Johnathan Norman

Introducing Advanced Chat Privacy: Enhanced Protection for Your Most Sensitive Conversations We're introducing our latest layer for privacy called Advanced Chat Privacy. This new setting available in both chats and groups helps prevent others from taking content outside of WhatsApp for when y...

Useful feature if you're a WhatsApp user. blog.whatsapp.com/introducing-...

this is not the morning i expected.

plot twist person targeting WhatsApp wont make it in time.. that could be a really expensive flight delay ...

Zero Day Initiative — Pwn2Own Ireland 2025: The Full Schedule Welcome to Pwn2Own Ireland 2025! We have some amazing spooky entries for this year’s contest, and a potential of up to $2,000,000 - including our largest ever single prize for a 0-click in WhatsApp fo...

Pwn2Own schedule is up.. someone is going for the 1 Million dollar WhatsApp Zero Click reward.. my crew will be onsite. excited to see what happens. www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/20...

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

Israeli spyware company blocked from WhatsApp | Courthouse News Service Meta previously won $168 million in damages over claims spyware compromised WhatsApp users, but a judge reduced the damages down to $4 million.

NSO group blocked from targeting Whatsapp users. I wonder if they'll risk getting caught again... courthousenews.com/israeli-spyw...

Microsoft Locks Down IE Mode After Hackers Turned Legacy Feature Into Backdoor Microsoft restricts IE Mode in Edge after threat actors exploited Chakra engine flaws for remote access.

I'm shocked.. thehackernews.com/2025/10/micr...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)

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If you know anything about Portland you know sending troops will have predictable effects. Get ready for pics of burning cars

Product Security Engineer, Technical Lead - AI Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

Meta is hiring sec folks with AI skills www.metacareers.com/jobs/1127770...

I feel this is probably quite important information. You wouldn't want to get it wrong.

Love this

pour one out for managers of security teams getting frantic demands for iphone test devices

Microsoft is bringing people back to the office because their data shows "when people work together in person more often, they thrive — they are more energized, empowered.." anyone know how Microsoft measures empowerment?
blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...

I decided to test whether EXIF data is removed from images sent over X's new encrypted chat feature like Signal and other messengers do.

I can confirm it is not. I was able to extract information including GPS coordinates from a test image sent to me.

“Good luck getting hired elsewhere without any genocide experience.” Joe Woodward, Systems Analyst

Microsoft Employees Protest Company’s Ties To Israel https://theonion.com/microsoft-employees-protest-companys-ties-to-israel/

Pixel phones have had this for many years now.

WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.

Busy times at WhatsApp. Users have been notified and bugs patched. techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/w...

YouTube video by Meta Developers Security Team 2.1, Google - Security @ Scale 2014

This is an old classic but worth viewing if you manage a security team. I've rewatched this a few times over the years. youtu.be/AukR16ARmfs?...

Switched back to a MacBook after leaving Microsoft. The battery life difference is just insane compared to any
Surface I've had. I'm really enjoying not dragging a charger around.

Whatever it takes to get kids interested in math

Zero Day Initiative — Pwn2Own Returns to Ireland with a One Million Dollar WhatsApp Target If you just want to read the rules, you can find them here . Last year, we moved our consumer-focused Pwn2Own event to our offices in Cork, Ireland, and the event could not have gone better. Despite some dreary Irish skies, much fun was had as researchers from around the world demonstrated

How about 1 million dollars to pop WhatsApp? www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/7/...

Introducing Copilot Mode in Edge: A new way to browse the web For decades, the way we’ve used browsers has remained linear: open a tab (or 20), search for something, read a page, repeat. It’s a model that’s worked well, but it hasn’t fundamentally changed. Until...

"free for a limited time".. I really don't see users paying for AI browser features. I guess we will see. blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/20...

strange thing about working at Meta is nobody uses email. I can go the entire day without opening my mail client which is just strange.

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InformNapalm has a list of all the mysterious deaths of high-ranking Russian officials and businessmen

informnapalm.org/en/the-suici...

Welp its official, I'll be working on security for WhatsApp at Meta. A nice uninteresting target for attackers.. should be a breeze right?

Perplexity’s CEO said the company’s web browser is designed to track users across the web to build detailed profiles and sell hyper-personalized ads. The browser is to monitor browsing habits, shopping activity, travel and dining interests, and time spent on sites, etc.

Microsoft 5 and 10 year crystals, next to an employee badge, 3d Printed Walrus (MORSE team logo) and a drawing of clippy.

Today is my last day at Microsoft. 10 years of browser and OS security work. I will certainly miss the people and the work. I'd like to think I improved things a little.

Next up.. a nice long nap.