October 17, 2022

Fascinating @fasc1nate

In 2015, a Manchester man started graffitiing giant penises onto potholes so that the council would clear them up faster. He was nicknamed 'Wanksy'.

The Smoked Gouda one @Thegood55846123

@fasc1nate

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Alex Joske @alexjoske

The Australian embassy (and many others) treated one Chinese scholar as a valued contact and source in the 2000s. Here he is at the Australian ambassador's residence. My book shows he's a senior undercover MSS officer specialising in influence operations against Five Eyes nations

Alex Joske @alexjoske

Australian pub day for my book on how MSS covert influence operations have shaped the world! Will be on ABC radio and TV for a few interviews this morning. US readers can pre-order for next week. https://t.co/raaqex1dTO #affiliate

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Drones are the new hotness. Cyber is out. No one does cyber anymore the field is too crowded.

https://www.newsinenglish.no/2022/10/14/prime-minister-links-drones-over-norway-to-hybrid-threats/

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Google is releasing a secure OS for smart devices. Based on seL4, written in rust, and so on.

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-kataos-and-sparrow.html

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Guillaume Valadon @guedou

Rewind - a snapshot-based coverage-guided fuzzer by @quarkslab github.com/quarkslab/rewi… #HEXACON2022

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MalwareHunterTeam @malwrhunterteam

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Michael Weiss 🌻🇺🇸🇮🇪 @michaeldweiss

NEW: Lacking the time and resources to have all the KGB training manuals I have translated and analyzed, I've decided to put the originals (in Russian) up at @4freerussia_org's "Lubyanka Files" portal. All are listed by title (in English). Enjoy!:

4freerussia.org29 KGB Training Manuals (1965-1989)Mostly Russian originals

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rootsecdev @rootsecdev

U.S. Has Made ‘Dramatic Change’ in Technology Used for Nuclear Code System - WSJ cc: ⁦@thegrugq⁩ ⁦@electrospaces⁩

wsj.comWSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Has Made ‘Dramatic Change’ in Technology Used for Nuclear Code SystemThe museum of one of the nation’s most secretive government agencies has recently reopened following a two-year pandemic closure, and among its new exhibits is one that provides a rare window into a technological upgrade to the nation’s nuclear command and control system.

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab

@rootsecdev @thegrugq @electrospaces I think they swapped out all the 8" floppys for GoTek's

independent.co.ukUS nuclear weapons no longer rely on floppy disks to operateHardware from 1970s ditched amid wider overhaul of US nuclear arsenal

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Practice your Russian swears!

Dmitri @wartranslated

Russian artillery commander is annoyed by the fact that his subordinate missed by 500m, as evidenced by this intercepted radio call. He calls him a "mathematician", an "accountant", and offers to purchase certain sex toys to improve firing accuracy.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins

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Love this video

Christo Grozev @christogrozev

Slovakia kicked out GRU spy (="assistant military attache") Lt. Col. Sergey Solomasov. Slovakia's security agency was able to videotape Solomasov during his cringeworthy recruitment of a Slovak asset (who was apparently wearing a wire). Do these bad movie lines ever work?

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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot

Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking (Oct 13) theregister.com/2022/10/13/cli… Direct link to @rossjanderson's paper "Chat Control or Child Protection?" (.pdf, 19 pages, Oct 11): cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/… a response to the Levy-Robinson paper

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Halvar Flake @halvarflake

I am considering printing T-Shirts that read "Stop. Anthropomorphizing. Matrix Multiplication.".

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𝚄𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍𝙵𝚒𝚝𝚣 @UnFitz

Five Keys To Workplace Success: 1. Blame 2. Coworkers 3. For 4. Your 5. Mistakes

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S🌟tella @Havish_AF

Welcome to your 40's. No, that thing you're talking about didn't happen three, four years ago. It was fifteen years ago.

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