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Information security leader, vendor adversary, occasionally opinionated. Shitposts, memes, music and thoughts on the state of the place. linktr.ee/appsecbloke | https://soundcloud.com/michael-thompson-70891340

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He also, perhaps curiously, twice referred to speaking to "our allies, *and* the US" in his presser.

Perhaps that's reading too much into it.

05.03.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*Goose

22.02.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"You can just take a picture of your medical data or upload the file... and we'll hold onto it forever".

18.02.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

About effin time.

11.02.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Microfreak? Nice.

01.02.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"joint operation". Love the punning.

31.01.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Religious links aside, there is pancake day in Feb. All is not lost.

30.01.2026 10:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All social media tbf. You shove the word "password" in a post on Musk's shithouse platform and just watch those scammers swoop.

29.01.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You mean blaming their depravity on a hitherto undiagnosed medical condition?

Gotcha.

26.01.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a black shirt is making a funny face and says `` this '' . ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a funny face and says `` this '' .
26.01.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

26.01.2026 12:34 πŸ‘ 3106 πŸ” 618 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 18

He didn't choose his parents either, just for balance.

20.01.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And fun fact, they used a pig as the logo, cos they took the name "Now that's what I call..." from Danish bacon ads. πŸ˜‰

18.01.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When your song went out of the charts, it was still featuring at every party in the land, because people just shoved the whole album on and left it running. Very clever.

18.01.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah they went for two releases per year. Easy money though and labels lobbied the compilers for their acts to be on them.

As they would, because at that time it was as effective as heavy airplay rotation, but without the radio!

18.01.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've still got the original from 1983 knocking about somewhere, complete with Duran Duran, UB40 et Al on it. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦³

18.01.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.01.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or there's a different definition of peace to the one the rest of us understands!

16.01.2026 12:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The same Gorbachev that collected a Nobel Laureat for 'Peace'...

16.01.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So, is the site formerly known as Twitter now to be known as 12chan?

07.01.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Keir Starmer says UK 'not involved in any way' in US strike on Venezuela The PM has not spoken to US President Donald Trump about the US seizure of President Nicolas Maduro.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mind you, the USG didn't tell it's own people, either, so...

03.01.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A few token flurries seems to be all we see these days.

31.12.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hmmm, @wired.com here, taking my security seriouslyβ„’.

It would have been nice to hear about this from them, or at least CondΓ© Nast. Alas...

28.12.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Give over!

27.12.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'New Order and The Light' eh?

Can't see that ever being a thing. 🀣

24.12.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Santa here, just delivering a huge sack of IT jobs.

24.12.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Twiki's helmet could never be unseen and I wondered whether it was deliberate.

23.12.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember seeing this at the pictures in Edinburgh when it came out. And yeah, Maximilian scared the shite out of me, too.

Easily as menacing as any Terminator.

23.12.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where did Ozob take his final vacation?

All across Pacifica.

21.12.2025 14:32 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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IYKYK

17.12.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0