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September 24, 2023

September 24, 2023

September 24, 2023


Need a comparative/dual biography of Dzerzhinsky and J. Edgar Hoover pic.twitter.com/VH2B6ON3j7

— Mathias (@bucephalus424) September 23, 2023

Monkeys Fight a Duel to the Death

(Their Shattered Remains) https://t.co/tmQ8QGEmfB pic.twitter.com/FdAtJmt02S

— Wesley Morgan (@wesleysmorgan) September 23, 2023

Well now I know what rich frat boys were doing in 1890

Silas: [contemplates ivory handle on walking stick] "Dude... Cornelius bro, I'm sooo bored"

Cornelius: [knocks back another cordial] "Yo... Kinda messed up but... Let's give those monkeys our sabres and see what happens"

— Mac William Bishop (@MacWBishop) September 23, 2023

Weekly analysis (attribution by others)

-🇷🇺 diplo 🎣 ops
-🇰🇵 ops in response to 🇰🇷 mil exercises
-🇰🇵 ₿ ops using n-day
-🇨🇳 📱 ops
-🇨🇳 telco ops in Middle East
-🇵🇰 ops in 🇮🇳
-🇮🇷 ☁️ ops
-🦹🏽‍♂️ ☁️ ops
-🦹🏻‍♀️ SMS 🎣 ops

plus off/def tradecraft analysis etc. https://t.co/5cltYJ6609

— Ollie Whitehouse (@ollieatnowhere) September 23, 2023

"The Canadian government has amassed both human and signals intelligence in a months-long investigation of a Sikh activist's death that has inflamed relations with India".
https://t.co/ToBCuifCtS

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) September 22, 2023

Cool how you can still see remnants of 18th century tax evasion https://t.co/Wr8dXiIglB pic.twitter.com/Hgzd269I4s

— Natalia Jagielska (@WryCritic) September 23, 2023

Lord grant me the confidence of this Romanian geography textbook pic.twitter.com/feQvq3VYgO

— Alex Sakalis (@alexsakalis) July 23, 2023

My favorite part of embedded programming? Sometimes, the reason your code crashes when compiled with -O3 - but not without - isn't that you have some undefined behavior you desperately keep searching for... it's that a Vcore decoupling capacitor has a bad solder joint.

— lcamtuf (@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange) (@lcamtuf) September 23, 2023

Reminds me of a certain bug that only occurred on mornings. It turns out the tiny ~0.7 volt leakage out of the in-circuit emulator power pin was enough to maintain the contents of the static ram when powered off.

— Oren T (@OrenTirosh) September 23, 2023


🧵 Whenever a Western government makes a contentious intelligence-based claim there is always a chorus of “WMD in Iraq!” Its worth taking a moment to reflect on how meaningless this usually is.

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) September 23, 2023

Thread by @shashj on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

@shashj: 🧵 Whenever a Western government makes a contentious intelligence-based claim there is always a chorus of “WMD in Iraq!” Its worth taking a moment to reflect on how meaningless this usually is. All intelligen...…


https://t.co/djDe5wFd8C pic.twitter.com/1qgyqXX1vL

— Arnold B. Carreiro 📕🦍🦇 (@MasterZenek) September 15, 2023

Bears are learning to walk upright to increase Bigfoot sightings, so Bigfoot hunters come out, and leave trash in the woods for them to steal https://t.co/wY4k2Igmhc

— Anarcho Falcone 𓅛 (@Anarchorang2) September 15, 2023

1880s New York Assembly members would regularly introduce reform minded legislation to regulate business intentionally so that businesses would bribe them out of passing it. NEVER stop the grind.

— AquaImperium (@aquaimperium8) September 24, 2023

Mastercard knows where you shop, on what day, and how much you spend - and it sells that data widely to third parties like data brokers and advertisers. Our new investigation out today: https://t.co/GuC3nZFA9u 1/

— R.J. Cross (@FrontierRJ) September 21, 2023

If you’re a Mastercard holder and want to take more control of your data, you have some options to limit what the company does with your information. We outline it in our tips guide below 7/ https://t.co/CAahccYBCc

— R.J. Cross (@FrontierRJ) September 21, 2023

Thread by @FrontierRJ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

@FrontierRJ: Mastercard knows where you shop, on what day, and how much you spend - and it sells that data widely to third parties like data brokers and advertisers. Our new investigation out today: 1/pirg.org/edfun...…


#SpyNews - week 38 (17-23 September):
A summary of 76 espionage-related stories from week 38 coming from 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇳🇵🇰🇮🇱🇮🇷🇦🇪🇧🇷🇳🇱🇩🇪🇬🇧🇰🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺🇦🇹🇪🇬🇹🇷🇦🇿🇦🇲🇪🇹🇧🇬🇨🇦🇭🇺🇲🇰🇯🇵🇬🇷🇹🇯🇳🇴🇲🇾🇧🇲🇨🇺🇱🇰🇲🇲🇧🇩🇦🇺🇫🇷🇱🇾🇰🇪🇲🇦🇦🇫🇸🇬🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪🇲🇩🇪🇸🇨🇭🇸🇪🇹🇼🇰🇵 https://t.co/RnQeu6zvv0#Espionage #OSINT #HUMINT #SIGINT #GEOINT

— Spy Collection (@SpyCollection1) September 24, 2023
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