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the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But now the war with Iran has lasted for seven months. Despite the best efforts of the gallant military and naval forces, the war situation with Iran has developed not necessarily to the United States' advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"every pharmacist is a hallway" and "the raccoon protocol" killed me
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/07/2026
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cover of the unfortunately fictitious magazine Vizier Monthly. Against a red background, a pale man in black sits schemingly, surrounded by headlines
-"they never knew what hit them" Myzithra the Cruel Tells All
-You On Top: The Fierce New Secret to Success
-10 Signs Your Spymaster Is In His Treachery Era (Number 9 Will Shock You!)
-schemes to drive your lord wild
-9 poisons so subtle even you won't know how they died
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Electrospaces.net @electrospaces.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New Executive Order creates a “voluntary framework” for #AI developers to give the #NSA and other US government agencies early access to their latest AI models: breakingdefense.com/2026/06/trum...
breakingdefense.com
Trump executive order on AI gives central role to NSA - Breaking Defense
The EO creates a “voluntary framework” for AI developers to give the government early access to their latest tech.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Props to CNN’s chyron writer:
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Electrospaces.net @electrospaces.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Almost exactly 13 years after the start of the NSA-leaks, Edward #Snowden appeared on a state-owned Russian television channel in a report about the risks of foreign technology: united24media.com/investigatio...
united24media.com
Snowden Used in FSB Campaign Against Western Runet Infrastructure and Apple Smartphones
The FSB is using Edward Snowden to claim that Western tech firms and agencies like the NSA use tools like Cloudflare to spy on Russian officials' smartphones.
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Last week I discovered that ChatGPT and Claude will send you their “encrypted raw reasoning” and of course I immediately wasted a weekend trying to do something bad with it. What I got for my trouble was this blog post: blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/f...
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs
This is a quick post I wanted to write about a “hobby project” I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn’t expose a particularly exciting …
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Russian cyber operators hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts - journalists, academics, filmmakers - and used them in information operations to post propaganda. Bluesky insists its systems weren't breached - old leaked credentials did the work. Avg post views: 50.  www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
Bluesky accounts hijacked in pro-Russia propaganda campaign
A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts -- many belonging to influential Americans -- to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weapon...
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I’m experiencing phantom pain where my hope used to be
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Martin Matishak @martinmatishak.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW: The CIA late last year raised the status of its elite cyber espionage division, providing it more resources to analyze and disrupt digital threats, as well as amp up the agency’s own technological innovation efforts. therecord.media/cia-director...
therecord.media
CIA director quietly elevated agency’s cyber espionage division
The Center for Cyber Intelligence, which had resided within the CIA's Directorate of Digital Innovation since 2015, was promoted to a full-fledged mission center last October.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/04/2026
Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz
Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
And for the Gulf states, the Aya-Toll-Booth Iran has set up in the strait is a catastrophe they need the USA to fix.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 20/02/2026
Someone let the penguins of the Heard and McDonald Islands know that their long ordeal is coming to an end.
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Katie Didn’t @porkchophair.bsky.social · 13/06/2023
If a person checks their watch while you’re talking, it’s probably because they’re timing you and this is a competition. Keep talking. It’s win-time baby. You got this.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Infosec used to be serious
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"There is one message that we should take away from the current round of talks to end the war in Ukraine: Putin does not want the war to end right now." My latest update on war and strategic competition. mickryan.substack.com/p/putin-cann...
mickryan.substack.com
Putin Cannot Afford a Peace Deal Now. The Big Five, 1 February edition
My regular update on war and great power competition. This week: Ukraine peace talks continue, why Putin doesn't want peace now, the Taiwan-U.S. Joint Command & my Big Five recommended reads.
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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I don’t ask a lot from y’all in exchange for spending thousands of dollars a year to give the public free court records. Please share this piece far and wide.
