🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 7mIt wears me the hell out. Being a charm build helps me cut through that crap pretty well 010
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 58mwe wanted something, we bought it, if we didn’t like it, we moved on. It was incredible. 010
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 59mcybersecurity industry R&D basically, it was fucking incredible 030
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1hI was advising CEO’s and CPO’s at Palo Alto, Cisco, gigamon, imperva, fastly, Akamai, Aqua, Redlock, Arbor, Signal Science, Perimter X, every CASB company, god this list goes on regarding cybersecurity product strategies and they were building products for us that eventually became GA products 160
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1hfrom July 2013 to the end of 2017 we demoed, installed and fully operated at CMMI 4 over 100 different cybersecurity products and kept maybe 15 of those. I was working my ass off and it was so much fun. 160
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1hI was like “I told yall, keep me the hell out of it” lol corporate legal had every receipt in my emails to him saying that shit wouldn’t work they way they were selling it to him 160
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1hWe got into a massive lawsuit with Stealth Security because I told my CTO that shit would break everything to hell but he wanted it and stealth lied to him and said some stuff was possible that it absolutely could not do lmfao 160
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1hI got to be a product advisor to aqua security like shit, 18 months before they came out of stealth. Container scanning automation in CICD pipelines in gosh January 2014 I think? 170
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1hmy CISO and I worked every year from Christmas to New Year’s Eve like 14 hours a day lighting up our cybersecurity vendors getting PO’s in by midnight on New Year’s Eve. We were working with start ups still in stealth mode buying security products before they were even known to the public. 190
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1hevery year for seven years my CTO would text me on Christmas Eve, tell me to enjoy Christmas morning and to call him on Christmas afternoon for my yearly Christmas present which was to spend several million dollars of his budget by New Year’s Eve on whatever cybersecurity tooling we needed lol. 2272
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1hif you make me write PowerPoints and toss me off into the most politically charged oppositional personality problems that are solely due to lack of maturity and unwillingness to get along then you are gonna have to pay me a LOT. 3131
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hI’ll work for cheap if people just do what the hell I say lol 1161
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hthey had me pretty cheap for the first several years but they gave me a massive budget every year to do whatever fuck I said needed to be done and gave me full support and access to whoever I needed to get it done. 1160
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hlet me be clear my salary was like, 110k a year lol. 2150
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hit was all mutual respect and high trust, I had to earn that seat at the every day and had to know every single aspect of how that company ran and my solutions HAD to be exceptional. I did that and they gave me the world in return 1190
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hI was allowed into any meeting I wanted and everyone in the company was told that if I come into the meeting to let me have the last 5 minutes and to do everything I said to do. These engineers and developers were all smart as hell, I had to work to keep up and they took my ass to school everyday 1200
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hdoing stuff with machine learning in 2014 for advanced correlations. God I miss that job. 1170
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hwe developed cyberfraud signaling channels integrated into our mobile apps and had 850 million signal channels globally feeding into a Hadoop cluster for cyberfraud activity detection and response. In 2017. 1170
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hThey all even showed up so hard for when I transitioned at work and told all three thousand people at the company if they disrespected me they would be fired immediately. I miss it so much, so much. 2351
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hI had a job for 7 years where my CISO hired me to tell the CTO and CEO “give me 10 million dollars a year and unfettered access to the entire company and tell them they have to yes to everything I say has to be done” It was awesome we built some incredibly bad ass cybersecurity capabilities. 1432
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2hme: “I can’t believe token replay attacks are still a thing we had that buttoned up in 2016” New CVE: “a new critical directory traversal bypass..” I’m tired yall. I was fixing directory traversal stuff in 1998 *cries* 1110
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3hthe part of my job where I have been trained to keep my panic on the inside because people need to feel safe when bringing things to me when they are panicking on the outside. I’m panicking on the inside. It’s gonna be okay. 0100
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3hThinking about that dude who wrote a personal AI song for his mistress after murdering his wife. That’s what AI music to me now. Murdergrief. 040
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3hit should post in a few days: www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...microsoft.comMicrosoft Digital Defense Report and Security Intelligence InsightsGet the latest insights about the threat intelligence landscape and guidance from frontline experts at Microsoft. 050
