Phil Calvin

@pcalvin@infosec.exchange
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Day job was Vulnerability Mgmt, Appsec and Risk Mgmt, now it’s skiing, skating and cycling, (schaatsen wielrennen veldrijden). I’m a hockey referee and a rabid #BostonBruins fan.
I speak English and #Dutch pretty well, Spanish and French ok, and I’m currently learning Italian. 
Home is #Breckenridge but #Boston, #Boulder, #Haarlem and #Bangalore hold a place in my heart. Did some time in Houston as well, including a spectacular time at #KTRU. I’m into #oldtime #banjo and #fiddle and a lot of other music. Quite possibly the worst banjo player in America.

If Honda can keep it from blowing up and deliver an electric car, Tesla is cooked.

Why buy a car from a man whose rockets spontaneously explode?
From: @cybersecurity
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-635b8602-ef92bb987590b560

There’s A New Reusable Rocket, And It’s A Honda

As we watched the latest SpaceX Starship rocket test end in a spectacular explosion, we might have missed the news from Japan of a different rocket passing a...

This country seems like it's ripe for a poll tax, payable only in Trump-coin.

Certainly fits with the direction we're headed.

Vail being Vail. Not just Journey, but a Journey cover-band. Yeah, no thanks.
https://grfavail.com/event/those-crazy-nights/
Those Crazy Nights | The Amp – Vail – Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater – Official Website

Bulleit Hot Summer Nights | Those Crazy Nights live at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, CO July 8

The Amp – Vail – Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater – Official Website
I felled 6 trees today. With one exception, I easily bucked them all and brought the wood home to split for next winter (or the winter after this winter). One got hung up as a result of me trying to hurry and avoid going back to the truck for a couple more wedges. It doesn’t pay to hurry.

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

Amazing news. London woman off insulin for Type 1 diabetes after a single dose of experimental manufactured stem cells https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/woman-off-insulin-for-type-1-diabetes-after-a-single-dose-of-experimental-manufactured-stem-cells/ science can save lives and i hope it will be available to everyone soon 😎
London woman off insulin for Type 1 diabetes after a single dose of experimental manufactured stem cells

Amanda Smith celebrates the day, August 1, nearly two years ago, when she stopped taking insulin to manage her type one diabetes, just a few months after getting a dose of experimental stem cells as part of a study.

CTVNews

Did you know that there’s a premium version of Whatsapp which :

- Has no advertising
- Has no mandatory AI integration
- Has no tracking and does not gather your personnal data
- Has increased privacy and stronger encryption
- Is exclusive and allows you to chat with other premium members

Best of all ? It is currently free to join!

Go now to your app store and install it before it is too late!

It is called "Signal"

https://ploum.net/2025-05-23-chats-digital-clutter.html

Reducing the digital clutter of chats

Reducing the digital clutter of chats par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

A brief history of gun control in America:

NRA: We need unlimited firearms to stop tyrannical government

Black people: Sounds good, we are open carrying in California

NRA: Not so fast. We're banning firearms

[ICE raids California, targets Black and brown people with illegal arrests]

Black and brown people: Hey NRA, here's that tyrannical government you mentioned

NRA: Oh, we meant tyranny against white people. We're perfectly good with fascists targeting you

The End

Someone's gonna commit First Degree Glitter with Intent to Sparkle.

#USpol #ice #glitter

Like every other aspect of American life, Trump has really screwed up #swsec. Republicans can't govern.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/cybersecurity-take-a-big-hit-in-new-trump-executive-order/

Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order

Provisions on secure software, quantum–resistant crypto, and more are scrapped.

Ars Technica