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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 05/09/2026

For all incident responses from now on, I’m going to get on that Zoom call at 2am and begin by saying “Please state the nature of the computational emergency.”

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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

AI’s hacking capabilities are severely underestimated— The unglamorous work of cyber defence is invisible if done right. If it is not, the cost to human health, access to food and goods, transportation and… www.ft.com/content/3f15... @tarah.org @financialtimes.com

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AI’s hacking capabilities are severely underestimated

It is now startlingly easy to put together a cheap and destructive cyber attack

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 21/08/2026

Just recreated that scene in True Romance where Bronson Pinchot is frantically yammering on his cellphone and a bag of cocaine explodes all over his face and car but this was in the kitchen and it was a Costco container of ranch powder. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers; no further questions.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 21/08/2026

Hey, come listen to me talk about how to make AI resilient and fault-tolerant and try to stump me in the q&a as I chat with @ninjaone.bsky.social this next Tuesday! :-) go.ninjaone.com/it-leadershi...

Promo image for NinjaOne session with TArah on Tuesday Aug 25

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Who has two thumbs and won the 5th annual @eff.org charity poker tournament at @defcon.bsky.social? This fscking guy! Thanks @tarah.org for another amazing year!

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 03/08/2026

Come play poker for digital rights at DEF CON this Friday. The @eff.org Benefit Poker Tournament is Aug 7, noon, Horseshoe Poker Room, Vegas. Total novices are especially welcome; the room is safe, respectful, and the dealers teach. Bring one curious friend. eff.org/poker

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Betting on Your Digital Rights: EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 34

The EFF Benefit Poker Tournament is back for DEF CON 34! Your buy-in is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect online privacy and free expression for all. Play for glory. Play for ...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/07/2026

Hacker Summer Camp is almost here... and with it comes the Fifth Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament @defcon.bsky.social hosted by security expert @tarah.org. Join us on August 7 at the Horseshoe Poker Room and take home new prizes, including bug bounty pins! eff.org/poker

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Betting on Your Digital Rights: EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 21/07/2026

I have a suggestion for folk watching The Odyssey. Treat it like a rock concert and wear earplugs. After the first three minutes I put them in and I heard dialogue much better. The music is So Loud in it, and the dialogue is more intelligible when you’re not wincing.

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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’ve got a secret joke about Oedipus, but the Jocasta come out eventually.

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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

when sex workers do this they get debanked

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

stunning Paris was how this whole mess got started

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Missed headline opportunity: “He’s about to publish his results.”

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#OTD 1759: birth of #MaryWollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Letters from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), & many other works; wife of philosophical anarchist #WilliamGodwin, to whom she bore a daughter, #MaryShelley, author of Frankenstein; citizen of the world.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 26/04/2026

Anne Hathaway optioned and is bringing the novel “Yesteryear” about a tradwife influencer forced to live that life to the big screen. I simply pray that Alison Krauss does a dark af banjo cover of Paris Paloma‘s “Labour” for this. youtu.be/jvU4xWsN7-A?... vogueadria.com/yesteryear-n...

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Paris Paloma - labour [Official Video]

YouTube video by Paris Paloma

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Corrections to 2nd proof of The Letters of William Godwin, Volume IV (618 pages before indexing), now completed and awaiting collection by OUP van man. Have been working on them since 16 January... Thanks to all those watching and waiting. #TheLongestJourney global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 06/03/2026

The new US cyber security strategy just dropped. I'm a Claude user, and I suspiciously inquired of Claude as to the # of em-dashes in this 4 pg doc. Then I asked Claude to analyze the probability of this being LLM-written. Claude then throws some naughty shade. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

likely ChatGPT generated text of the US cyber security strategy

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 26/02/2026

Joe Menn is one of the longest serving and most trusted cybersecurity reporters, and his body of recent work speaks for itself.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 07/02/2026

If I haven’t said this a few times: @zackwhittaker.com is a truly brilliant reporter and mind in cybersecurity and this newsletter is the only thing I read to fully catch up on what I needed to know in the field if I was out on vacation for a week. You should be doing the Patreon thing here.

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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I am thrilled to be a member of the new cohort of CDT Non-Resident Fellows, together with my HAI colleague Jen King. I was a CDT intern way back in 2007, and 20 years later, my career has brought me full circle.

