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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19h

The fact that my ballot appears to have been conveniently lost or delayed by US customs despite every effort to be early and discreet is tied to why I try to avoid going to America anymore at all even as a citizen and why I don’t have services like Global Entry which could be weaponised against me.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I got put back in red team after ten years this week and damn it felt good to pop a few boxes and flex those muscles, but damn bloodhound had some drama and it’s all too dramatic for me.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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 :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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 :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

You might think you’re prepping for the apocalypse but have you seen Victoria’s LORA mesh networks?

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Supportive Tree-based lifeform @basic-bench.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@hacks4pancakes I think that's the thing the fallout tv show really captured. The true freaks commit all kinds of atrocities while wearing a tailored suit.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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 :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Flipboard @flipboard.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Flock surveillance is under scrutiny again. Reports of wrongful detentions and civil liberties concerns are piling up. Read stories from NBC News, @Futurism, @Gizmodo, and local news orgs across the U.S. to better understand the issue. flipboard.com/topic/flocksafety #Flock […]

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Flipboard Tech Desk @techdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Just in, in "water-is-wet"-type news, a study from journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that X's algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it. Here's the full story from @404mediaco. flip.it/wtOlNf #Technology #SocialMedia #ElonMusk

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X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds

X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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 :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

This stage of Fight Club, but at least the SANS crew showed up. 🥹🫠

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Ok so, some idiot signed themselves up to teach three international six day classes in a row

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Um, can anyone please help me with a contact at VirusTotal to unblock a school IP?

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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 :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 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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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Just a reminder that the costs of hosting is spiraling so if you love the fediverse, please consider supporting your instance if you can afford to do so and your instance accepts support. And my sincere thanks to the infosec donors that make our part of the fediverse possible. :blobheartcat:

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Since we are doing eating and Australia this is how you eat fast food sushi in Australia - one of the cheapest quick bites you can get anywhere.

One giant unsliced roll with a injected soy sauce fish

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Comrade Weez @weezmgk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@hacks4pancakes the left-handed fork thing and never putting the utensils down kicked my ass for years.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Emigrating has generally been a very, very complicated and difficult task, but by far the hardest aspect has been relearning how to use a knife and fork. It's way harder than accents or driving on the other side of the road.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Even the man stubbornly fights the man in Australia This is the KFC reaction to a postal worker getting fired after an unauthorised KFC break (other stuff too, but everyone likes a good tale)

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

They had better have chosen ACDC for the Australian emergency alert tone

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

I’m in Singapore, and somehow I accidentally booked myself a tiny Disney princess hotel room that I can barely move around in without bonking my shins. It is tremendously goofy and fun but I have also been on 70 hours of flights so I’m very tired

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and The Castle are both absolutely iconic movies for millennials and Gen X, and I can’t believe I never saw them in America. I mean, Hugo Weaving giving a thoughtful performance on 90s LGBT struggles, in drag, with dialogue on trans life at the time. (Cis actor aside.)

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

People don’t get that how far a bit of courtesy and effort goes in job hunts. I have gifted conference passes, party invites, given referrals, certification vouchers, and internships to mentees who showed up and cared. I’ve also permanently blocklisted people who low effort AI spammed, or no showed.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

I bought a Fjallraven backpack because they were so highly recommended, and I’m sorry, I don’t understand the point and I have massive regrets. Someone needs to sell me the bag I purchased, because it’s not padded well and has no luggage strap or extra security pockets. Why do people buy these?

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I’ll be debuting a new paper tomorrow at #OTCEP withJan Hoff. It’s about how to detect and more relevantly, remediate large scale commodity malware infections in legacy Windows environments that are unfortunately extremely common in critical infrastructure […]

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Amanda @amanda.social.spejset.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

@hacks4pancakes the relevant ACM conferences for me are actually all green, somewhat to my surprise. Not that I’m keen on flying into the US or at all, really.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here’s a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

Source: Movement Advancement Project (MAP) LGBTQ Equality Maps

See original source of US LGBTQIA safety study for tabular data by state.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug and psychosis. Try being an immigrant American living somewhere with social medical and telling people it’s actually good and less expensive. The bots and naysayers come screaming out of the woodwork to try to make excuses for why it’s actchully terrible.

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Rachel @rachel.transitory.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I have found myself searching for articles written before 2023 for certain topics, a sort of low-background articles. Except search has turned into such a sludge that I could swear the old syntax is being ignored most of the time

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

It’s fascinating to live in a time where the majority of global consumers are just fed up and hate everything new on the market. Hate removal of physical media Hate forced AI Hate video surveillance in cars and homes Hate micro transactions Hate digital subscriptions What a time to be alive!

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

I’m going to be pretty surprised honestly if Telstra being totally down for four hours isn’t DNS.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

I just realised that I'm starting to get the Barrowman accent.

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

@hacks4pancakes is that the same type of indicator as the Pentagon pizza index?

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

The most benign but still absolutely terrible part of Palantir surveilling every move we make in global groceries is someone actually does know and permanently record when I eat nothing but paneer tikka masala instant meals for 10 days straight

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

When you’re an atheist, but you join the UUC to do human rights activism - and you get to sing songs from the book of the dead on Sunday whilst talking about First Nations rights

As each day ends. From the Book of the Dead, 4500BCE
As each day ends, may I have lived That I may truly say
I did no harm to humankind, From truth I did not stray;
I did no wrong with knowing mind
From evil I did keep
I turned no hungry soul away
I caused no one to weep.

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