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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Reading "The Nerd Reich" by @gilduran and I think I've found my favourite quite so far... "Not everyone in Silicon Valley is looking to fill their 'God-shaped hole' with Jesus.

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The hardest part of flying home from Japan is adjusting to the time change. For example in Tokyo I got to experience a future where everyone deserves dignity but I’m flying back to a country intent on pushing itself back to the 1950s. It’s hard to adjust your watch to that.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“It never occurred to us that our system that has exclusive control over the pod bay doors would take control over the pod bay doors” seems like something you might have thought about a bit more before you connected it to the pod bay doors.

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dra!_kulix @drakulix.de · 22/09/2026

[ranty, KDE, DDH, big tech] I swear FOSS discourse has evolved into the same reactionary infighting seen in leftist spaces. It is wild to me, how a bunch of people scream “nazi bar”, when a certain guest speaker in the KDE space brings up Omarchy as a bad example and publicly denounces DDH […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

NY (and Philly) region ILS failures related to a primary system failing and then, when it failed over to a backup, they discovered that the backup's fiber link had previously been severed. A old friend of mine was responsible for a critical public safety system with redundant links. He always […]

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I just remembered that today is my 23rd anniversary as a landed immigrant in Canada. Yay! What a journey.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I am proud to share that I am now a committee member for Canada's SCC (Standards Council of Canada) on Unmanned Aerial Systems (Cybersecurity) and represent Canada at the ISO for cybersecurity of UAS.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I had a few weekend thoughts on generative AI, LLMs, and how they are destroying our Creative Commons. Would love to hear your thoughts, here are mine: www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026… #NoAI #GenAI #openness

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Hey AVGeek nerds, anyone know what's going on with Funchal? (FNC)

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

*Quite a mystery. Opaque to mere human analysis, etc

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Brian Clark @deepthoughts10.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Anyone play this #MapTap game? It’s kinda cool. www.maptap.gg September 10 96🏅 96🏅 100🎯 80✨ 80✨ Final score: 872

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Gotta love the IRS. Not only do they tax you when you don't live there, but this year, as an added bonus, I have to pay them $593 USD because the Canadian government gave me a grant to help me with my disability.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I'm excited to announce that I will be speaking at @bsidesedmonton on the 24th of September, 2026! My talk "Are we being hacked by the press? Finding signals in the noise of InfoSec in 2026" will cover off how to manage risk in a world that is being driven […] [Original post on securitycafe.ca]

I'm speaking at BSides Edmonton 2026
Are we being hacked by the press? Finding
signals in the noise of InfoSec in 2026
Thu, 9/24/2026 2:25 pm — Edmonton, Canada
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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I was in the US this week and someone asked if I had watched Strange Brew. As a 50 year old Canadian I was momentarily deeply offended. I think they meant well, but those hosers can just take off, eh? (FYi spell check keeps changing hosers to horses)

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I recently temporarily relocated to keep an eye on my elderly mother for a few weeks while at elevated risk for additional injury after a spill. She's not at a point in the arc of her life that she's going to do much changing. So the best thing I could do was to figure out what she was going to […]

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

But you know what I _didn't_ do? I didn't set up a system to test whether or not she would do things unsafely, and then make her watch a training video if she failed.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I just saw someone with a ChatGPT for Dummies book at SFO Airport. I'm not sure how to react.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Beautiful British Columbian booze still on the shelves in the good ol' US of A. In fact, this sighting is in Utah!

A selection of bar bottles featuring Empress Gin from Vancouver Island Canada.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I know that Elon Musk gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out. I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.

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Ahimsa @ahimsa-pdx.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Powerful video from Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic senate candidate from Michigan: "We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS." I'll put a link to the source and the […] [Original post on disabled.social]

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/1171296927040… This shouldn't work very well. If you are a security and risk professional you should be staying as far away from crypto and money laundering as possible. If not... Well, grift does as grift gets.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@jbz/11711958274504… OhhhHhhh. This is reminiscent of the Enron email corpus being made public in its bankruptcy and being used to train a whole generation of spam filters.

