Man in the hat (Brent)
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Canadian cybersecurity practitioner pilot and general causer of mischief.
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
Hiring managers want to see #infosec candidates communication, creativity and ability to think outside the box more than your ability to name of a basket of tools mostly that the company won’t use or will use differently
Your public GitHub and personal lab says a lot more about you as a candidate
Your public GitHub and personal lab says a lot more about you as a candidate
February 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Hiring managers want to see #infosec candidates communication, creativity and ability to think outside the box more than your ability to name of a basket of tools mostly that the company won’t use or will use differently
Your public GitHub and personal lab says a lot more about you as a candidate
Your public GitHub and personal lab says a lot more about you as a candidate
Congratulations to the CPC for the upcoming liberal majority
January 31, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Congratulations to the CPC for the upcoming liberal majority
I almost never say this but @environmentcanada got this warning exactly right
January 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I almost never say this but @environmentcanada got this warning exactly right
Today’s lesson is about the “Streisand effect”
Doug ford must be doing backflips of joy at how well this hit. And that’s one hefty backflip
Trumps tantrum brought far more attention to Canada Ontario and the conservative position o. Tariffs than any multimillion ad buy ever could
#canpoli #onpoli
Doug ford must be doing backflips of joy at how well this hit. And that’s one hefty backflip
Trumps tantrum brought far more attention to Canada Ontario and the conservative position o. Tariffs than any multimillion ad buy ever could
#canpoli #onpoli
Here's the Ronald Reagan ad from Canada that Trump calls "fake."
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I wish people would realize that one of the overarching narratives of cybersecurity is to stop businesses from making decisions that hurt themselves, not some fancy trick to stop adversaries
#cybersecurity
#infosed
#cybersecurity
#infosed
August 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I wish people would realize that one of the overarching narratives of cybersecurity is to stop businesses from making decisions that hurt themselves, not some fancy trick to stop adversaries
#cybersecurity
#infosed
#cybersecurity
#infosed
When you look at the nature of breaches I see two repeating themes.
If companies avoided doing absolutely stupid things and only made mistakes once then the Infosec staffing level could be redoced by 75%
I don’t foresee that happening #infosec #cybersecurity
If companies avoided doing absolutely stupid things and only made mistakes once then the Infosec staffing level could be redoced by 75%
I don’t foresee that happening #infosec #cybersecurity
August 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
When you look at the nature of breaches I see two repeating themes.
If companies avoided doing absolutely stupid things and only made mistakes once then the Infosec staffing level could be redoced by 75%
I don’t foresee that happening #infosec #cybersecurity
If companies avoided doing absolutely stupid things and only made mistakes once then the Infosec staffing level could be redoced by 75%
I don’t foresee that happening #infosec #cybersecurity
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"Imagine how different the world would be if all Christians actually loved their enemies the way the Bible says?"
--James Talarico
--James Talarico
July 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Imagine how different the world would be if all Christians actually loved their enemies the way the Bible says?"
--James Talarico
--James Talarico
And the Soc has to respond to it until we prove it’s the 621st edition of the LinkedIn dataset
June 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
And the Soc has to respond to it until we prove it’s the 621st edition of the LinkedIn dataset
It’s not a moon it’s a space station
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are sending g smoke signals to the gta tonight
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are sending g smoke signals to the gta tonight
June 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It’s not a moon it’s a space station
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are sending g smoke signals to the gta tonight
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are sending g smoke signals to the gta tonight
Honesty,truth, and integrity will win.
But there is a challenge at hand
But there is a challenge at hand
May 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Honesty,truth, and integrity will win.
But there is a challenge at hand
But there is a challenge at hand
May 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Canadian election was a best case for first past the post where the party with the most seats plus any other party can enact legislation.
No five year blank cheque for one party with 40 percent of the vote. But it still quashed the voices of the smaller parties
No five year blank cheque for one party with 40 percent of the vote. But it still quashed the voices of the smaller parties
April 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The Canadian election was a best case for first past the post where the party with the most seats plus any other party can enact legislation.
No five year blank cheque for one party with 40 percent of the vote. But it still quashed the voices of the smaller parties
No five year blank cheque for one party with 40 percent of the vote. But it still quashed the voices of the smaller parties
For someone who supports electoral reform and wants and end to the first past the post system the Canadian election is a near ideal outcome for an fptp system
There is no majority government “blank cheque” and the winning party pus the support of any other party will be able to pass legislation
There is no majority government “blank cheque” and the winning party pus the support of any other party will be able to pass legislation
April 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
For someone who supports electoral reform and wants and end to the first past the post system the Canadian election is a near ideal outcome for an fptp system
There is no majority government “blank cheque” and the winning party pus the support of any other party will be able to pass legislation
There is no majority government “blank cheque” and the winning party pus the support of any other party will be able to pass legislation
With every Canadian election the perverse incentives of first past the post show up. The winners and regional parties get many more seats and power than their popular vote suggests they should and the smaller by broadly supported parties get punished.
