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Rob

@elborro.bsky.social
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ICS/OT cybersecurity. Has fun with software/hardware hacking. Loves science fiction and space things. :) Privacy and hacking-is-not-a-crime advocate. Matrix, Mastodon, Pi-hole and Signal patron. Be kind, he/him, 🇬🇧🇳🇱.

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Barbara Kathmann @barbarakathmann.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hahahaha deze gozer…….de arrogantie van Meta legt precies het probleem bloot. Wij zijn zelf natuurlijk te dom om technologische ontwikkelingen te duiden als vooruitgang of niet en nee niemand tornt aan toegang tot veilige camerabrillen voor blinden en slechtzienden www.metronieuws.nl/lifestyle/te...
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Meta wil brillen met camera niet van de markt halen ondanks ophef
Meta houdt AI brillen op de markt ondanks zorgen over heimelijk filmen en bestrijdt aangepaste opname lampjes met algoritmes.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A world of always-on cameras and microphones on peoples' bodies is a very serious privacy and security problem for the people wearing them and for everyone around them.
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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 17/09/2026
Sanquin gaat weer op westnijlvirus testen na besmetting door gedoneerd bloed
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Sanquin gaat weer op westnijlvirus testen na besmetting door gedoneerd bloed
Die patiënt overleed, of het virus de oorzaak van het overlijden was, of een kwetsbare gezondheid, is niet duidelijk
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026
My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”
A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 05/09/2026
TELETEKST FOREVER
Pagina: 122 - Titel: Storing op website en app NOS - Inhoud:  Door een storing op de website en in de app van de NOS is het nieuws daarop niet up-to-date.Ook de sportberichten kunnen op dit moment niet bijgewerkt worden.Er wordt hard gewerkt aan een oplossing.Excuses voor het ongemak. De berichtgeving op Teletekst kan wel worden gepubliceerd en wordt dus wel bijgewerkt,ook op de Teletekst-app.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/08/2026
Here are 3 minutes of unedited sanderling joy from right before sunset tonight 🥹 🪶
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
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Mathijs Bouman @mathijsbouman.nl · 26/05/2026
uh... Volkskrant...?
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Why are rape victims going into $122,000 dollars in debt in their lifetimes? Why are rape victims going into debt for being raped? Why do rape victim’s GoFundMe’s bother you? What are you doing to advocate against rape?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/05/2026
182.8 Meters xkcd.com/3248/
Comic. [Person with bun gesturing at informational sign as she talks to person with ponytail, another person, person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat] PERSON WITH BUN: In some places, the bay is more than 182.8 meters deep. [thought bubble above another person’s head] PERSON: *”More than”?* Why would they use that for such a precise... Aha! 100 fathoms! [caption] My hobby: reverse-engineering original units
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Dutch_OsintGuy @dutchosintguy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🚨 New blog: The open web is being poisoned by AI slop, synthetic personas, fake context and amplified lies. Once polluted information becomes searchable, repeated and summarised by AI, it can look like evidence. Evidence poisoning is the #OSINT is real ! www.dutchosintguy.com/post/evidenc...
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Evidence Poisoning: The OSINT Crisis Nobody Is Ready For
Evidence poisoning is the contamination of the open web with synthetic, manipulated or amplified material that later appears useful as investigative evidence. In an age of AI slop, fake personas, recy...
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Luuk Huttig @lhuttig.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Een van de meest inspirerende vrouwen van deze tijd is heen gegaan. Het begrip mixtuur (het is niet natuur vs cultuur maar mixtuur) heeft diepere lagen dan de context waarin ze het introduceerde. RIP Karin Spaink nos.nl/artikel/2613... cc @annejan.com
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Schrijver en strijdbaar zieke Karin Spaink (68) overleden
In 1986 werd bij haar MS vastgesteld. Die ziekte is haar na veertig productieve jaren fataal geworden.
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Karin Spaink @karinspaink.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Vandaag ben ik uit vrije wil gestorven, in het gezelschap van mijn beste vrienden. Het hoe & wat daarvan staat in mijn allerlaatste stukje: www.spaink.net/2026/05/08/e....
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Karin Spaink - Exit Spaink – mijn allerlaatste stukje
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/04/2026
1) There's no reason an administrator at NASA should care how a Solar System body is categorized. 2) NASA isn't the org that makes classification determinations for Solar System objects. 3) If Isaacman wants Pluto reclassified again, he can lobby the International Astronomical Union on his own time.
