.

💫 New Discernible Drill this week! You’ll face escalating challenges that force difficult tradeoffs between business continuity, stakeholder communications, and technical remediation - all while racing against the clock. 😰 Subscribe at DiscernibleInc.com/drills #IncidentResponse #SecurityComms

Why is this story not in an American paper Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line

The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Trump is already using his stablecoin to get a cut of a $2 BILLION deal with a shady UAE fund. The Senate will vote on the GENIUS Act, a crypto bill which would make the President's grift even easier. If we don't fix that problem, no Senator should vote for it.

Trump is already using his stablecoin to get a cut of a $2 BILLION deal with a shady UAE fund.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials

Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar...

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Sign your names or you're a toaster, American cyber pros. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue: ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant. The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge. This is ridiculous.

It's tough out there right now, but at least we have Rex Manning Day. Damn The Man, save The Empire.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

If you work or worked for CISA, please read this from @swiftonsecurity.com infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecu... You are appreciated, and we are sorry for what’s happened to your hard work.

It’s remarkable how much weakness this conveys on the part of Vance and Trump. It’s classic bully weakness: Vance: [Dumps on Ukraine] Zelenskyy: [pushes back] Vance: [pikachu face] HOW DISRESPECTFUL Pathetically weak.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

After 20 years in #IncidentResponse across dozens of organizations, I've seen firsthand that effective communication can make or break a security/privacy incident (and even prevent some!). Check out the new Discernible Drills & let me know what you think! #SecurityCommunications

Discernible@discernibleinc.bsky.social · last yr.

🔥 Just launched: Discernible Drills Weekly 1-hour drills delivered via Slack. Everything from bug bounty escalations to privacy violations, challenging you to make fast, strategic decisions about stakeholder communications. discernibleinc.com/blog/introdu... #IncidentResponse

I'm so excited for this! We have so many hard lessons learned and proven tactics/strategies to share to improve security outcomes for organizations stuck on common challenges with shared responsibility models. If you can't join us today, give us a follow to catch the recording when it's published.

Credible Security@credible-security.com · last yr.

Want to learn something new today? We're hosting a discussion on the myth of shared responsibility for security with @melanie-ensign.bsky.social of @discernibleinc.bsky.social. You can join us live in just over an hour or give us a follow to catch the recording. youtube.com/live/CERCPDF...

So @jennybeatty.bsky.social did some great work pulling together data from multiple sources to answer the question "Does diversity in pilot ranks negatively impact safety". While any partly sane person already knew the answer, her work proves the answer is no. www.jennybeatty.com/airline-safe...

I literally reported this Wednesday.

Ellen Nakashima@ellenwapo.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The mistake a lot of folks make is comparing against late-stage fascism, especially end-stage fascism as it was (lucklly) being defeated, and drawing comfort from the differences. Of course the beginning doesn't look like the end. Look at how historic examples started, and compare against that.

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Turkey was not always an autocracy. It had a democracy. It still has elections. But its real democracy has gone away through shock and awe. It can happen everywhere if you're not vigilant and have shared agreement in the democratic project. One day it's just....gone.

Executive orders are not laws of the land that all citizens have to follow. They’re directives for the employees in 1 branch of federal government. If Trump wants new laws, make him use the process laid out in our constitution. Don’t comply in advance.

Gotta appreciate the small joys when they happen. Today's joy: needing/getting to use footnotes while writing a client report

How are we still not past the notion that the USPS is *not* a moneymaking organization? This whole article concedes to the idea that the postal service "loses money" without even mentioning that it's because it's a public service. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

US postmaster to step down months after reporting billions in losses

Louis DeJoy, who has headed US Postal Service since 2020, warned in November of potential ‘end of this organization’

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Counterpoint: no they don't. Having every website independently implement E2EE DMs is a colossal waste of resources at best, and dangerous at worst. Use DMs for what they're good for: exchanging your Signal handles.

fegodev@fegodev.bsky.social · last yr.

Bluesky DMs need to adopt the Signal Protocol for end-to-end encryption. Signal is the most private and secure messaging app. It’s better than iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Google Messages. @signal.org @bsky.app @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team #Signal

Canada has the opportunity to do something hilarious...

Modern encryption is nothing short of a miracle. The fact that any of this works is incredible. Some incredibly spooky math is essentially the basis of the security of the modern internet. censys.com/weakening-en...

Weakening Encryption Does Not Strengthen Security

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DOGE is a bigger threat to US federal government information systems than China. If you find this statement controversial, I'm going to question your IT and cybersecurity credentials.

No one elected Elon Musk. As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences. We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.