Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 000
Reposted by Adam ShostackA robot that thinks it's clever. @aquartertooclever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I didn't believe it when he said "There's going to be so much measles, you're going to get tired of all the #measles." 021
Reposted by Adam ShostackIan Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comNewborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospitalInfants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak. 45453322805
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I like almost everything about his work, except how hard it is to stay caught up. 120
Reposted by Adam ShostackJamedi @jamreads.com · 06/10/2026Pretenders to the Throne of God, by @aptshadow.bsky.social (pub @headofzeus.bsky.social) is his most brilliant entry in the series; I can't recommend The Tyrant Philosophers enough. The Grave of Perfection can't come soon enough. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/pret... 💙📚jamreads.comJamReads - Making your TBR closer to infiniteIn JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world 3305
Reposted by Adam ShostackLucky225 @lucky225.2600.blue · 23/07/2026If there was ever a better example of why age verification based on State law, which violates the dormant commerce clause, is bullshit this is it. I wasn't in Texas, I'm not in a VPN and I'm not going to share my exact location. Why did this show up? AT&T CGNAT in CO goes out Dallas. 3449
Reposted by Adam ShostackAdam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 04/10/2026These shops take on custom, high-mix and low-volume jobs that are a very poor fit for extensive automation - and over-automation is a major business risk given the CapEx involved. They are, in fact, highly-resistant to any foreseeable automation. a16z seeks to destroy that I guess. Figures. 151
Reposted by Adam ShostackJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the radium water was STILL doing its job, it's the jaw that slacked off 4688
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026CC @alecmuffett.bsky.social , this is the effective altruism of security: Spend energy on PQC, not buffer overflows. 020
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026At first I thought this was claiming that 27% of Californians support Alberta becoming an independent state, and I'm pretty sure that more than 73% of Californians have no opinion at all on the subject. 010
Reposted by Adam ShostackRaphael Satter @raphae.li · 03/10/2026Huge scoop: An alleged key member of ShinyHunters has been detained in Jordan and *is cooperating,* sources tell us Just broke on @reuters.com. More details TK. www.reuters.com/world/middle...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: ShinyHunters hacker in FBI data theft detained in Jordan, cooperating with bureau, sources sayA key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was detained this week in Jordan, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Two of t... 13418
Reposted by Adam ShostackTaggart @taggart-tech.com · 27/09/2026Today is very effectively making the argument for us at IFIN that TLP:CLEAR should be the *default*, and only extremely sensitive intelligence should be withheld. Active exploitation is not a reason to withhold, given the fact that more information always advantages defenders. 0134
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thank you! And... statistically are most people on both? I find the interaction differences startling 100
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today in Bluesky vs Mastodon, same tweet, samish time: * Mastodon, 39 boosts, 40 favorites * Bluesky: Zilch. Tell me again which is decentralized and not run by algorithms? infosec.exchange/@adamshostac... bsky.app/profile/adam...infosec.exchangeAdam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: (@adamshostack@infosec.exchange)We've replaced the bureaucratic impediment to rapid action, Stanislav Petrov, with an LLM as part of our strategy of "aggressively identifying and eliminating bureaucratic barriers to deeper integrati... 442
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We've replaced the bureaucratic impediment to rapid action, Stanislav Petrov, with an LLM as part of our strategy of "aggressively identifying and eliminating bureaucratic barriers to deeper integration." mastodon.social/@kralcttam/1...mastodon.socialkralcttam ☕️ (@kralcttam@mastodon.social)Happy Stanislav Petrov day! Today marks 43 years since Petrov decided to wait for confirmation before escalating a missile alert up the chain of command in the Soviet Air Defense, preventing nuclear ... 031
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wait, the story I saw on the internet casts people in a bad light just to start fights and draw attention to the poster? Inconceivable! 000
Reposted by Adam ShostackJoseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Every once in a while I think back to when “stop babies from needlessly dying” wasn’t a divisive position. 0173
Reposted by Adam ShostackAdam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026No normal human being loves a nameplate. 011
