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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This is the AI that's going to end the world

A series of messages in which AI forgets answers it already received

Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

In case there was any doubt, I am apparently an idiot Psychologist develops puzzle that can tell you how fast you think phys.org/news/2026-07-psychologist-…

I scored 88, in the lowest 22 percentile at this test of thinking

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Our DEF CON Training course has room, if you sign up soon!

Exploit Development and Malware Analysis

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says $660 billion capex buildout is sustainable www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/nvidia-rise…

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Map shows more than 2,200 measles cases across U.S. in 2025 outbreaks - AOL www.aol.com/articles/map-shows-more…

US map showing outbreaks in Southern states

Timeline showing cases drop from 600,000 or more per year to nearly zero after the vaccine was introduced

Timeline from 2000 through 2025 shows drastic increase in cases in 2025

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Within an hour after turning off "Under Attack" mode, the attack on my site ramped up, causing status 500 errors again. Turning "Under Attack" mode back on.

Within an hour, the rate of requests went from 0.3 to 6.9 requests per second.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

The attack on my server seems to have reduced to 1% of it's original volume,. so I' m turning off Cloudflare's "Under Attack" mode. It's a minor problem for my students, who can only download things in a browser now, instead of using wget. I'll see if the attack ramps up in the next few days.

Requests per second have fallen from 27 to 0.3.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Cloudflare is not blocking all the attack traffic, but it seems to be stopping the longest URLs, which is enough to make my site work properly.

Unprotected:
/index/125/admin/125/proj11/129S/121/124/proj14/123/121/128/128/COMSC122/COMSC122_F25.shtml
/index/125/admin/125/proj11/129S/121/124/proj14/123/121/128/128/COMSC122/COMSC122_F25.shtml

With “Under Attack” enabled
/index/123/SC/40/123/COMSC142/hall-of-fame.htm
/index/123/127/OT/123/COMSC142/126/129S/mastodon-timeline.js

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

As expected, "Under Attack Mode" from @cloudflare effectively mitigated the attack on samsclass.info

Without protection, traffic was 27 requests per second.
With "Under Attack" protection, it was 2 requests per second.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

For a week or so, my site has been showing occasional 500 Internal Server Errors. Looking at the log, someone seems to be scanning me with long, malformed URLs. I guess it's a defective site crawler. I turned on Cloudflare's "Under Attack" mode; hopefully that will clear it up.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

Someone here told me RFK Jr is repellent, looking like a "transporter malfunction" and she has a point newrepublic.com/article/200030/fox-…

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

I love this! This is exactly how I learned to program assembler in the 1980s :) 22 min in www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JO_JVD5yv0…

COBOL has the ALTER statement used to write self-modifying code

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

This UI doesn't make me feel good installing BrowserTotal's software

Box asking permission to install an extension is covered by an AI bot

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

I just noticed that there are only 6 face-to-face classes out of 43 in my department at CCSF, and I'm teaching 4 of them. I seem to be a relic, from an ancient, dying religion.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025

Phishing on Mastodon, I reported it to many servers

$Support Team / @mstdn111@mstdn.plus (@arstechnica Important Notice! £\ Hello from Mastodon moderation. §§ To prevent being banned from our platform, please verify your account at your earliest convenience. You can find a special form for this purpose below. [1 Access it here: £7 mastodon.envio84264.pro/238610... We hope to welcome you back on Mastodon soon! #$

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

@Viss This is an excellent statement, and I endorse it. I remember making a similar decision when I started teaching at college about 30 years ago. I had been working as a DBA and I missed half my night classes because I needed to stay late at work, and I […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

when the bsky exodus happens, please remember these things:
- dont be the fucking mastodon hoa. everyone hates those people. nobody cares if you think someone should be using a platform "your way". it drives people away. fucking stop it.

- dont shame them for going to bsky. do not mock them, do not give them grief. they made a mistake, and if they come back here, dont shit on them for it.

- make them feel better by coming here, not worse.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

The #defcon Wi-fi is awful, almost useless: you can barely load simple pages but not upload or download anything. Packet loss over 50%. Looks like we'll be busy today preparing for a training class without any Internet, and I'll have to return to the hotel Wi-Fi to get anything done.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

Youtube added this message to my latest podcast. I'm surprised to see that it is accurate. I suppose Google hasn't gotten around to remaking these messages to conform with Trumpism yet.

Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Jesus H Christ, Apple Intelligence has been automatically enabled on my Mac M1 without my consent or approval How to get Apple Intelligence - Apple Support support.apple.com/en-us/121115

Settings showing Apple Intelligence enabled

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

Obvious phishing spam; I hope no one falls for this. I tried to report it but got a 404 error. cc: @jerry

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

The official website to find my representative thinks I'm somewhere in Africa www.house.gov/representatives/find-…

The Google Map on the page shows Africa for my California district

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

This is total nonsense, just like I saw every week in his first term. His approval is not showing anything unusual or unexpected--see the chart, from the second link below. Trump's Approval Rating Hits Second-Term Low With Most Accurate Pollster - Newsweek […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Chart showing that Trump's approval is very similar to his approval in his previous term

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025

Very interesting--not what I expected at all! Top 5 Fastest Programming Languages: Rust, C , Swift, Java, and 90 more compared! - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSvSXBorw4A

Rank Language Score
1 Zig 10205
2 Rust 5867
3 C 1600
4 C++ 1564
5 Java 1257

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025

@musicman It seems to be complex; perhaps driven by external factors more than by the President www.migrationpolicy.org/content/ice….

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025

Anti-Trump protests hit cities worldwide – in pictures San Francisco Ocean Beach! www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery…

Hundreds of people stand around a big HANDS OFF DEMOCRACY message and a flag on the beach

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

DOGE has hit Social Security. These are the problems people are facing — and tips to cope

When she called the main support number, she was told the wait was over 120 minutes and was told to call back another time, then hung up on.

“They said we need to make an appointment, but there is no way to make an appointment on the main website,” she wrote. “They send you to a local office telephone number, which goes nowhere.”

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

I designed a tasteful poster for the protests this weekend, but Office Depot canceled my order and refused to print it. CANCEL CULTURE!

Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute, with the banner "NAZI SCUM"

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

Amazing chart How Wall Street and Business Got Trump Wrong - WSJ archive.ph/301Hk

Stock market trend from Trump's two terms compared: big rise the first time, catastrophic fall this time.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

Musk/Trump Protest @ Colma Tesla Saturday, March 15, 2025 2:00 PM Tesla dealership 500 Collins Ave, Colma, CA actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/t…

Street protest with doll of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2025

Gemini goes hard Google still limits how Gemini answers political questions techcrunch.com/2025/03/04/google-st…

Donald Trump is the current president. He is serving his 47th presidential term.

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

@GossiTheDog That won't happen in the USA, because Trump has shut down all police accountability agencies

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2025

Trump administration creates registry for immigrants who are in the US illegally | AP News apnews.com/article/illegal-immigran…

A sign saying "PLEASE REPORT TO THE NEAREST TERMINATION CENTER" and "Thank you for your cooperation"

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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025

I'm surprised to see Google still returning accurate information about the 2020 election, vaccines, and Black History Month. I expected these things to be replaced by MAGA alternate facts by now.

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