Jason Gassel

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Security engineer and recovering developer.

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My #cybersecurity educational conference, @pancakescon is this Sunday. It is free and virtual, accessible to almost anyone. The talk format is fun - half educational on infosec, and half about a personal hobby. Spend some of your weekend with us! On top of two tracks of great talks, we also have a Lockpick Village hosted by @LockEx , @Blenster will be hosting a hardware hacking village, and we have a wonderful CTF hosted by the @qcomresearch folks!

To participate, check out https://pancakescon.com, and join our Slack. That's it! That's how you see our streams, ask questions, and win fabulous prizes donated by our sponsors. No strings, just healthy community fun.

PancakesCon 6

Family Brunch - 9/21/2025

PancakesCon 6
@mathowie My understanding is that the games on Paramount+ will be the same ones aired on CBS so you probably can skip P+. Hoping ESPN+ will be the same, but seems unclear at this point.
These #nwsl games need a short pregame show @paramountplus

@uswnt

UPDATE: the goalpost must be red carded for interfering with the Becky goal

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

"I’m Becky Sauerbrunn, Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA World Cup champion. Since I started playing soccer, I’ve faced countless challenges to gender equity in sport, from pay disparity to unsafe working conditions. I can assure you that playing with or against transgender women and girls is not a threat to women’s sports."

https://www.news-leader.com/story/opinion/2023/02/05/bills-targeting-transgenders-athletes-are-cruel-and-pointless/69866434007/

#TransRights #NWSL #USWNT

Becky Sauerbrunn: Let Missouri trans girls and women play

Those claiming to be concerned about women's sports should focus on real issues like unequal pay, Missouri Olympian Becky Sauerbrunn writes.

Springfield News-Leader

@ipd I used to work for a healthcare software company that has to comply with HIPAA, it is definitely enforced. They issue numerous fines every year, the ones for data breaches can get quite big given they fine per record.

Not sure how complete this list is: https://www.hipaajournal.com/hipaa-violation-fines/

HIPAA Violation Fines - Updated for 2023

HIPAA violation fines can be issued by the Department of Health and Human Service’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and state attorneys general. View a comprehensive list of the HIPAA covered entities and business associates that have been fined by regulators for potential HIPAA compliance failures.

HIPAA Journal

@ipd To clarify: “business partner” here requires a specific HIPAA-compliant contractual relationship, not just anyone the healthcare provider happens to do business with. An example would be a medical record software company. Janatorial service getting access to medical records would be a HIPAA violation unless they do HIPAA-compliant paper records destruction or something.

The big issue is when there’s no healthcare provider involved. If you type your data into an app (not associated with your healthcare provider) or Google guesses your condition based on web searches, then there are no HIPAA protections governing what they do with that.

@ipd HIPAA only protects health data in the context of a healthcare provider or their business partners, it’s not a general purpose privacy law. Basically any other entity that gets your data from a source that’s not a medical provider is not covered. In the case of GoodRx, the individual provides their prescription info on their own with no medical provider are involved so no HIPAA.

to quote an old tweet of mine:

Put the date in your paper. Put the date in your pastebin. Put the date in your blogpost. Please, the date, put it.