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Security, Privacy, Photog, Music. Previously: very early Twitter employee. Now CTO Alembic, OTF Advisor, 1man entertainment machine. I helped build this thing.
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There is no Internet of Things. There are only many unpatched, vulnerable small computers on the Internet.
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Kids these days. You keep drawing these pixelated game objects like they existed. They never did, I never saw them.
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I don’t post here anymore because this site is now overrun and mismanaged, but I thought I’d mention that collection agencies for Twitter are now calling my house, for Twitter’s debts, 10 years after I quit. Just, wow.
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I'm going to say this again and you're all going to forget. If your laptop cannot survive DEF CON, it cannot survive the Internet. Fix it.
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Peter Thiel is donating $1.25M to Trump. If your startup took investment from him, I hope you're rethinking life.
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Past security at FRA. If security took your knives away, you can always buy another duty free :)
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Just once I'd like to hear "I believe in the separation of church and state and I can't answer your question, sorry."
#GOPDebate
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Exhibit A: Italy's UN rep tells the UN
@hackingteam
has no business in Sudan. Exhibit B: HT's invoice to Sudan
http://t.co/fcs0LR5AoL
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Surveillance capitalism: Twitter will now track you across the web unless you opt out, but it’s a default, so most people will forget.
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Whenever you read “over 5000 people had a password of password” remember that only one admin forgot to turn on “enforce password complexity”
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Apparently remotelock/lockistate bricked thousands of locks in the last 48 hours with a firmware upgrade. Any proof of this?
#internetofshit
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Remember kids, biometrics are only usernames. Never passwords.
Your face is not an adequate authentication vector.
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I highly recommend you open Keychain Assistant, and set all of the CNNIC certificates to 'DO NOT TRUST'.
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I salute the USPS employees who went against this administration and delivered ballots. Good on you
#usps
#wedeliver
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In today's Internet-of-shit news, my coffee cup at work wants me to create an account just so I can control its temperature. Sigh. Anyone want a free mug?
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I expect the loss of the headphone jack will also happen on mac desktops. This isn't courage, it's "closing the analog hole". Expect DRM.
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Name cheap introduces ‘Internet privacy bill of rights’, yet has 14 trackers on their pages.
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Best quote of the day: “Google’s engineers work hard to prevent malicious hackers from stealing the personal data Google worked so hard for”
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My heart goes out to those affected in Brussles, and my mind to the bad legal/privacy decisions that will follow in its wake.
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Friday's my last day at Twitter. What a beautiful and important service we have all built together, but now it's time to move on
#flythecoop
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Here's a crazy idea. Stop using VPNs, stop granting endpoints access to your network. Put everything behind encrypted proxies or single-use, zero-trust tunnels.
VPN servers are entry points into protected networks, making them attractive targets. APT actors have and will exploit VPNs - the latest guidance from NSA and
@CISAgov
can help shrink your attack surface. Invest in your own protection!
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If you’ve already sent me a cookie and then you put a box at the bottom of the screen asking for consent, is it still consent? No.
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Citizens of DEFCON, We are Live! Our unofficial DC25 badge is now available on Kickstarter. Back us!
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16 years ago I made Twitter go. My heartbreak is the awful disrespect and treatment of the people who make it go now. Do. Better.
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It's high time Twitter and other services start deleting IP and other access logs in shorter timeframes. FBI:
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Fire everyone in security at Lenovo: "“at no time were consumers vulnerable—we stand by this today.” = You do not understand SSL.
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This is happening, and happening to a number of the sites I manage. What the fuck, China?
http://t.co/vPGON0QSgR
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web3 is a joke, it doesn't exist. NFTs are fraud. Blockchain is a database and it doesn't scale. Everyone calm down.
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I just fixed my first y2k38 problem on a production system. If you're using unix time_t and you're trying to be smart and have something expire "20 years from now", your code is broken on systems that store time_t as a 32 bit signed integer (Post Jan 19th, 2018. it all breaks.)
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Hey look! A pile of untested, unaudited, email privacy tools that claim to be secure.
http://t.co/K9qHZ7qTf7
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Additionally this morning: Mary Meeker's excellent report on Internet Trends is out…
http://t.co/CVdhQvaQHh
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"Our privacy policy has been updated" usually means: more invasive than ever on most sites. Like rent, it never gets better.
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The actual outcome of the Manhattan project: A bomb that only the US could have, which then everyone had. Just like crypto backdoors.
