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OG Woman in Tech #303 #Defcon #SOC #BSidesScapegoat #InfoSec #HardwareHacker #DataPrivacy #SecurityForPeople Occasionally returning to the fight. More work-related on mastodon: infosec.exchange/@gunwale

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evilmog @mog.evil.af · 07/08/2026
The @defcon.bsky.social #defcon34 #defcon MUD is now alive defcon.wtf The goal this year is to hack the game and show me what cool stuff you can do with the tools I'm giving you. New things like environmental impacts and permadeath are live. Good luck, you will need it.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The average red state receives $1.24 in federal funds for every $1 contributed to the federal kitty. www.moneygeek.com/resources/st...
moneygeek.com
The States That Are Most Reliant on Federal Aid
MoneyGeek’s analysis identified the states most reliant on federal funding and found an intriguing correlation between dependency and political leaning.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Something nerdy and pleasant to interrupt the morning doomscroll. #HobbitDay
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Best thing I heard today, "Do not besmirch my hobby and my country with your treason masquerading as performative patriotism." I love smart #friends.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Insult to injury, now Hind Rajab's mother is in hiding for trying to speak publicly about the slaughter of her family by Israeli forces. mastodon.social/@QasimRashid... (Background, since it got so little press in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...) #Genocide
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid@mastodon.social)
Today I was supposed to interview Wissam Hamada, the honorable mother of Hind Rajab. But we were unable to make it happen because she had to flee an attempt by the Israeli military on her life. Killin...
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Well worth a repost. Note he backed the rampant vote suppression in North Carolina. Has to make sure he can keep day trading while on the taxpayer clock.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I love this title of an actual Princeton peer-reviewed study. A good read, following a frustrating two weeks at work where OpenAI models incorrectly performed 57% of the calculations I gave them. arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07484 #MachineBullshit
Princeton study titled, "Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models."
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Very solid research here supporting the simplest way to help the working poor: give them some cash. (Not a popular idea in my home country where it's assumed everyone is on the grift.) www.nber.org/papers/w34152
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Can Cash Transfers Save Lives? Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Kenya
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
For the third time this week. Congratulations #OpenAI. You've managed to create a computer that is bad at math. #ChatGPT5 (Part of an ongoing project to test various AI models' accuracy.)
Portion of a ChatGPT 5 conversation where the human calls out bad math and after nearly a minute delay the AI acknowledges its figure was wrong.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I am so angry about this. My friend's mom, born in DC, now 86 yo, has been braving the heat every day to protest, just like she and many others of her generation did all through the 60s and 70s...way before this rich kid from Santa Monica was even born. #DCStatehood
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The military occupation is happening now. DC was my home for a decade, a thriving and beloved city commonly used as a pawn for political maneuvering. (I recall a Senate Committee raiding our elementary education budget to gold-leaf some federal building.) Everyone should be protesting this.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
End of an era. :( #IAmOld help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued
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Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Finally some coverage on this incident at #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was released and returned to Israel after being charged with luring a child for a sex act
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
So this happened in Vegas #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp. Tom Alexandrovich, Executive Director of Israel National Cyber Defense, got arrested during a child sex sting operation by LVPD. No diplomatic immunity, but still quietly released and allowed to fly home before this press release. More below.
https://www.lvmpd.com/Home/Components/News/News/2182/3754
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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 29/07/2025
Are you going to @defcon.bsky.social?? We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack! Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.
defcon 33 main stage sunday aug 10 noon - flyer with sick ascii by x0 and aNACHRONiST
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excellent roundup of how the cashless economy feeds the surveillance state and debt slavery. This is an area where a grassroots effort to push back on invasive daily apps could reap huge benefits. #PaymentChoiceAct csrl.org/wp-content/u...
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
For anyone who hasn't deleted Facebook & Instagram (or at least isolated login to a VM web browser)... www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...
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Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos
Facebook users opting into “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The really disturbing part is that this is so groundbreaking. Yes, we should all own the rights to ourselves. Anything less is a form of slavery: securityaffairs.com/179464/laws-...
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Denmark moves to protect personal identity from deepfakes with new copyright law
Denmark plans to let citizens copyright their face, body, and voice to combat deepfakes under a new law strengthening personal digital rights.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
To all my anti-regulation friends, a reminder that companies & governments will do anything they can get away, such as Samsung's deployment of Israeli spyware on all of their phones sold in West Asia and North Africa (WANA)...because there's no law to stop it. smex.org/open-letter-...
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Open Letter to Samsung: End Forced Israeli-Founded Bloatware Installations in the WANA Region
<p>In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over…</p>
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Premise is goofy going in, but some very interesting statistics buried in the middle.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Time and time again my investigations have shown that if police have unchecked access to a tool it will be abused, because they are only human. If it isn't checking up on their SOs, it's something like this: www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
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A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Excellent thread on updates of what is happening in courtrooms. ICE is now refusing to identify themselves, interrupting court proceedings, and arresting anyone who protests or even tries to observe.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The dangerous facet of more and more of these cases every day is normalization. We have to react. Too many people I know are shutting out politics. We can't.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Safety report on an AI system, ".. it sometimes takes extremely harmful actions like attempting to ...blackmail people it believes are trying to shut it down." It's not like they didn't warn us about #skynet. techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...
