gunwale
@gunwaler.bsky.social
OG Woman in Tech #303 #Defcon #Goon #BSidesScapegoat #InfoSec #HardwareHacker #DataPrivacy #SecurityForPeople
Occasionally returning to the fight.
More work-related on mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@gunwale/
Occasionally returning to the fight.
More work-related on mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@gunwale/
The average red state receives $1.24 in federal funds for every $1 contributed to the federal kitty. www.moneygeek.com/resources/st...
The States That Are Most Reliant on Federal Aid
MoneyGeek’s analysis identified the states most reliant on federal funding and found an intriguing correlation between dependency and political leaning.
www.moneygeek.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The average red state receives $1.24 in federal funds for every $1 contributed to the federal kitty. www.moneygeek.com/resources/st...
Something nerdy and pleasant to interrupt the morning doomscroll. #HobbitDay
Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.
September 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Something nerdy and pleasant to interrupt the morning doomscroll. #HobbitDay
Best thing I heard today, "Do not besmirch my hobby and my country with your treason masquerading as performative patriotism." I love smart #friends.
September 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Best thing I heard today, "Do not besmirch my hobby and my country with your treason masquerading as performative patriotism." I love smart #friends.
Insult to injury, now Hind Rajab's mother is in hiding for trying to speak publicly about the slaughter of her family by Israeli forces. mastodon.social/@QasimRashid...
(Background, since it got so little press in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...) #Genocide
(Background, since it got so little press in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...) #Genocide
Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@[email protected])
Today I was supposed to interview Wissam Hamada, the honorable mother of Hind Rajab. But we were unable to make it happen because she had to flee an attempt by the Israeli military on her life. Killin...
mastodon.social
September 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Insult to injury, now Hind Rajab's mother is in hiding for trying to speak publicly about the slaughter of her family by Israeli forces. mastodon.social/@QasimRashid...
(Background, since it got so little press in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...) #Genocide
(Background, since it got so little press in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...) #Genocide
Well worth a repost. Note he backed the rampant vote suppression in North Carolina. Has to make sure he can keep day trading while on the taxpayer clock.
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
September 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well worth a repost. Note he backed the rampant vote suppression in North Carolina. Has to make sure he can keep day trading while on the taxpayer clock.
I love this title of an actual Princeton peer-reviewed study. A good read, following a frustrating two weeks at work where OpenAI models incorrectly performed 57% of the calculations I gave them. arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07484 #MachineBullshit
September 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I love this title of an actual Princeton peer-reviewed study. A good read, following a frustrating two weeks at work where OpenAI models incorrectly performed 57% of the calculations I gave them. arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07484 #MachineBullshit
Very solid research here supporting the simplest way to help the working poor: give them some cash. (Not a popular idea in my home country where it's assumed everyone is on the grift.)
www.nber.org/papers/w34152
www.nber.org/papers/w34152
Can Cash Transfers Save Lives? Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Kenya
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Very solid research here supporting the simplest way to help the working poor: give them some cash. (Not a popular idea in my home country where it's assumed everyone is on the grift.)
www.nber.org/papers/w34152
www.nber.org/papers/w34152
I am so angry about this. My friend's mom, born in DC, now 86 yo, has been braving the heat every day to protest, just like she and many others of her generation did all through the 60s and 70s...way before this rich kid from Santa Monica was even born. #DCStatehood
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
August 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I am so angry about this. My friend's mom, born in DC, now 86 yo, has been braving the heat every day to protest, just like she and many others of her generation did all through the 60s and 70s...way before this rich kid from Santa Monica was even born. #DCStatehood
The military occupation is happening now. DC was my home for a decade, a thriving and beloved city commonly used as a pawn for political maneuvering. (I recall a Senate Committee raiding our elementary education budget to gold-leaf some federal building.) Everyone should be protesting this.
Ok, you start! Please show up more fully and more significantly for the 700,000 people in DC now under an unjust, unnecessary, and immoral federal police & military occupation. #DCStatehood
As we face cruelty, corruption, and chaos, may we fight. Fight hard. And fight even harder. But let us not lose ourselves. In fact, let’s find ways to show up more fully and more significantly for others.
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The military occupation is happening now. DC was my home for a decade, a thriving and beloved city commonly used as a pawn for political maneuvering. (I recall a Senate Committee raiding our elementary education budget to gold-leaf some federal building.) Everyone should be protesting this.
Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.
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August 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by gunwale
An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.
August 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.
Finally some coverage on this incident at #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was released and returned to Israel after being charged with luring a child for a sex act
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Finally some coverage on this incident at #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So this happened in Vegas #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp. Tom Alexandrovich, Executive Director of Israel National Cyber Defense, got arrested during a child sex sting operation by LVPD. No diplomatic immunity, but still quietly released and allowed to fly home before this press release. More below.
August 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So this happened in Vegas #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp. Tom Alexandrovich, Executive Director of Israel National Cyber Defense, got arrested during a child sex sting operation by LVPD. No diplomatic immunity, but still quietly released and allowed to fly home before this press release. More below.
Reposted by gunwale
Are you going to @defcon.bsky.social??
We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack!
Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.
We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack!
Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.
July 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Are you going to @defcon.bsky.social??
We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack!
Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.
We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack!
Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.
Excellent roundup of how the cashless economy feeds the surveillance state and debt slavery. This is an area where a grassroots effort to push back on invasive daily apps could reap huge benefits. #PaymentChoiceAct
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csrl.org
July 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Excellent roundup of how the cashless economy feeds the surveillance state and debt slavery. This is an area where a grassroots effort to push back on invasive daily apps could reap huge benefits. #PaymentChoiceAct
csrl.org/wp-content/u...
csrl.org/wp-content/u...
For anyone who hasn't deleted Facebook & Instagram (or at least isolated login to a VM web browser)... www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...
Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos
Facebook users opting into “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll.
www.theverge.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
For anyone who hasn't deleted Facebook & Instagram (or at least isolated login to a VM web browser)... www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...
The really disturbing part is that this is so groundbreaking. Yes, we should all own the rights to ourselves. Anything less is a form of slavery: securityaffairs.com/179464/laws-...
Denmark moves to protect personal identity from deepfakes with new copyright law
Denmark plans to let citizens copyright their face, body, and voice to combat deepfakes under a new law strengthening personal digital rights.
securityaffairs.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The really disturbing part is that this is so groundbreaking. Yes, we should all own the rights to ourselves. Anything less is a form of slavery: securityaffairs.com/179464/laws-...
To all my anti-regulation friends, a reminder that companies & governments will do anything they can get away, such as Samsung's deployment of Israeli spyware on all of their phones sold in West Asia and North Africa (WANA)...because there's no law to stop it.
smex.org/open-letter-...
smex.org/open-letter-...
Open Letter to Samsung: End Forced Israeli-Founded Bloatware Installations in the WANA Region
<p>In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over…</p>
smex.org
June 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
To all my anti-regulation friends, a reminder that companies & governments will do anything they can get away, such as Samsung's deployment of Israeli spyware on all of their phones sold in West Asia and North Africa (WANA)...because there's no law to stop it.
smex.org/open-letter-...
smex.org/open-letter-...
Premise is goofy going in, but some very interesting statistics buried in the middle.
June 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Premise is goofy going in, but some very interesting statistics buried in the middle.
Time and time again my investigations have shown that if police have unchecked access to a tool it will be abused, because they are only human. If it isn't checking up on their SOs, it's something like this:
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...
www.404media.co
May 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Time and time again my investigations have shown that if police have unchecked access to a tool it will be abused, because they are only human. If it isn't checking up on their SOs, it's something like this:
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
Excellent thread on updates of what is happening in courtrooms. ICE is now refusing to identify themselves, interrupting court proceedings, and arresting anyone who protests or even tries to observe.
Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE.
Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings.
This mess is escalating fast.
Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings.
This mess is escalating fast.
Immigration court arrests continued across the nation yesterday (and are likely ongoing today).
Yesterday, in NYC, 30 ICE officers swarmed the immigration court, holding lists of names of people to arrest. All were dutifully attending their immigration hearings and many had pending asylum claims.
Yesterday, in NYC, 30 ICE officers swarmed the immigration court, holding lists of names of people to arrest. All were dutifully attending their immigration hearings and many had pending asylum claims.
May 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Excellent thread on updates of what is happening in courtrooms. ICE is now refusing to identify themselves, interrupting court proceedings, and arresting anyone who protests or even tries to observe.
The dangerous facet of more and more of these cases every day is normalization. We have to react. Too many people I know are shutting out politics. We can't.
MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen.
Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy.
She’s lived here 48 years.
They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her.
She. Is. A. Citizen.
Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy.
She’s lived here 48 years.
They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her.
She. Is. A. Citizen.
May 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The dangerous facet of more and more of these cases every day is normalization. We have to react. Too many people I know are shutting out politics. We can't.
Safety report on an AI system, ".. it sometimes takes extremely harmful actions like attempting to ...blackmail people it believes are trying to shut it down." It's not like they didn't warn us about #skynet.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...
Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch
Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.
techcrunch.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Safety report on an AI system, ".. it sometimes takes extremely harmful actions like attempting to ...blackmail people it believes are trying to shut it down." It's not like they didn't warn us about #skynet.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...
US sources need a lot more reporting on the brutal civilian cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I was there months before the invasion through the first year. Most of what is coming out of our White House right now on the topic is pure rewriting of history.
www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
I found my wife curled around our son — her last act was to shield him
Serhii Yefimenko lost his wife in Russia’s biggest drone onslaught since the war began; his four-year-old survived but suffered life-changing injuries
www.thetimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
US sources need a lot more reporting on the brutal civilian cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I was there months before the invasion through the first year. Most of what is coming out of our White House right now on the topic is pure rewriting of history.
www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
www.thetimes.com/world/russia...