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Alright, time to intro for this instance:
I've been in #InfoSec for almost 25 years, starting out in threat research. I moved into #SecurityEducation / "thought leadership" for a few years, and for the last few I've been focusing on #TechnicalWriting / #TechnicalEditing
Trying to help researchers write better threat reports and security content.

The greater part of my thought leadership content was about increasing inclusivity, especially for the #neurodiverse and #disabled communities.

Just got #Mastodon setup on my @purism Librem14 with #QubesOS. I am liking #Whalebird as the local client personally. Yes this is basically my daily driver when I don’t use the Pop!_OS desktop and also what a bit more security. now to back it all up. #cybersecurity #linux

There is an excitement to Mastodon that I haven’t felt in a while. It feels more like the early days of the Internet and IRC more than modern social media.

I just got a (free!) ⁨⁩ machine! This is a KnitKing model 93 with a ribbing attachment, stand, accessories and some yarn. It can even be programmed with punch cards and came with a giant envelope full of them. I can't wait to try it out once I get caught up on ⁨⁩.

time!
My name is dos; some call me Sebastian. I made dozens of small silly video and some slightly less small ones too. I'm one half of @holypangolin studio. Sometimes I pretend to be a musician, but don't get fooled. I'm also a living encyclopedia on a Polish rock band "Perfect". Trams are cooler than trains. The more caramel, the better. I've been using GNU/#Linux on phones for ages, which led me to work with @purism on the Librem 5. btw I use Arch, but I ❤️ Debian!

In the physical world I've seen a large influx of folks moving to my town over the past few years and it definitely has had a number of negative impacts (along with some positive) as town infrastructure tries to keep up with the growth and change in culture. Metering growth based on the speed you can manage it makes sense.

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As more people join the , some instances will likely need to pause new registrations while they allow their existing community to absorb new members. This is a *good* thing and no different from towns limiting new housing developments based on what town infrastructure can handle. The town/city governance metaphor applies pretty well to the Fediverse in my opinion.

# Critiques on theories of cyber.

Any theory or framework of cyber conflict that is unable to incorporate the full range of offensive cyber actions is inherently flawed. Here are examples of cyber operations that meet any reasonable criteria for offensive cyber attacks.
- kpop vs ACAB
- Teens vs Trump (Tulsa, 2020)
- Lazarus vs Sony
- Belarusian cyber partisans vs. rail network

Many theories work poorly when forced to model these offensive cyber events. Like “cyber is an intelligence contest.” So explain the k-pop stans disabling police snitch apps for reporting BLM protestors by flooding them with loads of pictures of k-pop artists.
* a non state actor (just a community ot people)
* Attacking state security forces
* To support non state actors
* With the intent of causing political change
This breaks so many theories of cyber. They typically just ignore it instead, but you can’t. If for no other reason than this type of activity is will become more and more relevant as cyber infrastructure becomes increasingly embedded into society.

Alright, I should do an #introduction, since it appears that's the hip thing to do.

I'm Accidental CISO. My friends call me AC.

I started a Twitter account with this handle in January 2019 in a fit of panic after finding myself named as the CISO in a quite unceremonious fashion. At first it was simply an outlet for my anxiety and impostor syndrome. Then, I found my people and my purpose. Alt became main. Now, as the future of Twitter looks uncertain, I am here.

Although it may seem like it on the surface, I never joke. I also don't take myself too seriously, either. I'm here to build people up and help in any way I can.

I usually talk about #security, #tech, #leadership, #business, #mentalhealth, #adhd, and #burnout.

I recently launched a call-in radio style podcast called The Mindful Business Security Show to answer business leaders' questions about #cybersecurity
mindfulsmbshow.com

I also recently started a YouTube channel and a video series called Throttle Therapy, where I talk about burnout and mental health in the #infosec field.
youtube.com/@accidentalciso

I keep seeing people saying that they can't figure out Mastodon, and I kinda wonder if some of that is that it *feels* weird that you don't already know who to follow. Starting from scratch is tough.

I had a bit of that myself, but once I had found a small "starter" group of people to follow who were using it, the joy of this kind of thing came back quickly.

I'm really good at making typos so I revisited the text-completion support in 's osk-stub and added a completer based on the library and trained it with a German text from @gutenberg_org and was surprised how well that works. 1/2

Twitter Layoffs 

After another long #debugging session with the #librem5 , I decided to publish a comprehensive tutorial for remote graphical debugging with #QtCreator.

May you suffer less, compared to plain #GDB.

dcz_self.gitlab.io/posts/remot

*New live hack demo video*
CNN’s Donie O'Sullivan asked me to hack him again at DEF CON
— hacked him last time through service provider call center attacks, but this time I intruded using the easiest method: reused passwords found in data breaches.

We added a new option in called Restricted Boot that only boots self-signed kernels and distro-signed ISOs. I talk about how we approached this feature at length in this blog post: puri.sm/posts/introducing-pure

Time for an . I've been involved in and since the late `90s. My career started as a sysadmin, pivoting to security. I'm the President of @purism and work on hardware and software to protect , and freedom.

I've written a number of books (kylerank.in/writing.html) and was a long-time columnist for Linux Journal magazine.

I have many hobbies including , refurbishing mechanical , , , and many other things.

Is it weird that I don't know how to knit, but I want a machine (like a Brother KX-350, but a KH-930e would be cool too)?

How to do threads... 

Hi and welcome! 👋

I'm Gina aka foosel. I'm a nerd, full-time open source maintainer and creator of OctoPrint ("the snappy web interface for your 3d printer"), and in my free time I also happen to game (video games and boardgames), bake bread (since before the pandemic even!) or go bouldering.

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