Mastodawn

Unfortunately, I'm being laid off at Intel. If you know or hear something about job opportunities, I would be very interested to hear about them.

J. Trent Adams 2d ago

Steve Herman 2d ago

Neiman Reports - Targeting USAID, USAGM and NED signal a dramatic reversal — and possible death knell — for decades-old US programs supporting free speech and access to information around the world. https://niemanreports.org/usaid-ned-usagm-cuts-doge-trump/

Lights Out: U.S. Withdraws Support for Global Media - Nieman Reports

President Donald Trump's foreign aid cuts to USAID, other outlets, cast a long shadow over journalism around the world.

Nieman Reports

J. Trent Adams Jul 2

I just learned my latest patent (on dynamic security monitoring) was published... from a solicitation to buy a plaque. I guess marketing does serve a purpose (as an alerting service for the USPTO).

#security #patent #monitoring

J. Trent Adams Jun 30

A buddy of mine will be working in Ukraine for a couple months... what (non-obvious) guidance would folks suggest to help harden a phone and laptop going into a heavily surveilled environment?

#infosec #privacy #security #travel #guidance #ukraine

J. Trent Adams Jun 21

The Colorado Sun ☀️Jun 21

The Colorado county sheriff’s office whose deputy pulled over a University of Utah student during a traffic stop earlier this month — and let her go with a warning — discovered its information was secretly being shared with ICE, leading to the student’s federal detainment just minutes later.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/06/17/utah-student-arrested-ice-mesa-county-signal-chat/

J. Trent Adams Jun 11

At a security conference, someone referenced an obsolete RFC... what fun it was to show them an official "IETF Protocol Police" badge. (OK, it's the AD's... but still... fun to whip out).

#ietf #standards #security #police

J. Trent Adams May 30

Anyone else learn that something you've invented (and patented) for the company four years earlier has finally made it into a product... from the public launch announcement? ... or is it just me ('cause I'm not paying enough attention during development)?

#clueless #ai #security #inventor

J. Trent Adams May 14

evacide May 14

Q&A from a talk I gave last week.

Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"

A: Fascism. It's fascism.

J. Trent Adams May 13

cR0w

May 13

Phishing training should be testing your security controls, systems, and personnel, not looking for way to create metrics by demeaning users.

J. Trent Adams May 12

How I feel when "politely explaining" to the engineers at a cloud service provider that they aren't complying with an RFC (that I helped write).

#security #standards #rfc #fail

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