Award-winning author, journalist. Shaped like the hole in your heart.
Engadget, Popular Science, freelance reporter on hacking, privacy, sexuality, human rights. Previously SF Chronicle, ZDNet, CBS, O Magazine, many more.
Six IPPY awards (2023 Gold); notable book appearance: Oprah; Advisor to Without My Consent.
Coming soon: Mental Health and Horror (documentary).
New book: https://www.amazon.com/Fish-Has-Word-Water-Francisco-ebook/dp/B0BQ5FG59C
New #cybersecurity: The Spotify scrape-and-dump still remains to be seen, the Scientology hack was big (impacts UK + US + AU), my fave (and funniest) talks at Kawaiicon are online, prevention and remediation guidance when authorities search your phone, my holiday cat pics are getting more extreme, and more:
Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-23-146483756
Tomorrow will be the 334th Threat Model: #Cybersecurity newsletter -- and as of next year, it'll be ten years old!
Subscribe, support indie tech reporting: https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue
* Hackaday's This Week In Security newsletter is retiring after 6 years, so I checked my start date.
UPDATE: the new Digital Revolutionary mini 'zine is now free for 12 hours (until 1:30am PST). Please spread the word, you never know who might need it. A toolkit for vicarious trauma (like witnessing violent news or social media posts), mitigating life under surveillance, overwhelm fatigue, more.
Link to download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/digital-mini-vol-145882812
Please enjoy today's newsletter with a spicy recap of InternetNZ's 30th event and why other .TLDs in democracies need to pay attention. Also, Portugal exempts good faith hackers from cybercrime laws, we're in the era of identity rental cyberespionage, and cats.
Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-9-145397383
All ten chapters of The Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Alphabet are here now -- binge it! Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-hunters-to-144502796
"I’m not saying that my daisy chain attack on the emergency harbour fire response valves started with admin/admin, but I’m not, *not* saying it."
An all-human, no AI production! Art by Cato Choi!
The Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Alphabet spiral-bound notebook!
Hunters, always record: date, time, place, weather conditions, start new lists at each location, sketch ghost behaviors, make notes for each spirit photo you take, and keep your original notes.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@violetblue/115589922348700915
We shall crowdsource this for #FOSDEM . And integrate into the conference schedule apps.
@violetblue I'm part-way through reading this week's instalment of The Ghost Hunter's Guide and had to take a break before S to let you know how much I'm enjoying this! (Added bonus, recognising and learning more about the city I live in!) It's working really well in the serial format too. Many thanks for sharing it.
[Edited to add that I'm referring to "The Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Alphabet" - https://www.patreon.com/posts/chapter-one-to-140312103]
This is *amazing*.
At a New Zealand cybersecurity conference, attendees had a dashboard on air quality in the venue and could choose their risk level, room by room. Fascinating piece by @violetblue in @Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/this-hacker-conference-installed-a-literal-anti-virus-monitoring-system/
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