PeoriaBummer

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do you know when OPSEC entered hacker culture and how it crossed over? Someone asked me, and I realized I didn’t know. I wanted to get an authoritative answer from the expert.

I just deleted my Twitter account.

I saw a viral pro-H*tler tweet on my timeline with 66,000 likes and 9.5 million views. That was enough for me to ensure my posts don’t contribute any value to that garbage dump.

UNITED STATES: You likely have an extra setting to check called "Personalized Shopping".

EU & AUSTRALIA: You won't have to worry about this because this type of behaviour is already disallowed.

CrowdStrike hires outside security outfits to review troubled Falcon code

And reveals more and more about small mistake that bricked 8.5M Windows boxes

The Register
Trained an AI on every single Mastodon post and now I have a little button that tells me to install Linux whenever I press it.
guy who named oranges seeing a pumpkin for the first time: "aw, fuck, no"

One of the downstream effects of the AI boom that I hadn't really thought about is that sites are starting to introduce anti-crawling tech as standard, because they don't want all their bandwidth going to training chatgpt7.

This is going to make life harder for people who run benevolent scrapers. How many sites are going to be blocking the wayback machine now, just because it looks too much like an AI scraperbot?

How is the design of Crowdstrike not considered a massive security disaster to come? (Leaving aside today’s hiccup?)
Announcing CrowdStrike AI
CrowdStrike deserves a pwnie award for inventing the reverse ransomware scheme. First you pay them a ransom then they break your IT department. You may not like it but this is what peak disruption looks like.