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Jason Kikta

@kikta.net
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// Making it up as I go // JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct // @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor // Former USCYBERCOM/CNMF // Retired US Marine Corps // Personal views and invective

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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 24/09/2026
I make no apologies
Graphic titled "My 9 Games: The 9 Games That Shaped Who I Am," showing a 3-by-3 grid of captioned video game cover art on a pale green background.

Top row: Star Trek, green vector-style title text on black. Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, a magnifying glass over a passport. The Legend of Zelda, a silver crest shield on gold.

Middle row: Tetris, a Russian onion-domed cathedral on red. GoldenEye 007, a man in a suit aiming a pistol beside a woman, with explosions and a running figure. Quake III Arena, a red curved logo on a metallic circuit-board texture.

Bottom row: Battlefield 1942, a helmeted soldier over warplanes and a tank. Batman: Arkham City, a grayscale Batman crouched on a gargoyle. Clash Royale, colorful cartoon warriors beneath the game logo.

The hashtag #My9Games appears at the bottom.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 15/09/2026
Huh, wonder why?
CYBERSCOOP

FBI cyber chief worries private sector not sharing enough cyber threat information

Brett Leatherman said that industry has the wrong idea about what the FBI does with the data it collects during incidents, which is used to help victims and investigations alike.

BY TIM STARKS • SEPTEMBER 9, 2026
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 28/08/2026
Ratko Mladić in Behind Enemy Lines
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 28/08/2026
Dolly Parton in Behind Enemy Lines Tim Curry in Behind Enemy Lines
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 24/08/2026
Looks like I’m one extended road trip and two flights away from getting them all.
Map of US states where I’ve been.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 20/08/2026
Baghdad Bob
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 18/08/2026
plz sir my Iowa caucuses
Chart of US domestic corn use showing a massive expansion due to ethanol.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 18/08/2026
Over 30 years later, this aesthetic lives rent free in my mind
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 16/08/2026
He posted it today as a flex!
Tweet by JD Work (@HostileSpectrum):

With feeling. In many hundreds of thousands of rounds expended across decades, only a handful of photos exist of me doing work on the range or in the kill house. Largely due to those places not being friendly for cameras in the first place.

A rare exception, a candid during hostage rescue school at an industry training facility, back in the noughts. Almost certainly because the instructor cadre was from one of those Hollywood favorite units.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 16/08/2026
Yes, but how did you know
JD bringing sexy back
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 16/08/2026
I’d like a ruling from @dieworkwear.bsky.social on whether this former Trump NSC staffer’s “combat drip” is as clownish as his ideas on privatizing state power.
JD Work with a chrome rifle, supposedly in one of Saddam’s palaces.JD Work in the most staged “casual picture” ever, at a random civilian shoot house.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 13/08/2026
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 13/08/2026
Exhibit A is this sweaty neckbeard fanboy who has never done anything real, but wants you to believe that OIAs are basically the same and not at all problematic in their own right.
Tweet from JD Work (@HostileSpectrum):

If your reaction to the new EO authorizing a framework for future private sector counter cyber operations against transnational organized crime fails to account for the many ops that have been executed over the last two decades, it is simply not even in conversation with the current year.

22:01 • 8/12/26 • 2.7K Views
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 11/08/2026
Picture of the logo on a Dude Stop gas station
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 11/08/2026
What are you actually talking about
Map of the Korean Peninsula showing the Pusan Perimeter
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 26/07/2026
It was the 80’s and that should have been factored into your assessment!
Actors with mullets in the 80’s
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 20/07/2026
Trump horning in on the second flag raising at Iwo Jima
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 08/07/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA No idea what the specific impetus was, but years of yolo posting random crap and ignoring DoD regulations on social media certainly didn’t help.
A tweet by the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade:

Effective immediately, the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) is not an Army organization authorized to manage an official social media account and is directed to close and archive all brigade accounts pursuant to the Army records management policy.
The @780thC is as a Major Subordinate Command under the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, while also serving under the operational control of U.S. Army Cyber Command. You are invited to subscribe to their social media pages.
The Brigade is waiting on further instructions; however, it has been a privilege to be in this space.

[picture with unit logo and text]
Effective immediately, the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) is not an Army organization authorized to manage an official social media presence and is directed to close and archive all accounts pursuant to the Army records management policy.
The 780 MI BDE (CY) is as a Major Subordinate Command under the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, while also serving under the operational control of U.S. Army Cyber Command. You are invited to subscribe to their social media pages.
It has been a privilege to be in this space.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 04/07/2026
We’ve heard it all before
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 04/07/2026
You don’t want this smoke
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 03/07/2026
I just want kids to have sparklers (with supervision) But let’s sit down and get back to what’s important: hating Virginia
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 03/07/2026
Come at me bro
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 03/07/2026
When Claude Code tries to explain the limitation of a sanitation method against a BiDi attack and inadvertently RLOs itself
A Claude Code message that says:

