fuzztech

@fuzztech@infosec.exchange

Evertas underwriting & professional services. Former NYPD Intel, current reserve CSAM/Cyber detective. Co-Host, Tech Debt Burndown podcast. IFR Pilot. Marquartstein DE and Ghent, NY

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Why do so many TV reporters refer to “Fentanyl” as “fen-ti-nall”?

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Seriously great summary of how even sophisticated, aware - nay, keenly aware users can be phished. Make no mistake: everyone gets hacked. Everyone. None of us is immune. We need to stop pretending that user awareness training is the solution to prevention.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/

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Sometimes you’re reading and enjoying something and then the writer steers you face first into a brick wall and you just want to ask why he never went in to a gun shop for a conversation.

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My wife and I have been married for a long, long time. Thirty years, in fact. And we both know that we have been married this long because both of us forgot our actual anniversary a few days ago. So this morning we told one another, “Happy anniversary.”

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Can't remember if I posted this here but man is it wonderful - New Yorker / Paul Noth

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If you did actually “value” my , you wouldn’t proffer me (based on your legal requirement to do so) the opportunity to opt out of the 97 tracking tools you installed on your webpage, you’d not have installed them in the first place.

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The Mayor of Amsterdam has broken the streak I have come to rely on, that anything printed in The Guardian is wrong. She is right.

In relating that financial transactions in the Netherlands are increasingly from international drug lords, and compliance with global AML laws ever more difficult, The Mayor correctly blames, “globalisation and the international criminalisation of drugs," for the fact that “the illegal drugs trade has become more lucrative, professional and ruthlessly violent.”

In my opinion, the war on drugs is responsible for more death, despair, destroyed more lives, and families, and health outcomes than any set of policies ever created in the west including the damage caused by the American healthcare system. If the Dutch approach is currently under pressure, it is because of bad policy outside the Netherlands, not the policy within the Netherlands.

The mayor agrees, and rightly calls for action moving the world toward harm reduction and away from the moronic war on drugs which has as much hope of “winning” as book banning in America will reduce teen pregnancies.

The Mayor calls for a global ”collaborative effort to revisit and potentially revise” GWOD-based treaties, “fostering a global environment where innovative, health-centric drug policies can be implemented without legal barriers.”

Hear! hear!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/05/amsterdam-netherlands-drugs-policy-trade

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Majestically stupid. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/us/trump-georgia-willis-wade-divorce.html

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. Body cam video of officer diving into icy pond to save eight year old girl. https://apnews.com/video/law-enforcement-vermont-michelle-archer-national-national-8f1584e36c834c148a7839087f7fc2e6

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https://www.duffelblog.com/p/turn-your-access-to-classified-information-into-a-side-hustle-with-these-five-steps

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TL;DR: Read Edward Hasbrouck’s “Papers, Please” coverage of the No-Fly Case to be argued next week in the US Supreme Court.

There are people who call themselves activists, and then there are the very few like @ehasbrouck. Throughout my work in law enforcement and law enforcement technology, Edward challenged - politely but firmly, respectfully and with clear intent to inform action - my presumptions, declarations, and sometimes my deeds, always doing so with respect, armed with facts, and stemming from a desire to make us all better people. In my experience, he always comes from a rigorously informed position of both integrity and intellectual honesty and he is ever willing to stand for what he believes - this is a man, after all, who chose prison over being forced to register for the selective service system (https://hasbrouck.org/draft/prosecutions/us-vs-hasbrouck.html). Agree with him or not, one must respect the genuineness of his struggle.

His Papers, Please website is one of few lonely voices struggling to educate about and challenge not just the repugnant TSA, but more deeply, government challenges to the American right to travel (and, I infer, to associate) freely in the United States (https://papersplease.org/wp/the-issue/). In these days days of divisive and sound-bit and talking-point-let political hysteria, it is wonderful to read a person who has long-held, well-researched, and deeply-held beliefs.

I find his work at times to be heroically, astonishingly brave. He has fought for decades now, calling out US government agencies for acts that can only be described as un-American, and he does so with neither fear nor favor. His recent post is just another in a series - and again, whether I agree or disagree (we have regularly disagreed) with a position he holds, I find Edward always arrives at his positions honorably, he always listens to and considers rebuttal, but in all cases, he is a patriot of the highest order. https://mastodon.online/@ehasbrouck/111696062313548677

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Oh yeah sure, right, like I am ever going to find anyone to sleep in the bed with me like this when I am wearing this loud Dumbo-meets-Darth-Vader costume.

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And another thing I love about infosec.exchange - thanks, @jerry for not tracking us everyplace.