Even if you like this result it is not fair
Even if you like this result it is not fair
April 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
With every Canadian election the perverse incentives of first past the post show up. The winners and regional parties get many more seats and power than their popular vote suggests they should and the smaller by broadly supported parties get punished.
Even if you like this result it is not fair
Even if you like this result it is not fair
Canada and Denmark/greenland have had a longstanding border dispute that should serve as a lesson for how allies respectfully disagree.
Ask yourself what would two parties that “fight” like this respond to a common threat?
#canada #denmark #greenland
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_...
Ask yourself what would two parties that “fight” like this respond to a common threat?
#canada #denmark #greenland
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_...
Whisky War - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
March 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Canada and Denmark/greenland have had a longstanding border dispute that should serve as a lesson for how allies respectfully disagree.
Ask yourself what would two parties that “fight” like this respond to a common threat?
#canada #denmark #greenland
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_...
Ask yourself what would two parties that “fight” like this respond to a common threat?
#canada #denmark #greenland
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_...
The angry punk kid of the 90’s is extremely annoyed that political punkbands I loved like propagandhi have been upgraded from warnings to prophets in my middle age,
Not the right kind of promotion
#propagandhi
Not the right kind of promotion
#propagandhi
March 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The angry punk kid of the 90’s is extremely annoyed that political punkbands I loved like propagandhi have been upgraded from warnings to prophets in my middle age,
Not the right kind of promotion
#propagandhi
Not the right kind of promotion
#propagandhi
Workday brisket and sweet potatoes
Pellet smokers have a place for people who spend too many daytime hours in meetings but still crave live fire meals.
#bbq
#infosec_bbq
#bbqdogs
Pellet smokers have a place for people who spend too many daytime hours in meetings but still crave live fire meals.
#bbq
#infosec_bbq
#bbqdogs
March 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Workday brisket and sweet potatoes
Pellet smokers have a place for people who spend too many daytime hours in meetings but still crave live fire meals.
#bbq
#infosec_bbq
#bbqdogs
Pellet smokers have a place for people who spend too many daytime hours in meetings but still crave live fire meals.
#bbq
#infosec_bbq
#bbqdogs
Goodbye Skype
You were once an amazing innovation. Now I hear MSFT is discarding your desiccated carcass after draining it to build “teams”
You were once an amazing innovation. Now I hear MSFT is discarding your desiccated carcass after draining it to build “teams”
February 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Goodbye Skype
You were once an amazing innovation. Now I hear MSFT is discarding your desiccated carcass after draining it to build “teams”
You were once an amazing innovation. Now I hear MSFT is discarding your desiccated carcass after draining it to build “teams”
I don’t think I can say that I feel a single Canadian politician is disloyal to their country.
They might put their own self interest ahead of the national interest but they aren’t working to harm the national interest directly.
South of us however?
They might put their own self interest ahead of the national interest but they aren’t working to harm the national interest directly.
South of us however?
February 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I don’t think I can say that I feel a single Canadian politician is disloyal to their country.
They might put their own self interest ahead of the national interest but they aren’t working to harm the national interest directly.
South of us however?
They might put their own self interest ahead of the national interest but they aren’t working to harm the national interest directly.
South of us however?
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Imagine working at the CIA, fighting your whole career to get moles and useful idiots at the highest levels of the Russian government, only to fast forward to today and learn that Russia is infinitely better at it than you.
February 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Imagine working at the CIA, fighting your whole career to get moles and useful idiots at the highest levels of the Russian government, only to fast forward to today and learn that Russia is infinitely better at it than you.
It looks like an electoral implosion may be on its way.
The CPC have had an attack line of “Trudeau Trudeau Trudeau” has been in place for so long that without Trudeau their entire platform rings hollow.
If liberal support recovers they will have grasped defeat from the jaws of victory
#cdnpoli
The CPC have had an attack line of “Trudeau Trudeau Trudeau” has been in place for so long that without Trudeau their entire platform rings hollow.
If liberal support recovers they will have grasped defeat from the jaws of victory
#cdnpoli
February 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It looks like an electoral implosion may be on its way.
The CPC have had an attack line of “Trudeau Trudeau Trudeau” has been in place for so long that without Trudeau their entire platform rings hollow.
If liberal support recovers they will have grasped defeat from the jaws of victory
#cdnpoli
The CPC have had an attack line of “Trudeau Trudeau Trudeau” has been in place for so long that without Trudeau their entire platform rings hollow.
If liberal support recovers they will have grasped defeat from the jaws of victory
#cdnpoli
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February 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM