Simon Thomas  

@SecureStrategy@infosec.exchange
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Cybersecurity consultant helping organisations reduce their real (not theoretical) risks. Tramper. Passionate about the South Island of New Zealand.
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O’Brien said that if we wanted a vision of the future, we should picture a boot coming down on a human face, forever, but actually I think the most realistic image of our future is Dave Bowman in "2001", desperately trying to disable all the "AI” features in his computer after each upgrade.
Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2024

Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for systematically downloading academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR....

Electronic Frontier Foundation
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

I am begging people to stop using AI generated image garbage on their social posts when trying to make smart points. Completely undermines your whole argument when the image is full of misspelled words and graphics that don’t make any sense 🤦‍♀️

I firmly believe that the only people who come to work to do cyber security are people in those roles. Everyone else in the organisation has their own role they need to perform - whether in finance, payroll, marketing, management, production etc. The goal of cyber security is to implement measures that work in the background to reduce risk without adversely affecting the ability of people to perform their roles. Yes, people need to be aware of the risks to security and privacy, and to understand the actions they can take. But if someone clicks a phishing email, or buys a gift card, it doesn't mean that they have failed. The failure is in the security measures that are meant to protect the organisation.

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/05/on-fire-drills-and-phishing-tests.html

On Fire Drills and Phishing Tests

Matt Linton, Chaos Specialist In the late 19th and early 20th century, a series of catastrophic fires in short succession led an outraged pu...

The destruction of good websites at the hands of private equity & overpaid executives is excruciating.

But at the same time, these know-nothings have been making people's lives miserable for a long time and will soon find that they own nothing at all

https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-coffee-in-keyboards-and-venture-capitalists/

Behind the Blog: Coffee in Keyboards and Venture Capitalists

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss coffee in keyboards, OSINT and cybersecurity tools, and what venture capitalists will be left with once they've bought up all the good websites.

404 Media

Seventy seven #women #BletchleyPark codebreakers from #WWII revealed for the first time.

Many of them took the secret to their graves.

"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe – a #mathematician who worked in #cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock – was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: “Oh, I made the tea.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/cambridge-newnham-college-alumnae-bletchley-park-codebreakers

#womenintech #womenshistorymonth

Cambridge college unmasks alumnae who were Bletchley Park codebreakers

Names of 77 ex-students of women-only Newnham College who worked at Bletchley Park are revealed for first time

The Guardian
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Seventy seven #women #BletchleyPark codebreakers from #WWII revealed for the first time.

Many of them took the secret to their graves.

"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe – a #mathematician who worked in #cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock – was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: “Oh, I made the tea.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/cambridge-newnham-college-alumnae-bletchley-park-codebreakers

#womenintech #womenshistorymonth

@benroyce Speaking of incredible women, how many of us know that the WSPU, women’s social and political union (Suffragettes) actually campaigned for universal suffrage. It’s because of them, that I, a mere man, have the vote in the UK today! A debt I’m unable to fully repay! 🤓

@benroyce

Bletchley Park codebreakers - Courageous women, didn't need to brag about the great things they did for all of us in WWII.

@benroyce now I want "making tea" to be the new slang for crypto analysis and code breaking
@peacememories @benroyce I'll use it in my current screenplay. It might even get made.
@benroyce It is useful sometimes to reflect on the incredibly positive ethical and social advances we have made over the last 80 years.
@benroyce “made the tea” = “spilled the German tea”
@bucknam
Spilled the German ersatz coffee, more like!
@benroyce
@bucknam @benroyce The bit in Imagination Game where one of the lady monitors nails her radioman for having a girlfriend (and thus provides the crib to break Enigma) is fictional but precisely the kind of thing a *woman* would figure out... And all the women in the world were perfectly safe with Alan Turing around...
@benroyce Those who know don’t talk.
@benroyce And Julia Child "just worked in the typing pool" at OSS HQ during WWII. They became the CIA after the war.