Thank you @wiglenet and the @rfhackers for running the 2025 World Wide WarDrive DEFCON 33 event.

What an amazing thing to see everyone building rigs, phones, antennas on their vehicles, RasPis in the side bags of motorcycles, bikes!

Coming soon a full write up of what I did.

Soon, I will be posting my Q2 - 2025 Africa Information Security News Roundup for April, May, and June!

Read Q1 January-March here: #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy news items impacting #Africa and #African interests.
https://sherpaintelligence.substack.com/p/africa-information-security-news

We get it. We believe in online privacy and safety too. But please understand that by being on the public internet, we deal with people who try and abuse the tools of privacy & anonymity for nefarious purposes - in an automated manner at a vast scale.

There are a lot of (we think pretty cool) things you can do with WiGLE.net, and there are real-world costs that accompany offering those things. We're not in it for cash - it's a free site unless you're using it for commercial gain, then we ask you to keep help us keep the lights on.

We don't want donations (it's not like any of us are going to quit our day jobs) but we have to prune the "spikes" in usage of what we see as non-legitimate use/or violation of the EULA: for-profit without paying, download without proportionate contribution, and the hard-to-quantify "sketchy AF"

But dear internet: we've seen all the tricks. We're like a bouncer at the club. If we think you're not breaking the law, and will not be an a-hole once you're past the door, we WANT to let you in. Don't give us weird/awful/stupid reasons to not let you in. It's a community. It works because people.

I guess because like five of us are saying something, what was done to Chris Krebs is an absolute injustice and a mockery of his selfless service.

America no longer supports or protects critical infrastructure defenders. I hope someone else appreciates him a lot more.

I know he can’t reply.

I appreciate that so many are calling the "replace SSA COBOL systems in months using AI" idea out for the risk and difficulty inherent in replacing such a large and entrenched system.

We should also do a better job of articulating a key danger, which I'm sure the people expecting to pull this off don't understand: COBOL handles numbers and arithmetic in a way designed to maintain precision that is not supported natively by modern languages.
https://archive.is/K2TX3

https://werd.social/@ben/114246047179621958