JeffJackson™ retweeted
Wild to see the CPC base radicalised against… modernising the backend of financial and payment architecture?
This is huge
Canada’s Real-Time Rail (RTR) is a new national payment infrastructure owned and operated by Payments Canada. It allows participating financial institutions, credit unions, and payment service providers to send and receive account-to-account payments that clear and settle in seconds, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
It launched on November 9, 2026.
How it differs from Interac e-Transfer
Many people confuse the two, but they are not the same:
•Interac e-Transfer is a consumer-facing service. You send money using someone’s email address or phone number. It feels fast for users, but historically the funds did not fully clear and settle between banks in true real time.
•Real-Time Rail is the underlying national “rail” (infrastructure). It handles the actual exchange, clearing, and settlement of the money in real time between financial institutions.
e-Transfer is expected to begin migrating its clearing and settlement onto the RTR in 2027. The familiar e-Transfer experience will largely remain, but it will eventually ride on the new infrastructure.
Key features
•True real-time settlement: Funds are available to the recipient almost immediately, and payments are generally final and irrevocable once settled.
•Always on: Works evenings, weekends, and holidays with no cut-off times.
•Data-rich payments: Uses the ISO 20022 messaging standard, so more structured information (like invoice numbers) can travel with the payment.
•Built-in fraud tools: Includes centralized fraud services (such as confirmation of payee and real-time risk scoring) from day one. Canada is the first G7 country to launch a real-time system with mandatory centralized fraud controls.
•Higher limits: System limit starts at $100,000 (financial institutions can set lower customer limits).
Current status and rollout
The system is live, but access is phased. Some smaller institutions and fintechs are already connected; the major banks are coming online later. The goal is for over 90% of Canadian bank accounts to have access by the third quarter of 2027.
In short, the Real-Time Rail is the modern backbone that makes instant, final, data-rich payments possible across Canada. It is not a new app or a replacement for e-Transfer—it is the national infrastructure underneath (and eventually supporting) faster money movement.
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JeffJackson™ retweeted
This is a gathering of the masses
That come to pay respects to the Wu-Tang Clan
JeffJackson™ retweeted
Please take 10 minutes to do this today as well as update your iPhones + Macs 🫡
Here is my 10 Minute Mac Security Checklist
It covers the min requirements to harden your Mac's security using system settings and free, open source tools
mac.0xosprey.com/
JeffJackson™ retweeted
PSA: This week was kind of a turning point for AI and cybersecurity. Please take this weekend to do some simple cleanup for your family. Some suggestions:
- Set up a password manager like 1Password and give your spouse or partner access to a shared vault. Teach them how to use it.
- Update your passwords for critical stuff - your email account, your bank or financial stuff, etc. Store in your password manager and use the strongest password you can.
- Use two factor auth for everything you can. SMS is not ideal although better than nothing. Google Authenticator or a passkey is better. Hardware key is safest.)
- Add a sim pin to your phone. Makes it harder to sim jack.
- Update your phone and your computer to the newest releases. Turn auto-updates on.
- Freeze your credit - takes 5 minutes.
- Get an IRS Identity Protection PIN.
- If you’re using claude code or have AI agents that browse the web, they’re probably using Node.js. It’s also vulnerable. Update claude code, update node on your machine.
- If you’re building stuff on your computer, ask claude or grokbot (which is connected to twitter and likely has the most current info) to audit any of your repos for vulnerabilities. Ask grok to make it a scheduled task so it can do this daily - things are moving very quickly in the space right now.
- Consider some light resiliency stuff. This probably sounds silly, but it sounded silly at the beginning of covid too. Having printed out copies of important stuff - especially financial accounts. Having some cash on hand. Having some shelf-stable food and clean water or a water filter. Having a map. Having a generator that can at least power your fridge or some devices. Cheap insurance.
Again, I don’t want to alarm people, but I was taught that you should have a Secure plan, a Comfortable plan, and a Wealthy plan. And it seems pretty clear the secure plan needs to now factor cybersecurity risk as a legit threat. Take a weekend and shore yourself up.
JeffJackson™ retweeted
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.
JeffJackson™ retweeted
Here’s where you can watch live referendum results.
results.elections.ab.ca/8400
🤞🤞🤞
JeffJackson™ retweeted
Carney’s what the world was waiting for. He’s much more than economist and central banker.
He’s a visionary and a clear eyed leader with a steely courage rarely seen.
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“Carney, 61, has spent all of 18 months in electoral politics, having never run for anything until his 2025 bid for prime minister.
An economist and former central banker in Canada and the United Kingdom, he surely understands how crucial robust commerce with the world’s wealthiest marketplace is to his country’s job market and gross domestic product.
That Carney opted to take his chances with the economy rather than submit to an imperfect deal with Trump is a perfect distillation of Canadian public opinion right now, vis-à-vis the U.S.”
Trump’s Trade War Is Helping Mark Carney Transform Canada thedispatch.com/article/mark…
JeffJackson™ retweeted
This Cindy Miller story has been absolutely heartbreaking
From Dan Campbell and Jared Goff after the game to TJ Lang’s emotional tribute with us this morning or Wojo’s article in the Detroit News, a lot has been beautifully said
I don’t know how Dan Miller held it together through something so cruel and unfair. But he had to for her, the love of his life gone way too soon. That strength is commendable and unfathomable
In an industry where we all tend to have stupid ego’s Dan has always blown me away professionally and privately with his kindness. Nobody deserves this but especially not Dan
Seeing Lions fans donate $45.21 to the Leptomeningeal Cancer Foundation in her name has been touching to see
I’m so glad we have a community this strong
#OnePride
JeffJackson™ retweeted
Is being 1st in everything good, @NatSparbeck?
I’m just wondering what Jared Goff has to do to get a little respect.
If only he were fast. I’d much rather have a mobile QB that turns the ball over, loses, and gets hurt all the time.
JeffJackson™ retweeted
#ableg
WOW!!!
Alberta’s top Separatist influencers had a MASSIVE drop in traffic since Russian Data Centres blew up!
- Danielle Smith
- Berta Proud Dad
- David Parker
- Criminal grifter Alberta Radios
Here’s 4 examples:
1. Danielle Smith: -73%
😳 DOWN 56k to 15k views
JeffJackson™ retweeted
Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it.
There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.
If they disappeared when Yandex went offline, this proves once again that Europe is not the source of the problems."
The big problem is that Russia figured out how modern society consumes information a decade ago, but the West hasn't.
There are millions of bots commenting and posting Russian propaganda. There are paid influencers spreading it, with Russian bots supporting their content.
There is a gigantic machine operating to radicalize and influence Western societies, and there is not enough defense in place.
It doesn't just influence elections, it sows discord, engulfs societies in culture wars, radicalizes teenagers, and shapes political decisions when elected officials fail to read the room.
That needs to change. And fast.
JeffJackson™ retweeted
The Kremlin intelligence psyop that has been poisoning American politics for decades is literally burning. Ukraine removed all the Russian bots on social media, just in time for the US midterm election.
Ukraine really is defending the entire free world!
Thank you, Ukraine! 💛💙
JeffJackson™ retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Ukraine torched three of Russia’s biggest data centers in four days, and Russian bots have all but disappeared.
Within 48 hours, Trump demanded Zelensky be replaced, and Musk whined that Zelensky had “gone too far.”
Hit a nerve, boys? Full timeline here 👇
deanblundell.substack.com/p/…
