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Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at Nvidia, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org Signal: @mjg.59 He/him

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 2h

Perfection

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 3h

It's clearly Paddington towards the end, I'm just curious whether the layout of the track at the beginning is also

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 9h

Official spokesman for Forevermy Paste

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 9h

No match for domain "FOREVERMYPASTE.COM"

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 12h

Based on track geometry, has anyone identified the station right at the beginning of the video for Smalltown Boy?

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 14h

Hey look that wasn't *all* my PhD was

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 14h

Fruitflies in my kitchen: …
Me: I have a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 14h

@penllawen.favrd.social Attn: hachyderm.io/@samhenrigol...

sam henri gold (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes. (this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

hachyderm.io

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 3d

The official one for now

Reposted by Matthew Garrett

Owen Massey @bookllyfr.bsky.social · 4d

This is like my idea of putting England flags on speed cameras to stop them being cut down by patriotic drivers

Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 4d

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 3d

I live in this little box now

A Thinkstation SFF PC on top of an HP SFF PC on top of a VCR, all on top of a hardwood floor. Also on top of the VCR is an Edgerouter X and a shit load of network cables.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 4d

No amount of cryptography will make up for you just displaying your secret material in public

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 4d

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Your age was potentially leaked as a result of a highly sophisticated and targeted cyber attack. As a security measure, please choose a new age at your next login. You will not be able to reuse your existing age, or any previous age.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 5d

Elon Musk quietly furious he wasn't invited to the Riyadh comedy festival

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 6d

Remembering the Republican reaction to this in 2000 and wondering what it would be today

An INS agent holding a gun pointed towards two scared individuals hiding in a closet, one adult, the other a child. The child is Elián González.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 6d

If you had to choose the 6 most significant CPUs in history, what would you choose? Please rank (and yes obviously 6502 is in there)

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 6d

Well, whoever's arranging the Quit Rents ceremony presumably does

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 6d

A thing I was not expecting to have this year is correspondence from the Chief Clerk of the King's Remembrancer

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 7d

Still waiting for someone to write the history of Nokia's fuckups from the perspective of the Linux side of the company, not the S60 side of the company

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 7d

Having seen from the inside how hard it was to get Google to take down obvious stalkerware[1], it would not surprise me that more subtle tracking apps are prevalent and selling data to ICE

[1] Frequently sold as some sort of child monitoring app but clearly aimed at people wanting to track partners

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 7d

If you're taking the screenshot you can just cut and paste it?

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 8d

I believe that mute also apply to alt text, so if you're doing it properly…

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 9d

Eww, San Francisco

A bus stop advertisement for Delve reading "Today, SOC 2 is done before your AI girlfriend breaks up with you"

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 10d

Trying to share my location and Google suggesting my lawyer and this is not the weekend for that

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 10d

Ah, San Francisco

A wall with stenciled graffiti reading "I can't see the haters. I got cum in my eyes"

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