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3hI suspect in a year or so threat actors will evolve past code exploits and pivot to attacking business process logic flaws directly 010
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3h“No organization posses a single complete view of the threat landscape; each captures only a fraction of the available signals, the collective benefit created through trusted information sharing exceeds what any organization can achieve independently” This is so critically important *sobs* 1100
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3hideally you understand what a data pipeline is and are building signal fabrics into shared data pipelines 170
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3hthere are several mentions of signal cross correlation and every defender group needs massive support from the highest levels of leadership to at the very least federate high quality signals across secure operations quadrants and stop being adversarial to each other’s perceived capability and skill 280
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 4hastronaut 1: “you mean it’s all just patch velocity?” astroagent 2: “click” 1120
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 4hthe report is highlighting self-improving AI worms, which yes, this is going eat our future lunches. I’ve made a few posts about this. The scale and speed is going to be uhhh “gone to plaid”?static.klipy.comSpaceballsAlt: Spaceballs scene where a starship has surpassed warp speed and “gone to plaid” 2161
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 4h“Beyond the scope of this report” is “the impact of AI on human psychology and decision making” Well that’s just great because that is what I am currently designing a solution around lol. I’m always working on “out of scope” stuff lolsobs 1170
Reposted by 🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈2bit_natty (she/they) ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ @2bitnatty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Updated MA post: ($0 / $770) I got paid today but it didn't have the sick time from the shift I missed. Upcoming expenses: - Short $400 for rent - $160 car, rental & dental insurance - $110 energy bill All due by the first. Venmo: @Two-Bit_Natty Cashapp: $2bitnatty Paypal: @emilybrodbeck1 21825
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 4hI will say this: more and more the basics of running a program are stepping in geopolitical poo and that will continue to get more precarious for cybersecurity folks just trying to cover the most basic due diligence parts of their jobs. (Looking at you Microsoft) 1160
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 4h“National and international policy decisions will shape the future of cybersecurity” YEAAAaahhhh that. I will uhh, refrain from ranting about this 1140
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 4hreading the Microsoft 2026 digital defense report, will post a link when it’s on their website. Usually these tell me what I saw with my own eyes but sometimes there is some interesting lil bits in them 1272
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 11hI spent almost ten years as a bagger, cashier, produce stacker and back dock loader at grocery stores, dealing with people and their shit was my entire thing 110
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14h“Oh, bob, you are mad at mitch because of what happened in 2015, mitch, you have said you regret your choice, would you and bob like to talk about that? If not I will speak for you mitch and tell bob that you feel bad for the choice you made” 110
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14hthis where me being a charm build with impeccable credibility and integrity pays a fuckload of dividends because every time there is seemingly intractable conflict I get tossed into it and I find an answer where everyone’s bellyaches are heard and I don’t stop pressing on the hurts until we solve it 110
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14hfor real though I’m just dealing with larger scales and more bullshit of what you are dealing with these days and it mostly makes me sad as hell 010
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14hFuck i mean to type inter departmental beef THIS IS MY LIFE you have my utmost and sincerest respect. People hold onto shit for DECADES what the hell lolsobs 210
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14hTHIS IS MY BATTLE I GO TO WAR FOR THIS no serious though I am fierce bitch and I literally fight like a motherfucker for respect. I want you to have a me on your side. You deserve it. 110
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14hOhhh okay so like layer 3/4 and then everything else is encrypted? 010
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14hoh that’s my job all the time now lol. I’m dealing with the gnarliest problems lmfao. The ones that need eleven thousand people to agree and everyone hates each other *sobs* 110
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14hhonestly I am terrified of being all out and proud of the stuff I have done in my career but I really am proud of 2018 me being an absolutely bad ass platform cybersecurity architect and engineer able to build a platform that gave me this kind of capability to analyze and mitigate threats on my own. 0150
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14hI say “we’d tagged and bagged” but really I did that by myself. I don’t want to brag, but yeah I was doing that myself running search queries on access log patterns using splunk query language while understanding in my mind the entirety of how Expedia worked by key/value/path/parameters alone 180