Carter Pape

aw hell yeah

it’s also good business! it makes fraud harder, and it makes your platform less scammy

you’re right. I think the thing with housing is that you just gotta take whatever wins you can get

this is plausible — if Congress raises taxes by like 200% and fully stops spending money

$2 each, can’t wait

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As you are probably aware, you shouldn’t use work devices or networks to do this.

More than 130 CISA employees have been laid off as part of a larger government purge, DHS spokesperson tells me.

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

your post inspired me, thank you

Alarmed by Chinese hacks, Republicans mute attacks on cybersecurity agency The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has drawn Trump’s ire in the past, appears set to concentrate on fending off hacking from geopolitical rivals and criminal gangs.

good report by @joemenn.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com.

Cybersecurity as a policy issue looks like it might escape the retaliatory scrutiny of the Trump administration. so far.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Abusing the FOIA system slows down reporters and government accountability groups, not the agencies themselves. The agencies have dedicated FOIA officers who will get backed up; it won’t back up the whole agency.

Don’t abuse FOIA as a form of protest.

This tactic will slow down public reporting by media outlets, nongovernmental watchdogs, and other entities that do valuable work.

It will tie up dedicated FOIA officers as they respond to those groups, not an entire department or bureau.

Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.

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Trump's DEI order collides with the FDIC workplace scandal President Trump's executive order is meant to roll back his predecessor's emphasis on diversity and inclusion, but it could also complicate the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s efforts to correct its...

nice column by @johnheltman.bsky.social about the practicalities of the DEI EO

HAPPENING NOW! Join Kyle Campbell (who I interviewed below) and John Heltman for live American Banker coverage of the Federal Open Market Committee news conference by clicking here: www.americanbanker.com/live-blog/li...

oh, totally. to be clear, I would not bother even asking my publication to pay that price for me to attend.

I’ve not attended any cyber conference besides RSAC, so I’m curious where I should go to branch out. DefCon and Black Hat seem like obvious next steps

What are the conferences worth attending? I get to go to RSAC for free on a media pass and a local friend’s apartment

this is an easy trap for me. good reminder to keep my standards high

There are four living species of echidna. Three of them, all native to New Guinea, are considered threatened by the IUCN.

One species went 62 years without a confirmed sighting, until 2023, when it popped up on a trail camera.

here's my alt account, for all my less professional thoughts

You could feel the earthquakes in Davis.

There’s virtually no wind today; these waves in the pool were caused by the ground. I heard but did not see the water slosh out of the pool (far side of the photo).

First photo taken at 10:52 a.m. PT. Second photo taken 15 minutes later

U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.

The irony, it burns.

Yes, there are tradeoffs to end to end encryption, but it's wild for the FBI to start agreeing with basically the entire security community that it's an often-necessary security message.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Trump Picks Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary

D:

and what a pud it was!

then may it never replace Twitter

🤯

spoken like a true 20 millionth user

happy to know they can drop the shtick about how they’re breaking up. Charles will get to say he’s retiring a few more times now that he’s on a new network!