Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 18hApple has been doing better than Google there, yes. However, if you look at how many crappy apps grab an amazing amount of information and use it to feed things like stalkerware systems, the picture is less rosy. But yes, most malware still hits desktops because it's easier and gangs are lazy too. 010
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 18hI mean, if they didn't make it clear that it was super important, someone might look at what impact it actually had on the product, and no one's options want that. 110
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 18h(and yes, they probably shouldn't do that, but people do, and we also see attackers pivoting from compromised personal machines to work systems remarkably often) 000
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 18hPart of this is tied to the weakest link security model that we've built everything on top of. If a user at one of my clients is ruining a game on their work laptop, code in mods for that game has the same blast radius as core os components. Phones are a little better, but still bad. 210
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 18hSure. In a mature industry, we'd be able to distinguish between different domains better. Unfortunately as it stands there's a pressure that if it's ok for anyone it must be ok for everyone. 000
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 19hOh, I understand the commercial issues entirely. But it's important to keep track of what it's a commercial constraint and what is a technical constraint. In my world, the number of people who are now dead because someone else mistook their business model for reality is not small. 100
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 21hWould bother to and can are unrelated statements. And also, if they're testing things you'd normally never bother with, correctness is less important; that doesn't translate to cases where correctness is required. 120
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaKevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026Not just an alert, this is a _pageable_ alert 0162
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaQuinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026And yes I was reacting to that crazy thread. I'm not scandalized, none of this shit is special. Nothing about this scene has any veracity, even the things that happened. These are unserious, careless people and their lives are empty. This iteration has a bubble! How unnew that is, too. 041
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaQuinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026We really need to stop analyzing and pathologizing AI bros and the the crazy that comes out of the the Bay Area. They're assholes. Bog standard, just assholes. Selfish cunts. You never need more than two syllables to describe these people. 294
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 29/09/2026Come on, you can't just leave us hanging like that! Uh, I guess, unless you're into that 120
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 29/09/2026It even generalizes! My acknowledgement of corporate personhood cutoff is May 9, 1886 010
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaOden @odense.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Automation, AI, learning gamification, XR/VR/AR info overlays/guidance, maybe some other methods, all lead to substantial cognitive offloading, and therefore lead to deskilling/p-zombification/whatever you want to call it. Quite convinced. 4187
Reposted by Eleanor Saittaemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it. 241131355
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 29/09/2026I'd be tempted to put them in a social situation where there are pre-prepared elements where any of the abilities the characters have could be useful, but where there are also routes that involve none of them. This might have more to do with my feelings about the structure of the game, though. 010
Reposted by Eleanor Saittabrainwane @harihareswara.net · 28/09/2026I wrote the "how to navigate Legistar" guide I wish I'd had years ago when I started doing #NYC policy advocacy, complete with warnings about subtle bugs. Along the way, I point to #CivicTech tools intro.nyc and legislation.support, with explanations of what they can and can't do. 013
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776142098
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear. 261455342
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 24/09/2026I am so tired of dealing with these children. Can we go do adult engineering again? 021
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This week we learned that the Irish government has proposed weakening Europeans citizens' fundamental right to privacy to favour AI companies. We also learned this week that 83% of Irish people under 25 want stronger government regulation of AI. Who *exactly* does our government work for? 4396151
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 24/09/2026Oh yeah, not suggesting that's the answer either — more that it's ridiculous those are the only options. 110
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 24/09/2026If only there were some way to have conversations that weren't open to absolutely everyone, we say, having chosen the absolutely everything just be open to everyone machine 100
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 23/09/2026I've got stuff planned on security metrics, early stage startup choices to make your life easier when you do start on security, and things we look for in pre-program reviews. I'm currently working on a piece on dealing with social engineering personally and professionally in the age of voice cloning 010
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 23/09/2026As with the last one, this is primarily targeted at CEOs, COOs, and CTOs, not CISOs or other security folks, although I'm sure it may be a fun read for them too. If you're still an RSS person (Google reader mafia unite!) there's a feed there for future pieces. 010