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Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch
Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
US sources need a lot more reporting on the brutal civilian cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I was there months before the invasion through the first year. Most of what is coming out of our White House right now on the topic is pure rewriting of history. www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
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I found my wife curled around our son — her last act was to shield him
Serhii Yefimenko lost his wife in Russia’s biggest drone onslaught since the war began; his four-year-old survived but suffered life-changing injuries
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 20/05/2025
Once again my investigative team brought the receipts. Trump's IRS nominee just lied in his confirmation hearing about promising favors to tax scammers. We have the tapes to prove it.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
People really don't understand how broken the student loan system is in the US. Today, after decades of "plan" changes every time the administration changed, I have now paid off everything I borrowed at the interest rate I signed for.... ...and somehow still owe more than I originally borrowed. 1/
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hadnagy's defamation lawsuit against #DefCon has been dismissed because "allegations of sexual misconduct have ultimately been shown to be true." Yet another predator allowed to operate in #InfoSec for years while defenders like me remain ostracized. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
An earlier comment bears repeating: Lies incur a debt to the truth. Reposting nonsense, no matter how much we wish it to be true, undercuts credibility & trust. People ask how to fight back? Start with donating the time & effort to fact-check during your daily scroll.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is a critically important voting rights case in the US. Also important: the loser challenged votes only in hevily democratic counties. Shouldn't any ruling be applied uniformly?
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Jfc, the "archive" function of #TM-SGNL (the texting app 49's team is using) employs hard-coded passwords. There's nothing wrong with running your own instance of #Signal, but any competent coder could modify the code securely and NOT outsource the job to #Israel.
Snippet of sourcecode for the TeleMessage app showing hard-coded passwords for the archive function.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Important to note *one* of the many disinformation campaigns. They are documented & proven many times over.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
UPDATE Malta is still blocking entry of this civilian humanitarian aid ship which was hit with a drone attack last night. #Stage19 #23de44go
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This looks familiar: a dark money funded propaganda campaign aimed at the poor and fearful to influence an election outcome.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Way to go #CreeNation getting ahead of Maga-esque antics in Alberta. The world needs more strong, principled leadership like this.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Thank you @msnbc.com for showing how so many of the vilified federal workers truly have a servant's heart, trying to make the world better. Even for the pragmatists, USAID's work was critical in showing the strength and charity of the US to populations who otherwise hear only anti-US propaganda.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Jfc. Waking up to this. Please investigate and assist. #31PO47TB #Stage19
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
So hope this catches on more. End the data feed.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In search algorithm manipulation news, when searching YT for the original News 4 video, nine of my ten test profiles only came up with followup stories defending ICE's actions. (But the OG vid is on kfor.com, which continues excellent reporting of this case.) youtu.be/DUMJqz53YW0?...
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American mother, daughters terrorized by ICE in botched search for immigrants: Report
YouTube video by MSNBC
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Been interested in the last part of this quote for awhile, what need of humans does fascism appeal to? Security? Righteousness? Shoutout from the physicist in me to @bjchippindale.bsky.social's take that economics breaking conservation of energy, though like language, I'm not sure it applies.
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
One part of NY's 2019 criminal justice reforms that hasn't gotten clawed back yet is a law that says cops can't arrest and lock people up on low-level charges—they have to give them an appearance ticket. The NYPD response, it seems, has been to simply ignore the law. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-unlawfu...
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The NYPD Is Arresting More New Yorkers for Unarrestable Charges: 'I Shouldn't Have to Go Through This'
A visit to Brooklyn arraignment court confirmed that the NYPD is indeed arresting people on charges for which state law forbids an arrest.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Expect a lot more of this: kfor.com/news/local/w...
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"ICE" is now threatening bystanders who questioned the arrest. No good can come from officers refusing to identify themselves to any citizen who asks. It is our right to protect our neighbors from illegal kidnapping. augustafreepress.com/news/plain-c...
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Plain clothes, masks, unmarked vehicles: ICE agents in Virginia
U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement, or ICE, is reportedly on the ground in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
What could possibly go wrong? (Clearly I haven't been following Garcia v Character Technologies Inc. as closely as I should of been.)
"Character.AI is arguing that its AI chatbots should be treated like humans by extending them First Amendment protections."  According to Camille Carlton of Center for Humane Technology
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Still trying to figure out how this became acceptable behavior from a sitting US president.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
History is not on the side of anyone who treats children like this. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
gothamist.com
4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Regardless of the conspiracy theories, most feds I know sacrifice higher pay for a higher cause. The loss of three more federal prosecutors for refusing to cave to partisan demands hurts us all. #USPolitics #Corruption
Excerpt of news article, "3 Adams Case Prosecutors Resign..."
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Heard in the background, "That's not a Wonder Woman!" Something that's been on my mind lately: no matter how hard you try, you can never make some people happy.
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gunwale @gunwaler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Interesting story from @404media.co on FBI's failure to locate records of a $250,000 "hacking tools" purchase. No mention that the "charity" selling the tools is run by notorious grifter Chris Hadnagy. Curious what the FBI actually bought, if anything. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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