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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hello, World! Welcome back! I have new blog :-) tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 30/01/2026
The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 30/01/2026
FBI document describing “Epstein's personal hacker. was an Italian citizen born in Calabria who developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold the tools to governments” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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SECRET// NOFORN
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
CHS REPORTING DOCUMENT
OFFICIAL RECORD
Check here if additional reporting is in Echo
No
Source Reporting:
(S//NF) On November 27, 2017, Special Agent
and Special Agen
met with
a Confidential Human Source with whom the FBI has recently established a relationship. The CHS
reported the following:
(S//NF) Jeffrey Epstein ("Epstein") had a compound in New Mexico where he lured and video recorded underage women. He also had a private island. Epstein was President Vladimir Putin's wealth manager, and provided the same service for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Epstein had some connection to
rom MIT Media
Lab but CHS was unsure of the details. Epstein had dirt on other people. The logs from his flights were made public at some point. Epstein had a mansion on the Upper West Side. Epstein made his money from charging his clients fees to hide their money offshore. Epstein knew former President Bill Clinton, and was very close to current President Donald Trump. In the spring of 2015, President Trump had just been to Epstein's property for lunch.
(S//NF)
was Epstein's personal hacker.
was an Italian citizen born in Calabria who
developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold the tools to governments
established the
Saudi government's cyber surveillance program.
sold a zero-day to Hezbollah.
was known as the first
person to hack and find vulnerabilities in Blackberries and iOS. He was also known for finding Firefox vulnerabilities.
surrounded himself with powerful friends like Epstein; he leveraged his connections with his
billionaire friends.
former company,
currently a Vice President there.
I was acquired by CrowdStrike in fall 2017, and
was
had three billionaire backers:
provided the company's seed money;
, Jeffrey Epstein, and
had a Japanese company called
(S//NF)
was very good at finding vulnerabilities
was friends with "old school" European hackers. One
"friend" was a hacker named '
(phonetic, "PH")…
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BleepingComputer @bleepingcomputer.com · 15/01/2026
Palo Alto Networks patched a high-severity vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to disable firewall protections in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
bleepingcomputer.com
Palo Alto Networks warns of DoS bug letting hackers disable firewalls
Palo Alto Networks patched a high-severity vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to disable firewall protections in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/12/2025
NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media. A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
404media.co
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
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Patrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz · 16/12/2025
An absolutely superb podcast from my colleague @tom.risky.biz and @thegrugq.bsky.social featuring Hamid Kashfi discussing the evolution of Iranian APTs. 10/10 risky.biz/BTN148/
risky.biz
Between Three Nerds: The evolution of Iranian cyber espionage - Risky Business Media
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk to Hamid Kashfi, CEO and founder of DarkCell, talk about the Iranian cybe [Read More]
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Grok has invaded Poland
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Old School US Military: Boring dads (and increasingly moms) who can get a shipping container full of explosives, MREs, & spare parts anywhere in the world in 72 hours with no drama. Cult of the Operator: Midlife crisis dads (and occasionally moms) who will starve to death w/o the old school types.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/06/2025
My proposal for US-China relations after Trump is to start a direct, uncle-to-uncle cultural exchange program where we being all of the most Dongbei guys over here to meet midwestern dads, and we send southerners over to Sichuan province. I think it can fix things.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
I'm not like other girls, I'm a numbers station that's been continuously reciting the digits of pi to the tune of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" since 1953.
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Dominic White @singe.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Microsoft Outlook is pants at usability and running a fat GUI isn’t great for security. About a year ago I went on a mission to make mutt (the CLI mail client) work in a sandbox so I could read my work Microsoft365 mail nicely and more securely. Here’s how
github.com
GitHub - singe/muttpack: Running mutt and friends in a containerised sandbox
Running mutt and friends in a containerised sandbox - singe/muttpack
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Dominic White @singe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I need time to write a proper skeet for this monster post but if you’re the type to trust me - this is a great read sensepost.com/blog/2025/in...
sensepost.com
SensePost | Investigating an in-the-wild campaign using rce in craftcmsPHP 8.2.28 - phpinfo()
Leaders in Information Security
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
But we're going to have beautiful empty shelves and it's something I think you'll be seeing very soon. We won't be the country of clutter anymore. [doing accordion hands] it's called minimalism. Ok?
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Christian Schneider @anti-knowledge.com · 24/03/2025
New phone, Houthis
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Nate's Scary Myth @natesmith.dev · 18/03/2025
i wonder if maybe we should stop writing post-apocalyptic fiction just until we're sure that's not where rich people are getting their ideas
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Russian satellites practiced attack-and-defense maneuvers. Multiple Russian satellites coordinated to surround and isolate another in low-Earth orbit, demonstrating potential spacecraft targeting. Meanwhile, China tested maneuvering satellites in close formation. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/16/p...
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