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Paul Beckwith

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/07/2026
We need a War on White Collar Crime
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yes. AI aside, that is why I often say “defects” instead of vulnerabilities. Not only is it accurate, but developers receive the word defect in a much different way.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Call me crazy, but what if we just said, “the mere use of these models now means you had intent under 18 U.S.C. § 1030, we will hold you responsible for what happens” ?
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I can’t make up my mind about which would be funnier: that Barry knew Breach meant a MtG card, or that he didn’t either way, good post
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12/08/2026
syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Happy to see the love for S22
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It’s crazy to me how many people retreat to their priors after the shit hits the fan. Like reaching for a warm baby blankie.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Hard to believe it has been 13 years since we lost Iain Banks.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Emily wants us to celebrate September 17, 1939. “y’know”, the date that the Soviet Union invaded Poland in a secret agreement with Germany.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
When I see someone with 39k followers on here post an incorrect statistic (related to mortality rates for a certain group), my first thought is they are pretty close and it’s probably a mistake. But then when I notice that replies and quotes are turned off, I wonder if it was intentional.
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Folio Society Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Hero.
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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 01/11/2025
I photographed the month of October in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Flashing red light nltimes.nl/2025/10/18/d...
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Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Don...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
For class C, SAV (Savannah/Hilton Head) is amazing. For Class B, probably SFO but LGA earns the “most improved” award. I could talk about non-towered airports all day, that might only be interesting to GA flyers.
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Current mood: incandescent rage “Children who are deaf or hard of hearing will no longer benefit from an early intervention program run by states after everyone who worked on the program at CDC was laid off.” apnews.com/article/publ...
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Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
One of my unpopular opinions: Apple’s walled garden app store is more secure, prevents billions in fraud every year, and should never be forced to open up.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Multiple people, including SECDEF, should lose their jobs over this. Not a mere theoretical risk; full on breach of U.S. government data. It happened. Was any of it classified? Probably. That’s what congressional investigations can find out. www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...
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Exclusive: Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government
A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported, according to a Reuters review, potentially raising the stakes of a breach that has already drawn questions about data security in the Trump administration.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
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FBI ordered to prioritize immigration cases over white collar crime, people familiar say
The FBI ordered agents on Monday to step up the amount of time they devote to immigration enforcement and to scale back investigating white-collar crime, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Liverpool team and staff in a line at Anfield in front of the Kop after winning the 2024-2025 Premier League
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“It’s national insecurity, not national security.” Song of the summer
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Siri show me “moral hazard” www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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Trump trade war dries up sorghum sales to China but US farmers plan to plant more
U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with China comes at a bad time for sorghum growers like Dan Atkisson in Kansas, who is nevertheless preparing to increase plantings by 25% this spring.
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InfoSecSherpa 🏔️ Lake Ontario 🚣‍♀️ @infosecsherpa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling port 22.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Remember when President Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act into law in June of 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by many other countries? Something happened the next year, I think? Something important… ah, lost it. Maybe someone else remembers their history.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Many great Gene Hackman movies have been mentioned by people celebrating his life and work. I want to draw your attention to Heist, which also includes the amazing Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Danny DeVito.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/02/2025
Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Bob Kuttner is mad about Trump stopping enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Bob Kuttner is mad because he *co-wrote* the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Great essay where Bob laments not just expanded corruption but wonders whether the public even cares: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
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The People, Yes
Today on TAP: What happens when democracy so badly fails to deliver the goods that the citizenry freely choses dictatorship?
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Tom Hegel @hegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The American woman arrested last year for assisting DPRK IT Workers pled guilty. but.. Did you know the original a search warrant for her home mentioned a TikTok that happened to show her laptop farm? lol oops www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/a...
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Arizona Woman Pleads Guilty in Fraud Scheme That Illegally Generated $17 Million in Revenue for North Korea
Christina Marie Chapman, 48, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. in connection with a scheme that assisted overseas IT workers—posing as U.S. ci...
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 10/02/2025
Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...
The memo acknowledges that the list includes many terms that are used by the
NSA in contexts that have nothing to do with
DEI. For example, the term "privilege" is used by the NSA in the context of "privilege escalation." In the intelligence world, privilege escalation refers to "techniques that adversaries use to gain higher-level permissions on a system or network."
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Molly White does amazing work. Support it if you have the means.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
www.fbi.gov/news/press-r...
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FBI, DC3, and NPA Identification of North Korean Cyber Actors, Tracked as TraderTraitor, Responsible for Theft of $308 Million USD from Bitcoin.DMM.com | Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI, Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, and National Police Agency of Japan are alerting the public to the theft of cryptocurrency worth 308 million U.S. dollars from the Japan-based crypto...
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 16/12/2024
In 2021, Congress gave state and local governments $1 billion for cyber improvements. The program has been transformative, but it expires next year. My new @therecordmedia.bsky.social story explores what it's accomplished and what will happen if it isn't renewed: therecord.media/federal-mone...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Who wants to be next? (Waifu arrest footage released by WSJ) www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Who wants to be next? www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Accused Kitchener hacker unmasked after threatening woman online
Kitchener-based hacker Alexander “Connor” Moucka was unmasked after making threats against a woman on the messaging app Telegram. Moucka threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at Unit221...
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Thanks to @patrickhowelloneill.com for the Cybersecurity Main Feed. With so many folks moving over here it is starting to feel like the good old days at that other place.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Heads up to new Bluesky folks: I am not the Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith. I am the cybersecurity leader for a company with quirky commercials you have all seen many times. Bluesky is the only social media I actually use, otherwise I keep a very low profile. Views all mine yada yada.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Congrats on 10M users!
10 million user celebration image, number 237,239
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/06/2024
Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
100th USWNT cap for Rose Lavelle What a player. Great skills and mentality.
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
“What the American public doesn’t know is what makes them the American public.” Ray Zielinsky, Tommy Boy
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs
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Paul Beckwith @paulbeckwith.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
I think @meredithmeredith.bsky.social does a great job at Signal and I every time I hear her speak I learn something new.
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