‘Nonprofit’ to Put More Guns in Colorado Schools

Colorado is trying to confront the reality that no community is immune from the threat of a school shooting. But again, they’re going about it the wrong way. A recent report from Colorado new…

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NY Times: Police Brutality Has Come to Texas Classrooms

For years, I’ve argued that putting more armed officers in schools is not the magic solution many people think it is. After school shootings, especially high-profile ones, politicians inevita…

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Now Georgia is Wasting Half a Mil on School Shooting Drones

Georgia is now the latest state spending more than half a million taxpayer dollars on anti-school shooter drones for public schools, because apparently that’s where school safety policy is headed n…

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Cloudflare just "verified" I'm a human four times in a row, and appears to be stuck in an infinite "verifying you're a human" loop. What a lovely service (/s).

#CloudFlare #SecurityTheater #tech #dev #web

I love cyber security compliance. All the effort which should be put into actually fixing all the underlying issues of technical debt, process flaws, documentation and skills gaps is wasted ticking boxes to create the fiction that something effective has been done.
#compliance #securitytheater

#ABQ is absolutely terrorized by crime and people experiencing houselessness. Big box stores employ cosplaying security. Houses are fenced and gated.

Which is funny because there seems to be little evidence of a reign of terror except for CBP.

#SecurityTheater dominates the landscape.

Antioch High Lawsuit Raises Questions About AI School Security Industry

The deadly January 2025 shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville was exactly the kind of tragedy companies like Omnilert claim they exist to stop. Seventeen-year-old Solomon Henderson opened fi…

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Meatball Ron Puts More Guns in Florida Schools

Governor Ron DeSantis has now signed legislation expanding Florida’s so-called guardian program to public colleges and universities across the state. The move comes a little more than a year after …

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JeffCo Schools Security Audit is More Disturbing Than Reassuring

Content Warning: All of Them Eight months after the shooting at Evergreen High School, parents in Jefferson County, Colorado, are demanding answers after learning the school district sat on a distu…

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So the #Canvas folks paid the ransom (see https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/canvas-instructure-hackers-deal.html).

What's totally crazy is this statement from #Instructure (see https://www.instructure.com/incident_update), the makers of Canvas:

> We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs).

Someone please explain that to me.

#security #securitytheater

Instructure Strikes Deal for Hackers for Return of Canvas Data

Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data.

The New York Times