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Victoria Walberg

@vickyjo.bsky.social
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Insomniac security & tech geek.⁣ Lancashire lass in The Netherlands, via Brighton, London, and Switzerland. Tweeting in a personal capacity.

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Janet Sternberg @janetphd.bsky.social · 14h
Proving once again that spell check is no substitute for proofreading.
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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Historic England was spending six figures to wrap photographs the taxpayer had already paid for. Then the wrapper died, and the public cannot see them at all."
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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🚌 4 DAYS TO GO! 🐻 The #BSidesLDN2026 CFP is rapidly approaching its final stop! Got an idea, some research or an experience worth sharing with the security community? Get it submitted! ⏰CFP closes midnight 30 September bsides.london/cfp2026 #Security #BSides #London #CFP
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hahaha, absolutely the fuck not Instagram
Screenshot of Instagram T&Cs with a section called "Allow your reels and posts to be featured with products" toggled ON
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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025
<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@blowdart.me Is this you? mastodon.social/@fesshole/11...
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Fesshole 🧻 (@fesshole@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Add your fess: http://b3ta.com/addfess
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From Sweden Longitudinal epigenetic rewiring in lung immune cells in patients with post COVID-19 condition link.springer.com/article/10.1... s4me.info/threads/long... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #COVIDLung #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19
Longitudinal epigenetic rewiring in lung immune cells in patients with post COVID-19 condition — Nikesjö et al
"Distinct DNAm patterns were observed across pulmonary immune cell fractions, with longitudinal changes primarily detected in neutrophil- and macrophage-enriched populations, while alterations were not evident in PBMCs." "This divergence between lung and blood suggests tissue-specific epigenetic remodeling following SARS-CoV-2 infection and underscores the limitations of relying solely on peripheral blood to capture disease-relevant molecular changes in PCC."
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Turnitin contract cancelled, and to be phased out this academic year at Southampton. meshed.cloud/@webmink/117...
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Simon Phipps (@webmink@meshed.cloud)
University of #Southampton cancels contract and scraps assignment management tool over vendor plan to train #AI on student assignments - bravo! https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/26558627.southampton-...
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jack @jackalltogether.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I would love an ibreakit dot com that showed you how to physically clip the cameras, mics and outbound telematics out of all sorts of things like TV’s and cars
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watching live TV for the first time in a while - Celebrity Masterchef Final time.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@paperghost.bsky.social Had to send you this from @kevsoft.net lnkd.in/p/eZp2JPWN
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Same Finances, Different Letterhead - Our UK Partner Visa Experience | Kevin Smith
𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗨𝗞 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗮, 𝘀𝗼 𝗜 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴. They sent 41 pages. ▪️ A page of asylum acronyms that don't apply to us ▪️ A copy of our own application, hande...
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
TL;DR: using compression before encryption is much weaker than we thought. Tiny length differences can be amplified - almost without limit - and noise-based or bucketization countermeasures are then easy to bypass. Joint work with @prefix-free.bsky.social and Lenka Mareková, to appear at CCS 2026.
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Nitro Nine Milkshake @adamclegg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So I think someone may have fiddled around with the TV in the Travelodge I stayed in last night.
A TV screen with the Travelodge logo and beneath it the words it’s not shit it’s “affordable”.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Number crunching: Graduate vacancies From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel terribly sad for all those old-school Economy 7 teleswitch meters still out there, listening for a radio signal to switch them into off-peak mode that will never ever come now that they've switched off BBC Long Wave. Like V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026
Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.
a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Also bizarre that those people who profess to feeling so threatened by hijabs and burkhas are so comfortable wearing balaclavas.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.
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Sam Stepanyan @securestep9.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#JFrog #Artifactory: Attackers are already exploiting critical auth bypass CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS 9.8) to mint admin tokens. Compromising your organisation's artifact repository could poison builds and trigger #SoftwareSupplyChain attacks - patch now! 👇
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Exploited JFrog Artifactory bug puts software supply chain on alert
The bug is already being exploited in the wild, allowing attackers to generate admin tokens and gain access to Artifactory, the platform that powers many organization’s software supply chains.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There's nothing like Celebrity Masterchef (or anything) to make you feel old.
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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices
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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So, this is another reason companies need to think about their data and records in liquidations: all data has value to someone, but your customers might never have anticipated who or why. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
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Are we human?
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@masnick.com bsky.app/profile/mand...
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Are you in the UK? Are you running android? Did you receive several emergency alerts yesterday? Could you run `adb shell content query --uri content://cellbroadcasts` and send me the output?
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@mandree.bsky.social Will there be an EN version of the book? Thanks
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dutch study retracted. bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/3/... The author's reactions are interesting.
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RETRACTION: Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022
This article1 is retracted by the journal.
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Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Very happy with this result. Combination of #eclipse images (time lapse) with 35 mm lens, one image per 5 minutes, from #Leiden, the Netherlands. Old Leiden Observatory bottom right.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oof, old supply chain attack from March resulting in cred compromise, but apparently the entire DB surfaced. Hope teams have completed remediation. Good luck to comms teams and *ISOs as some big names got dropped. @doublepulsar.com has a thread over on Mastodon. cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...
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Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image Massive leak of credentials and secrets at thousands of orgs where developers executed LiveLLM, terabytes of creds are circulating online now. Root cause = orgs adopting GenAI solu...
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It looks like German media is more interested in @countbinface.bsky.social than Russian drones.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It seems the way to promote a book these days (released in February, zero reviews on Amazon), is to write a rage-bait opinion piece in @theguardian.com and let the internet do its thing. I am sick of the sight of an airpod on a purple background in my timeline.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Dear @bsky.app please develop the ability to turn off re-posts from people you follow. I have had to mute an account in its entirety due to the extent of their re-posts.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Wellness Ping for folks, by @micr0.dev wetdry.world/@micr0/11703...
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Micr0byte (@micr0@wetdry.world)
A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice. v2.0 is now out. It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, bo...
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InfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · 04/08/2026
SharePoint Flaws Used to Hack Switzerland’s Federal IT Agency
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SharePoint Flaws Used to Hack Switzerland's Federal IT Agency
Swiss Federal IT Agency FOITT says attackers exploited SharePoint flaws to compromise about 200 accounts. Investigation is ongoing.
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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cyber insurer (Chatham house forbids me from saying who) at BH CISO summit: “so far this year 0 payouts for claims even remotely connected to a AI-driven breach, 85% of payouts related to social engineering”. Sobering statistic.
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michael veale @michae.lv · 03/08/2026
You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...
UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws

