Ian Goldin

many such cases

Yes and it’s also critical to remember that the Bush admin’s argument for *why* Iraq could not be deterred was the deliberate and false conflation of Saddam with AQ (see the 2nd half of Powell’s UN speech). The claim in essence was Iraq is “suicidal terrorist regime”. We know better now, hopefully.

Prevents user account enumeration, spam, etc.

A police state is when you have to pay speeding tickets for speeding

please don’t feed the trolls

TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial findings, details about an up...

My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more micahflee.com/telemessage-...

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This is awesome, thank you for sharing

Gabbard fires leaders of intelligence group that wrote Venezuela assessment The director of national intelligence fired top officials weeks after their group wrote an assessment contradicting President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang membe...

"Anything that reduces its independence because policymakers don’t like the independent conclusions it reaches, is the definition of politicization they are decrying".

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Russia burned down Warsaw’s biggest mall, Tusk says “We will get you all!” Polish prime minister tells perpetrators still at large.

A huge fire that burned the largest shopping center in the Polish capital Warsaw to the ground a year ago was set deliberately by people acting on behalf of Russia, Donald Tusk said.

Noem’s comment here is just another example illustrating that she doesn’t actually understand the missions of the agencies she nominally oversees

UK spies see ‘direct connection’ between Russian cyberattacks and sabotage plots Cyber chief Richard Horne said intelligence agencies were seeing the hacking threat from Russia manifesting “on the streets of the UK."

MANCHESTER, England — Britain’s intelligence services are seeing a “direct connection between Russian cyber attacks and physical threats to our security,” the country’s cyber chief announced on Wednesday.

sorry but this is dumb

This story is a perfect example of why #Signalgate matters. Security experts have been warning (over and over again) that classified information must not be transmitted via nonapproved channels--and especially not on personal devices--because those devices can be compromised.

That didn’t take long.

apparently I can’t read. Thank you

This is scary — and also disgusting and wrong. Chris served our nation proudly. We cannot let this become our new norm.

maybe this will get me through the day

Marco Rubio is exactly like Henry Kissinger, if Henry Kissinger was completely ignored by the majority of his colleagues and had zero influence on the major diplomatic issues of the day.

NoName is the poster child of quantity over quality. If there are “704” DDoS attacks in the forest but nobody is around to notice them—did they ever really happen?

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

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Critical vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver enables malicious file uploads Adversaries can exploit CVE-2025-31324 to upload web shells and other unauthorized files to execute on the SAP NetWeaver server

Just in: Red Canary blog post detailing the new and very bad (CVSS 10.0) file upload vulnerability in SAP NetWaver. Read for IOCs and detection opportunities: bit.ly/3RF2STl

Can you imagine if Biden had done this

Goes without saying to treat what she says with extreme skepticism

But surely the seed oils are to blame

Opinion | The Emergency Is Here (Gift Article) Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The Emergency Is Here.

With @asharangappa.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Big cuts are coming soon to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, per multiple reports, including layoffs of roughly a third of the workforce (Politico says much more) and terminations of major threat-hunting contracts.

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