Craig Chambers
@plasticlicker.bsky.social
InfoSec Director for non-profits (Nation State threats, non-profit budgets!) I talk mostly about Cybersecurity and Tech but occasionally cats (got my handle from one of them), urbanism, transportation politics and woodworking. My tweets are my own.
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If you've ever struggled with getting the right settings and auditing for Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI), you'll be pleased to know that @ThomasVrhydn wrote a nice graphical PowerShell wrapper called MDI Configurator. 🧑💻🥳 Check it out at github.com/v3rtho/MD... 👈
GitHub - v3rtho/MDI-configurator: Guidance scripts related to Defender For Identity: Prereqs, configuration etc
Guidance scripts related to Defender For Identity: Prereqs, configuration etc - v3rtho/MDI-configurator
github.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If you've ever struggled with getting the right settings and auditing for Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI), you'll be pleased to know that @ThomasVrhydn wrote a nice graphical PowerShell wrapper called MDI Configurator. 🧑💻🥳 Check it out at github.com/v3rtho/MD... 👈
A hungry cat
Cares not
For your staycation
Cares not
For your staycation
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A hungry cat
Cares not
For your staycation
Cares not
For your staycation
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this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
share.google
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
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Au revoir Brigitte x
December 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Au revoir Brigitte x
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🧵 Just recorded an AMAZING episode on extending Microsoft Entra ID
Jan Bakker is a wizard at automating Entra and making it do new things!
Here are 7 tips from the king of Entra automation: 👇
Jan Bakker is a wizard at automating Entra and making it do new things!
Here are 7 tips from the king of Entra automation: 👇
December 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
🧵 Just recorded an AMAZING episode on extending Microsoft Entra ID
Jan Bakker is a wizard at automating Entra and making it do new things!
Here are 7 tips from the king of Entra automation: 👇
Jan Bakker is a wizard at automating Entra and making it do new things!
Here are 7 tips from the king of Entra automation: 👇
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The cat is out of the bag:
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
USA pekas ut som del av hotbild i Danmark
För första gången pekas USA ut som en del av hotbilden mot Danmark.
www.svd.se
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The cat is out of the bag:
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
@merill.net, this is a small issue, but in the spirit of Least Privileged Access I wish I didn’t have to be Billing Admin just to be able to see the price of Microsoft subscriptions. As a non-profit, I can’t use the published pricing, so to know how much something costs I need Admin rights.
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
@merill.net, this is a small issue, but in the spirit of Least Privileged Access I wish I didn’t have to be Billing Admin just to be able to see the price of Microsoft subscriptions. As a non-profit, I can’t use the published pricing, so to know how much something costs I need Admin rights.
Remember the old days when the value proposition for the subscription model was “you pay us a recurring fee to cover all the neat new features we’ll include with the product in the future” and not “rent this software from us and if we add new features we’ll provide them to you as an add-on bundle.”
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Remember the old days when the value proposition for the subscription model was “you pay us a recurring fee to cover all the neat new features we’ll include with the product in the future” and not “rent this software from us and if we add new features we’ll provide them to you as an add-on bundle.”
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Single mother Cierra Jones, who is battling breast cancer, is turning to a GoFundMe campaign to help cover some of her expenses and to help care for her 9-year-old daughter with autism.
Virginia single mother battling breast cancer asks community for support
Single mother Cierra Jones, who is battling breast cancer, is turning to a GoFundMe campaign to help cover some of her expenses and to help care for her 9-year-old daughter with autism.
www.wtvr.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Single mother Cierra Jones, who is battling breast cancer, is turning to a GoFundMe campaign to help cover some of her expenses and to help care for her 9-year-old daughter with autism.
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How broken is today's frontend culture?
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
HTTP Archive: Page Weight
This report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.
httparchive.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
How broken is today's frontend culture?
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
I’ve been seeing this Captcha style attack a lot in the non-profit space. Be careful out there!
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’ve been seeing this Captcha style attack a lot in the non-profit space. Be careful out there!
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We are literally drowning and need help!
