That cyberspace standards lawyer. Mostly tech contracts, AI, finance, IPR. Dir. of standards for OASIS, then general counsel & CPO. Ex-Wall St., ex-Minnesota.

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Joined July 2009
As the sun sets on Global #Encryption Day, a worthy cause midway through #Cybersecurity Month, just a reminder that all our problems here are not encryption.
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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#cybersecurity #PHP #IYKYK More tech info pointers available on safer services than this. Bluesky: try Ian (@lookitup.baby). Mastodon: start with @[email protected] For #standards or #FOSS people: it's not just home brew web server stuff. #Git uses PHP. 2/2
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It's a very bad #cybersecurity day on the internet. Has been for a few days back, too, but we just found out about the infection last night. Not just an AI thing. Consider minimizing your internet uses of important data for the moment. #PHP #vuln #IYKYK 1/2
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Or suffer an #AI glitch. Or have a hostile or weaponized government decide you voted wrong, and ask their pals at the commercial company to switch your account off. #identity #IdM 2/2
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This time we also had time to dawdle thru the #Montreal Basilica and Château Ramezay, which served at various times as territorial HQ for three of the four nations contending for control up here, over a few centuries. Building has seen a LOT. Great interpretative exhibits. 🇨🇦 4/4
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I think the last time I was here, it was with an OASIS colleague, hired away by a competitor shortly thereafter. She was new to our kind of standards, but expert and helpful with our earliest open source community efforts. I think the conference was in late November. 🥶 2/4
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Though I grew up at this latitude (45°N, midcontinent big snow), still, I like #Montreal's September better than early winter. I'm spoiled by Los Angeles now. 3/4
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Finishing up a few pleasant, sunny days in #Montreal. Got our business done, and proceeded to the restaurants and shameless tourism.
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While I grew up at this latitude (45°N, midcontinent big snow), still, I like September better than early winter. I'm spoiled by Los Angeles.
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We also had time to dawdle through the local Basilica, and Château Ramezay across from City Hall. It served at one time or another territorial HQ for three of the four nations contending for control here for several centuries. Great interpretative exhibits. 🇨🇦
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In #Canada, first in and around Toronto on business, and then to Montreal for fun.
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Jamie Clark retweeted
Researchers built an AI that doxes any "anonymous" reddit account in under a minutes for $2. eth zurich and anthropic published a terrifying paper proving that "practical anonymity" on the internet is officially dead. they built a fully autonomous ai pipeline that takes your pseudonymous posts, extracts your identity signals, searches the web, and figures out exactly who you are. no human investigator needed. the numbers are actually mindblowing.. - 67% of hacker news users identified correctly - when the system makes a guess, it is right 90% of the time - it even unmasked scientists whose interview transcripts were explicitly redacted for privacy the scariest part? even time doesn't protect you.. they tested users who took a full year break and changed their interests. the ai still matched their old and new profiles with 90% precision. it sees through your persona changes like they aren't even there. there is no defense against this. the agent splits the work into tiny, benign tasks like "summarizing a profile" or "ranking candidates." no api safety guardrail is going to flag it because no single step looks malicious.. every throwaway account. every "nobody will connect this to me" comment. it’s all just searchable micro-data now.
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#AI legal research. Impressive? Yes. Formidable eventually? Certainly. Reliable now? 54%, heh, heh. Whoever is using this stuff in contested live litigation today, please appear in court opposite me. Please. #ABABusLaw HT @[email protected]
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The foregoing is a quip from Dazza's pointers to the new-ish paper on #AI system prompt audits, which addresses (his words): high value, mission-critical, and sensitive workflows transitioning to an #AI basis. Yeah.
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Jamie Clark retweeted
Spoke to @zackwhittaker about the case of U.S. federal prosecutors going after an American for allegedly wiping his phone with a duress password during a border search. First case I've seen, though I've discussed the potential scenario with at-risk folks. techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us…
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Jamie Clark retweeted
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗
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America is still great. In an era of isolation, social fragmentation & economic disruption, its people & industries will still provide innovation and leadership. #Decentralization isn't scary. It's above a wrestling match among a handful of despots. It's an opportunity. #July4th
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Find something more worthy to do with that opportunity than just enriching your own sorry self. "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." — Harry S. Truman #July4th 🎇🎆
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