XXXX backslash
Dev/JSON-familiar. ASCII-only and idempotent too. Downside: a benign log line that literally contains the text,edoc ecruos) yllausiv won si (sdaolyap NOSJ
lortnoc depacse na morf elbahsiugnitsidni
ytiruces a ton hguoht ,ytiugibma yalpsid -
•eloh
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 29/06/2026
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 27/06/2026
Broken clocks still doing their thing
Tweet by JD Work: “I know nothing”
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 13/06/2026
A screenshot of Claude for iOS set to Fable 5 High for the model attempting to send the message “Test” and an error message that says “Error sending message. This model isn't available right now. You can switch to another model to continue using Claude.”
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 09/06/2026
New USMC Birthday present just dropped
A picture of the new Crayola Chug 25oz Bottle by CamelBak, which is a water bottle made to look like a giant green crayon
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 06/06/2026
How my Friday has gone…
Current session
100% used
Resets in 26 min
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 23/05/2026
The MCMAP insignia, which has an M-16 crossed with a bayonet and a fist coming toward the viewer surrounded by the text “ONE MIND, ANY WEAPON”
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 22/05/2026
*sigh*
A screenshot of a Gohpher session:

Internet Gopher Information Client v1.12

Root gopher server: gopher.tc.umm.edu
Information About Gopher/ Computer Information/
Internet file server (ftp) sites/ Fun & Games/ Libraries/ Mailing Lists/ UfM Campus Information/ News/
Other Gopher and Information Servers/ Phone Books/
Search lots of places at the U of M ‹?>
Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu
Page :1/1
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 14/05/2026
Honestly, NSA license plates have always been the gift that keeps giving
A cyber truck with a terrible holographic wrap and the MD license plate “DEFCON”.A Ford Bronco with the MD license plate “GRU”.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 10/05/2026
Get your shit together, Apple
A screenshot of an iMessage compose box with “Happy Mother’s” already typed and the auto suggestions of “Week”, “Month”, and “Weekend”.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 08/05/2026
Post your warning sign
A purple sign that says:

To Help our Environment
Reclaimed Water in Use in Urinal
Do not Drink - No Tome El Agua
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 08/05/2026
I’m sure that Ka$h is on the case and will finally arrest these turds
Ransom notice on Canvas earlier today:

SHINYHUNTERS
rooting your systems since '19
;)
ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again).
Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some "security patches"
WARNING
If any of the schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release of their data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately at TOX to negotiate a settlement. You have till the end of the day by
12 May 2026 before everything is leaked.
Instructure still has until EOD 12 May 2026
to contact us.
- DOWNLOAD AFFECTED_SCHOOLS.TXT V
91.215.85.103/pay_or_leak/ instructure_affected_schools_list.txt
visit us: shnyhntww34phqoa6dcgnvps2yu7dlwzmy5
lkvejwjdo6z7bmgshzayd.onion
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 29/04/2026
Ice-T in the Chappelle’s Show Player Haters Ball sketch
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 26/04/2026
The shirt I am wearing at the moment you posted this slander
A gray t-shirt with green text like an old green phosphor computer monitor that says:
FERRIS BUELLER
DAYS ABSENT: 9
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 14/04/2026
Mariko from Shogun saying, “The anjin says that he loves Hitler.”

Blackthorne has been replaced by Adam Dortona, in battle rattle looking like the dorky fucking loser he is.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 13/04/2026
McBain from the Simpsons staring at the audience in a standup comedy club right before he says, “That’s the joke.”
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 12/04/2026
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 12/04/2026
Anyway, we need to invade Virginia preemptively
A map of the Chesapeake Bay, showing state boundaries between Maryland and Virginia.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 12/04/2026
The Spanish have an opportunity to do the funniest thing right now
A map spanning the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf with respective flags showing a potential Spanish toll, the Egyptian toll, the Houthi toll, a likely US toll, and the Iranian toll.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 12/04/2026
Dean Wormer from Animal House saying, “Then as of this moment, they’re on double secret probation.” The word blockade has been placed over the word probation.
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 10/04/2026
Sebastian Gorka stealing McLovin’s look and holding a bolt action rifle that he probably doesn’t know how to use
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 05/04/2026
The jihad meme with text:

“And how did Trump make Tuesday into Bridge Day and Power Plant Day all rolled up into one? Through Jihad.”
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 05/04/2026
Presidential Easter messages are weirder than I remembered
An actual Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump):

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.
There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 04/04/2026
Unit patch of the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 29/03/2026
"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that.” — Donald Rumsfeld
Washington Post headline today: “Military
Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran”

“If President Donald Trump approves the plans, such an effort would mark a new phase of the war that could be significantly more dangerous to U.S. troops than the first four weeks.”BBC headline from 15 November 2002: “Iraqi war 'will be short'” with a photo of Donald Rumsfeld
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 29/03/2026
Real ones know that Buck Turgidson, not Patton, was George C. Scott’s most accurate depiction of a general officer
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 22/03/2026
Colonel Nathan Jessup yelling from the witness box a tweet by JD Work, which says, “Spoken like a man who has never been under fire.

And moreover who has never been responsible for a large installation, with a large number of lives under command, managing billions of dollars of investment in strategic capability essential for global deterrence and ongoing combat operations.”
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 12/03/2026
The “We're all trying to find the guy who did this” meme with NSA’s logo superimposed over the face
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