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Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Thanks, Stepto.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 30/01/2026

If you enjoy sheer Gothic terror and early feminists wondering why we still have to protest this shit, maybe you'd like the two audiobooks I just released. "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror" amzn.to/45HoHsR "(On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship)" amzn.to/4aoAuyM

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On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (Illustrated)

Amazon.com: On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (Illustrated) (Audible Audio Edition): John Aiken, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Tarah Wheeler, Red Queen: Books

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 25/01/2026

“I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time!” ~ H. G. Wells,”The Time Machine”

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 11/01/2026

I don't feel like spending time writing a 300 character explanation of why you should read this blog post. Just go do it.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 11/01/2026

It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's mathematical capabilities, but I am so very tired of reading the "if she'd only been born a man" story. From an open 2017 Historia Mathematica article. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Had any young [male] beginner, about to go to Cambridge, shewn the same power[s], I should have prophesied ... that they would have certainly made him an original mathematical investigator, perhaps of first rate
eminence (LB 339, ADM to Lady Byron, 21 Jan. 1844, f. 2).

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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Federal court records systems are all alike; each state court records system is unhappy in its own way.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 08/01/2026

Susan Landau, @mattblaze.org, and Steven Bellovin unpack the U.K. government's latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups in Apple products and explain how it could make sensitive data more vulnerable to adversarial actors.

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The U.K.’s Plan for Electronic Eavesdropping Poses Cybersecurity Risks

The U.K. government’s latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups could allow adversarial actors to gain access to sensitive data.

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I also support Aaron’s work and pay for a subscription. It is always worth reading, always informative. Thanks, @atrupar.com for your tirelessness.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/12/2025

At EFF, we were proud to publicly and loudly support the legal profession and, most importantly, continue to do our work challenging the government’s erosion of digital rights—work that became even more critical as many law firms shied away from pro bono work. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 24/12/2025

The holidays persist, but so do we.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 23/12/2025

So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Working on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity. Hey, ma, look! I *finally* got into University of Chicago. :D cpi.harris.uchicago.edu/2025/12/23/h...

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Harris Cyber Policy Initiative Taps Top Hacker to Design New Security Model for Water Utilities | Cyber Policy Initiative

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 21/12/2025

Happy #WinterSolstice ❄️ Today marks the official start of winter in the astronomical calendar. 📷 Instagram | Juncao_Oxford

The Radcliffe Camera framed by trees with leaves and a light dusting of snow on the ground.

The Clarendon Building with a symmetrical pathway leading to its entrance, surrounded by bare trees and light snow.

An aerial view of Oxford’s historic city centre, with rooftops, streets and college buildings lightly covered in snow.

An Oxford college gate with a clock above it, framed by snow-covered trees and falling snow.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/12/2025

It’s clear that trans people face unique, advanced, and persistent threats—online and off. Here are some strategies for resisting the tech-enabled violence that trans people face. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Strategies for Resisting Tech-Enabled Violence Facing Transgender

Today's Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding bans on gender-affirming care for youth makes it clear: trans people are under attack. Threats to trans rights and healthcare are coming

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 06/12/2025

"Only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." ~TS Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 27/11/2025

Dear Raul Julia: in whatever Elysian Fields you inhabit, I hope you know that the last movie you filmed & the work that you spent your last moments on has become beloved. A classic not just at the holidays, but a primer on how to selflessly and brilliantly love another person to utter distraction.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 27/11/2025

I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. It's just...I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade. That's all.

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Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢 It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐 Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let... Site: www.hacklore.org

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Stop Hacklore!

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bisquick pancakes @meimeimeixie.purplepanda.gay · 19/11/2025

i can get malware on my computer by giving it to my 12yo cousin for a day and at a fraction of the cost of letting copilot do it

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/11/2025

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...

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SIREN and CAIR-CA v. San Jose

The San Jose Police Department has blanketed the city’s roadways with nearly five hundred Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs). The police department uses this unblinking surveillance network to

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 17/11/2025

I reviewed "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., @nanettelevinson.bsky.social, & Francesca Musiani. It's not a tech spec for Internet Protocol—it's actually a cenotaph for a bygone era of consensus and freedom. www.tarah.org/2025/11/17/a...

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A Cenotaph for Internet Freedom: Reviewing “Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core” – Tarah Wheeler

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 02/11/2025

For the second time in two years, Cato has sued the DOJ and FBI for records on their use—and abuse—of FISA Section 702 surveillance. The public deserves to know whether this program protects Americans or targets them.

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Cato Sues FBI Over FISA Records, Again

Two things are certain. The first is that the FISA Section 702 program is set to expire in late April 2026. The second is that the kind of public interest FOIA litigation Cato is engaged in on this case...

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Kai @kaiho.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Wonderful (but scary) talk by @tarah.org at #bsideschicago25

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · 20/10/2025

Folks, I have a friend's internal hard drive here that is likely still good, but will not mount. There are family photos on it. What are good solutions for this, especially in the Seattle area? I'd like to hand-deliver if possible.

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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