The worst #flooding our area has seen in 60 years submerged our #CatShelter. Keeping the #cats safe was a huge challenge, and the shelter suffered significant damage.
Please watch and share the video or help us directly: www.vietnamcatwelfare.org/support/
The worst #flooding our area has seen in 60 years submerged our #CatShelter. Keeping the #cats safe was a huge challenge, and the shelter suffered significant damage.
Please watch and share the video or help us directly: www.vietnamcatwelfare.org/support/
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We are literally drowning and need help!
The worst #flooding our area has seen in 60 years submerged our #CatShelter. Keeping the #cats safe was a huge challenge, and the shelter suffered significant damage.
Please watch and share the video or help us directly: www.vietnamcatwelfare.org/support/
The worst #flooding our area has seen in 60 years submerged our #CatShelter. Keeping the #cats safe was a huge challenge, and the shelter suffered significant damage.
Please watch and share the video or help us directly: www.vietnamcatwelfare.org/support/
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CSX freight train derailment in New Kent County has delayed some Amtrak service to Richmond, with Norfolk routes still operating. No injuries reported as emergency crews respond.
CSX train derails, sending 5 coal cars, 2 locomotives off tracks into wetlands in New Kent
CSX freight train derailment in New Kent County has delayed some Amtrak service to Richmond, with Norfolk routes still operating. No injuries reported as emergency crews respond.
www.wtvr.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
CSX freight train derailment in New Kent County has delayed some Amtrak service to Richmond, with Norfolk routes still operating. No injuries reported as emergency crews respond.
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New photos show a CSX freight train derailment that sent coal cars, locomotives off the tracks and into wetlands in Virginia.
https://www.wtvr.com/photos-csx-freight-train-derails-spills-coal-new-kent-virginia-saturday-oct-25-2025
https://www.wtvr.com/photos-csx-freight-train-derails-spills-coal-new-kent-virginia-saturday-oct-25-2025
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
New photos show a CSX freight train derailment that sent coal cars, locomotives off the tracks and into wetlands in Virginia.
https://www.wtvr.com/photos-csx-freight-train-derails-spills-coal-new-kent-virginia-saturday-oct-25-2025
https://www.wtvr.com/photos-csx-freight-train-derails-spills-coal-new-kent-virginia-saturday-oct-25-2025
While sports betting is a real concern, what really concerns me is betting on election outcomes on polymarket, and the feedback loop those prediction markets create.
Yesterday's sports gambling bombshell isn't an outlier. Actually, it's alarmingly normal. Gambling scandals are the new American pastime. But there is an easy way to head off the next crisis: Take prop bets off the board. My piece for the @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Prop Bets Must Die
As long as one player can fix the outcome of a wager, the temptation will prove irresistible to some athletes.
www.theatlantic.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
While sports betting is a real concern, what really concerns me is betting on election outcomes on polymarket, and the feedback loop those prediction markets create.
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It's happening! Converting AD resources to Entra resources is here, and even more docs just arrived 🥳
Delivered with the User SoA docs is something even bigger - architectural guidance for shifting from AD to Entra using Source of Authority conversion🔥
learn.microsoft.com/...
Delivered with the User SoA docs is something even bigger - architectural guidance for shifting from AD to Entra using Source of Authority conversion🔥
learn.microsoft.com/...
October 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
It's happening! Converting AD resources to Entra resources is here, and even more docs just arrived 🥳
Delivered with the User SoA docs is something even bigger - architectural guidance for shifting from AD to Entra using Source of Authority conversion🔥
learn.microsoft.com/...
Delivered with the User SoA docs is something even bigger - architectural guidance for shifting from AD to Entra using Source of Authority conversion🔥
learn.microsoft.com/...
With so much depressing news in the world, here is your small moment of joy. Francine, the local Lowe’s #cat, got on an inter-state delivery truck and was transported across state lines and was lost. 1/4
October 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
With so much depressing news in the world, here is your small moment of joy. Francine, the local Lowe’s #cat, got on an inter-state delivery truck and was transported across state lines and was lost. 1/4
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The biggest barrier to the widespread adoption of renewables, is the fact that the richest, least intelligent, most self-important, fashiest 50 dudes in the US, wasted the low interest rates of the 2010s investing in monkey jpegs instead of solar cells and battery production.🤡
Now they fear China.
