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This is my infosec account. That is my profession, but not my life. I have other accounts I use for non-infosec stuff.

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snowcrashmike, to random
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A few weeks ago, tired of telling people that when we talk about "we need to make systemic change" that doesn't mean "everybody but YOU," I made a bookmark shortcut called "A TOADA SO" that linked to a news story about me, um, "springing into action" in response to an attempted ransomware attack.

Today I decided that's just going to be my bookmark tag for other HEs getting rocked. "This was only not us because we got lucky now quit it!"

snowcrashmike,
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So glad I didn't let them take my photo for that story.

snowcrashmike,
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@cks ooo, a whole department getting ransomed all at once on the same fileserver. Ouch. On the other hand, maybe you'd get to interrupt it mid-flow, or it would interrupt itself.

snowcrashmike,
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@cks this was us btw https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/university-waterloo-ransomware-attack-1.6862175 although like most news articles, um, well...

snowcrashmike,
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@lanodan @cks Ransomware operators tend not to care very much about those, except as a side-effect. But if somebody truly wanted to wreck infrastructure, absolutely those are important.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to Starlink
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I recently got quite some flak for discussing what satellites burning up in the atmosphere after their planned lifetime of 6 years could do to the stratosphere. Adding tons of aluminium and other elements as fine aerosol particles. Well. New research has just been published:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313374120

snowcrashmike,
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@jonas @jwildeboer Not in any way defending Starlink, but it does enable folks in rural and other under-served communities to actually get high speed internet. Argue that other infra ought to provide that, but the fact is, for many, it doesn't. This enables home schooling for more in pandemics, for example.

snowcrashmike,
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@jwildeboer @jonas Sure. Meanwhile, it is more than just "Vanlife people posting on Instagram."

snowcrashmike,
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@jonas @jwildeboer Could be, I did address that in my first response. At least in my country, telcos refuse to.

snowcrashmike,
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@jonas @jwildeboer Or nation-states could stop enabling billionaires and use the cash they grant companies like SpaceX to build national ISPs, although I can't see that going over too well.

worldwise001, to random

me: we should have an all-hands for the org
also me: oh wait I lead this org, fuck I guess I gotta prep slides or something for this all-hands

snowcrashmike,
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@worldwise001 @deadbeefmonster pretty much every talk I've given in the last several years, most especially the most recent one. Works well!

PogoWasRight, to random

There's an update to the saga of the breaches.net domain that was gifted to me by Conor Fitzpatrick (aka "Pompompurin" of Breached.vc) but then seized by the government when they seized all of his domains.

When I reached out to the FBI to ask for their help getting the domain unseized and restored to me, they responded quickly, and on Monday, asked me to provide various proofs of registration, etc. I sent them screencaps to address all their inquiries.

Yesterday, they asked for a quick meeting by phone. When we met, they told me I would be getting the domain unseized, but to expect it to take time as they have to go through a whole court procedure because there had been a warrant and an order involved.

So it will not be quick, but I will eventually have Breaches.net back as my domain that I can develop, thanks to the kindness of Conor Fitzpatrick ("Pom") who donated it to me to use for good purposes and thanks to the FBI agents who responded so quickly and courteously to my request.

@briankrebs @campuscodi
@allan @aj_vicens @Telecom_Jesus

snowcrashmike,
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@PogoWasRight Good deal, probably about the best outcome one could expect.

hacks4pancakes, to random

I love the pedantic people on LinkedIn who complain about a sound byte in the media like you could have had time to do a 60 minute lecture on the minutiae of their choice instead of 15 seconds to explain something to a general audience.

snowcrashmike,
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@ksaj @hacks4pancakes pretty much this. 10-30 minutes of interview time turn into 10-60 seconds of air time.

snowcrashmike,
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@hacks4pancakes that's all any of us can do! :)

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    snowcrashmike,
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    @GossiTheDog Worked a treat, thanks!

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