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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20d

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned the prominent British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been imprisoned for six years, state media and his family say. www.bbc.com/news/articl...

Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist

The British-Egyptian activist is one of six people whose sentences President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi commuted, according to state media.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 21d

pumpkin spice raktajino

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 28d

Anyhoo I've got a feeling @ciaranm.bsky.social's gonna be on the radio a lot sighing over the next few years.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 29

One day I will skeet as good as you

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · Aug 28

You ever seen the theatrical version of Demolition Man, not the one they play on AMC.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 15

Just got my dad to start reading it. He was all “what’s it about”
And I was like “Godzilla?” And he says “Godzilla!!” And I said “go, thou, and read likewise” and it was done

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 15

Y’all tonight I met @scalzi.com on the streets of Seattle around 9pm walking over to do USENIX security shit & I ABSOLUTELY FANGIRLED bc I’m in the middle of Kaiju Preservation Society and it bangs

Anyway that is why someone randomly screamed HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO COOL on 8th & Stewart tonight.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 13

I think the key here the way we prioritize them is specific to the threats we are seeing.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 13

New by me: @brysonbort.bsky.social, @malwarejake.bsky.social, Nathan Case, and I wrote up a short paper on protecting your organization from Iranian threat actors in cyberspace. Some simple bullets to focus in your attention on most probable vectors.

www.tarah.org/2025/08/13/p...

Proactive Defense: Iranian Cyber Threats and How to Push Back – Tarah Wheeler

www.tarah.org

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · Aug 11

Jen Easterly was a non-partisan military vet securing some of the nations' most critical infrastructure and enabling critical cybersecurity programs. It's not a shock she's facing this after the same disgusting treatment of Chris Krebs, but it's absurd and unacceptable.

Army Secretary Orders West Point to Pull Appointment of Former Biden Official

The military academy’s appointment of Jen Easterly, who had been director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, was canceled after complaints from the far-right agitator Laura Loomer.

www.nytimes.com

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 12

“…but there he was. And in he walked.”

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 12

🕯️ 💅🏻

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 12

It really needs to be from the Banderas region of the 1990s and 2000s or it’s just sparkling Pascal.

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Christine Smoley @christinesmly.bsky.social · Aug 9

My favourite #defcon 33 incident so far - accidentally registered to play rather than spectate @eff.org's charity poker tournament, holding on long enough to finish 16th out of 78 thanks to a lesson from @tarah.org's dad.

A ridiculous amount of fun, all for a fantastic cause.

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Aug 8

American critical infrastructure is ten thousand small businesses in a trenchcoat.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Aug 6

HTTP Code Playing Cards are also included with registration to the EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON! Learn more and register here: www.eff.org/event/betti...

Betting on Your Digital Rights: EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF

The EFF Benefit Poker Tournament is back for DEF CON 33! Your buy-in is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect online privacy and free expression for all. Play for glory. Play for

www.eff.org

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Aug 6

EFF’s HTTP Code Playing Cards are here: beautifully illustrated, code-infused, hacker-approved. Built for our DEF CON poker tournament—yours to pick up in our online shop or at our booth this weekend!
shop.eff.org/products/ht...

HTTP Code Playing Cards

Ante up! Security expert, EFF Board Member, and competitive poker player Tarah Wheeler created this custom playing card set for the EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 32. Each card includes a corresponding HTTP code on the face and luxe EFF artwork on the back. Concept by information security attorney Kendra Alber

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · Aug 1

@tarah.org is right; the risk we’re talking about here isn’t something to be dealt with on a state by state basis. This is a matter of national security and protecting our union.

"States don't have the capability to handle the risk coming at them," said Tarah Wheeler, a longtime cyber professional who is now senior fellow for global cyber policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. "They don't have the capability to handle
North [expletive] Korea."

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Aug 1

Hacker Summer Camp is almost here... and with it comes the Fourth Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at #DEFCON hosted by security expert @tarah.org. Join us on August 8 at the Planet Hollywood Poker Room and take home a custom EFF deck of playing cards! eff.org/poker

Betting on Your Digital Rights: EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF

The EFF Benefit Poker Tournament is back for DEF CON 33! Your buy-in is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect online privacy and free expression for all. Play for glory. Play for

www.eff.org

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Jul 28

I bet @adamshostack.bsky.social remembers my annoyed face lol

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Jul 28

I got annoyed on a 2019 trip to Rome over the bad Wikipedia photo of Shelley's grave in the Cimeteria Acattolica, took a much better one, and now it's the art for a new digital humanities project at @universityofexeter.bsky.social. This is all I require from life.

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

New research project will explore the influence Shakespeare had upon how we remember the dead

The influence and inspiration that William Shakespeare has had upon the practice of writing epitaphs is to be the focus of a new research project. English Literature experts at the University of Exete...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Jul 28

I’m shocked, shocked I say, to learn of age verification bypass TTPs in this establishment.

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · Jul 27

Great to see the sudden and active interest in cyber security protections sweeping Britain this weekend 😂

www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

VPN demand skyrockets in the UK as age verification checks are enforced

Proton VPN confirmed an hourly increase in sign-ups of over 1,400% starting from July 25, 2025

www.techradar.com

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Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org · Jul 24

Me, at lunch:

*walks into bodega with screaming fire alarm going off in building*

*shops for sandwich and Monster*

Clerk: “don’t worry about the alarm; it’s just a test.”

Me, dead-eyed and mid-cyber incident response: “I really don’t care.”

*exits stage left, pursued by a Jira ticket.*

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jul 22

Oh, man. Oh, wow.

www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76, his family announces

A statement from his family says Osbourne was with his family and

www.bbc.com

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