THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠
for Mar. 26th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Up to 60% of health care workers may have long COVID 4 years after infection

- The dangers of repeat Covid infections

- Discussion on highly mutated BA 3.2 ("Cicada") from experts & variant trackers

- Study: COVID vaccines not tied to risk of sudden death

- The unknowns of having Long Covid while pregnant

- NHS workers with Long Covid feel abandoned by the system

- The challenge of trying to get a booster for #AotearoaNewZealand -ers under 30

- Disability justice advocate and author #AliceWong 's celebration of life

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for Mar. 24th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- US regulator bans imports of new foreign-made routers

- Tracking #Iran 's extended communication blackout

- #Google Search is using AI to replace headlines

- Cyberattack on a car breathalyzer firm leaves drivers stuck

- The DJI Romo robovac had security so bad one man remotely accessed thousands of them

- Praise for the 49MB web page

- Updates on #Russia ’s expanding (intentional) internet blackout

- #DOGE plans to change US radiation dose rules

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠
for Mar. 19th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #LongCovid affects 18 million Americans (that we know of)

- Over 150,000 uncounted Covid deaths occurred 2020-2021

- Study of higher education during Covid shutdowns shows certain subjects are better taught online

- #UK Covid Inquiry report due out today; UK in “much worse position” than before Covid

- #RFKJr ’s ACIP/CDC vaccine advisory board is spreading a “report” that Covid vaccines cause a condition just like Long Covid

- This weekend: Covid safety for sex workers workshop (online)

- Netherlands experiencing record Covid lows

- NZ rejects WHO pandemic rule changes, aligning with RFK Jr

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for Mar. 17th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #Meta and the #HeritageFoundation are behind online age-check laws being pushed worldwide

- #Instagram drops end-to-end encrypted messaging

- #Iran hacked a multinational US company and remote-wiped most of its devices

- #Apple ’s Neo is not the computer for you

- British man charged with cybercrimes in Dubai for filming missile strikes

- #BuzzFeed nears bankruptcy after pivot to AI

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠
for Mar. 12th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #USmilitary study concludes 42% of #Covid infections lead to #LongCovid "regardless of initial disease severity”

- RFK’s #MAHA Institute calls to eliminate all childhood vaccines

- A new Long Covid treatment guide

- Babies with Covid “develop more serious disease than those with RSV”

- Trump admin removes more Covid datasets

- #Aotearoa #NewZealand ’s new Covid report smothered by disinformation

- #AotearoaNZ vaccinologist: repeat infection is “accumulating damage”

- Study: #Metformin reduces Long Covid risk but not an effective LC treatment

- US survey: only 26 of 400 Long Covid clinics remain

...and much more.

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Looking at an internal tool that is trying, yet again, to do a #threatmodel by using an #LLM. I got 12 threat actors on a fairly large project. What I'm really interested in is how different these two threats are from each other, and why we have distinct mitigations that address one but not the other.

• T07 "authenticated malicious user"
• T10 "malicious authenticated user"

#appsec

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY
for Mar. 10th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- New White House Cyber Strategy sounds a lot like the Iran “strategy”

- @defcon ’s new Almanack is here to drink milk and combat authoritarianism

- Misleading headline alert on all those Proton-FBI stories

- Russian state-sponsored hackers linked to ongoing @signalapp & #WhatsApp phishing scheme targeting gov't officials, military personnel, journalists

- The wild post-disaster #Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant computer rebuild

- @npr peels back #ICE ’s day-to-day use of surveillance data to terrify anyone they don’t like

- An interactive version of the famous #xkcd Dependency comic

...and much more.

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