People before property.
I do vulnerability research for work. I don't post about work. I don't post very much at all.
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Yup.
In my experience, and opinion: any generalized ranked listing of bugs is counterproductive to security goals.
Any unexpected behaviour is a potential security bug, any unexpected behaviour that can be predicted and/or deliberately triggered is a potential notable security bug.
Determining any else requires a detailed assessment of the assumptions/ expectations of a specific system, and only once you do that, are you in a position to risk/prioritize any particular bug.
I'm being hyperbolic here of course but like... surely all of us who have been in this industry longer than a few years are well aware that it's comparatively rare to find a straightforward normative security issue with no nuanced aspects whatsoever.
I don't know if there is any feasible way to design a single-metric distillation that can accomodate the median level of nuance required to realiably describe the overall importance of a security vulnerability. CVSS tries, but misses the mark.
I have a friend here in Portugal who is very interested in getting into infosec. He currently works at a quiosque here in Portugal that we really like (and sometimes work from), and he happened to see my “hacking is not a crime” sticker on my laptop so decided to start asking questions. We chat […]
🧵THREAD: Why Are AI-Generated Black Women Selling War?
There’s a new kind of military propaganda happening—and it has a face.
Not a general. Not a flag.
A Black woman.
Digitally generated. Dressed in fatigues. Smiling, jubilant as she praises a U.S. airstrike against Iran.
Let’s talk about why that’s not progress. 👇🏾
In the linked essay, I mention Nancy Mace's standard TERF question, asked most recently to Tim Walz: "What is a woman?"
My answer is simple. A woman is not a *what.* A woman is a *who.*
I want to expand a bit from the essay on why I think this matters.
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
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