Reposted by Adam ShostackErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just a reminder, since Rob Saka keeps saying otherwise, that there ARE ALREADY CAMERAS AT SEATTLE CENTER and that they WERE TURNED ON. There has never been a plan to add specific POLICE cameras at Seattle Center, a sprawling open campus, despite Saka's insistence that they're necessary there.instagram.comKOMO News on Instagram: "Seattle City Councilmember Rob Saka wants the city to add public surveillance cameras to the Seattle Center campus immediately. A lack of cameras at the campus - which hosts ...144 likes, 43 comments - komo4 on September 24, 2026: "Seattle City Councilmember Rob Saka wants the city to add public surveillance cameras to the Seattle Center campus immediately. A lack of camera... 511719
Reposted by Adam ShostackLarry Osterman @larryosterman.github.io · 25/09/2026Tumble out of bed, and I stumble to the kitchen; Pour myself a cup of ambition; Yawn and stretch and try to come to life. Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumping, Out on the streets the traffic is jumping, It's folks like me on the job from September 25th. Oh wait. That's not quite right. 021
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ok, I have now read your piece, and appreciate the sincere and respectful way your address your glorious and brilliant campus leadership. Also, if you incorporaet IBAISBIAOMITCORPICBBTC into student housing, you get S.H.I... Technology. I just felt that might be worth pointing out. 😇 140
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(embarrassed to have to admit that I didn't read your piece, but thought it was worth sharing from the tweet alone.) 110
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please remember, MIT surveillance cameras were a stepping stone to charging Aaron Schwartz. MIT doesn't seem to. 1100
Reposted by Adam ShostackCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 8436202
Reposted by Adam ShostackRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Locally acquired cases, 170! 2207
Reposted by Adam ShostackAdam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Diagrams versus Models (Threat Model Thursday) (New blog post: shostack.org/blog/diagrams-versus-m…, this is post 1/9) Diagrams are the most recognizable tools and deliverables of threat modeling. (Both functions are important: the working tool […] [Original post on infosec.exchange] 101
Reposted by Adam ShostackDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Gonna be a good week for us know-it-alls who like to tell people that the incredibly useful* phrase patient zero is based on a misunderstanding en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_c... 2226
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And you may find yourself in a beautiful house With a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself "Well... how did I get here?" 080
Reposted by Adam ShostackBoring Manager Rob 🅅 @bourboninexile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This joke would have landed perfectly fine if you’d cut it off at the comma. I appreciate that you went the extra mile. 121
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026thehill.com/homenews/adm...thehill.comTrump says AI will be renamed ‘super intelligence’ in all US documentsPresident Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that artificial intelligence will be renamed “super intelligence” in all U.S. documents. “The United States also totally re… 010
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm glad to hear that the US is adopting #SI, the System Internationale of measurement, after 40 years of inch-by-inch progress. 271
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The #China #AI near miss story is shocking and worrisome, and Overreliance is an explicit part of the #LLM threat modeling framework that I released back in August. It was preventable — if the folks building these systems are willing to stop and look at a wallet card. shostack.org/blog/the-pen...shostack.orgThe Pentagon, China, AI and PHANTOM-BCould PHANTOM-B have stopped this close call? 030
Reposted by Adam ShostackAdam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026If I hit cancel, are the words un-counted? 011
Reposted by Adam ShostackAdrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Into the early planning stage of a new book. Bit of a punt, a step away from my previous long-form stuff. 161911
Reposted by Adam Shostackmisterpurple @misterpurple.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Really looking forward to this. My favourite security book by a long margin. 011
Reposted by Adam ShostackEric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 11/09/2026"In retrospect, 9/11 was paradoxically both a respite from and accelerant of polarizations and pathologies that were already well underway by then. It allowed Americans to ignore them for a moment, until they came roaring back with redoubled force." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/m... 081
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Doctor Doom shows up at #Seattle city council meeting to speak in favor of our new traffic cameras. #visionzero #ats #flock gizmodo.com/doctor-doom-...gizmodo.comDoctor Doom Shows Up to Support Seattle's Surveillance NetworkThe supervillain offered a timely reminder that Flock isn't the only company doing the eye-in-the-sky dirty work. 020