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May 7, 2023

May 7, 2023

May 7, 2023


What people call “mental illness” is most often the result of pathological, radicalized network configurations. See my paper below.https://t.co/iJoa0RsLS7

— Dave Troy (@davetroy) May 7, 2023

one of my favorite moments in private space flight is when shatner came down from his trip with bezos and was like listen, space is death, I felt nothing but profound grief up there and bezos is like shut the fuck up let’s pour champagne on this motherfucker pic.twitter.com/n1IOMvceFl

— Seva (@SevaUT) May 7, 2023

For You tab serving me up exactly what I wanted: the Unabomber reimagined as a hustlebro for LinkedIn drop shippers pic.twitter.com/tTLbgtZqoU

— cameron wilson (@cameronwilson) May 6, 2023

pic.twitter.com/0dSJwT2jWA

— Jonny Sharples (@JonnyGabriel) May 6, 2023

All messages on Bluesky, downloaded and in Postgres

I downloaded all 1,680,399 posts on Bluesky | Worth Doing Badly

I downloaded all the posts on Bluesky as of 2023-05-01. Then I did some data analysis on the 1680399 posts from 45457 accounts.


The million dollar question: which MSS-sponsored APT has found its way into our sights this time? Answers on a post card

— Intrusion Truth (@intrusion_truth) May 5, 2023

Mysterious professors. Front companies. Hacking schools. This investigation has all the good stuff.

— Intrusion Truth (@intrusion_truth) May 6, 2023

How do you leak an OEM private key for a trusted boot system. What kind of incompetence leads to that key ever being in a place where it can leak. And if that key can leak, what secret keys aren’t going to leak? https://t.co/6uzDHI0aVQ

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) May 6, 2023

#OSINT Tip:

Did you know you can recover scrubbed metadata from a PDF that wasn't scrubbed properly?

The changes are incremental, and the history is stored in the PDF.

This command removes the "updates" to the PDF metadata:

exiftool -PDF-update:all= file.pdf pic.twitter.com/jMB9sfOA0k

— Jon Gorenflo 🇺🇦🌻 (@flakpaket) May 5, 2023

As I understand it, you need to remove the data with:
exiftool -all= file.pdf

Then you need to “re-linearize” the PDF with something like qpdf:
qpdf -linearize file.pdf scrubbed.pdf

See the paragraphs at the top of the “PDF Tags” section at the top of this page.…

— Jon Gorenflo 🇺🇦🌻 (@flakpaket) May 6, 2023

In the depths of World War 2, the Russians were running seriously low on manpower.

Faced with the possibility of losing the War, the Russians decided to start recruiting Muppets to fight for them

a short historical thread 🧵

/1 pic.twitter.com/iE5ClG6gpg

— Tom Zimbardo (@TomMostlyZen) May 5, 2023

any of you speak German who can translate this for me pic.twitter.com/9hYXjN6Ora

— Ray 🕶️ (@nraymz) May 6, 2023

Oh Buddy. You’ve done more than make them think about it. You’ve bonded them forever in a group text where one of them will share a wedding photo or promotion news and one of the others will say “i don’t know, SMELLS LIKE FAILURE.” And then they’ll all die laughing. pic.twitter.com/Di1M62gZuN

— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) May 5, 2023

Never have I started reading a paragraph with more delight only to end it with abject disgust and disappointment pic.twitter.com/t5uCk53EsK

— Joseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻 (@PlanetofFinks) May 6, 2023

Belgium legalises ethical hacking: a threat or an opportunity for cybersecurity? - CiTiP blog

On 15 February 2023, Belgium saw the entering into force of a new ‘whistleblower’ law, which legalised ‘ethical hacking’ even for cases where the hacked entity did not consent to it. In order to benefit from such decriminalisation, the law poses a number of conditions for ethical hacking, that have to be fulfilled in order […]


Under the new law, "serious disruption" is defined as a person/organisation being "hindered to more than a minor degree". Almost any protest imaginable would satisfy it. What we have actually done, therefore, is criminalised protest at the police's discretion. https://t.co/vJApTPad2S

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 7, 2023

It's also, and this is not as minor as it sounds, a crime against language. 'Serious' cannot possibly equate to 'anything more than minor'. This extremely broad and slippery use of language is a key mechanism in the purposeful expansion of executive power.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 7, 2023

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

macOS Internals · GitHub

macOS Internals. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.


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