I have 1,000 Snickers bars in my fridge and you have 1 in yours. I pressured you into giving me half of your Snickers and you blamed it on a homeless person.

This is how the modern US tax code works.

It's National Library Week. We still care about your privacy at the library. The Library Freedom Project has a great set of resources to help you do things like:

- strip AI from your Gmail
- avoid digital scams
- understand Big Data
- reduce harm from doxxing
- using Signal as safely as possible

They're written in plain English and try to help you do things better acknowledging that there's no such thing as perfect privacy.

https://libraryfreedom.org/resources/

If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server. Lots of instances are in the process of completely blocking mastodon.cloud which will sever all connections for people on mastodon.cloud. Mastodon.cloud is effectively abandoned, running very old and out of date software with minimal moderation resulting in a good deal of moderation work for those of us running other instances.

I am posting this in hopes that some people on mastodon.cloud see it and decide to take action.

"A decades-old federal program designed to put Native Hawaiian doctors and nurses to work in some of Hawaiʻi’s most underserved communities has become the target of national conservative activists whose stated mission is to 'expose political bias and discrimination in healthcare and medical education.'"

https://apnews.com/article/native-hawaiian-health-scholarship-discrimination-lawsuit-bd9c28962225216e1162601af4e5d4ee

#healthcare #education #MedEd #physicians #nurses #diversity #equity #inclusion #disparities #Indigenous #courts #hawaii

RE: https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-qoIXNx-4Q-i9Qb4-DwsX5A%3Aa%3A4082434389-%2F0

If you think there's any chance that law enforcement might ever be interested in the content of your Signal chats, and you don't want them to have access to them, then setting up disappearing messages is necessary but not sufficient. You also need to go into the Signal settings and either disable notifications completely or set them to show "No name or message" so the content won't be capture and preserved in the phone's notification database.
#infosec #privacy #OpSec "#antifa"

In today's episode of "Can It Run Doom": DNS fucking TXT records.

Some absolute madlad (cough Adam Rice cough) compressed the entire shareware DOOM WAD, split it into around 1,964 chunks, shoved them into Cloudflare TXT records, and wrote a PowerShell script that reassembles and runs the whole goddamn game from DNS queries alone. Nothing touches disk. The DLLs are in DNS. THE FUCKING DLLS ARE IN DNS.

RFC 1035 was written in 1987. Those engineers are spinning in their graves fast enough to generate municipal power.

Bonus: this is a fully functional globally-distributed covert data exfil channel that your NGFW will never fucking see if you're not doing deep DNS inspection. Sleep well.

blog: https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

repo: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

Also lmao @ every blue team that has never once looked at their DNS query volume. How's that DLP policy working out for you.

It was always DNS.

#infosec #dns #doom #itisalwaysdns

Just so we're clear -- the law Israel just passed mandating death by hanging for Palestinians is apartheid.

It. Is. Apartheid.

Israel does not punish Israelis who kill Palestinians. Instead, Israel has illegally detained more than 10,000 Palestinians, including 1000 children, without charge or conviction. These are hostages held without access to counsel in concentration camps.

This. Is. Apartheid. Any politician or journalist who cannot acknowledge that is complicit. Period.