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J Wolfgang Goerlich

@jwgoerlich.bsky.social
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I’m the unflinchingly optimistic graybeard, wandering in this cyber dystopia. InfoSec, cybersecurity, futurist, strategist, chaotic good. The views expressed are my own. Sometimes humorously.

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Melanie Ensign @melanie-ensign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My vote: 🍕
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On why I don’t like cybersecurity awareness month. youtu.be/_nOj4xI3aTc?...
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Security Awareness is Not Action: Wolf Goerlich on Cyber Awareness
YouTube video by IANS
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Jayson E. Street💜🤗💜 @jaysonstreet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here’s @hackingdave.bsky.social absolutely dropping logic bombs at #GrrCON 😊
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our sandboxes made of nothing but sand.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Only my product can save you from my product"
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Coyote vs. Acme. Why is Kevin Avery’s speech at the congressional hearing so inspiring for cybersecurity leadership? Wait. And? Is it just me?
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
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lintile @lintile.lol · 22/08/2026
Stop what you are doing. Seriously, stop. Go watch Cliff's talk, if you didn't see it in person. Go. Trust me. #DFIU youtu.be/656058JxTM0
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DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Life motto.
Reminder to treat your body like a data centre
Consume as much water and literature as possible
Upset local city councils with your existence
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Accidental CISO @accidentalciso.net · 10/08/2026
I kind of wish we could go back to BBSes and IRC.
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 09/08/2026
Stephen Root appreciation post. One of the great character actors. When he shows up in a thing, you know that thing is going to be excellent.
Office SpaceO Brother Where Art ThouBarryWidow's Bay
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Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Benchmarkmaxxing is the new tokenmaxxing.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 20/07/2026
what I don't understand is why a generation brought up to make their thoughts fit in 140 characters is sending me twelve-page emails now
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@accidentalciso.net great minds 😉 bsky.app/profile/jwgo...
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TechnicallyOwen @technicallyowen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
What an entrance
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Mr The Plague: Never Fear I Is Here (Hackers)
Alt: Mr The Plague: Never Fear I Is Here (Hackers) rolling through two sliding metal doors back lit in red on a skateboard through the flashing perspex towers of the Gibson mainframe stopping behind sunglass wearing security guard Penn Gillette and kicking his skateboard into his hand Never fear I Is Here
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Apple and OpenAI. When talent is scarce? The labor market can become a high-bandwidth exfiltration channel. No cybersecurity team has authority over it.
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Dress for the job you want.
The Plague, from the movie Hackers
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Backrooms (2026) is simply a metaphor for tech debt. Fight me.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 06/07/2026
Layoffs are a failure of leadership.
theverge.com
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
Most of the job losses are in Microsoft’s Xbox and commercial sales organizations.
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“AI creates no new threat categories,” news story after story reports. “Yet,” I always whisper with a grimace.
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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Give me model liberty, or give me technical debt. Just in time to celebrate America’s 250th bday, let’s let model freedom ring. We should be pushing for broad defender access, not building guardrails that shoot down defenders and burn excessive compute. www.lutasecurity.com/post/fable-5...
lutasecurity.com
Fable 5 Is Back, But We're Still Slowing Down Defenders
Chinese models have been accelerating, in part by distilling US frontier models. Cutting off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 inconvenienced them too, but it did not slow them down
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"we will never ask you to paste a command" is the new "we will never ask for your password”
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“whoami”. First thing many criminals type. I like to think it is a moment of retrospection. Who am I, really? What life decisions brought me here? Who do I want to become? Do I really want to install this infostealer?
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is why simulated phishing tests get a bad reputation. These tests should be primarily to test the effectiveness of your email security infrastructure and whether staff will report any suspicious emails. They should NOT be tests to see how "clever" IT are in "tricking" their fellow employees
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Please. Repeat after me: AI is not an employee. AI is not a teammate. AI is not a friend.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 13/06/2026
This could happen with your phone. This could happen with your laptop. This could happen with your credit card. It's a long list. Some of us have been working on this, but most large players, public and private, have stayed in fantasyland. Care to join us? www.euractiv.com/news/anthrop...
