Kenton Smith

From Chief Opinion Officer to Action-Taker Security leaders who only assess risks and express concerns operate as Chief Opinion Officers rather than change agents. Delivering outcomes requires agreeing with colleagues on what's real, deciding ...

Security leaders are often trapped in endless assessments and opinion-giving without driving actual change. Staying busy with spreadsheets, dashboards, and emails doesn't move the organization forward.

Here's how we can break out of the "Chief Opinion Officer" mode:

I’m happy to continue supporting the “left wing nut jobs” at @anthropic.com

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

This is insane. What are store managers and supervisors doing? Oh yeah, they’re being fired.

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#Disney+ has the weirdest pricing on their invoices. I only want Disney+ without ads, so I should be paying $1.05.

Same company verifies mugshots for ChatGPT, and offers 269 surveillance checks for US government The identity verification company used by ChatGPT and other major services accidentally exposed its government-authorized platform, which is capable of extensive surveillance.

One more BIG reason that we shouldn’t trust 3rd parties to verify our identities online.
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Discord to require video selfies or government IDs to verify all users’ ages Discord will soon require all its users worldwide to verify their ages by sharing video selfies or providing government IDs, a move that coincides with a push for age verification across social media ...

I guess I’ll be a “teen” on @discord.com after March. No way I’m giving them my government ID to use all the features on the site.
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In today’s #404DeepDive, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social gets into Ring’s new feature Search Party which was advertised at the Super Bowl which essentially turns the entire neighborhood into a security dragnet.

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Apple Watch user gave ChatGPT Health his data, with troubling results - 9to5Mac ChatGPT Health launched recently with Apple Health integration, but a journalist’s experiment with the new technology didn’t go very well.

Just don't do this, don't. Seriously, nothing good can come of it.
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OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.

This is basically OpenAI saying we’ll pay you to make AI good enough to steal your job. The ultimate in training your replacement.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay And seeing “amazingly favorable” results.

Now #Delta, #VirginAirlines, #WestJet et al are moving to the “hold you upside down by the ankles and shake every last penny out of you” pricing model. And you won’t even know they’ve done it.

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

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🎥 Missed one of my past conference talks? Let’s fix that.

I’m sharing my favorites—packed with real-world advice, lessons, and a few laughs.

“Security Learns to Sprint”
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I’ve stuck with that forever, I take my breaks. In “real” jobs, it’s a lot harder, especially customer facing. But take it, or they won’t give it.

Some of the best advice I received from a boss very early in my work career was to be careful what precedent you set for your lunch break. As soon as it looks like you’re OK working during your break, people will assume that’s for ever. This was retail, he made me leave or at least be out of sight.

Thanks for “fixing” that, Co-Pilot.

How Much More Must We Bleed? - Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777) Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey. Sit in your chair, stand at your desk, lick your phone screen - close your eyes and imagine a world in which things are ...

Sometimes maybe a little humour is what it takes…

Alberta, Ontario don't want feds to reintroduce First Nations safe drinking water law Environment ministers in Alberta and Ontario don't want the federal government to reintroduce the safe drinking water law for First Nations.

"The ministers of Environment from Alberta and Ontario are asking the federal government to “refrain” from reintroducing legislation that would mandate Canada to provide safe drinking water to First Nations across the country."

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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I’m surprised that I’m surprised. These governments are made up of horrible people.

Not steel

#magnolia

Rainy day roses

#photography
#roses
#flowers
#raindrops

It’s like dealing with a child, you have to pick your battles. It’s really irrelevant “who” decided to kick Russia out. It was the right decision and nothing is going to change it right now. It’s not worth Carney’s energy to try to correct Trump on every one of his lies.

As we all enjoy this latest episode of “As the Whitehouse Churns”, don’t forget that Elon has already given all of your personal data to Peter Theil and all the other tech bro oligarchs, and left “Big Balls” there to continue on. This will not make things better.

Thinking about the children whose families were subject to police raids because they had pirated the wrong songs

Us: Can we review your incident response plan?

Them: Sure, here it is.

Plan: detect incidents and then resolve them.

Typical @calgaryherald.com and Post Media slanted reporting. All other news outlets talked about how Carney clearly stated Canada isn't for sale, yet the Calgary Herald chooses to frame the meeting as a failure for Carney because he didn't get Trump to remove tariffs.

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