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Barbara Kathmann @barbarakathmann.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Mensen uitkleden, nazipropaganda en kinderporno zijn verboden! Dit kabinet en Brussel moeten veel harder optreden tegen Elon en X. Ze beschadigen onze kinderen, vrouwen, democratie en alles wat ons lief is. Gelukkig zijn er organisaties die wel doorpakken! Dank daarvoor! 🙏 www.ad.nl/tech/nederla...
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Nederlandse instanties zijn Elon Musk spuugzat en spannen kort geding aan: ‘Dit is een ongeluk in slow motion’
Nederlandse instanties spannen een kort geding aan tegen X vanwege Grok, het AI-product van de schatrijke ondernemer Elon Musk. Aanleiding is dat de software (gewelddadige) beelden van seksueel misbru...
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Barbara Kathmann @barbarakathmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
De Odido-hack treft miljoenen Nederlanders. Het gaat niet langer alleen over Odido en klant, maar ook over overheid en burger. Dit kabinet moet meer doen voor slachtoffers. De cybertelefoon moet zsm worden opgericht door de overheid. Een loket waar iedereen terecht kan voor info en vragen! #odido
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WhiteHatShark @whitehatshark.nl · 13/01/2026
Aparently it was her birthday yesterday! She turned 29, but here she was just 15. Such an amazing talent, definitely love Gabriella Quevedo! youtu.be/sDTPy4dKZm8
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(Michael Jackson) They Don't Care About Us - Gabriella Quevedo (LIVE)
YouTube video by Gabriella Quevedo
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Call your reps this January and tell them: — NO to KOSA — NO to Section 230 reform — NO to the SCREEN Act — NO to the App Store Accountability Act — NO to the Parents Over Platforms Act —NO “age verification” laws —NO to digital ID systems
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Congress is about to make a huge push into online ID verification, entrenching the power of big tech and mandating that they collect even MORE data on users. Mass surveillance/censorship laws are being framed as “child safety” but they’re really abt at removing LGBTQ ppl, repro justice info, etc.
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Ayo it’s Jack @ayoitsjack.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Public service announcement; The £1.50 dish dryer from IKEA holds ps5 controllers perfectly.
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Enith Vlooswijk @enithka.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Als één wolf een kleuter aanraakt, moet hij dood en zijn soortgenoten verbannen. Als jaarlijks tientallen kinderen en jongeren zwaar verminkt raken, heet het verbod op vuurwerk 'overdreven regelzucht' en een aanval op onze 'vrijheid' en traditie.
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
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They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway
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Nadine Böke @nadineboke.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Ha, wat leuk 🙂. Mijn opmerking van laatst inspireerde deze mooie bespreking van het originele verhaal van Frankenstein. Als je alleen een van de bewerkingen kent: het boek is anders & de moeite waard.
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Contrary to all those click-baity headlines about how cosmology is "broken," scientists are mostly frustrated that it's *not* obviously broken. When we can find the real cracks, we'll have a path to deeper understanding. 🧪🔭 noirlab.edu/public/news/...
A slice of the 3D map of galaxies collected in the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey with annotations identifying key features in the map. Earth is at the tip, with the furthest galaxies plotted at distances of 11 billion light-years. Each point represents one galaxy. This version of the DESI map includes 600,000 galaxies — less than 0.1% of the survey's full volume.

Credit: DESI Collaboration/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23/11/2025
Buying a tech gift for someone this year? Keep in mind what you're opting them into, and take the time to help set up any device you do get them as privately and securely as possible. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,
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Rob @elborro.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Let's stalk everyone 24/7.
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Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I’m not even going to mention the word redundancy 😂😜 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
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Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds bank hit by Amazon Web Services internet outage - live updates
Hundreds of sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are affected - Amazon Web Services says it's fixed the underlying issue but a full recovery will take longer.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/07/2025
Fix This Sign xkcd.com/3113/
Comic. [Person with ponytail using handheld device in front of a large sign with crooked, off-center header, with crooked QR code (with illegible URL) and crooked list beneath] Header: DOANATE TO FIX THIS SIGN! List: $10 Fix kerning [kerning around “rni” of kerning is difficult to read]; $20 Align Columns [out of alignment] $20 Fix text size [much smaller text size]; $50 Fix typo; $50 Fix centering; $100 fix rotation. PERSON: Grrr… [caption] My new company’s business model is based on extorting graphic designers.
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WHY2025 @why2025.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Only 42 tickets left! Grab yours via tickets.why2025.org before we're out of fish!
