Scott Wilson

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29+ year information security “professional”.

I'm a middle-aged, middle class husband, dad, doggy-dad, and friend. Stage IIIB #ColorectalCancer survivor.

I like non-alcoholic #beer, #gardening and #yardwork, playing #guitar, listening to #music, and reading #books (mystery, thriller, suspense, #scifi, fantasy, #astrophysics, and #cosmology).

I’m supporter of #LGBTQIA rights, a #BlackLivesMatter advocate, a believer in #TransRights and proponent of equality. I support #Ukraine. I DO NOT support ICE.

0% of my profile and posts are AI-generated.

Posts are on auto-delete (1 week).

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Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) | GLAAD

Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) to raise awareness about transgender people. It is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while also drawing attention to the disproportionate levels of poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces compared to cisgender (non-transgender) people. International TDOV

GLAAD | GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance.
If you're waking up to the Internet and your world on fire from the new NPM and axios package supply chain attack, I have a short 15 minute video to hopefully catch you up to speed. Links to further resources included -- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A58cV17avpM

Sam Bent reports the White House app v47.0.1 requests 26 Android permissions, including precise location, biometric authentication, storage changes, startup, overlay, and Wi-Fi access, and embeds 3 trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core. The piece also says the app includes an ICE tip line link and a "Text the President" feature that prefills "Greatest President Ever!" while collecting contact details. More broadly, the article compares permissions and trackers across U.S. government apps including FEMA, myFBI Dashboard, IRS2Go, and CBP Mobile Passport Control and argues many functions could be delivered via the web instead of mobile apps.

https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/

#InfoSec #Privacy #MobileSecurity

Fedware: 13 Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban

The White House app ships with a sanctioned Chinese tracking SDK, the FBI app serves ads, and FEMA wants 28 permissions to show you weather alerts.

Sam Bent
@alice I had a few choice sentiments that I shared, and let them know that I was disappointed in them. 😃
@praetor Perfection!
@codinghorror Exactly!
@Hakuso Absolutely.

Recently, someone said to me that I shouldn’t publicly share that I support #LGBTQ plus causes, because it might “make me look bad”.

That’s bull crap. Now I’m just gonna support the LGBTQ community •••EVEN HARDER•••!

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt #trans #transrights #gayrights #transrightsarehumanrights

@timbray @briankrebs Shit. I just migrated TWO orgs to Google Fiber…