Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.
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NEW: Someone has publicly leaked an exploit toolkit called DarkSword, which allows any hacker or cybercriminal to easily hack iPhones and iPads running iOS 18.
Apple said it is aware & has issued patches. Security researchers have already tested the code as working.
w/ @lorenzofb: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/someone-has-publicly-leaked-an-exploit-kit-that-can-hack-millions-of-iphones/
- How’s the war going?
- Well we’ve replaced the Supreme Leader who was negotiating with us with a Supreme Leader whose entire family we’ve just killed, we’ve won hearts and minds by killing a LOT of kids, we keep calling our allies cowards and alienating them, we’re publicly shitting our pants over oil prices, and we’ve just threatened to escalate the war which has resulted in our enemy saying they’ll destroy all the oil fields in the Middle East.
- So overall, pretty good? #iranwar
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116274161758622263
"The scientific process is slow and careful and it often takes months or years to publish a peer-reviewed result. Companies like SpaceX have stated repeatedly that their method is to “move fast and break things.” They are now close to breaking the atmosphere, the night sky and anything on the ground or in space that their satellites and rockets fall on or crash into."
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116246008152568277
Fuck the fuckweasels is an appropriate response.
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/163854/spacex-to-start-small-with-1-million-satellite-plan-pushes-back-on-critics
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