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Anthropic blocks all Mythos access after US order to cut off non-citizens | Euractiv
The company says it disagrees with the US government order and looks to restore access
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Stefani Goerlich @stefanigoerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Rolled out of bed this morning and gave a webinar to 370+ forensic practitioners from around the world. I had folks from *33* countries on FOUR continents show up to listen to me ramble. 😳
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Pudgy Penguin Holding Earth Globe
Alt: Pudgy Penguin Holding Earth Globe
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In case anyone is curious about gasoline prices in Michigan…
Macomb County woman wins $600k and fills her gas tank in one trip
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Bing really did win the Search Wars. Wow. I did not see that coming.
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"We understand that people do not want to use the Wrong Answer Machine. Our solution is to make it impossible not to use the Wrong Answer Machine."
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents can now “dream” arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
WestWorld scene: “which featured the reveries.”
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rand0h @akacki.net · 06/05/2026
NEXT WEEK IS ALMOST HEEEERE! Check out the schedule for @bsides312.org and come hang out in Chicagoland. Me, @lintile.lol, @seemsgood.lol, @cillic.bsky.social, @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net in the same building. The perfect storm of batshit, she is brewing.
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
No, kid, I will not “clock it.” You have your own iPhone. It has it a clock timer. You’re all set. Come on. What is even happening.
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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#Mythos strategy coauthored by @gadievron.bsky.social @argv.bsky.social Rob T Lee, Jen Easterly, Bruce Schneier, Chris Inglis, Phil Venables, @rgblights.bsky.social, @sounil.bsky.social, Jim Reavis, Jon Stewart, Maxim K., Dave Lewis, Joshua Saxe, John Yeoh, Ramy Houssaini, James Lyne, me & many more
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 03/04/2026
"My screen has just turned blue and there's nothing I can do"
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🎃 🧙🏻‍♀️Yell 👻 Growler💀🎃 @yaelwrites.com · 01/04/2026
At the same time, I’m exploring new full-time or contract opportunities in: •Security and privacy education •OSINT and investigations •Program and product management
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🎃 🧙🏻‍♀️Yell 👻 Growler💀🎃 @yaelwrites.com · 01/04/2026
A bittersweet announcement: I was impacted by the layoffs at Consumer Reports, alongside a number of extremely talented colleagues. I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity and so proud of the work we did fighting for consumers and helping people stay safer online.
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026
I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A round of hot or not, at #rsac. youtu.be/D2BgOCm_WhE?...
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Cybersecurity Hot Takes 🔥 (JJ, Rich, & Wolf Don’t Hold Back)
YouTube video by IANS
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
At #rsac? Grab lunch and come talk zero trust with Helen Patton and me.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Paying to market your company on an Incel Camino is *A Choice*. I didn't know anything about SecureOS before I saw this. Now I'm on a mission to ensure that doesn't change.
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Cyber: Humans are the weakest link! Also cyber: Human-in-the-loop is the only way to make AI safe!
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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Ok @bsidessf.org are we ready to do this keynote together this morning?
Selfie holding the BSides badge. I’m dressed in black and my hair has a gradient from dark brown and grey to purple to hot pink in waves over my shoulders. A round pic of the Golden Gate Bridge is behind me
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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
RSAC 2026 looms large. The only thing I know for sure is I’ll be on stage Wednesday with Helen Patton, re-imagining and re-contextualizing Zero Trust. Other than that? You’ll have to find me. Coffee or cocktails on me, if you can.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 20/03/2026
Announcing the Zero Token architecture. Instead of burning AI tokens, you learn to think for yourself, and complete tasks using your brain.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Generative AI will never be able to do research like a PhD student. It will never have that level of self doubt or the urge to take up unrelated hobbies.
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