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IT / Gearhead / Gaming Enthusiast. Jack of all trades, master of some.

Overland Park, KS
Joined March 2010
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Replying to @donttrythis
A rare photo of a wild Bureaudactyl. The damage they can cause is immeasurable...
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I just read something wrong and a neologism appeared out of whole cloth in my brain. Bureaudactyl. A particular dinosaur, large and slow moving, powerful but stupid, with a very thick hide. Not much you can do when one is in your way...
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These 39 bots operate in lockstep, tweeting the same content on nearly identical schedules. They were created in multiple batches of 3 to 5 accounts over the past two years, and periodically switch up which clickbait site they’re promoting.
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They always tell us the tools of mass surveillance are intended for use only against the faraway Other; the foreign enemy, the terrorist, the criminal. And then, just a few years later, we realize precisely the same system secretly surrounds us at home. theguardian.com/us-news/2019…
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1. Producer and activist Andrew Duncan bought 300 tickets to tonight's Nets vs Raptors game and is hosting hundreds of Chinese pro-Democracy activists to protest the NBA. They're all wearing "Stand With Hong Kong" t-shirts
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🔥 CVE-2019-14287 A flaw in Sudo—that comes installed on almost every #Linux OS—could let users run commands as "root" even when they're restricted. Details ➤ thehackernews.com/2019/10/li… How? Just by specifying user ID "-1" or "4294967295" in the command instead of the root.
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Detect suspicious keyboard layout loads with this #Sysmon config & Sigma rule > Example: Allows you to detect CN 🇨🇳, VN 🇻🇳, IR 🇮🇷 remote users that connect to your servers maintained by US 🇺🇸 staff only Sysmon Config github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/s… Sigma Rule gist.github.com/Neo23x0/62a7…
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Edward Snowden on Obama's legacy: "What we saw is that a young senator, who campaigned on a platform of ending mass surveillance … once he sat in the chair himself, did not extinguish the program; rather, he extended and embraced it." bit.ly/2oD0guT
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WiS-KC wants YOU!! (Just imagine Lady Liberty pointing at you in her top hat!) Consider nominating yourself or someone you know for Vice President, Membership, or Events, and check out wiskc.org/2019-elections for more information.
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gee i wonder
How is it that there has been just one whistleblower?
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Woke up to text from senior Dem House staffer: “The dam has broken here. We’re going to impeach.”
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Stable 14 Prepare to Be Boarded A Tale of Kubernetes Plunder and Cryptob... youtu.be/BwxyU2DLKiE via @YouTube
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Y'all, I'M IN TEARS watching the world throw down for the #ClimateStrike & the New York march is still hours away. This is the massive, diverse, inter-generational global climate mobilization we have always dreamed of, led by youth and frontline communities. THANK YOU ALL! 💚
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Our Executive Director @trevortimm on today's @Snowden lawsuit: “If only the Justice Department was as concerned with the systematic legal violations carried out by the US government’s mass surveillance programs as they are about trying to blunt the impact of a personal memoir.”
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Protesters Erect Trump-Like Rat Balloon, Change President Street To 'Barack Obama' Avenue Ahead Of President's Baltimore Visit cbsloc.al/2UPMqRT#.XXuibzCkw…
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Treat every network like a Huawei network.
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