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“The important thing about securities regulations is that every single one is there because someone ripped a lot of people off that way.”
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Well, now we have a problem. Censoring, SSL main in the middling China Govt is now a trusted root CA
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These are the sort of people in charge of crypto policy. A sad and comical state of affairs.
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This seems to combine many things we did with metrics/ops data at Twitter, a great alert+query system+more. Wow.
http://t.co/QTDuKEX8uF
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You have to love it when technical companies say they experienced a technical issue. It's like a dictionary company having an alphabet issue
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Holy shit, I didn't think it was possible for security questions to get worse, but United Airlines found a way.
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The fallout from the Hacking Team breach has begun. 0d's now in the wild from their source code.
http://t.co/WOrZvPT9om
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It was nice while it lasted, Twitter.
From a pile of people in South Park, SF with a dream to a megalomaniacal purchase for a fake "freedom of speech" effort.
What a ride. What a shame.
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My name is John, I have been coding for 35 years and I do not think I could write a binary tree balancer under duress by customs/ICE.
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Seriously, right now, do this in your shell: "alias fucking=sudo" . It will make you feel better.
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Oh, hell yes. Bypass
http://t.co/1VTwSCmME0
links in Chrome and go straight to the site, bypassing surveillance.
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US Gov’t drops case instead of revealing the technique they used to unmask a Tor user.
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Large social media companies should implement an internal “two person rule” for accounts which can impact more than say, 10k followers. Two authorized users should be required to make changes. On the user side, mandatory 2FA when you hit that size.
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Oh, just what, why would you do such a thing. FUUU. Secure chat in assembler? kill me now.
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Hacking team torrent contains proof in invoices and orders of surveillance software sales to oppressive regimes.
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The next time you build a crypto system with a single, global key, shoot yourself in the face. Please.
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“Modal: Please disable your adblocker.”
“No”.
Console -> $(‘abnag’).hide();
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I imagine the white house’s web operations center is a bunch of random people pulling on cables and trying to install wordpress right now.
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all right - mad points to whomever the person was that decided to play shake the disease by Depeche Mode as I was leaving the vaccination center at Moscone
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@WhiteHouse
@realDonaldTrump
You only did that so that you could attempt to get the cuban vote. There’s nothing wrong with socialism, most americans want roads and unemployment insurance. Your administration is a fraud .
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TIL that someone made a nice page of functional, pre-compiled linux local root exploits. w00t.
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You can’t have democracy without privacy. Legislating weak cryptography endangers everyone, not just a few select victims.
#UnlockJustice
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@deliprao
@_brohrer_
I think I installed that server, and I think it was an early openldap test machine moved to 795 Folsom. But I forget. That was 15 years ago.
There was also a pile of servers running test scripts in the design department, high-jank.
Or hey, maybe we did that a few times!
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To quote the great Christopher Walken, “You’re dead. You just don’t have the good sense to lie down.”
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No one had to be sorry if DMs were encrypted and no one had to be sorry if there was a two-man rule on accounts > 10k followers. Detection should have been in place if a set of employees started issuing > N account resets over a small time window. Sigh.
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Lantern, a so called secure proxy, makes backhanded calls to Google analytics when you use. it. Thanks guys.
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Oh, and it's so easy to opt-out of AT&T Tracking, if only you knew the IP address. That's here:
http://205.234.28.93/mobileoptout/
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Facebook down. Internet trolls have chance to shower for first time in months.
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AT&T hijacks DNS on business-grade connections, routing any misspelt domain names to their/yahoo branded search. The hijack routes to a non SSL and leaks your requested domain. Netsol pulled this in the 90s, it was lame then and lame now.
#NetNeutrality
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From an upcoming Odd Salon talk I’m about to give next week. 145 audio formats lost in just about 100 years.
#oddsalon
#lostmedia
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Here’s a preview of our DC25 Badge Kickstarter video. The Kickstarter will open in a couple days!
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@christian_pozzi
@dandyhighwayman
@Viss
No, the torrent contains all of your viruses, which you sell, and which will get patched.
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If you run a server that supports SSL, I highly recommend you support TLS 1.2. SSLv3 is obsolete.
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@crownsterling_
You factored a 256 bit key and a 512 bit key in the time it takes any software on a decently sized laptop to factor those keys. You've not actually done anything. Come back when you've factored a 2048 bit key.
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The best paper you will read all year: "That's what she said, double entendre identification"
http://t.co/Av6h1h2
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