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@plets.ch

Automating security stuff mostly.. | Technical Lead @ Arctic Wolf he/him

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How Predator Spyware Defeats iOS Recording Indicators An analysis documenting how a commercial spyware sample, Predator, operates post-compromise.

Really solid breakdown of how known spyware does the thing we all worry about: hiding camera/mic indicators.

An important note I think is that this capability requires kernel-level access to hook Springboard (iOS's UI controller) and hide those indicators.

22.02.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting an InfoSec Career – The Megamix – Chapters 4-5 Chapter 4: Blue Team Careers With the help of many people in InfoSec who kindly gave me advice and quotes, I have created a perhaps overly simplistic listing of common InfoSec roles in today’s mark…

Nice! In a similar vein, I also really like @hacks4pancakes.com posts on blue/red careers from a few years ago

tisiphone.net/2015/11/08/s...

20.02.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if the Browns can keep him around, hire an offensive minded coach and let them focus on figuring everything out without having to worry about that side of the ball

04.01.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr

23.12.2025 15:18 πŸ‘ 736 πŸ” 147 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0

To delete a line you've written at the Linux, macOS, or Unix command prompt, use "Ctrl-U". Works with password prompts too. No need hit backspace multiple times.

13.12.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

I've yet to see evidence these attacks are anything but teams that suck at automation outsourcing their work

16.11.2025 18:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It took me a while to get comfortable with how to use it effectively, and I'm still not convinced the trade offs are worth it, but it pushing non-full time devs past road blocks is my favourite outcome so far, going to lead to so many community projects that bring real value

10.10.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's pretty wild to watch the discourse decide that a failure to enforce strong MFA is an indictment of

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open source package repositories as a concept.

17.09.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Wikipedia community isn't a huge fan of it, I don't think it's explicitly banned but certainly frowned upon from a conflict of interest perspective

12.09.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing makes me want to pack up and move countries like having to use a VIA train

23.08.2025 16:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jamaican patty as a croissant is a hell of a sales pitch

15.08.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any idea on order out of the pits? Is it in quali order or based on new parts taken?

27.07.2025 09:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a crazy experience seeing a decision you suggest be pushed to thousands of orgs, incredibly humbling

12.07.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

03.07.2025 03:59 πŸ‘ 6578 πŸ” 1052 πŸ’¬ 311 πŸ“Œ 259

Would make some of the cuisine easier to order as well, a plate of hot food in already hot temps is a tough sell but give me a guaranteed breeze and that concern goes away

28.06.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Booked a hotel in Nice last summer specifically for its AC, the lowest it would go? 27. It’s like they hate comfort.

28.06.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I prefer mine in .pdf’s

25.06.2025 03:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely the best player to come out of that program (not even really close) so makes sense

18.06.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maliata has been great but over Jason Peters?

18.06.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Most breaches are a result/or are made significantly worse due to org’s failing to do the basics consistently

17.06.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post is that from a cryptographic…

I wrote a bit more about X’s new encrypted DMs and the Juicebox protocol. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/06/09/a...

09.06.2025 18:46 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m having way too much fun writing about Bluetooth.

25.05.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 170 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

I see it as more about where these products live in a network vs what category the vendor fits into

27.04.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I like to think of it as clipboard between reboots

08.04.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Worked at one in a gap year, i had cars rejected on any aspect you can think of, country of origin, interior materials, expected gas mileage, colour, trim model.. and the entire business model relies on having most cars rented every day so you really don’t have a massive selection to pull from.

03.04.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I dont know the Andy halftime adjustment for THEY BETTER THAN US AT ALL THE SPOTS.

10.02.2025 00:51 πŸ‘ 288 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2

This really is just Spags v Stoutland isn’t it

09.02.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the exact sort of thing I was looking for in a NFCE championship game

26.01.2025 22:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s an expensive fuck

22.01.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This has always been the case, you have 10-20 seconds to get the viewer to commit to the first 2-3 minutes. Longer form videos need a reason to keep people there, either by making the video β€˜background noise’ (ie podcasts, game play throughs) or by having content dense videos that require focus.

04.01.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0