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@MikeTalonNYC

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Professional Nerd, have been known to do security things. These tweets are my own and mine alone. May not (ok, won't) be safe for work.

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4 months
@gamedevdotcom did... did they just say the quiet part out loud?
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is that @JortsTheCat ?
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cats with jobs 🛠
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Tipping your hard-working barista > paying it forward.
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@APEastRegion @AP We’re going to arrest the inventor of Warp Drive?
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@HannahAlOthman @paperghost odd, I would have thought she just dissolved into a swarm of bats to get from place to place…
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@cbouzy I suspect it was AI generated, and the filter was applied over top to hide the tell-tales.
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4 years
@realDonaldTrump Mr. President, you have lost the election. Please concede now and then get back to work on COVID. Over 240,000 US Citizens are dead. It's time to get back to work with the time you have left; as every day you wait, more people die.
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@EricBoehlert @tybritten Well, they’re certainly covering it now - instead of, you know, the attempted bombing of the US Capitol.
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3 years
Imma just leave this here…
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@Evil_Mog @LadyRed_6 Bobby Droptables might object.
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@MikeTalonNYC
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2 years
“We value your privacy” is a secret code for “We study every single law to ensure that we only fully value the tiny amount of your privacy that we’re legally required to.”
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2 years
@mollielombardi @CircuitSwan Or pre-natal medical coverage, or assurance that you won’t be stuck with a million-dollar medical bill if the delivery is complex.
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3 years
Dear Corporate Twitter in the USA: Turn off your auto-tweeting/posting/etc for the next 48 hours. Just… trust me on this one.
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3 years
@meghara @chadloder Jewish Grandmothers are the same way. “I won a Nobel Prize!” “That’s nice, honey… when are you coming for a visit?”
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@realDonaldTrump Mr. President, 200,000 people are dead. More are dying. Please focus on stopping COVID regardless of if you win the election. Please, sir, your country needs you.
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@hacks4pancakes Right, because it’s not like we could find out the Governor had just started a massive and politically motivated shake-up and needed to cover it up with some other news story. Oh… wait… we did.
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2 years
@JortsTheCat What’s amazing is that they put why this is happening RIGHT IN THE ARTICLE:
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2 months
@therealshodan @UK_Daniel_Card authenticator is fine though. I draw the line at a profile/MDM - you want to put that on my phone, you need to buy me a phone.
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@IanColdwater So, basically, they're both trying to create positive cash flow and also destroying everything that would allow them to create positive cash flow; simultaneously.
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4 months
@UK_Daniel_Card the usual suspects are being pretty quiet, so it's probably not threat activity. Probably DNS. It's ALWAYS DNS.
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3 years
@Zeddary @tybritten @FDRLST So… they’re upset that private companies are doing something… and they want the government to directly intervene in commerce? Are we sure that the GOP hasn’t been taken over?
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@BurgerVonStadt @Holocryptic Because apparently their lawyers are bored and wanted to have more work to do.
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@Zennistrad @TryCatchHCF Peak Mr. Bean would be him accidentally emailing all the NFT’s to a 50k person list.
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Well, I got laid off. So if anyone knows of a company looking for a senior pre-sales engineer with offensive and defensive cybersecurity experience, let me know. RT for reach if you can.
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@hansmollman @AtomicMaya_ may need a bit more time...
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1 year
Let's see if anyone catches this.
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@Schneider_CM @Popehat We may have found the very oxide of irony when The Onion is filing amicus briefs before the Supreme Court and the country is going “… yup, makes sense”
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@LisPower1 @RF_P0TUS The fact that she looks like she’s getting more and more pissed off at the fact box is the best part of that screenshot.
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@nisslbodies @JoeOnisick Also utilize @botsentinel - they probably already did the search.
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@ParkerMolloy @trashp4ndasec Basically, yes. Everyone's perfectly ok with a US company harvesting all that info and selling it to... just about anyone. It's only when a non-US company does it that Congress flips out.
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@jsrailton @Grubhub Well, that’s just mapping things. It’s not like Russia routinely encourages actual cyber attacks against… Oh Never mind.
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@hacks4pancakes “We’re not aware of any customer info being stolen because we literally do not keep track of where customer data is” is… well… that’s a new twist.
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@danhawkinsUT @snipeyhead no, no no, Black smoke means they didn’t reach a decision. WHITE smoke means they’ve elected the new Musk.
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@catsnoplace Nope… that cat should be there.
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@hacks4pancakes Because until now the oil supply wasn’t at risk. Take down 500 businesses that aren’t big enough to matter to these people? No problem. Fuck with the commodities market? ALARM ALARM ALARM!!!!
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@kaepora @SwiftOnSecurity I do. Cybersecurity analysts and experts are, indeed, a minority. Civil rights activists are, indeed, a minority. “Screeching” is a bit much tho.
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@irishrygirl @bynkii Unified Texas Energy Routing and Utility Services.
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@RoguePOTUSStaff Oh, don’t worry, we already painfully regret that you live here. Signed: New Yorkers.
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WWI Gov’t: Buy war bonds! Americans buy up tons of war bonds WWII Gov’t: We need steel! Americans rip apart fences and scrap cars to donate steel COVID19 Gov’t: Please wear a mask Americans: FUCK YOU, you totalitarian, communist, nazis!
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@TinkerSec @RoseSecOps Take care of yourself, man! I’ve been there, when you suddenly realize you just can’t concentrate anymore, that you’re exhausted and completely drained even though you’ve barely physically moved in hours. It’s a real thing, and terrifying.
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@TirandoaVioleta Major problem, so big it has its own name: “The Scunthorpe Problem.” It’s also been around for decades now, and Bandcamp and PayPal should both have been able to figure it out at this point…
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@JimSterling Snopes had the best line ever: Opponents claimed there were no pronouns defined in the Constitution - forgetting that the first word in the document is, indeed, a pronoun.
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@IsaacDovere @Popehat Matriano… and Italian last name. I seem to remember there was a time in our history where people said the exact same thing about his ethnicity, too.
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@JortsTheCat Why aren’t you in your box?
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@danjconn And here's the actual reason *why* it is being removed - as opposed to Space Karen's bullshit reasons:
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@SwiftOnSecurity Seriously, this could be any one of us. The victim is the VICTIM, and we have to remember that.
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@mehdirhasan @Popehat @PressSec @BrianKarem I worked for Playboy. I can state, from personal experience, that their reporters are equal to any other news outlet - in some cases, actually better.
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@DavidNir The one branch that’s too big, the one branch that’s too small, and the one branch that thinks it’s just right.
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@FixYourLife @bynkii Yeah, but once the envelope is opened and the vote removed, they no longer give a shit.
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@ItsBorys @NataliaAntonova @IBSFsliding Russian Olympic Committee bobsled athlete - they violated so many doping rules that the IOC wouldn’t even let them compete as Russian Olympians LOL So, yeah, his career is already veering right off the run, but hopefully this ends it.
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@mmasnick @Popehat He’s speed-running through 44 billion bucks…
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@JortsTheCat I will share the Box of Respite with you, and provide belly rubs if you provide the healing frequencies of purring.
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@realDonaldTrump Um… yes… they are looking at a lot of ballots… It’s an election…
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@MalwareJake @Drew_CM Using obfuscation, mis-direction, and a honey-pot no less.
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@snipeyhead @dog_rates there’s one every season
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@Aviation_Intel @LadyRed_6 Primary suspect has been seen on video:
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@tspacker @paperghost Quite a modest proposal there…
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@chadloder Infect them with actual COVID - just to clarify. Not some mysterious genetic shedding which is real, but means something that they don’t think it means…
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@TheRickWilson @xwordy I worked on Wall Street in the 90’s… right there with ya.
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@hacks4pancakes It would be HORRIBLE if we kept the cabinet shake-up story trending after the Governor went through all the trouble of having a journalist arrested to cover it up. Horrible, I tells you.
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@ericgeller @Popehat Someone want to tell these people: 1 - what Rahab did for a living? 2 - What Mary Magdalene did for a living? 3 - what “begot” means? 4 - what Lot’s visitors meant by “knowing” the Angels? Because they should be very concerned about censorship as they thump that particular book.
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@cbouzy I suspect the conference ended with the translators having to work out “AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON”
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@cybergibbons @UK_Daniel_Card All OS’s suck. They just all suck in different and unique ways.
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@vxunderground Oh my god! I am so glad they pixelated the vendor stickers on all those hard drives - that's such a private decision one makes.
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@cbouzy You and @JimSterling should start a club for content developers who got sued by people who had no clue how anything worked.
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@ASpittel @danjconn Alternately, don’t share your screen at all unless it’s absolutely required. Zoom, GoToMeeting, Teams, RingCentral, Webex all allow you to share an APPLICATION instead just as easily.
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If he doesn’t like “QAnon Shaman” we can still go by the other moniker he gained. Congratulations on your plea deal, “Dances with Karens!”
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@naturecamhd @kylegriffin1 @NewYorker Solve it? It doesn’t. Funny? It definitely is.
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@realDonaldTrump @FoxNews Mr. President, 200,000 people are dead. More are dying. Please focus on stopping COVID regardless of if you win the election. Please, sir, your country needs you.
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@TheFigen_ @eileenb I also like this one:
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Imma leave this here:
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@SarcasticRover subterranean dinosaur people - one of whom was a lesbian, no less
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@SwiftOnSecurity Well, at least they’ve stopped flinging Germans all over the place.
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@taviso @UK_Daniel_Card *six months later* “Microsoft announced no end in sight to the massive outage across multiple Office365 platforms today…”
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@InsideWithPsaki @getwired @jrpsaki cool, start with the Senate and Congress first. THEN go to SCOTUS. Oh, you're not willing to do that... I'm shocked.
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@dataandpolitics @hacks4pancakes Oh, and, thanks to another SCOTUS ruling today, the cops who arrest you may or may not inform you of your Miranda rights.
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@SwiftOnSecurity And now I feel ancient.
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@IanColdwater wait... we're allowed to sleep?
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@j_opdenakker “While you’re defending against Sate Sponsored actors, some script kiddie with a three year old ransomware is going to wreck your business. Be proportional in defense.”
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@gcluley Tons of people getting this when trying to add Mastodon names to their profiles on Twitter.
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Finally catching up on @TheOrville <minor spoiler> Best line EVER: “I may not be all real, but I’m ALL Dolly!” @DollyParton is a goddamn national treasure.
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@realDonaldTrump Perhaps you should get everyone vaccinated before you start having BIG CROWDS, sir.
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This needs Eye of the Tiger playing in the background.
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He’s ready for anything 😂
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A colleague, and friend, passed away this morning from COVID complications. Get tested Get vaccinated Wear a mask And fuck your feelings. This isn’t about you, or your rights. This is about not having to live with the guilt when someone dies because of you. Stay safe.
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@DanRather Schadenfreude aside, I do have mixed feelings about the current President waiving privilege for the last guy - yes, even if the last guy is THAT guy.
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@naturecamhd @kylegriffin1 @NewYorker about as much as I expect from a failing President who can’t open his mouth without proving he’s a fool
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@AP could you be a bit more vague? I don’t think this is obscured enough.
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@AlphabetWorkers @JortsTheCat If they actually took full responsibility, they'd resign because their decisions lead to 12,000 laid off workers.
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@SwiftOnSecurity Not that bad, actually. Non-conductive boots, no water in the tub, tub doesn’t look like it has metal “feet” or anything. Now, which member of the Marketing team defined the placement of the fuse box…
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@vxunderground Hopefully IPv6, because we'll run out of IPv4 unless they've found some way to NAT subnet and mask people. Oh... wait... masking people is one of her sore topics, I'd wager.
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@justkelly_ok @hacks4pancakes Email back and ask if they would state - for the record - that they admit they co-mingle user data and cannot control user data within the confines of the device.
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@realDonaldTrump Mr. President, 220,000 people are dead. More are dying. Please focus on stopping COVID regardless of if you win the election. Please, sir, your country needs you.
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I present @smolrobots incredible commission piece for me… the talonbot!
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@realDonaldTrump Mr. President, 200,000 people are dead. More are dying. Please focus on stopping COVID regardless of if you win the election. Please, sir, your country needs you.
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Please remember the rules. If your cat/dog/other pet enters the zoom camera view, the meeting MUST be paused and the pet must be shown off to the audience. I’m sorry, that is the rule.
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