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025
This is your regularly scheduled message to USE SIGNAL (I ditched whatsapp in 2014. yes, when Facebook bought it.) Signal is secure and private - these are NOT THE SAME THING (Whatsapp uses your metadata for spying and marketing) And pay for Signal if you can. Best £10 p/month I spend.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
“Surveillance pricing,” or as it’s sometimes called, “personalized pricing,” is another way for corporations to pull one over on you. Here to explain how it works (and what we can do about it) is former FTC chair Lina Khan. youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GGq_tBcBaIR…
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off? Well, they may already be doing that thanks
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Women In Cybersecurity Community Association @womenofwicca.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Join us and StudSec on June 11 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for: "Built for Good, Used for Evil" Industry professionals will walk you through real-world examples where well-intentioned tools have been misused, sometimes with serious consequences. www.meetup.com/wicca...
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Erwin Witte @erwinwitte.eurosky.social · 05/05/2025
Dit. Maarten houdt ons ALLEMAAL een spiegel voor.
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andy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Really appreciate and respect @troyhunt.com's transparency with his phishing mishap, and this post as a lot of us struggle to shift to passkeys, even though we know they're good for us. www.troyhunt.com/passkeys-for... #cybersecurity @gate15.bsky.social
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Passkeys for Normal People
Let me start by very simply explaining the problem we're trying to solve with passkeys. Imagine you're logging on to a website like this: And, because you want to protect your account from being logg...
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Buckle in everyone it's a 4 picture set. Ok, so the scene displays a convo between Dr Leah Brahms (Dr. B) and Geordi (Geordi), as they are having a chill hang working on engineering stuff. Picture one is focused on Dr B who is looking down and thinking hard about something like she's doing math in her head. Closed caption reads, "21 centimeters." 
Picture two, Dr B is now looking up with a big surprised smile, like she just solved a riddle and is proud of herself. Caption reads, "Oh..."
Picture three is still Dr B talking but is now focused on Geordi who looks like a proud dad watching his son do a good job at sports or something, caption reads, "Oh, that's good, Commander." Picture four is back on Dr B, now smiling and looking like a TV commercial mom who's so proud of the peanut butter she chose for her growing family. Closed caption reads, "That's very good."Alt in pic 1Alt in pic 1Alt in pic 1
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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Europe has a message for Elmo.
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Rob @elborro.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Today, exactly 10 years ago, Spotify was asked to implement 2FA. Surely it would be available by now, right? Nope!
Post today on Spotify user forum: “My account was hacked because your Spotify's, or whoever they sell our data to's security is trash. I have been hacked 3 times in 24 hours. This is so stupid. My bank has had 2 factor authentication for over 10 years. It isn't a brilliant concept. If you house financial or sensitive customer information such as credit cards, phone numbers, or addresses, you better protect it. This is crazy.”
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LosBol @losbol.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Analog Audio
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/01/2025
Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039
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IoT/ICS Security Nerd 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ @itsecurityninja.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Good morning Skeeteroonies of the Universe. It's Monday. We all know what that means. Stay safe. Plan ahead. Hugs to all real people.
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WHY2025 @why2025.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
1000 tickets sold within 5 days ❤️ Will you make it 1024?
1000 tickets tickets sold in friendly blue neon letters with a little neon heart at the end. This text is placed on a synthwave-inspired color gradient background from blue at the top, through purple and red into orange at the bottom
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Rob @elborro.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Explaining to my followers why my posts aren't that good.
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a man with a scarf around his neck is standing in front of a hd sign
Alt: A Jedi is waving his arm, supposedly ‘helping’ a cat opening and closing the fridge door.
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WHY2025 @why2025.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The Early Nerd catches the ... awesome news! Soon, we promise! Stay tuned and subscribe so you'll never miss an update
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Pro tip for bad guys: do not, in your efforts to evade detection, give @nixonnixoff.bsky.social an extra strong motivation to hunt you down and peel the layers of your opsec back like an onion, because she will fucking do it www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Accused Kitchener hacker unmasked after threatening woman online
Kitchener-based hacker Alexander “Connor” Moucka was unmasked after making threats against a woman on the messaging app Telegram. Moucka threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at Unit221...
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Anne Jan Brouwer @annejan.com · 29/11/2024
Heel Nederland kende Tommie dankzij Sesamstraat, maar niemand kende zijn geheim archive.ph/qBIgA
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🌱Esther🌱 @sterestherster.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Vouwfietsen. Ze klinken suf. Maar heel handig om mee te nemen naar Spanje over 2 weken aangezien station op 1,5 uur lopen van het appartement ligt en er geen bussen rijden. Heeft iemand nog een (redelijk) goede vouwfiets liggen om over te nemen? Omg Den Haag, Amsterdam, Utrecht.
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