Mike Siegel

@mikesiegel@infosec.exchange
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I do various offsec stuff.
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🛑 STOP: before you give someone less technical advice about computers:

Ask yourself: Has your interaction with rocks we tricked into thinking been a net positive for yourself and society? Tell them to take off their shoes and run barefoot in the grass and never look back.

I think the idea behind Windows 11 is to make it so infuriating for anyone technically competent to use, all malware development and security research ceases cuz I'm about to throw a VM out a window if it tries to tell me MSNBC headlines one more time.
I've been told when staging a home, do not leave behind political or religious material as some may get offended. Does this count? #vim
Can we call this cyberpsychosis? Our dystopian cyberpunk timeline is almost complete https://www.vice.com/en/article/chatgpt-is-giving-people-extreme-spiritual-delusions/
ChatGPT Is Giving People Extreme Spiritual Delusions

You may be aware of the fact that ChatGPT suffers from hallucinations. Now some of its users are suffering through similar delusions.

VICE

If you very extremely do not *in any way* understand computers or technology, you could frame "code" as a resource to be exploited for profit. "Programmers" are simply a means to extract "code" from a conceptual problem space you don't understand and won't examine.

So you do what capitalists have always done: brute-force mechanize the resource extraction and not once ever consider consequences even in the abstract.

And thus you turn Clippy into a torment nexus.

Listening to the @darknetdiaries Kingpin episode like #fuckimold
Convince business types that the "ML" in "SAML" stands for Machine Learning

Today my #rust compiler told me "expected future, found a different future".

And I'm like: me too buddy, me too

There’s been an absolute truckload of new security people signing up today on infosec.exchange. Welcome!
Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-Orders Paused Due to Trump Tariffs

Nintendo said, "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the US will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact."

Newsweek