Tarah Wheeler

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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org

The new US cyber security strategy just dropped. I'm a Claude user, and I suspiciously inquired of Claude as to the number of em-dashes in this four page document. Then I asked Claude to analyze the probability of this document being LLM-written.

Claude then throws some naughty shade.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/President-Trumps-Cyber-Strategy-for-America.pdf

It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's actual mathematical capabilities, but at the same time, I am so, so, so tired. Just so very tired. From an open access 2017 Historia Mathematica article debunking the idea that Lovelace was not a competent mathematician.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017300319?via%3Dihub

If I may, folks, if you’re trying to figure out remote control settings on your folks’ TVs, consider uploading a pic to your fave LLM to ask. Just worked like a charm for me.
How do I know if I’m part of the Anthropic class action lawsuit? You’d think they’d make it easier to find 🫩🫩🫩 (for Women In Tech, Penguin Random House 2016…and I know it was eaten by several of the LLMs)

On my way. #hackersummercamp #defcon #blackhat

Your only guarantee to see me is at the @eff poker tournament. Come one, come all. EFF.org/poker

Listen up. It’s Wendy Fucking Nather preaching what we need to hear about the security poverty line.

@wendynather here at #BsidesSEA lighting it up at 9AM for the keynote.

Diet of worms will help us survive climate change, say top chefs

A group of French culinary masters including Alain Ducasse tasted a selection of dishes showcasing how fine dining can adapt in the future

The Times
Dear internet: I need an image much better and higher quality so it can be projected behind me on big ass LED screens in my slide decks. I only have this from like a decade ago, don't remember who made it, but now need a higher resolution version. Does anyone know how to use an image editing tool or AI assistant to do this? I am actually asking to have the internet splain to me...but I wouldn't turn up my nose at a 6-10mg PNG of it either :-)

New Post: “Parental Units–we need to have The Talk.”

I just sat down with several of my family members, and gave them The Talk about how someone might call pretending to be me, and how voice and AI phishing filters work. @deviantollam and I have been getting family onto password managers to handle the more sophisticated attacks that are starting to pop up. Getting everyone onto password managers for everything is important but not urgent. That’s why it’s slipped on my todo list for literally years — and I also figured it would take some time and emotional energy to get family to operate differently. The juice is finally worth the squeeze to protect them all.

https://www.tarah.org/2025/04/08/parental-units-we-need-to-have-the-talk

“Parental Units–we need to have The Talk.” – Tarah Wheeler