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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
emberssilly >
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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 · 11/09/2026
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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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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 09/09/2026
Slightly
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 09/09/2026
It’s pretty stable but Meshcore is extremely regimented by channel and naming (not by any regulation, but just community)
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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
That’s the summary of number of repeaters. The coverage is insane
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 09/09/2026
They both exist but MeshCore is way more organised. I run both repeaters.
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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
I will TAKE that and run with it.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 05/09/2026
THEN AGAIN Max was a cop.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 05/09/2026
I'm sorry but the shiny and chrome people are doing free airbrush makeup in the unisex bathroom and immortan joe is a tradie by day who's buying rounds of Hard Rated at the bar from a pretty trans lady in leather. You have to worry about the ones in suits.
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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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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 30/08/2026
I am very aware, and it failed :)
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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
I am kind of sad I'm not quite important enough to have them want to put me on some wall so I could tell them to go fuck themselves.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 30/08/2026
I'm not sure how I disassociate from Naperville further but honestly it's my biggest accomplishment I am living right now.
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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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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 27/08/2026
Tomorrow is BSides 🫠
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 27/08/2026
But we demand it as a society for convenience and comfort. We demanded those connections for mobile billing and fast outage restoration
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 27/08/2026
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
nbcchicago.com
Government admits water system cyberattacks were worse than first reported
A cyberattack that targeted water infrastructure nationwide was much larger than initially revealed.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 27/08/2026
I mean I had one latte
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 27/08/2026
Desperation and rage
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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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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 27/08/2026
Sadly the states don’t realise they miss me.
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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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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 20/08/2026
I’m on day 10 of back to back 6 day teaches internationally
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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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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 20/08/2026
I’ve had one marg and zero sleep and I’m starting to conspiracy theory this being about Siemens being German
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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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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 20/08/2026
I did my pilgrimage to Maroochy
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 20/08/2026
I want badly to be a furry but there’s no animal I want to be. I want to be Locutus of Borg
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