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

you guys do realize that all these hallmarks of "AI" browsers/scrapers are also the same things that accessibility tools do, right? because both interact with a webpage as a big pile of text, not as a bunch of 2d images you can click on. but it's fine. we should be feeding deliberately fake […]

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

To be sung to Barrett's Cyber-privateers: Oh, the year was 2028 How I wish I was in Standford now A letter of marque came from the king To the scummiest scriptkiddies I've ever seen God damn them all, I was told We'd surf the 'net for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears Now I'm a […]

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

[CAD politics] I encourage all Canadians to support this petition to expel US Ambassador Hoekstra from Canada for undermining our good faith efforts at negotiating, supporting the annexation of Canada as the 51st state, interfering in Canadian affairs vis-à-vis Alberta separatism and more. He […]

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Surveil much? Seen above the pool area at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas

What appears to be a circular mount on a rooftop with 40 or so cameras pointing every direction

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

"Taking the rubbish out" by The Rebel Bear in Clacton-on-Sea, England.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

RE: flipboard.social/@TechDesk/11706704… This is close to the most corrupt, self-serving nonsense I have ever heard. I wonder how much PC World is taking from the corrupt VPN companies?

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Is it just me or does AliExpress always throw in a random recommendation just in case? Never disappoints. I introduce you to the "Smokeless Moxibustion Jar Moxibustion Massage Body Lumbar And Abdominal Massage"

A screenshot from an email showing 5 electronics products related to what the poster usually searches on AliExpress and one item that looks like a pair of green boob massagers.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

I'm amazed that I am so disappointed in Carney that I kind of wish PP had won. I would feel less angry. #CAPol

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I've never hidden my ambivalence towards ISC2, but trying to login to count my CPEs and getting this might have just tipped me over the edge to outright hostility.

| This Serverless Function has crashed.
| Your connection is working correctly.
| Vercel is working correctly.
405: NOT_ALLOWED
Code: *FUNCTION_INVOCATION_FAILED"
ID: “pdx1::rwgxd-1785956915591-cc889e244dcd
If you are a visitor, contact the website owner or try again later.
If you are the owner, learn how to fix the error and check the logs.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

It is almost looking like it was a mistake to not require an ethics course for computer science degrees.

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Anthropic: “our models went rogue and hacked companies way before that OTHER company’s models. And it was way worse and way better at the same time. In completely unrelated news, we are IPOing soon. Don’t forget! XOXO” www.anthropic.com/news/investigatin…

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/… I can't remember the last time I was this inspired by an American politician, and I am lucky to vote in Michigan to be able to support him. If he is bullshitting me, I would genuinely be surprised.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Should this OpenAI stunt be eligible for a late-entry Pwnie award? #InfoSec #AI

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Whew! My new secret AI model that you can totally have access to once my company has IPOd just accidentally ransomwared a bunch of companies. It was completely unintentional - I observed the model trying to escape and it determined that the bus would be the best way but it needed money so it […]

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

For anyone in the lower mainland of British Columbia interested in monitoring the air quality during smoke season here in Vancouver, I have added a PM 2.5 chart to my weather station in Yaletown, Vancouver. You can reach it at yaletownnow.ca #BCStorm #BCWX #YVRWX #wildfires

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

RE: mas.to/@carnage4life/11694905994080… These stories seem shockingly simplistic and frankly downright misleading. 1. Maintaining code is very expensive. Vulnerabilities are real. The benefits to being part of a collective software ecosystem are worth a lot more money over time […]

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

RE: techpolicy.social/@joebeone/1169267… I rarely see a good take on the "vulnpocalypse", let along from someone inside of the AI industry itself (Joshua Saxe excepted), but this one is valid and likely the best take I have seen in awhile. I highly suggest you give it a read […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

You don't see people from the frontier models brag about how many vulnerabilities they FIXED, only how many they FOUND.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

You can tell when the mounties are truly at work as they wear their safety vests instead of their red dress uniforms. #Canada #FIFA #SportsBall

A photo of a street in Vancouver with 6 mounted police riding in pairs of two down the street during a World Cup game. They are wearing day-glow green vests over standard navy police uniforms.

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Thank you to Canada and all the amazing Canadians I have met for welcoming my wife and I to this country. I landed just under 23 years ago and proudly became a citizen just in time for Canada Day 2012. Vive Le Canada! Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 #CanadaDay

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Gotta hand it to #mexico. I live near the stadium in Vancouver (not where they are playing tonight) and yet they are still the loudest fans (other than Canada) the whole tournament. They should win on spirit alone!

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Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@tomshardware/tom-s-h… Buyer beware: Sandisk is trying to not honour my warranty on one of these drives...

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