I just gave an interview with a journalist raising concerns about Kessler Syndrom and complaining about megaconstellations in general. And less than 5 minutes later, I see a post about a starlink satellite being involved in a "fragment creation event".

@sundogplanets

I teach cybersecurity. And I genuinely don't know what to tell my students after this one. Federal reviewers spent years trying to get basic encryption documentation from Microsoft for its GCC High government cloud. They couldn't get it. One reviewer called the system a "pile of spaghetti pies," with data traveling from point A to point B the way you'd get from Chicago to New York: a bus to St. Louis, a ferry to Pittsburgh, and a flight to Newark. Each leg is a potential hijacking. They knew this. They said this out loud in writing. Then they approved it anyway in December 2024, because too many agencies were already using it. 🔐 That's not a security review. That's a hostage negotiation. Two things in this story should make every CISO and CIO uncomfortable:

🧩 Microsoft built its federal cloud on top of decades of legacy code that it apparently can't fully document itself
👮 "Digital escorts" often ex-military with minimal software engineering backgrounds are the firewall between Chinese engineers working on the system and classified U.S. networks 🤦🏻‍♂️

The scariest line in the whole ProPublica investigation isn't the "pile of shit" quote. It's this: FedRAMP determined that refusing authorization wasn't feasible because agencies were already using the product. Read that again. The security review process reached a conclusion based on sunk cost, not risk. Ex Post Facto Fallacy

If that logic holds, the compliance framework is just documentation theater. And right now, CISA is being hollowed out, so there are fewer people left to even run the theater.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/
#Cybersecurity #Microsoft #FedRAMP #Leadership #RiskManagement #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

A person who was made to undergo Chinese political re-education as part of China’s ongoing, undeniable genocide

Built a propaganda tracker tracking Chinese state media and terms. They noticed how, during the re-education program, language was shifting: he was no longer Chinese Mongolian, he was from the ‘northern frontier’.

This work documents and tracks how quickly terms shift through Chinese state media

https://propagandascope.org/

#China #Uighur #Uyghur #Mongolian #Chinese #Languages #CCP

What number CitrixBleed are we on?

Join us, yet again, for part 2 of our analysis of Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-3055 - which now appears to be multiple vulnerabilities bundled into one.

Sigh.

https://labs.watchtowr.com/please-we-beg-just-one-weekend-free-of-appliances-citrix-netscaler-cve-2026-3055-memory-overread-part-2

Our new release 0.89.0 is published! 🎉

This round we bring not one but two big new features: sync with Health Connect and internet access. 💪
Do these features sound a bit strange, coming from us? 🤔 Then make sure to read the blog post for details and rationale!

And of course this release also contains the usual list of newly supported devices, smaller features, improvements and bug fixes.

Read more in our blog post: https://gadgetbridge.org/blog/release-0_89_00/

NINETY DAYS

NINETY INCIDENTS

NINETY PERCENT

YOU PAID FOR ALL FIVE NINES BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE

#github