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Kevin Neely

487 Followers

616 Following

1.6K Posts

Personal: technophile, oenophile, lexophile, gastronome.
Professional: information, network, and computer #security #infosec #cybersecurity

Interests: #cyberpunk #linux #tech #privacy #hacking #reading #PDX

Music: most non-pop genres. I usually listen to #KEXP,and #KUTX, #SomaFM streaming

I love #food and #wine, you'd probably call me a #foodie

Way too many projects at any given time

Love to write but don't do much of it (see projects) and also #fountainpens and actual notebooks.

LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevintneely/
GitHub	https://github.com/ktneely
Website	https://the15thstandard.com/
Bookwyrm	https://bookrastinating.com/user/ktneely

Kevin Neely

19h ago

Reporting that TSA wait times are 4 hrs in some places. #PDX is 4 minutes.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/tsa-wait-times-us-airports.html

Tracking TSA Wait Times for General Security and Pre-Check at Major U.S. Airports

Travelers are facing long lines at airport security as the partial government shutdown has strained T.S.A. staffing. The New York Times is tracking the latest available wait times across the country.

The New York Times

Kevin Neely

21h ago

Cyberlyra 1d ago

Thanks to @markhurst for having me on Techtonic this week!! You can listen to me wax poetic about the #optout project and #techreclaimers here:

https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-23-janet-vertesi-founder-of-the-opt-out-project/

@TheBulletin

Janet Vertesi, founder of the Opt Out Project | Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU

Techtonic’s signoff tells you to “get off Google,” and Janet Vertesi shows how it’s done. Janet founded the Opt Out Project to show people how to switch from Big Tech surveillance platforms to better, community-minded alternatives.

Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU

Kevin Neely

1d ago

Gonçalo Valério 1d ago

"A YC-Backed Startup Left Production AWS Keys Public for 5 Months. Their VDP Was Silent."

https://benzimmermann.dev/blog/pump-vdp-silence

#security #infosec #yc #cybersecurity

A YC-Backed Startup Left Production AWS Keys Public for 5 Months. Their VDP Was Silent. - Ben Zimmermann

Pump.co's full production environment file was publicly exposed for 5 months. They silently fixed it and never responded to the disclosure.

Kevin Neely

Mar 17

Violet Blue Mar 17

NEW: Meta and the Heritage Foundation are behind online age-check laws being pushed worldwide, Iran hacked a multinational US company and remote-wiped most of its devices, BuzzFeed nears bankruptcy after pivot to AI, random acts of Kiwi compassion, and more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-17-153242517

Kevin Neely

Mar 15

Patrick Leavy Mar 15

📢 We've updated the Rebel Tech Alliance site: it now has app icons for all the Alternatives we list 😀
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html

Click around the site and have a look!

We also added a better light mode, that matches the blog newsletter sepia look, and search boxes on the bigger tables e.g.
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/otheralts.html and
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/media.html

We hope you can share our site with friends and family, and use it to get away from #bigtech #surveillance 🥳

#surveillancecapitalism #ethicaltech

Rebel Tech Alliance

Kevin Neely

Mar 9

Finally got around to finishing #Linux on #MicrosoftSurface mini-project. I had installed #Debian a while back, but just never finished with the kernel stuff and installing some real apps. The real push was needing the pen to edit a stupid PDF for tax season. Necessity being the mother of motivation and all that!

Following the Linux-Surface docs on GitHub made everything a breeze, I didn't even have to troubleshoot anything. Now the TypeCover can be removed and replaced, the pen works, Xournal++ is great, and the comic book app seems decent enough (bare necessities, you know!)

Kevin Neely

Mar 9

Jeff Moss Mar 2

RIP FX - You are a legend.

Here Dino is delivering his Pwnie Award, as well as the last public post FX made last year.

Kevin Neely

Mar 7

FFS, how did I allow myself to become embroiled in some Nextdoor drama? 🤦‍♂️

I promise I'll try to do better in the future, but the eternal draw of "someone is wrong on the Internet" is like freaking heron (I imagine, having only seen depictions of heron on tv and movies).

Kevin Neely

Mar 4