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We are hosting another exciting Defender Fridays session this week!
Our guest speaker will be Tom Cross, Infosec Consultant and Strategic Advisor, who will be discussing "Asymmetries in Defense."
Tune in tomorrow, February 28th at 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET.
It's Defender Fridays time! Grab your coffee and join us at 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET to hear Tom Cross break down asymmetries in defense.
Update. From @neuralreckoning: "Science must step away from nationally managed infrastructure"
https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/
"Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenInfrastructure #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference.
On the little server I have running here at home, I'm now helping @internetarchive back up US Government websites and data.
You can help, too:
1. Download and run the ArchiveTeam Warrior
2. Set the selected project to "usgovernment" (or select US Government from the available projects in the web interface)
I'm running Warrior as a container with podman, but there are various other ways to run it.
More details at https://wiki.archiveteam.org/
A man in Prince Edward Island got doubly lucky last July, recording a meteorite's impact on his home security cameras. The space rock also landed in the exact spot he'd been standing minutes earlier.
Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/
Table of contents:
If you’d like to watch my 2010 Blackhat Talk on the Cisco Interface for Lawful Intercept, the video is here: #salttyphoon
On the topic of Salt Typhoon and Lawful Intercept, in 2010 I published a security analysis of Cisco’s Lawful Intercept features at Blackhat DC, which included specific recommendations for telecommunications operators.
CISA has published a set of security recommendations for communications service providers. These recommendations are good “best practices” for anyone running Cisco routers, but they aren’t specific to Lawful Intercept.
I have no inside information on Salt Typhoon but I stand by the recommendations in my original paper and I believe they are still largely relevant to this protocol today.
CISA’s recommendations: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/enhanced-visibility-and-hardening-guidance-communications-infrastructure
Overbroad UK social media regulation applies to “micro businesses” globally and is leading small sites to announce that they are shutting down:
Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day.
Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago.
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