I do enjoy learning new ideas and meeting interesting people - I have little tolerance for toxicity, deception and manipulation. I'm more likely to absorb and occasionally share things I find poignant. I don't have the influencer mindset and am not likely to consistently engage. I'm past the point in my career where I feel I need to impress.
Speaking of which - I actually do work in the information-security field for a city-sized legal entity called a corporation.
My display-name is wordplay based on the absurdities of English spelling and phonetics that seems relevant to information-security.
Matthew 4:19 "And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you phishers of men."
Good evening good people…
#theBeeAt3 bee facts will return tomorrow folks.
In the meantime here’s a stunning wee Small Copper butterfly hanging out with me earlier.
#butterflies #nature
#smallcopper #worldbeesanctuary
#saturday #biodiversity #environment
I regret not stopping to get a better photo of this rock. It's so smiley!
Peek into @yaelwrites 's actual device hygiene, communication stack, and physical safety boundaries:
»This isn't a guide. Your situation is different from mine. But sometimes it's useful to see what someone else's setup looks like in practice.«
https://blog.yaelwrites.com/what-my-privacy-and-security-stack-actually-looks-like/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@markhurst/116659569010108640
Wow. Great essay! A couple of highlights, but you should go read the whole thing
"So, to recap:
1. The pope issues a warning against turning AI into an idol.
2. Silicon Valley techies scoff at the pope, saying that they’re too busy creating a machine God that rivals the Second Coming."
"it’s hard to look at a pile of linear algebra and call it a god"
Somehow I missed this story in my research concerning Nightwing, the Virginia government contractor where the CISA contractor worked.
May 2, 2025: Raytheon, Nightwing to Pay $8.4 Million in Settlement Over Cybersecurity Failures
"The US government on Thursday announced that it has reached a settlement with Raytheon, RTX Corporation, and Nightwing Group in a lawsuit over the companies’ alleged failures to meet cybersecurity requirements for defense contractors.
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (previously Raytheon Technologies Corporation), and its then-subsidiary Raytheon Cyber Solutions, Inc. (RCSI), allegedly failed to comply with cybersecurity requirements in 29 contracts and subcontracts with the Department of Defense (DoD). Nightwing is a cybersecurity and intelligence company that spun out of RTX.
According to the settlement, between 2015 and 2021, Raytheon did not implement necessary cybersecurity controls on a system used to perform work on DoD contracts. In 2015, the company landed a DHS cybersecurity contract worth $1 billion.
Raytheon and RCSI allegedly not only failed to implement a security plan for the internal development system, but also failed to ensure that it complied with other Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements.
Per DFARS and FAR, contractors are required to apply basic safeguarding to systems that process or store federal contract data, and to provide adequate security for those systems, respectively."
Reuters writes that US military personnel are being targeted using location data that is collected and sold on mobile users. The story cites a recent letter from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) noting that U.S. Central Command had “received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater." Wyden said in a statement that it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28167310-department-of-defense-letter-to-ron-wyden/
For more on how mobile ad data is being collected and used to profile people, check out The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data (Oct. 2024)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/
We can’t recycle our way out of the plastic crisis.
As long as companies keep ramping up plastic production, recycling will always be too little, too late.
🎨: Famous paintings reimagined by artist Juha Hansen in collaboration with Greenpeace, no AI used ✌️
The Bee Guy
eclectech
Penguin Rebellion
Prof. Sam Lawler
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
BrianKrebs
Greenpeace International
Lady Laura 
