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Are you an Austin-area software engineer who writes Go (or aspires to become one)? Join us Wednesday, August 13, 2025 for two hours of lightning talks and discussion.
This meetup is hosted by Capital Factory and runs from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT: www.meetup.com/atxgolang/ev...
The weird places we sometimes find ourselves ...
Never did I think I'd be attending the Startup World Cup to listen to other companies pitch themselves, and at the Tokyo Regionals no less 😅
Life has definitely gotten strange, but not in a bad way!
The funny thing is how NTFS deals with fragmentation and how utterly ludicrous a modern SSD is under that doctrine.
“Location data is some of the most sensitive, revealing information that is generated by our devices,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @wired.com. “You can paint a very clear picture of someone's life with just a list of all the places they've been in their car.”
Sign your names or you're a toaster, American cyber pros. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs
alien soldier Cassara bemoans the state of Earth's education system and that 11-year-old Reuben doesn't already know general relativity.
Sometimes writing for yourself means putting a modern physics joke in your book for middle schoolers. Mr. Muffins is out now in stores!
What do you call a Linux user who uses "sudo" too much? A root cause of system instability.
Chris Hadnagy vs. DEF CON Lawsuit update
2025/02/24
It’s been a while since our last update - a lot has been going on behind the scenes - and with the discovery phase complete we have filed a motion for summary judgement asking the court to dismiss his lawsuit.
EFF’s @sveawindwehr.bsky.social joined @techpolicypress.bsky.social’s Sunday Show to discuss the first systemic risk assessments and independent audit reports from Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines produced in compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act.
I'm #Hiring!!! Looking for security analysts to join our Security Operations team. Fully remote with the opportunity to work a Hybrid model if you'd prefer. Take a look or share with your network.
Job IDs:
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Car mechanic looking under the hood and saying: “Here's your problem: The cartoonist has no idea what the inside of a car looks like." With a car engine full of hamster, globe, trumpet, piano, Gumby and other non-car items
Now more than ever.
CactusCon Kids is *BACK* on Saturday for CC13! We will have a hardware and coding station for a cool custom badge, a cryptography station, a lockpicking station, and a computer graveyard. 😎
Register today!
https://buff.ly/4j9gzWZ
#cc13
Slides and videos just dropped on the NIST Workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography 2024. Great material.
csrc.nist.gov/events/2024/...
Mastodon reply with redacted usernames saying > I'll go on a limb and say that GPG, with all it's flaws, would be better than passkeys.
That’s enough Mastodon for this week.
T-MINUS ONE HOUR UNTIL EFF'S LIVESTREAM 🚀 Join us at 10 AM pacific time for a discussion about your rights to privacy and free expression under Trump and the 119th Congress: livestream.eff.org
Having just returned home from this the last #ShmooCon, I'm reminded again how grateful I am for the community that was built the friendships that were made, to the ShmooCon staff, the Potters and all of the folks that attend and have made this amazing event, and the legacy Thanks for the memories
What time is it? It's hurry up and wait for the last @shmoocon.bsky.social to kick off o'clock, only a few more days! Can't wait to see everyone there and enjoy, so to those preparing to start their journey to #shmoocon safe travels and see you all soon!
One of the finest hackers & humans to ever hack the planet needs our help.
Marc Rogers (@marcwrogers on the other site) is lucky to be alive & we are luckier to be able to help him.
Donate if you can, and please *share* to spread the word.
gofund.me/27112e30
“Cannot stress this enough, if you believe you may have ever stored your seed phrase or keys in LastPass migrate your crypto assets immediately.”
I can't spend more than a few minutes on my LinkedIn timeline before I suffer brain melt. Saw this meme recently and finally understood why...
Oh no, who could have possibly predicted Recall would present security risks even with it's new "sensitive information" filter 🙄
www.tomshardware.com/software/win...
Oh look; me last weekend:
When you have cool friends that do strange and interesting things, a thread worth following
Courtesy of @nixcraft
Yeah, I've got so many mixed feelings about it, it's needed in some fashion, but also creates a new series of potential attack paths that would have potentially lower barriers to entry than those currently interfacing with UAC bypasses
Couldn't agree more, I think it's trying to close a gap that existed and created a lot of technical challenges for management and development, but is opening up to more issues than likely benefits
New thing to watch your devs for, as this feature while convenient represents a series of new priv escalation potentials
Windows is really starting to feel the push from folks moving to Apple for the *nix elements, and it feels like they are trying to compete lately more and more