Adam Shostack
adamshostack.bsky.social
Adam Shostack
@adamshostack.bsky.social
Threat modeling. BH Review Board. Affiliate Professor, UW. Fixed autorun. Helped create CVE.

Not sure why we're building graphs on yet another (effectively) centralized system. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack
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--because the faster they earn out their advance, a) the faster they will start getting royalty payments and b) the higher an advance they can get for the next contract.
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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You could argue there’s zero, because the people who understand coding at the PHY layer don’t deal with (or really understand) the A/D hardware and the amps and filters at a deep level. (Not to even get into network layers, which are nightmarish, but aren’t really the “radio”.)
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Don’t be redonculus. No one even understands how to make a pencil, never mind a 5g ue or base station and don’t get me started on backhaul. Even the people who build those networks have no idea
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I bet they could add it as a subscription option?
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I mean I hope one day Disney will make prequels that tell us Darth Vader’s origin story.
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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We TREMENDOUSLY need this movie to happen!
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The joke was that HAL was “one step ahead of IBM.” I think it’s in one of the books.
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I would be surprised to see a domestic agency making either of those choices (capturing it or releasing it)
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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I'm old enough to remember when it would have taken more than just downloading and installing Signal to do it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Also how can you make a private statement about something like this to some shareholders? I know the sec is gone, but…
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I always keep secret my refutations of the idea I’m committing accounting fraud.

(I have never been accused of accounting fraud.)
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM