Aaron Soto

@surefire@infosec.exchange
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Teaching was my first love. Packets were my second.

I make classes to teach people how to defend themselves against hackers. In my spare time, I teach college students to compete in cybersecurity competitions, or try to take back my home automation from the cloud.

he/him 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️💜💙

(Profile banner is a sunset sky from underneath a bridge with kayakers and the edge of the Austin city skyline)

Twitter@_surefire_
Githubhttps://github.com/sure-fire

I am once again asking companies to not be absolute shitbags about their data breach disclosures, such as deliberately blocking search engines from seeing the page by using a "noindex" tag in its HTML.

Today's edition: Australian airline Qantas.

My story: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data/

Mexicans aren't stealing American jobs. North Koreans aren't stealing American jobs. AI isn't stealing American jobs. Corporations are making staffing decisions based on perceived short-term profits. It's those decision makers that should be catching the heat, not the people trying to get a job and get by.
Texas Is Fixin’ to Fix Repair: Right to Repair Signed Into Law

Over the weekend, Texas became the first Republican-led state to enact a Right to Repair law for electronics (and the seventh state overall).

iFixit

Also found out that Microsoft FS 2020 has recently introduced XBox live account requirement, and if you read the Steam forums there are quite a number of people having problems logging in and playing the game. Game has gone from good to beta and now downhill.

Basically €120 of mine are gone. Thank you Asobo so bloody much.

So - warning: stay away from any game made by Asobo/Microsoft. If you want a flight simulator, get XPlane or any other simulator, even AFS2 is decent, but with VR built in from the start.

the ADHD catch 22 loop of "I'm hungry, I should go do the things I need to do to get food" and "I'm hungry so I'm restless and can't focus on doing the things I need to do to get food"
How your email finds me.

Incidentally, we are hiring two Senior IT Security Engineer positions.

Remote? Not hardly. Not an option. RTO is in full swing.

On site in

  • Memphis, TN
  • Maryville, TN
  • Birmingham, AL
  • Lafayette, LA
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Charlotte, NC
  • Raleigh, NC
  • Dallas, TX

I have a great boss who is sympathetic but who is bound by HR and executive management to RTO.
What I'm saying is, if you need time for family stuff or whatever, you can take it; you just can't work remote or even (apparently) hybrid.

#FediHired #GetFediHired

First Horizon Bank hiring Senior IT Security Engineer in Memphis, TN | LinkedIn

Posted 9:12:27 AM. Location: On site in Memphis, TN, Maryville, TN, Birmingham, AL, Lafayette, LA, New Orleans, LA…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

Job hunting is totally f'ing exhausting.

big hugs to anyone in the same situation.

To everyone else - need a communications guy (UK)? Hit me up. Gently. Please.

A reminder that pride is not over, it's Disability Pride month! 

Liquid Glass’ blurred content everywhere is especially cruel to those of us who use reading glasses or progressives.

The reflex to seeing blurry text on our phones is to adjust our sight angle or distance to sharpen it. But, of course, it’s not our fault, doesn’t sharpen, and just causes eyestrain.

Text on my phone should never be blurry.

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And to funders, policymakers, and community supporters: This isn’t just a local story. It’s part of a national crisis. We all lose when funding meant to serve the public good is stripped away.

If we believe in informed citizens and a healthy democracy, we must fight to protect the institutions that make them possible. /3

@Sheril
Political corruption is like rust,it spreads to things susceptible .

@Sheril

It’s heartbreaking to watch the devastation of authoritarianism unfold.

@Sheril PBS represents a persistent enemy to the administration: The Truth!