Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

# 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
https://www.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.
https://www.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 #phosh's osk-stub and added a completer based on the #presage library and trained it with a German text from @gutenberg_org and was surprised how well that works. 1/2

#librem5 #phosh #linuxmobile

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.

https://dcz_self.gitlab.io/posts/remote_debugging/

*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.

... without flooding the timelines.

Begin by typing out your first message. Easy-peasy.

Next choose the privacy/visibility setting. If you want to broadcast this thread to the masses, choose the Public option.

Send it out.

Notice your post appear in the timeline(s). Click it, then reply to that post.

Type out the second part.

**Important Bit** Change the privacy/visibility of this post to Unlisted.

Now post your reply.

Repeat for all subsequent parts of your thread.

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.

Tomorrow 11/2 at 11:30AM EDT: I'm joining a panel of experts in DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure) for some lively discussion around #DPI and #opensource https://www.frontiersdigitaldevforum.com/agenda/are-we-building-a-dpi-dystopia

A tip for those who haven't seen this yet. #Mastodon has its own "#verification" system. Adding a link to your Mastodon profile from your website using the rel="me" attribute will #verify that the owner of both the site and profile are the same, and you get this nifty green highlight to show it.

Ok, hosting my own now. I’m at @shawnp0wers@nerdlings.net

I saw this graph on HN and people are arguing about how they’ll need to get more familiar with low-level asm again. That’s not really the lesson I take. Seems like the real lesson is: get better at writing multi-threaded tasks and outsourcing work to other machines.

Btw. on #Mastodon you can edit your posts and as it is #FreeSoftware everyone can do that, no matter from which country.