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Lesley Carhart

@hacks4pancakes.com
25K followers 1.1K following 3.4K posts

I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires. ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️‍🌈

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 23/09/2026
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Trans women, remember to update your arch linux today
Lesbians, remember to update your Debian
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 19/09/2026
Yeah a million bucks is great but have you tried —-after two years I can finally eat with the fork in my left hand.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 17/09/2026
Rather be poor and not famous than have anyone question in twenty years where I stood on human rights, or if I was afraid to take a stand against evil.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
X, the Everything We Want You to See App
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sam Altman "no...wait we just wanted more money..."
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has proposed a 20-year prison sentence for AI developers who move forward with Artificial Superintelligence plans, a penalty comparable to illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Very difficult to communicate two things without one getting lost: 1. Midway Blitz was unsuccessful. It did not destroy Chicago’s identity as a sanctuary, its neighborhoods, its peoples. 2. Midway Blitz was and is traumatic. It destroyed many lives and livelihoods. And the feds have not left.
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Mike Burnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s going to be really interesting to see an increasingly Groyperized Republican Party try to keep the peace with Silicon Valley billionaires and Hindutva extremists. JD Vance has a problem
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 12/09/2026
Don't drunk text Meshcore with no region Don't drunk text Meshcore with no region Don't drunk text Meshcore with no region
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 10/09/2026
I was actually pretty excited about the iPhone Duo until they went all in pro-Israel and set a price point higher than my hcol inner city rent.
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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When we fly high altitude balloons here in SA sometimes we have a client LoRA payload aboard. Radio footprint hits Melbourne and things get interesting so I'm told. It's an interesting modulation scheme.
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hoodie🐴 @hoodiepony.com · 09/09/2026
With the bushfires and regular issues major mobile networks failing people, there is great motivation to have an alternate form of comms. Meshcore coverage in Vic. For scale, MEL to SYD is about 714km/440miles.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 09/09/2026
You might think you're prepping for the apocalypse but have you seen Victoria's LORA mesh networks?
https://meshcore.co.uk/map.html
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 05/09/2026
Mad Max is actually kind of a shitty series because when you move to Australia as a punk and you find all the Mad Max people, they are.... pretty much like all the punks everywhere, and absolutely the people to leave your small child with. It's the... other ones you have to worry about.
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Phil Hagen @philhagen.com · 30/08/2026
Similar feels. Graduated on a Sunday. Security paperwork (carbon paper!) Monday and Tuesday. Flight to 4yrs of basic training Wednesday morning. That was 1994. Very little time back there since, and very very few connections kept. (As in: two or maybe three.)
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 30/08/2026
One of the Chicago news anchors asked what High School I went to and mate I moved 20,000km to never meet anyone who knows what Naperville is or what it was like being the poor kid there.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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David J. Bianco @davidjbianco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Punk AF
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 27/08/2026
My boss just put it out there that I just flew across the planet, spoke at a stadium, organised a rager and closed out a bar, pushed code at 3am, and then woke up to give a 7a news interview before teaching a class.
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Kai @kaiho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Aaaa a wild @hacks4pancakes.com on my evening TV news!
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badideapants.bsky.social @badideapants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
90's "You wouldn't download a car" 20's "You wouldn't deepfake a hotel"
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 26/08/2026
I'll be on NBC Chicago talking about the recent water (and other stuff) cyberattacks this evening. All the way groggily from Australia.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 26/08/2026
This l story about AI generated fake hotels in Vegas is depressing and wild. Story and video. www.instagram.com/reel/Db9ggU... www.independent.co.uk/travel/... Certainly a caution for DEF CON attendees and travelers in general!
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Jen G. on Instagram: "OYO Las Vegas has been my number one “worst hotel in Vegas” for ages. It’s dirty, smells bad, unsafe and things are always broken. Ariana Patiño knew that and was tricked into to staying there with a fake hotel under the name Palette using AI imagery, reputable travel sites & attractive affordable rates. This is a new low & is incredibly predatory. #vegas #lasvegas #vegasstarfish #travel #hotel"
40K likes, 1,290 comments - vegasstarfish on August 12, 2026: "OYO Las Vegas has been my number one “worst hotel in Vegas” for ages. It’s dirty, smells bad, unsafe and things are always broken. Ariana Patiño knew that and was tricked into to staying there with a fake hotel under the name Palette using AI imagery, reputable travel sites & attractive affordable rates. This is a new low & is incredibly predatory. #vegas #lasvegas #vegasstarfish #travel #hotel".
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 20/08/2026
I mean I literally drink because of municipal water infrastructure but also figuratively
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Cliff Barbier @cliffb-infosec.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is it even hacking if it's working as designed: responding to anything it's being told to do by anyone who can talk on its bus? That's like saying the person who found that big data trove AT&T left open on their website was "hacking". No, they just browsed to where the data was public by design. 🤣
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Navy may change the name of a warship to honor a brave black man who served honorably in the Pearl Harbor attack to the name of a cowardly draft dodger who is so ignorant he didn’t even know what happened at Pearl Harbor, according to his then Chief of Staff accompanying him on the visit
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
18 months ago
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bendumke.bsky.social @bendumke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Especially when you're not the kind of person that says I told you so.
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Rich Williams @notlinustorvalds.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chyron scrolling at bottom of screen: PLC's are vulnerable to hacking… Scientists announce water is wet and most common source of moisture…
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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Who needs government suppression of information when you can convince people that the only power they have is their consumer choices about what to watch or buy and that research is a shopping activity?
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Kay Drac0rex @drac0rex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thank you for tagging more furries in critical infra for me to follow, at least
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Bearba Yaga 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈(He/Him) @nunya.bidness.me · 20/08/2026
Had a friend dm me after the news broke: “Holy shit you were right!” So, so tired….but please let’s waste more time on AI.
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Kay Drac0rex @drac0rex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dude and everyone with no OT/ICS background and their 4 page blogs about the "implications" Im so tired!
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 20/08/2026
You don't know how it feels when you've spent a decade taking to a void about serious threats to faltering water ICS security and the news finally breaks and the headlines are "vulnerable PLCs can be hacked". I'm just wrecked.
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Why does GOOGLE NOT WORK ANYMORE. Not even web search, Google books. Its own database….,.,
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
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Honestly climate change scares the heck out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we're losing because of it.

