Kevin Neely 

@ktneely@infosec.exchange
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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.

LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kevintneely/
GitHubhttps://github.com/ktneely
Websitehttps://the15thstandard.com/
Bookwyrmhttps://bookrastinating.com/user/ktneely

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Wondering if I should do this...

On most platforms, I opt out of using my data for training in the hopes the setting will be honored. But when it comes to the code I have on #GitHub. Well, let's just say it's pretty bad, and maybe allowing it into the training datasets will actually be a net negative for them.

Running out of cybersecurity and privacy gift ideas? For my blog and newsletter, this week in security, I wrote about some of the cool security and privacy gifts you can give friends and family this holiday season — but also what tech to avoid altogether!

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this website is exactly what the internet exists for. 💯 wholesome

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Size of Life

From an amoeba to a blue whale

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

#Gandi just "upgraded" me from U2F to E-Mail MFA.

U2F binding was removed. E-Mail MFA was put in place instead.

No advanced warning, no migration period.

Would have gladly upgraded that to #Webauthn had they asked.

Strong signal that the "no bullshit" policy is no more.

This one's for @AnarchoNinaWrites

Still really genuinely angry at how much the passkey rollout has fucked up the flows for anyone using a security key.

Fuck forcing people to set pins on hardware tokens. Fuck defaulting to allowing a hardware token to log in without the password. Fuck making every mobile device you own a first class token and making login attempt spam a thing again.

I get that passwords are broken. I don't have a problem with the idea behind passkeys as such for less-technical users (although fuck vendor lock-in and non-portable credentials), but do not fuck over technical users trying to protect critical systems by breaking their workflows or destroying basic security primitives.