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Wow this is fascinating and counterintuitive: people don't just prefer sloppily wrapped presents, but they prefer what's inside the package "significantly" more when it is sloppily wrapped. What a COOL experiment https://theconversation.com/the-science-of-gift-wrapping-explains-why-sloppy-is-better-128506

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If I were forced to report to an office to use the same internet and have the same Zoom calls I have now at home in my harem pants and bunny slippers, I, too, would coffee badge. Also, stop lying. It’s not about “culture” (unless the culture you’re promoting is frog-marching your staff around to unnecessary places — why not the reservoir?). It’s about you stupidly signing a ten-year, $4.9mm annual lease in January, 2020.

https://www-foxbusiness-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/coffee-badging-job-trend-business-leaders-high-alert.amp?amp_js_v=0.1#webview=1&cap=swipe

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Seeking a web developer to migrate a friend's site from WP to a modern, static generator like Hugo or Jeckyll, and provide some UX/UI design work. Please DM me if you are (or if you know) a candidate for this. Remote, contract, immediate (January)

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Whomever coined “Klanned Karenhood” for the douchebag hypocrites at Moms for Liberty is a genius and my hero.

Also https://www.slj.com/story/On-Klanned-Karenhood-outrage-of-Moms-for-Liberty-cannot-be-the-narrative-editorial

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<nelson>Ha-ha</nelson>

Jury Orders Giuliani to Pay $148 Million to Election Workers He Defamed

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There is a wapo story about those gate agents derisively call “gate lice”. These are those who stand up early and mill about the boarding zone. The post’s reporter avers there is a deep seated psychological reason for this baffling behavior.

Bollocks.

<rant>The fucking airlines’ profit gouging is responsible. The fucking airlines take billions in government largesse and then jack up profits by flying environmentally dodgy smaller and shittier planes with less qualified, less empathetic, and ever more poorly paid staff whom they treat worse and worse, and by cramming more people into these festering shitholes in the sky. These planes have less bin storage and legroom so there is no place to put carry on. The fucking airlines then charge scores or hundreds of dollars to bring non carry on luggage and further fuck everyone by selling access to early boarding by flogging their fucking massively profitable credit cards whose high fees grant earlier boarding.

The gate agents who mock and deride those passengers who are acting rationally by trying to board early enough to have hope of putting their bag in an overhead should shut the fuck up and stop viewing those who pay their salaries as deplorable. Want to know why there is rage in the sky? Because the fucking airlines made flying exclusively a humiliating, expensive, uncomfortable, rage inducing experience. Fuck them, fuck the gate agents, and fuck the hack at the wapo who tries to carry their water and fuck the wapo too. </rant>

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You hear that everyone? We're usin' code names.

From: @realhackhistory
https://chaos.social/@realhackhistory/111562481853572861

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BY the way, if you want a winner of the World's Most Irritating Hold Music, it's Google Fi by four lengths.

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Testimonial:

On a CSS/UX issue that was making me crazy for the last eight months, I am so glad that I asked @sarajw (YAY!!!) for help with a vexing (to me) and trivially easy (to her) CSS issue.

See, I was seeing my CSS do some media queries and certain aspects were working in mobile, so I presumed that it would automatically resize like everything, but what I had done, see, I had gone and added a new class that was outside the scope of that check, and DOH!

My site looks, you know, fine on regular computer screens but a bizarre image float issue was tormenting me for months and months.

Sara cheerfully and very quickly - like, in seconds - offered the solution:

Quoth Sara:

From having a look directly at the blog itself, you'll need to change that "right" class that's on the images, as soon as you go into mobile view. That can be done in a media query.

@media (max-width: 650px) {
figure.right {
padding: 0;
float: none;
text-align: center;}
}

YAY!!!!!!

Thanks so much, @sarajw

Images below.

Now-fixed mobile version of the same page with the image and caption floating atop the text and the article beneath. Thank you, Sara!

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I'm on a Wired kick this month - probably because I have the print edition that I never see when I am in Germany. This is how a real reporter covers the nuanced issues related to legal but sometimes unwanted and sometimes unfair surveillance of public spaces.

The lazy reporter gives in to base fear-mongering about surveillance.

That is because it's hard to research and write a piece that captures both why people want it and why people fear it. Lauren Smiley did that.

https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-doom-loop-citizen-surveillance/

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Wonderful job by the San Antonio Express-News calling out raging asshole Senator Ted Cruz (R, TX). To quote former Senator Al Franken, "'I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I fucking hate Ted Cruz.'

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I suppose being "blackmailed with money" is somewhat more common than being "blackmailed with fish" or "blackmailed with toilet cleanser"

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