Varying digital legal instruments across jurisdictions, each able to be clicked on a section/article/paragraph basis to find the hard and soft law instruments that cite and interpret each specific part (or substantively very similar parts of previous/neighbouring laws.) Snippets provided for each citing source along with original links to that source. Typically thousands of citations for each. Citing documents can be ordered by date, citation numbers, or 'authority/influence' (PageRank algorithm).

Database of citing documents maintained and updated daily/weekly; the below documents intended to be updated weekly. Last update 3 August 2026.

Document coverage and national grammar for document detection is strongest and best tested for UK, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, EU and ECHR, but the database contains and attempts to link administrative decisions and guidance from other jurisdictions. Unlike Westlaw or other providers, this is not only free, with links to the originals, and incorporates a large amount of guidance and secondary material.

Documents generated from a dataset held and maintained by Michael Veale, Professor of Technology Law and Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London. If you wish to study these instruments and the tech and practices that interact with them, consider learning about it at UCL Laws: on our LLM in Law and Technology, or our week-long executive education on AI for Lawyers: Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Does a happy dance at all the 🌧️ Humidity just increased by 20% 😓
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yesterday I passed my GIAC GCIL, today involved a trip to the German Consulate in Amsterdam. Wandered past some of the Pride setup and the Rijksmuseum, then a late lunch with a refreshing margarita.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And good luck finding businesses to offer meaningful work experience to hundreds of thousands of 14 and 15 year olds. As ever a failure to acknowledge that our big challenge with vocational ed is our labour market.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Before 2022, the Internet was routed, hosted, and operated in Tiny Courier Protocol / Invisible Pixies (TCP/IP) facilities. These were hidden in invisible groves and powered entirely by pixie dust. Data centres replaced these magical facilities on November 30, 2022.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"This is not a software business that happens to own servers. It is a real estate business that happens to compute. Real estate cycles break the same way every single time. Not when demand collapses - it rarely does - but when the rate of demand growth decelerates..."
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Whitney Champion 🍪 @whit.zip · 22/07/2026
gonna tell the girls this was AI when i was little
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
we can move further and faster than the US by, wait up a second let me check my notes here, adopting a lot of US AI tech and then putting it into all of the below
a cartoon drawing of a worried looking man with a beard and glasses. he is wearing a yellow and blue rosette which says "fell for it again award"
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 21/07/2026
Passkeys can be stored just like password hashes! I'm proposing an interoperable $webauthn$v=1$… format, and a Go API that uses these passkey records for authentication. I'm looking for feedback before proposing this as crypto/passkey for Go 1.28!
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Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)
Passkey records are an interoperable format for WebAuthn credentials, similar to password hash strings. I propose a potential crypto/passkey Go API based on them.
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 20/07/2026
Walking through the Pride Zero Flags Project on Museumplein. Each flag marks one of the countries where homosexuality is still criminalised, every pole ribboned in mourning, every plinth naming the penalty. A sobering reminder that for too many worldwide, the fight for rights remains existential.
A row of national flags on white poles lining a paved path on Amsterdam’s Museumplein, each with a black mourning ribbon and a black plinth. A white placard in the foreground reads “Zero Flags Project — Sri Lanka — penalty on homosexuality: 10 years imprisonment.” The Rijksmuseum is visible in the distance under a blue sky.A close-up of a Zero Flags Project placard at the base of a flagpole reading “Afghanistan — penalty on homosexuality: Death penalty.” Behind it, a long line of flagpoles with black-ribboned national flags recedes toward the Rijksmuseum on Museumplein.
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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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