@vmyths.bsky.social
#Retired I'm the longest reigning #critic of the computer #antivirus industry. I debunk #cybersecurity & #cyberwar hype. Bluesky #100,754
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13.11.2025 03:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My "OG" readers will recall the repeated global hysteria in #cybersecurity that evaporated immediately: the 1992 Michelangelo Virus, the 1996 Hare Virus, the 1999 Melissa Virus. Oh! And let's not forget Chernobyl, ILOVEYOU, and of course all those 200,000 #Y2K viruses 🙄
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Should have been @duffelblog.com #SHBDB
06.11.2025 08:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 043 years I've suffered with explosive diarrhea and only now can I view it as a military-grade weapon that merits a felony charge for what I did seven years ago to the woman on my left who rode the train to Hogwarts in Orlando 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
04.11.2025 20:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I wanted to vote electronically for #ZohranMamdani but I can't remember which borough my wife is buried in ⚰️😏
04.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0With Teen Vogue shuttered, Wired magazine is now one of the only truthful hard news outfits still running. Ain’t that some 2025 shit.
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Welp, scratch that idea of mine… I expected this from a #cybersecurity conglomerate long before it happened to a car company
04.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a #cyber joke you can't deny it
20.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This was a key component of the global #antivirus industrial complex from 1988 through 2005 — the tenure that spans from the Computer Virus Myths home page to Vmyths[.]com
18.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I finally got around to an #AI pitch after I'd trained #Gemini on all my #Vmyths columns. The first paragraph's last two sentences offer a SCARY GOOD impression of me! 😏👾
18.10.2025 01:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Historically, we in the #antivirus industry would've invoked the #InsurrectionAct over this cybertrocity because white-hat experts are never a valid target for attack under any circumstance blah blah blah…
17.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay
15.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 152 🔁 34 💬 6 📌 21
This is #cybersecurity you can't deny it
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14.10.2025 05:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I find it odd to read "very uncommon" in this context. It runs counter to millennia of spying between every EU member.
I submit it is more correct to say spying has gone on "since time immemorial" (legally speaking: before the year 1189) than to call it "uncommon" in any context anywhere on earth.
The actual PowerPoint chart Gen. McChrystal was supposed to make sense of in Afghanistan.
06.10.2025 05:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0They could mint a digital coin for him but, no, they want to mine silver 🤔
24.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Bitcoin is so 2024. Let's mint physical coins!"
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24.09.2025 22:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Historically, we in the cybersecurity industry only cared if a #cyber attack caused an economic disaster.
24.09.2025 22:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There's an untapped TV market right now begging for a three-season MCU Strange/Clea romance backstory—
—while the entire U.S. executive branch is filming an unreality show for one TV viewer in early onset Alzheimer's 🤔
Thank God I clicked this on the second day of the month for my data plan 😏
17.09.2025 18:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Historically, cybersecurity staffers created bizarre #technobabble charts that routinely convinced leadership at any level to commit funding to whatever ✌️solution✌️ the charts implicated. These charts reached critical absurdity in the ramp-up to a predicted global #Y2K cybergeddon.
17.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OMG #CYBER TERRORISTS FLOODED SEWAGE INTO A RIVER TO EXTERMINATE OUR PRECIOUS MANATEES— oh wait, it was a conscious decision by sewage treatment personnel to fix an issue. Never mind…
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16.09.2025 14:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why doesn't the cybersecurity industrial complex report on all the daily #CyberPearHarbor attacks in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, et al.? Discuss.
15.09.2025 01:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's 2025. Which will come first?
1️⃣ Cyber Pearl Harbor
2️⃣ Economic Pearl Harbor
I wrote a plea to cybersecurity curriculum developers about what I would like to see covered in OT cybersecurity coursework. tisiphone.net/2025/09/10/t...
11.09.2025 03:11 — 👍 212 🔁 51 💬 15 📌 7Still better than the BS McAfee et al. pumped out re: virus damage costs.
And it's definitely better than the BS Steve Morgan continues to pump out.
His last joke is about #cybersecurity:
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