December 8, 2022

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Dec 08, 2022

ok never mind it was all worth it just to accidentally stumble across this exchange between a judge, a prosecutor, and a federal agent where only the judge knows who biggie smalls is

MS. KOCHER: No further questions, your Honor.
THE COURT: I've got a follow-up question about the
Biggie Smalls' lyric.
MS. KOCHER: About the what? I'm sorry.
THE COURT: About the Biggie Smalls' lyric. I got seven
Mack 11s, about eight 38s, nine 9s. That's a Biggie Smalls' lyric.
Are we looking for those firearms?
THE WITNESS: I don't know. I don't recognize that.
THE COURT: This is in the Government's Exhibit 8 where
it says, I've got seven Mack 11s, about eight 38s, nine 9s. That's
a rap lyric.
MS. KOCHER: I'm --

THE COURT: The Court's independently aware of that.
MS. KOCHER: And it's a what? I'm not understanding the
words, sir. I apologize.
THE COURT: So if you look on page 8 --
MS. KOCHER: Yes.
THE COURT: -- Government's Exhibit 8, page 1 --
MS. KOCHER: Yes.
THE COURT: -- where he says, I'll need a list of ammo to
get. Then he says, I got seven Mack 11s, about eight 38s, nine 9s.
I understand the rest. We're about to get 308 12 gauge pigeons.
That's a genuine shopping list, but that to me seems like he's just
tossing a Biggie Smalls' lyric into the chat.
THE WITNESS: I don't recognize the lyrics is what I'm
saying, sir.
THE COURT: Okay. Yeah. Well, that is a Biggie Smalls'
lyric.

MS. KOCHER: I am still not understanding the word. I
apologize.
THE COURT: Biggie Smalls? Biggie Smalls is a dead
rapper.
MS. KOCHER: Oh.
THE COURT: It's a lyric from a song by the dead rapper,
Biggie Smalls.
MS. KOCHER: Got it.
THE COURT: There's a lot of other stuff going on here,

Eric Pellegrino @ericsshadow

[burglar gently waking me] you live like this?

Amnesty International Canada target of sophisticated cyber-attack linked to China https://amnesty.ca/news/news-releases/cyber-breach-statement/

https://mastodon.social/@adschina/109472706786940546

https://hachyderm.io/@james_a_hart/109464747447866561

https://hachyderm.io/@james_a_hart/109464840681030096

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton

NEW: clear US policy towards mercenary spyware industry in the new #NDAA. And it's *bad news* for shady spyware companies. Quick thread of highlights from Sec 6318 of this robust bit of legislation 1/

Propagandopolis @propagandopolis

'Support Afghan freedom fighters' — Soldier of Fortune magazine ad, 1981, calling for donations to 'pro-western Afghan resistance groups selected by the SOF staff'.

And to round it out,

A huge collection of almost every issue of Soldier of Fortune magazine:

https://archive.org/details/soldieroffortunemagazine/Soldier%20of%20Fortune%20%5B1982%2712%5D/page/n89/mode/2up

Apple to enable end to end encryption for more iCloud services, including photos and notes, starting in 2023.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-end-to-end-encryption-icloud-backups/

Update:

Thanks to a reader, if you want to read the website on how to hunt deer with a howitzer, now you can.

http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm

Russian spies!

The Justice Department has charged a Russian spy who fed Rudy Giuliani bogus dirt on the Biden family with money laundering over his alleged attempt to secretly buy two luxury Beverly Hills condos. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/giuliani-russian-spy-pal-andrii-derkach-charged-money-laundering-1234643249/

https://mstdn.social/@RollingStone/109473892311996241

Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint

The Miami News, Florida, March 8, 1959

blackorbird @blackorbird

Internet Explorer 0-day exploited by North Korean actor APT37 blog.google/threat-analysi… inews24.com/view/1534369 CVE-2022-41128: Type confusion in Internet Explorer's JScript9 engine googleprojectzero.github.io/0days-in-the-w… Sample github.com/blackorbird/AP…

Old tricks are new again. Scanning ssh memory for passwords.

https://networklogician.com/2021/04/17/sniffing-ssh-passwords/

village fetish @botandy

me: Gary, plse hand me the vial of ultra contagious lethal virus with no known cure Gary, who up until now has never dropped anything: ok

Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint

The Miami News, Florida, March 3, 1960

jac0xb.sol @jacobdotsol

Oh look FTX hosted all the NFTs minted on their platform using a web2 API and now all those NFTs have broken metadata and the links go to a restructuring website.

This is such a fascinating story, and also an interesting thought problem. In 1970s there was a murder on an ice sheet floating in the Arctic. No country had jurisdiction, but the US decided to arrest and try the guy in Virginia. The part that stuck with me is, how can a jury of a dozen people in Virginia be “peers” with someone who was one of just 19 people on an ice sheet with literally nothing to do and a crazed drunk wielding a butcher knife stealing alcohol?

https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/arctic-t3-murder-space.html

Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert

Brilliant piece about MI6’s top female spies. Q appeals to me a lot as a role. Top gadget maker

ft.comThe secret lives of MI6’s top female spiesFor the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times

Denis Skvortcov @Denis_Skvortcov

Just published new blog post tinyurl.com/4ua23wzv! How can you hook systemcalls in kernel on Windows 11 22H2, how does Avast Free Antivirus use it and how you can bypass Avast’s self-defense in 10 lines of PowerShell code right now? All answers are provided in the article

tinyurl.comHooking System Calls in Windows 11 22H2 like Avast Antivirus. Research, analysis and bypass0x00: Introduction

So, a thoughtful piece here from @ciaranmartin that I'd recommend tipping off a series about the lessons we need to be thinking about from of the Optus and Medibank hacks in Australia. In particular, this post concerns the need to reexamine how we think about data breaches.

https://infosec.exchange/@arekfurt/109477137169223890

Glenn Wilkinson 🇿🇼 @glennzw

...and everyone thought hacker sitcoms would be boring! #ChatGPT @dcuthbert @singe @thegrugq

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