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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Threat levelmostly harmless

DEF CON 34’s theme is β€˜Agency’. We’re focusing on self-determination in our use of tech. Charting our own course and helping others do the same.

Let’s start moving our valuable attention to tech that supports our agency. Let’s find the places we can help and choose to act.

Read more at: https://defcon.org/html/defcon-34/dc-34-theme.html

Visual style guide and homework assignments coming soon!

#defcon #defcon34 #agency

@defcon Agency obviously includes the right to repair. The right to repair must include the right to interoperate and build new clients. Looking at Slack, discord, and so many others.
heads up users of github

@Viss For folks looking for the right knob: https://github.com/settings/copilot, Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" -> Disabled

#savedyouaclick

Watching the premiere episode of @huntress' new webcast, _declassified, and John Hammond is talking to master scam-baiter Jim Browning about a hidden-camera video he's showing of a job interview of a prospective scam call center worker. The interviewer and interviewee use a kind of coded language to talk about the interviewee's experience in phone-based scams. Truly remarkable insider video I've never seen before. #scam #spam #cybercrime
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@thomasfuchs Unfortunately, AI has already demonstrated remarkable propensity to create job disruption and mass unemployment
@JenMsft Me too, once I learned what it was πŸ˜‚
Watching the premiere episode of @huntress' new webcast, _declassified, and John Hammond is talking to master scam-baiter Jim Browning about a hidden-camera video he's showing of a job interview of a prospective scam call center worker. The interviewer and interviewee use a kind of coded language to talk about the interviewee's experience in phone-based scams. Truly remarkable insider video I've never seen before. #scam #spam #cybercrime
@JenMsft I once had a whole argument with a guy in York, England who was absolutely convinced that "banofee pie" was a purely American food item. Having grown up on the US west coast, I had no idea what that was.