Bryan Nolen

Cybersecurity was always political.
You can't escape effects on defense, intelligence, and even the increasingly flooded industry job market by closing your eyes really hard and sticking your fingers in your ears. You can't escape cybersecurity being political by being, "not really into politics".

Final Pre-Conference Notes for 2025 PancakesCon is this coming Sunday, the 21st of September (running into the 22nd for some of us!). It will start at 6AM Central US Time (Chicago), for a very good reason. No, I have not become a mor…

PancakesCon & @comfyconau.bsky.social are THIS SUNDAY, September 21st. Here are some final notes on how to make the most of virtual conferences and where to find useful information! pancakescon.com/2025/09/17/f...

I do not know another way to express to people that trying to appease fascists by “being a good minority” or totally deferring to them publicly has saved absolutely no marginalized group or profession in human history. They are coming after us anyway. Even if you scold peers for not being nice.

panels o olympic shooters with one wearing precision gear overlapped with text “killer CV, relevant work experience, excellent interviewing skills, pixel-perfect portfolio, master’s degree” directly above the 2nd place medalist wearing a tshirt and no gear and text “has a buddy that works at the company”

My talk in the BTC Career Village Saturday won’t have slides (I’ll have printed cheat sheets for attendees instead instead) but if I’d have opted to do slides, this meme would’ve gone right on the first one. 😅

Ethics, social studies, and history should all be mandatory learning.

"But I'm an engineer" or "but I'm a scientist," they'll say, " those are humanities subjects "... Yes, that is literally the point. Everything you do affects humanity, and that impact needs to be understood by everyone involved.

A boat motor would be a new one... The others, yeah pretty much

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so,

No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

@comfyconau.bsky.social CFP (Australian Time) and @pancakescon.com CFP (US Time) close in 5 days! Get your submission in ASAP!

Today @Google Project Zero announced a new trial policy: Reporting Transparency. We’ll now share when we report a security vuln to a vendor within 1 week including products + deadlines. Goal: shrink the patch gap + drive faster, safer updates for users: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/repo...

PancakesCon 6: Family Brunch - CFP PancakesCon is a cybersecurity conference that will be conducted all day on 9/21/2025 (US Central Time). This conference is 100% virtual, not for profit and free to stream. **PancakesCon has a UNIQUE...

You have two weeks left to get your awesome talks into @pancakescon.com and @comfyconau.bsky.social !!!! Don’t miss out being part of our insane global free online con!!! forms.gle/H5bCRSaJY1f3... #cybersecurity #cfp

It's neat to say that AI will kill entry level SOC analyst jobs, but if you're a CISO and really believe that, I have to ask where you think you'll get your next generation of "not entry level" SOC analysts from.

This is the moment for image macros to spread their wings and fly.

Since 2021, Mastercard has been imposing strict regulations on platforms that use the company's financial services — and Steam appears to be their latest target.

Tell Mastercard to reverse this harmful policy at action.aclu.org/petition/mas....

Australia is quietly rolling out age checks for search engines like Google Just as Australians are adjusting to the idea of having their ages checked for social media, age assurance rules are being applied to search engines and many other corners of the internet.

When people call the Aussie govt "The Nanny State" it is because of badly thought-out and utterly ineffective "regulation" like this: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

This is just the beginning, and they will not stop.

Do you enjoy guzzling real-time TLS certificate allocations, but don't want to use a third-party service (crt.sh, CertStream, etc.)? Drink straight from the Certificate Transparency log firehose using ctail:

$ go run github.com/hdm/ctail@latest -f -m '^autodiscover\.'

github.com/hdm/ctail

One more time, here is EFF/Freedom of the Press' guide for journalists securing their devices to cross the US border.

Stories like Alistair's help us understand the real threats on the ground and allow us to threat model more accurately.

freedom.press/digisec/blog...

There is a maximum amount of time each day you're supposed to focus on the world's problems instead of your own, after which you have a legitimate need for therapy on your thought processes being self-destructive. At some point you have to stop scrubbing your hands you are bleeding into the sink.

On that side of trust and safety there is an awful lot happening that people do not hear about, and it takes a very special type of person to handle. That needs to be more people like that.

The frequency at which the bsky mobile app force signs you out is infuriating, seriously why only this app?

Usually most people use Bikkies or cookies rather than biscuits... But not always as you have found out :)

Chips/fries is much more interchangeable

Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.

It’s now easier to prove age and identity with Google Wallet Learn more about new Google Wallet updates, including new ways to use your digital ID for age and identity verification.

Google announced they will support privacy preserving age verification via zero-knowledge proofs.

You prove you have a signed digital copy of a drivers license and it says you are over 18 without revealing anything about you (name, birthdate, etc)
blog.google/products/goo...

A word of power, used only for evil

Hey DFIR Peeps! I am hiring incident responders in two locations - Boulder, CO and Sunnyvale, CA. It'd be hard to find a bigger CSIRT with more scope and more interesting stuff to do than this one. :D

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Three rabbits are both simultaneously laying and hatching from bright, colourful eggs with various patterns including polka dot and speckled. To the left, in the background, a badger standing on two legs and looking gleeful is creeping up behind them. The text reads: Easter Sale - 20% off.

You know that friend who always had an excuse when you asked them to pick up Baldur’s Gate 3 because there was no cross-play?

Well buddy, you’re out of excuses now.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

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