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Phil Stokes ⫍🐠⫎
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macOS security researcher espousing no one's opinions but my own. Dogged follower of #lufc, at least until the world stops going round (IYKYK).
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We beat Man City 0-1 with 10-men under Bielsa. Love to see this team come out swinging. #lufc
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Haven’t seen any post match interviews with him yet, but I wish Farke’d just put his hand up for this one.
Lads did what was asked of them, but the manager made the wrong decisions in the 2nd half. #lufc
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
On the plus side, I thought Nmecha had a very good game, both offensively and defensively.
Seems to be growing with game time and starts ahead off DCL for me.
Just need someone other than Brenda to play off him. #lufc
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reposted by Phil Stokes ⫍🐠⫎
Online behavioral advertising has made surveillance the business model of the internet. Privacy Badger fights for a better web by incentivizing companies to respect your privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back
www.eff.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The way that encrypted chat apps handle backups can be a loophole, so knowing how they work—and how those you communicate with use this feature—is very important. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups
Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re not careful with how those conversations are backed up,
www.eff.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.

Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Want to protect your privacy and security online, but not sure where to start? Surveillance Self-Defense has you covered. ssd.eff.org/en/playlist...
Want a security starter pack?
Start from the beginning with a selection of simple steps. Surveillance impacts all of us, no matter where we live or what we do. While some of us might be directly affected, others may simply want to know what measures they can take to protect their communications and data from...
ssd.eff.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ppl keep saying Farke isn’t “elite level”, but who is that you could realistically get to replace him?
If the answer is any of the those proven failures on the bookies’ list, I’m happy to say I’m also available at less than half the cost of a Heckingbottom. 🙃 #lufc #holdtheline
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...
ssd.eff.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Just introduced a new category of reverse engineering labs: Multistage. Multistage labs simulate full malware attack chains based on real-world malware campaigns. These labs are designed to familiarize malware analysts with reversing complex infection chains, rather than just standalone malware.
Multistage - Reverse Engineering Labs
Real world malware infections often happen in stages. Each step of the infection chain is responsible for initializing the next. For these challenges, you'll have to analyze your way through more…
malwaretech.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
For the brief 20 seconds we saw of it, DCL and Piroe is a combo I’d like to see more of.
Also, Struijk in for Bijol please. Too negative and doesn’t want to pass forward. #lufc
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If we’d kept Gudmundsson on, those other changes could have worked. #lufc
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So Sky’s entire analysis of #lufc after broadcasting Farke’s pre-match interview was to talk about Sunderland. 🤦‍♂️
How’s that Sky song go again? 😡
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today isn’t the time for one of those “great performance, got nothing out of it” games.
This is the kind of game where we have to rob them with 90 minutes of relentless “we’re not going back to the Champo, you are” determination.
A Farke “knife between the teeth” job. #lufc #alaw
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
You know how ppl say you can't decompile run-only #AppleScript ... 😜 #macOS #security
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Mark Viduka, 25 years on from his four-goal show: ‘I love Leeds but they couldn’t afford for me to stay’ | Leeds United

https://www.newsbeep.com/au/262078/

It started how it finished: with a delicate chip. Twenty‑five years ago, Mark Viduka scored all four goals…
Mark Viduka, 25 years on from his four-goal show: ‘I love Leeds but they couldn’t afford for me to stay’ | Leeds United - Australia News Beep
It started how it finished: with a delicate chip. Twenty‑five years ago, Mark Viduka scored all four goals in Leeds’s 4-3 victory against Liverpool at Elland
www.newsbeep.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🙌 Updated the XProtect-Malware-Families repo to the latest version of XProtect.
💁‍♂️ The repo maps #Apple #malware names to more common names used by security vendors.
#YARA style tags so now you can search for classes of malware like 'infostealer', 'trojan'. #security
github.com/SentineLabs/...
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We’re still (just!) ahead of the 1pt/game survival average, but the reality is we will lose ~20 games. Brighton away was always on my list of 20 defeats.
We will have better days, and we’ll have around 15 more days like this 😥.
Hold the line! #lufc 🤍💛💙
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Couple of observations from rewatching on #lutv:
1. Justin was a decent stand-in for Gudmundsson 🦾
2. The 2nd half wasn’t quite as bad on replay as I thought live 🙌
3. @LUTV lot of dropped frames and some weirdsubliminal inserts? WTF😳😒
#lufc
October 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Based on what I’m seeing today, looks like a high energetic press (a la Leeds most of last season) should help us see of Brighton next weekend. #lufc
October 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Fulham result means we’ll finish the game week 14th or 15th at worst. 👏
🤍💛💙 #lufc
October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Weak second half doesn’t inspire confidence for facing better teams. Would have felt much better if we’d kept the clean sheet. WHU were awful and didn’t deserve the consolation goal, but over the line is what counts. 🦾 #lufc
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Nervous yet? #lufc
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The more device-makers cram more AI features into their devices, the more necessary it is for us to have clear and simple controls over how these features work on our devices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
When AI and Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How
Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues
www.eff.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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🔥 New Research from @hegel.bsky.social 🔥

PhantomCaptcha: A short-lived, multi-stage PowerShell and WebSocket RAT operation targeting Ukraine-linked humanitarian and government entities.

Full report: s1.ai/pcapt
PhantomCaptcha | Multi-Stage WebSocket RAT Targets Ukraine in Single-Day Spearphishing Operation
SentinelLABS uncovers a coordinated spearphishing campaign targeting organizations critical to Ukraine's war relief efforts.
s1.ai
October 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM