Nelson Ford
@nelsonford.bsky.social
Technologist CISSP
Political centrist (*on the Canadian political spectrum), highly opinionated but not necessarily in the mood for a fight.
Not taking democracy for granted.
Elbows up!
Ottawa
Political centrist (*on the Canadian political spectrum), highly opinionated but not necessarily in the mood for a fight.
Not taking democracy for granted.
Elbows up!
Ottawa
Pinned
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Security firm Flare has scanned the Docker Hub portal and found secrets and tokens, including for production systems, in more than 10,000 images
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Thousands of Exposed Secrets Found on Docker Hub - Flare
In a month, we found Docker Hub images that contained leaked secrets (including live credentials to production systems) from over 100 companies.
flare.io
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Security firm Flare has scanned the Docker Hub portal and found secrets and tokens, including for production systems, in more than 10,000 images
flare.io/learn/resour...
flare.io/learn/resour...
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If Trump’s goal in selecting a top diplomat to station in Canada was to find someone who embodied the pure arrogance of his administration, who would give new life to the old epithet, "ugly American,” he found his man in Hoekstra
This boorish, bigoted, egg headed Humpty Dumpy needs to get the boot
This boorish, bigoted, egg headed Humpty Dumpy needs to get the boot
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
If Trump’s goal in selecting a top diplomat to station in Canada was to find someone who embodied the pure arrogance of his administration, who would give new life to the old epithet, "ugly American,” he found his man in Hoekstra
This boorish, bigoted, egg headed Humpty Dumpy needs to get the boot
This boorish, bigoted, egg headed Humpty Dumpy needs to get the boot
If Mark Carney keeps dodging the AI-driven tech-job bloodbath that’s about to hit like a wave, he’s going to lose my vote. I’ve been waiting for him to be PM since that Mansbridge interview in 2015, but this silence is disappointing.
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If Mark Carney keeps dodging the AI-driven tech-job bloodbath that’s about to hit like a wave, he’s going to lose my vote. I’ve been waiting for him to be PM since that Mansbridge interview in 2015, but this silence is disappointing.
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I would hazard a guess that Mr. Hoekstra isn’t cut out for diplomacy. Perhaps he’d prefer to find a different occupation. Outside of Canada.
“Mr. Hoekstra hung up when The Globe called his personal cellphone.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
U.S. ambassador profanely scolds Ontario representative over anti-tariff ad, sources say
Pete Hoekstra used expletives in loud dressing-down in front of hundreds at Ottawa gala
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I would hazard a guess that Mr. Hoekstra isn’t cut out for diplomacy. Perhaps he’d prefer to find a different occupation. Outside of Canada.
If the Conservatives and NDP force an election Carney will win a majority and Poilievre will lose his leadership position. Poilievre has nothing to lose because the knives are out for him already.
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If the Conservatives and NDP force an election Carney will win a majority and Poilievre will lose his leadership position. Poilievre has nothing to lose because the knives are out for him already.
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Now's your time to strike, Mark Carney. You'll be greeted as liberators
Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Now's your time to strike, Mark Carney. You'll be greeted as liberators
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Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”
*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*
Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”
This Congressman’s office:
*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*
Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”
This Congressman’s office:
October 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”
*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*
Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”
This Congressman’s office:
*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*
Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”
This Congressman’s office:
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
September 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
Trump is telling military brass that democratic run cities will be used as training grounds?
September 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Trump is telling military brass that democratic run cities will be used as training grounds?
Do Americans understand how batshit crazy and dysfunctional the concept of a “government shutdown” is?
a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room .
media.tenor.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Do Americans understand how batshit crazy and dysfunctional the concept of a “government shutdown” is?
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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A “we were wrong” correction would be nice.
August 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A “we were wrong” correction would be nice.
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this is like if a far side cartoon grew up to be a real boy
August 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
this is like if a far side cartoon grew up to be a real boy