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Lesley Carhart

@hacks4pancakes.com

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I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires. ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️‍🌈

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · Mar 25

I have a Short Stack on BlueSky as well as Mastodon and you can use it to get some news n stuff about the ongoing cybersecurity apocalypse if you want bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Joe Boden @joeboden66.bsky.social · 1d

Glad you're doing it, but I won't be reading it. Your paper's role in making all of these events more likely is the reason.

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Travel Spud @travelspud.bsky.social · 1d

You can start the series by noting the big picture role the NYTimes played in causing the research funding to be cut. The NYTimes normalized and sane washed the president, when it was obvious that he was exhibiting clear signs of early to early mid-level dementia.

Dementia.is is for sale at Atom!

Domain name Dementia.is encapsulates the profound impact of memory loss and cognitive decline. It evokes a sense of introspection, empathy, and the need for understanding in the face of a complex neur...

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 19h

ummm like, all of them???

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1d

Do you like staring at assembly for days on end alone? And have you gotten cover to cover on Practical Malware Analysis?

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IT_Spook @itspook.com · 1d

I referred a junior resource to an junior cybersecurity position at our work and they did not get screened in for an interview. I inquired and was told they had nearly 400 applicants and had to set the bar very high for the cutoff (certs, experience, etc.).

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1d

I say it's the best shot - definitely not a panacea

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1d

I see so much gaslighting of people who are struggling to find jobs at junior and mid-level cybersecurity by folks who got their last job or first job before 2023. It's unreal and uncalled for. The market and the automation in the hiring processes have gone to hell. www.reddit.com/r/SecurityCa...

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1d

If you can't get the degree, then everything is the same but a lot more of the general IT work and all the other stuff to make a lateral career move later. The military is a possibility if that's your thing.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1d

Get a degree in CS or computer/network engineering. Pick a general niche in cybersecurity, preferably less popular. Get your basic IT certs. Get a generalist IT support role. Get your second-tier certs. Network like hell for a couple years. Keep up self-study. Participate in the community.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1d

People salty that I am gatekeeping - I am literally trying to keep them out of paying a bunch of money to skeevy organizations who will not help them land a job at all in the collapsing cybersecurity job market.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 1d

People don’t realize how badly and how fast the market is collapsing

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 2d

There are certainly good -courses- that can supplement a strong IT foundation and existing experience and credentials. Especially on targeted topics. But if it sounds too good to be true it is. You’re not landing a SOC job on a 6 month bootcamp, these days.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 2d

I guess I haven't clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025.

They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 5d

I’ve keynoted before and this year I’m working on bringing ICS village there.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 5d

I feel like I should see more of Australia, the pacific islands, and Asia in 2026. What conferences should I submit papers to?

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 5d

Governor JB Pritzker v
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This morning, the Trump Administration's
Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
In the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. They will pull hardworking
Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance -- not a serious effort to protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.
This demand follows unprecedented escalations of aggression against Illinois citizens and residents. Yesterday, Kristi Noem's and Greg Bovino's masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart. None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.
I want to be clear: there is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois. State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people's ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights. I will not call up

exercise their constitutional rights. I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump's acts of aggression against our people.
In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 5d

Political cartoon - General. “m i insulted… “

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 5d

Meme: mfers be like I’m an alpha male
Ok bro, tell me about your low penetration power
Wave diagram

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Patrick C Miller @patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 11d

Nation-State hackers exploit Libraesva Email Gateway flaw securityaffairs.com/182552/hacki...

Nation-State hackers exploit Libraesva Email Gateway flaw

State-sponsored hackers exploited a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59689, in Libraesva Email Gateway via malicious attachments.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11d

To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this:

We salute you.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 14d

Oh and in one of my favorite places to hang too! Say hi to the nice folks there and tell them one of your hardware needs sends their regards. I may not know them but they're my people.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 14d

Decided to drop by #BSidesCsnberra today.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 15d

I will - they open 45 days rolling in advance and fill up within a day or two,

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

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