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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Americans and other white people with strong passports are absolutely going to drive me to a bottle of whiskey with the perpetual, “my company shouldn’t complain when I work with no proper visa or authorisation from a foreign county, without asking” comments, and I’m a huge remote work advocate.

@hacks4pancakes what about when you travel internationally for work?
There's no legal or tax implications and no visa needed for that.
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hacks4pancakes • 4m
@ of course you need a visa to travel for work. It's a business visitor visa. People with strong passports aren't really aware we're getting one when we apply for evisas or have visas in principle. But we absolutely have to have them too. And they are limited to business visitor activities.

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

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 · 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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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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

I’m at my friends pageant and sister showed up with a sword. The world needs to know. Go Anuja!

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

This might be my favourite slide on quantum computing, ever. From Peter Gutmann at #AUSCERT

Re-examining the Physics Experiment (ctd)
When you see the latest announcement of a quantum breakthrough
• Don't say: "We're all going to die

Do say: "Where did they cheat this time?"
(Easiest to wait a week or two

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

I fully realise Singapore legalised being gay only three years ago, and I still feel safer here every time I visit than large swathes of America. My trans friend hasn’t been harassed, once. We spent the evening lesbian bar hopping. Americans get lied to, so dismally.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

This is kind of a silly take. Niantic are absolutely opportunists, who certainly didn’t see AI coming when Pokémon Go or Ingress premiered. What they’ve always been interested in is being a *source of user geolocation data* which they can monetise. First way was lucrative Pokémon IP. Now it’s AI.

Headline about Pokémon Go existing to build training data for AI

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

When the AI company has decided your name is Nathan. Or everyone’s name is Nathan. Yet manages to get the email address right. But thinks you’re in another country. I definitely trust this AI company to spot security gaps. I desperately want to reply that my name is Lesley and I live in Australia.

“Hi Nathan,

Following up since teams like yours are losing time and money every month to stricter cyber insurance rules. Most Midwest security leads now work with vCISOs to keep up, which puts your clients at risk of falling behind.”

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

This photo of Brian McGinnis is going to be in museums and history books if we aren’t wiped out in nuclear fire.

A Marine Corps veteran suffered a broken arm as he was dragged out of a hearing in the US Capitol by police and a senator.

Brian McGinnis called out during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing in protest of the US attack on Iran.

He was dragged out of the room and a sitting senator broke his arm in the process.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

When your AI stealing t-shirt art just gives up […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

***Begging *** universities to stop forcing your cybersecurity students beg for strangers’ free time on the internet to do pointless interviews instead of even practical mentorship or projects. We’re exhausted, understaffed and the market is hell. None of us have time.

Said request for free interviews with multiple zoom calls.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Tag your favorite application that has added an LLM agent nobody wants, babes

“What in the everloving LLM hell was that?”

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Oh no. I was just mostly joking. This is kinda depressing given how important the Great Lakes are for freshwater.

Search result: “Melbourne tap water often tastes better than Chicago's due to its source from protected, pristine mountain forests in the Yarra Ranges, requiring minimal treatment. Conversely, Chicago draws water from Lake Michigan, necessitating higher chlorine levels for disinfection. Melbourne's water is also naturally filtered by soil and stored in reservoirs for up to five years, improving taste.”

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

I’ve had it with weird nerds shitting on Academy so thankfully I’m a bigger weird nerd.

-hacks4pancakes- • 4h
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"How dare these 17 year old kids not act like Picard or Geordi?"
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Missing the point entirely. It portrays them as dumb, so they can't put them in unrealistic situations. "I swallowed my com-badge" is not something a cadet would say.
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I can't decide whether the worst medical incident I had to deal with as a Sergeant in the military with trainees was the 19 year old who shocked his friend with a camera flash capacitor or the 20 year old who tried to sterilize himself with a radar dish so no, these seem unfortunately plausible.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/technol… So the Bluesky post from the journalist who wrote this article is as batshit to read as the article, unfortunately

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

A letter like this gets released because it’s the only way to maintain a paper trail… h/t Sahil Kapur

The Honorable John Ratcliffe
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
McLean, VA 22101
Dear Director Ratcliffe,
I write to alert you to a classified letter 1 sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
Sincerely,
Por Wyler
Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

This is very entertaining social ad footage for a cybersecurity product in 2026

The hacker in the video is plugging in a USB A to a PC with ps2 ports

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

I need to tell you another unbelievable Australian fact for Americans which is that you just fill up your car at the service station and go pay inside when you’re done on the honour system

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