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 23/09/2026Here's the second part of my essay on how to actually get security work done at your company when you've decided to start a security program: www.structures.systems/blog/how-to-... Please give it a repost so the folks who need it can find it. :-)lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 220
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 23/09/2026The neoliberal hollowing out of everything everywhere all at once 010
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 23/09/2026People who don't care about anything other than what's incentived always have a structural advantage over folks who do. Removing judgement from e.g. promotion processes fixes some things but makes this problem worse. 110
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 22/09/2026Historical question — why did we as an industry decide that penetration tests needed to be outsourced, but that we didn't need outsourced application security tests or code reviews in the same way? 021
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Higher velocity = more good" is a misunderstanding premised on the idea that every piece of work on your Jira board is there because it adds value in some way. Once you understand that the majority of developer tickets are actually negative-value, you will become enlightened. 48915
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 21/09/2026Given the degree to which we have failed to stop climate change (esp. with the AI bubble and the expanding Ukrainian-Iranian war), when does our responsibility shift from our survival to trying to leave the least bad parts of our cultural and political heritage to the survivors of the great dying? 020
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaAnna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026if you want a thriving arts scene, the single most important criteria is that broke ass artists MUST be able to afford to live there and rent studio space. if you don’t have that, your arts scene is dying, man 121664
Reposted by Eleanor Saittabubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 16/12/2023just a periodic reminder that sex worker rights, trans rights, and abortion rights are all the same issue. you’re either for bodily autonomy, or you’re against it. 12299719
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 18/09/2026I mean, a lot of folks seem to think his wife did most of his best work 110
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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 18/09/2026Note though that this isn't my field, and some asshole is probably trying something, but I really don't think it's gonna do much. 000
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026I mean, I guess there are Car People (vintage) and Cat People (consumer enthusiast). But I think that's kind of the larger point of @techconnectify.bsky.social's thread — that at some level there's no reason the market should go this way. 010
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026That said, people buy a new car what, every five or so years? So there isn't the continuity of experience with the evolution of the market unless you're a Car Person. 100
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026There's a deep layer of learned helplessness, taught by the experience of using so many enshitified platforms. Vehicles are a consumer good that's I think more responsive to consumer demand than the platforms have been, for all that they'd like to be rentier platforms. 040
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026There's been a lot of in-silico modeling work done, but nothing done using LLMs. I have heard about text mining of the corpus of pharmaceutical literature to look for potential old or overlooked ideas that night have new utility, but that's as close as it gets and it has nothing to do with mrna 280
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026See my reply to that post. If they'd implemented editing, I'd have done so. 010
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026But Charlie, this is social media! What else would we do, talk to each other? 110
Reposted by Eleanor SaittaEleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026Universal systems literacy is the educational challenge of this century, in the same way that statistical literacy was the challenge of the 20th and written literacy the challenge of the 19th. We are unfortunately on track to do no better in this century than previous ones did in theirs. 061
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026Universal systems literacy is the educational challenge of this century, in the same way that statistical literacy was the challenge of the 20th and written literacy the challenge of the 19th. We are unfortunately on track to do no better in this century than previous ones did in theirs. 061
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026To clarify, it's been adopted by the Commission, not the Parliament, so there's still a long fight ahead before it becomes law. That said, I'm not hopeful about the chance of getting the age ban (and likely backdoor identification) components removed. 010
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026In the same Europe that's so incredibly horny for eliminating end to end encryption, if you believe for a minute that the union's intelligence organizations will be able to resist the temptation to de-anonymize all social media accounts, I have a bridge to sell you in Crimea. 010
Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026None of those features require age bans. In theory, age verification is supposed to be non-identifying, but it's very likely that in practice this will be a backdoor to ending online anonymity. 110