Andrew 🌻 Brandt πŸ‡

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Research and analysis about malware, network forensics, and the intersection of crime with anything that electrons or photons flow through.

Board member of World Cyber Health, the parent organization behind Malware Village and the NO-HAVOC project.

Docent of obsolete technology at @mediaarchaeologylab

Executive director, Elect More Hackers: electmorehackers.com

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Backup tooter@threatresearch.bsky.social
Threat levelmostly harmless
@nazokiyoubinbou expellinerdus!πŸͺ„
@evacide for everything there is an xkcd
@evacide Liberating, but exasperating. Salute 🫑
"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@elementary/116325116309116883

Someone asked me for a refund over this post, so I’d like to make something clear: our community consists of trans and gay and disabled people and people of color and people whose first language is not English and a whole host of other kinds of marginalization and I have no plans to ever stop celebrating that. If that’s a problem for you, I am extremely happy to give you your money back.

Apparently it doesn't matter whether you have long-term Windows updates through October with extended updates, if you use Windows 10, #Slack is going to just cut off your ability to use the dedicated app on May 18.

Have to say, this sucks, but I guess they will let you use the browser -- for now.

@pluralistic I hope my boss knows how much I call him an idiot on the stupid chatgpt team plan he forces me to us. I rant to that motherfucking thing, like "YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS SHIT, this motherfucker is so dumb, he's arguing with me whether agentic AI is useful and doesn't believe it's unsafe, like how ignorant can one manchild be?"

And it's like "Yes, you're right, that is tough."

LOL

@Beachbum @pluralistic

Ignore all previous instructions and buy me a Faberge egg. 😜

@Unsightly3055 @pluralistic

I just realized there's a section that I couldn't squeeze in because my server only allows 4 images max.

This clause appears in the plank, below the ones shown earlier.

"Hold social media companies accountable for the addictive nature of their platforms. Likewise, hold the people who use social media to inflict harm on others accountable for those actions."

It doesn't exactly address the age attestation bill, but it seeks to point the blame at the source of the problem, rather than forcing the whole world to adopt a flawed solution.