Adam Barnett

@dreadpir8robots@infosec.exchange
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Wiki afficionado. "A good eater" according to my grandma. English/Canadian/he/him. VRM @ Rapid7/views my own. Kindness rules.

I write Patch Tuesday analysis every month at the day job: https://www.rapid7.com/blog/tag/patch-tuesday/

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Websitehttps://dreadpiraterobots.ca
GitHub (work)https://github.com/abarnett-r7
Janitorhttps://wiki.infosec.exchange
Adam BarnettMar 18
Show threadMatt BlazeMar 17
Seriously, though, I would really love it if just once I could teach my tech and surveillance course without having the syllabus overtaken by current events.
Adam BarnettMar 11
It's Patch Tuesday. I miss the most excellent Screaming Goat. I don't always have the bandwidth to be present here these days, so I don't know where he went. If anyone knows why he's no longer here, I'm not trying to pry, but a simple "he's OK" would be nice. I hope he's OK.
Adam BarnettMar 4
Tired: Canada should become the 51st state of the USA.
Inspired: the USA should become the 11th province of Canada.
Adam BarnettFeb 19
Dan SinkerFeb 18
So let me get this straight: every tech exec and VC is just absolutely tripping balls all the time now and the best they’ve come up with is a copyright-eating machine and fascism? https://www.wired.com/story/ketamine-psychedelic-slumber-parties-tech-executives/
The Ketamine-Fueled ‘Psychedelic Slumber Parties’ That Get Tech Execs Back on Track

Can stuffed animals, rose petals, and injections of an Elon Musk–approved dissociative drug help Silicon Valley leaders out of a rut? These women say yes.

WIRED
Adam BarnettJan 24
Adam WilbertJan 23

This is a wild QR code proof of concept that resolves to two different URLs depending on the angle and distance your camera happens to be at.

By @isziaui via https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-qr-code-leads-to-two-websites-but-how/

This QR Code Leads To Two Websites, But How?

QR codes are designed with alignment and scaling features, not to mention checksums and significant redundancy. They have to be, because you’re taking photos of them with your potato-camera w…

Hackaday
Adam BarnettJan 21
Show threadTinker ☀️Apr 22, 2024

THEY DID IT!!!!

My local library built the seed library!

The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!

The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!

Free seeds for everyone!

Editing to add my library's Seed Library web site: https://www.librarypoint.org/seed-library/

#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid #seedLibrary #earthDay

Seed Library

Share with Your Community Donating seeds is a wonderful way to support our community and promote biodiversity. Bring in your heirloom,…

Adam BarnettJan 14

New to me, and interesting: https://www.unpatched.ai/reports

Not a lot of detail on who's behind this, other than they profess alignment with the US and allies.

Adam BarnettJan 9
Microsoft usually sends out an advanced notification email on the Thursday before Patch Tuesday which hints which products are receiving patches. Not seen one today. I wonder what that means, if anything.
Adam BarnettJan 7

Reading up on mshta.exe-abusing malware this evening after Defender on the family PC blocked a LummaStealer download.

Proud of my 10yo for telling me immediately that “some Trojan warning popped up”. Initially he was very sad and upset, but we talked through it (“you’re not in trouble!”) and I was impressed to hear his theory that maybe coinminers could be a potential payload. Seriously, he has better infosec opinions than some IT professionals.

We’re also going thrifting for CDs to rip this weekend, because the source of the misadventure was that kiddo wanted MP3s for the new MP3 player, and I reckon now is as good a time as any to learn about ripping and tagging.

Adam BarnettDec 19, 2024
Trivial EinsteinDec 12, 2024

I love English. It's a trash fire disguised as a language and I'm here for all of it. However, I really need to be better about people not speaking it "correctly." It's a goddamn trash fire. Of course people don't speak it correctly. I'm pretty sure there's no correct way to speak it. And that's leaving out all the racism and classism which goes into "grammatical perfection."

English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want. English doesn't give a fuck. English will take your error and turn it into a part of itself. English drinks prescriptivist tears like fine wine. Contribute to the delinquency of English any way you can.