Altytwo Altryness, BS 

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Secretly a furry porn account. Boosts and posts are a mix of infosec, tech, and social issues. Boosts and favorites are not endorsements, but they are marriage proposals. Views expressed are not necessarily those of SBOON.
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This one is kind of wild ( h / t @ducksauz ).

../ in a firewall rule name in Azure is just... Yeah.

https://www.varonis.com/blog/malicious-firewall-rules-in-azure-sql

Burning Data with Malicious Firewall Rules in Azure SQL Server

Exploiting a security gap in firewall rule-naming can suddenly delete entire servers and targeted assets when combined with admin actions.

Just a periodic reminder:

Transphobia is a REALLY slippery slope to being an outright public fascist. Countless people who used to be "liberal" started down the "trans people are scary and bad and corrupting our children" pathway, and within a few years ended up "eliminate human rights for anyone I don't like".

One other note - you may say ‘but Kevin, the incident response data wouldn’t know about GenAI phishing!’.

Mandiant’s data shows phishing as initial access has dropped for the past 3 years in a row. It’s almost halved since execs hit the GenAI juice.

Sophos data shows same, phishing only 6% of incidents now.

Stop being drunk on sales pitches.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/in-depth-with-windows-11-recall-and-what-microsoft-has-and-hasnt-fixed/

I'm noticing that recall's auth methods via Microsoft Hello are all things you can be compelled to give up.

  • biometrics
  • PIN
In depth with Windows 11 Recall—and what Microsoft has (and hasn’t) fixed

Original botched launch still haunts new version of data-scraping AI feature.

Ars Technica

STOP making fun of CHAT APPS

  • discord WORKS
  • signal WORKS
  • irc is RETRO and RUNS EVERYWHERE
  • xmpp POWERS A SURPRISING AMOUNT OF OTHER CHAT APPS
  • matrix

"Cutting congressionally-mandated departments? Illegal. Firing federal workers without cause? Illegal. Kidnapping people off the streets and sending them to torture prisons without due process? Illegal. Asserting emergency powers to raise tariffs? Illegal. Siccing the IRS on political enemies? Illegal. Extorting research universities because they respect diversity? Illegal. Denying government access to law firms he doesn’t like? Illegal. Violating court orders? Illegal.

I could go on.

The obvious conclusion is that the Trump/Musk regime is a criminal enterprise. Therefore, everything it does should be covered in that context.

And yet news articles that routinely inform us about Trump’s individual acts, and the ensuing court battles, treat each like a one-off. They describe them as controversial, sure, and sometimes quote critics calling them illegal. But they don’t explain how so much of what he’s doing is illegal that it’s basically his standard operating procedure." #journalism #media https://presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-trump-regime-should-be-covered-as-a-criminal-enterprise/

The Trump regime should be covered as a criminal enterprise | Press Watch

It’s not a one-off when he does something flatly illegal. It’s his M.O.

Press Watch

Hey remember when that German guy on here told me I was catastrophizing by saying that some American autistics self-diagnose and don't get an "official" record because they are worried about the government monitoring them?

I blocked him but if anyone's still in touch please pass this along:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-autism-study-medical-records/

RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.

From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
The Holocaust was organized on IBM punch cards. Hitler gave the head of IBM, Watson, a medal for his services. Later, they named their AI tech after him. Anyway, in unrelated news: #Democracy https://werd.io/2025/doge-is-building-a-master-database-to-surveil-and-track
DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/ [Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott at WIRED]The Holocaust was organized on IBM punch cards. Hitler gave the head of IBM, Watson, a medal for

Werd I/O
it appears that there is yet another US federal tip line asking that people rat out trans kids and their families https://www.hhs.gov/protect-kids/index.html
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From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
@erininthemorning.com it's fundamentally an authoritarian movement because allowing their discrimination isn't good enough - they want the government to have control over culture and reality.
@erininthemorning.com
"We need to pass a law so that my estranged family and former friends are legally required to love me and respect my bigotry!"
@erininthemorning.com @soatok i strongly suspect this is supposed to be an attack, but I don't understand the attempt, because waaayy too many people have been acting on bad assumptions and false accusations.