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This... feels like a trap. lol
For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/journalist-security-checklist-preparing-devices-travel-through-us-border
A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border

We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting materials or source contact information. It’s important to think about your strategy in advance, and begin planning which options in this checklist make sense for you.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Can we please stop using "Fireside Chat" for every... single... fucking... thing... ?
I mean seriously. Every talk, interview, two people on a stage somewhere, is a "Fireside chat"
Unless you've got a fire place; and everyone has a drink, and they're talking about the consciousness of the universe; it ain't a "Fireside chat" - It's an interview.
Stop trying to make it sound more cool than it is.

I’ve been working toward this for years, and it finally happened.

Canada now has a parliamentary petition to require secure coding in federal software. If you care about cybersecurity, public safety, and better government tech, please sign:
👉 https://twp.ai/4iwCiP
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Canada is one step closer to mandatory secure coding in government software.

Petition e-7115 is live!

If you can sign, please do it today:
👉 https://twp.ai/4ivPjj

This is how we make real change. 🙏

I fear of the world, where leadership replaces knowledge and experienced based information from their SMEs; with what ChatGPT tells them - And act as an authority on the content.

They already wanted short quips to make their decisions, now the computer is the sycophant.

This scares me.

I'm usually not a very anxious person...
But walking by a washing machine that's kicked off it's spin cycle... usually gets to me. lol
Cybersecurity professionals/ransomware negotiators turned out to be running a ransomware gang. https://breached.company/when-the-defenders-become-the-attackers-cybersecurity-experts-indicted-for-blackcat-ransomware-operations/
When the Defenders Become the Attackers: Cybersecurity Experts Indicted for BlackCat Ransomware Operations

The Shocking Case That's Rocking the Cybersecurity Industry In a stunning turn of events that reads like a cybercrime thriller, three former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies have been indicted for allegedly conducting the very ransomware attacks they were supposedly hired to prevent. The case has sent shockwaves through

Breached Company

“Hi! Your OS here! See that red badge demanding your attention?”

"What is it?”

"It's sports news! Isn't that great?”

"I don't give a shit about sports. How do I turn it off?”

"If you're not interested in sports, you can customize the alerts to show something you ARE interested in.”

"I'm interested in an OS that does what I tell it. One that works for me. That doesn't track me or try to ‘maximize engagement’ or sell me crap or nag me about using AI or whatever. Got anything for that?”

“…”

Wait, are you telling me that if I want a linked-cloneable Win11 VM, I need to create a Win10 VM and then upgrade it to Win11? That sounds silly. Can't I just use Rufus to achieve the same goal?

Of course it is silly. But also silly (IMO) is that Rufus doesn't have a "Save as ISO" option. You must have a physical USB drive. But fear not, we can achieve the same goal in a couple of steps:

  • Make a bootable Win11 thumb drive with Rufus. Note the default options of disabling TPM and removing Microsoft Account requirements. Make sure to select the MBR / BIOS (or UEFI-CSM) options in Rufus.
  • Copy the contents of the drive (e.g. mine is an E: drive):
  • robocopy E:\ C:\rufus_iso_root /E /XD "System Volume Information"

  • Make a bootable ISO using Microsoft's oscdimg.exe from the ADK.
  • oscdimg -m -o -u2 -udfver102 -bootdata:2#p0,e,bC:\rufus_iso_root\boot\etfsboot.com#pEF,e,bC:\rufus_iso_root\efi\microsoft\boot\efisys.bin C:\rufus_iso_root C:\tmp\Win11_25h2_noprereqs.iso

    Enjoy your installable Windows 11 ISO without the requirements you don't want.