Now they fear China.
"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah
October 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The biggest barrier to the widespread adoption of renewables, is the fact that the richest, least intelligent, most self-important, fashiest 50 dudes in the US, wasted the low interest rates of the 2010s investing in monkey jpegs instead of solar cells and battery production.🤡
Now they fear China.
Now they fear China.
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24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;
270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;
4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii
--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;
4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii
--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;
270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;
4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii
--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;
4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii
--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
I swear I was looking at a report/dahboard a few days ago that showed mobile device platform and OS version based on #MicrosoftAuthenticator (I was using it to evaluate passkey readiness, but sure if that was the purpose) and now I can’t find it for the life of me. Am I crazy or does this exist?!?
October 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I swear I was looking at a report/dahboard a few days ago that showed mobile device platform and OS version based on #MicrosoftAuthenticator (I was using it to evaluate passkey readiness, but sure if that was the purpose) and now I can’t find it for the life of me. Am I crazy or does this exist?!?
If the rapture happens but no one is taken, did it happen? Also, realizing that the worst part would be getting left on earth with the Cristian Nationalists that will absolutely lose their s**t when they realize they aren’t worthy.
September 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If the rapture happens but no one is taken, did it happen? Also, realizing that the worst part would be getting left on earth with the Cristian Nationalists that will absolutely lose their s**t when they realize they aren’t worthy.
So many things wrong with this.
1. What Julia said.
2. This exists already. (Using an LLM to return answers based solely on specific data)
3. If he wanted to *train* an LLM solely on his data the dataset would be too small to be useful.
1. What Julia said.
2. This exists already. (Using an LLM to return answers based solely on specific data)
3. If he wanted to *train* an LLM solely on his data the dataset would be too small to be useful.
September 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
So many things wrong with this.
1. What Julia said.
2. This exists already. (Using an LLM to return answers based solely on specific data)
3. If he wanted to *train* an LLM solely on his data the dataset would be too small to be useful.
1. What Julia said.
2. This exists already. (Using an LLM to return answers based solely on specific data)
3. If he wanted to *train* an LLM solely on his data the dataset would be too small to be useful.
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not me letting my gen z interns write the script
VA-04 Youth Advisory Council apps close THIS FRIDAY at 11:59 PM!
VA-04 Youth Advisory Council apps close THIS FRIDAY at 11:59 PM!
September 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
not me letting my gen z interns write the script
VA-04 Youth Advisory Council apps close THIS FRIDAY at 11:59 PM!
VA-04 Youth Advisory Council apps close THIS FRIDAY at 11:59 PM!
Does anyone have a #PowerBi dashboard they like for #DefenderXDR TVM reporting? I found a couple of options online and there’s one from Microsoft, but it was last updated 6+ years ago Does that mean it’s perfection, or horribly broken? 😅
@fabian.bader.cloud or @nathanmcnulty.com
@fabian.bader.cloud or @nathanmcnulty.com
github.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Does anyone have a #PowerBi dashboard they like for #DefenderXDR TVM reporting? I found a couple of options online and there’s one from Microsoft, but it was last updated 6+ years ago Does that mean it’s perfection, or horribly broken? 😅
@fabian.bader.cloud or @nathanmcnulty.com
@fabian.bader.cloud or @nathanmcnulty.com
Is it true that to maintain local endpoint device sign-in logs in Sentinel, you need Intune Advanced Analytics?!? Copilot is telling me I need that or Arc/AMA and that seems like a pretty important security log to put behind an add-on license.
September 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Is it true that to maintain local endpoint device sign-in logs in Sentinel, you need Intune Advanced Analytics?!? Copilot is telling me I need that or Arc/AMA and that seems like a pretty important security log to put behind an add-on license.