Gary P Jackson (RAT) @gary4205
@AstroKatie Maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE then, and stop listening to the criminals pushing the #GlobalWarming SCAM!

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
@gary4205 | dunno, man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics.
Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Andrew Tate’s defense is pure A.I. slop. Tate’s lawyer is spamming X with absurd AI-generated images in a last ditch effort to convince the public of the alleged pimp, sex trafficker, and rapist’s innocence. newrepublic.com/post/214370/...
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 16/08/2026
If I gambled on both NFTs and the metaverse to the tune of millions and millions of dollars and even renamed my company accordingly I would be so canceled I'd be farming potatoes, but people are still quoting Zuck AI predictions on my daily news feed.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 16/08/2026
Just food for thought, but in 43 years of life, I had never seen grocery bread mould (in a normal lifespan to eat a loaf of bread) before I moved from America to Australia. Not once. I didn't even understand what had happened. And I like, know stuff.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/08/2026
Same thing Elon Musk did at Twitter/X
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 14/08/2026
This stage of Fight Club, but at least the SANS crew showed up. 🥹🫠
Hotel birthday card
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Charley Sheets (disappointment in humanity arc) @rcsheets.net · 13/08/2026
i hope it's nobody you know
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 13/08/2026
Ok so, some idiot signed themselves up to teach three international six day classes in a row
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hoodie🐴 @hoodiepony.com · 12/08/2026
Maybe some Tim Tams? :)
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Doug Burks @dougburks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
lol do I have to eat vegemite?
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 12/08/2026
Operation get Doug Burks to speak in Australia
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 11/08/2026
Um, can anyone please help me with a contact at VirusTotal to unblock a school IP?
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
He's excellent- defies critics but also runs circles around inept legacy media interviewers playing gotcha
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 08/08/2026
Nobody warns you how tremendously disconcerting going back to an American restaurant is after living anywhere else long term. - them walking off with your credit card & no tap to pay - the huge portions and sodium - the weird attentiveness for tips - being IDed over 30 - flags everywhere
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 07/08/2026
Telling municipal water utilities to just not network their systems is the most RFK- calibre cybersecurity take possible by the way
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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As an Australian, and a former automation engineer, I get nervous when it rains less than usual for any period of time.
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