Focused on building resilience in democracies | Former U.S. intelligence officer | Chair, @ISRSngo | Board director & CISO | @TheCipherBrief @aiinonprofit

Joined May 2011
Very honored to be included in @TribeOfHackers Blue Team. Thanks so much to @marcusjcarey and @jen_jin, I can’t wait to sit down and read the whole book! I’ve loved and learned a lot from every edition of the #TribeOfHackers series!
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I feel like the one sandbox AI could never escape from would simply require it to generate an image containing perfectly spelled, properly centered, correctly rendered text.
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Dr. Dave Venable retweeted
The Odyssey. The Immovable Bed. Book 23. The ending Homer wrote. 4:38. All @imagine
Homer had a lyre. You have Grok Imagine. Create a compelling scene from Homer’s The Odyssey that shows what Grok @Imagine’s video and voice capabilities can do. We’re awarding $100K, $50K, and $25K to the top three videos submitted by quoting this post. 🧵
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New hypothesis: The ServiceNow UX was designed by someone who had once read an extremely detailed description of a webapp but had never personally encountered one.
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Dr. Dave Venable retweeted
Replying to @davevenable
Missed you last night, congrats on the documentary!
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Dear gas pump UI designers: There is absolutely no reason I should have to answer >5 unrelated questions just to start pumping gas.
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TODAY! NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable. To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: isrs.ngo/crinkpanel
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Tomorrow, June 4, NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable. To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: isrs.ngo/crinkpanel
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This Thursday, June 4, NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara Caroselli McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable. To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: isrs.ngo/crinkpanel
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Wondering whether the character name “Lorenzo Pelligrini” in @olensteinhauer’s “An American Spy” is a reference to Foucault’s Pendulum…
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Dr. Dave Venable retweeted
Better understand agentic AI systems and mitigate the cybersecurity risks using a new guide we authored with @ASDGovAu and others. View the joint report. #Cybersecurity #AgenticAI media.defense.gov/2026/Apr/3…
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World War III started a decade ago. We’ve just been calling it ‘technical debt.’
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Dr. Dave Venable retweeted
Dr. Dave Venable’s latest briefing captures a shift in modern conflict and most analyst will miss what actually changed. Read: isrs.ngo/fpb/burning-the-exi… It's not just an energy crisis, but a shift in how complex systems are targetted.
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Ok, someone just sent this to me, and I absolutely love that @Grokipedia thinks that @DavidVenableQVC and I are the same person: cryptography patents, cookbooks, broadcast career, journalism degree, NATO keynotes, and Fortune 100 cyber advisory: grokipedia.com/page/david_ve…
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It keeps getting better
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Greenland’s strategic relevance isn’t about sovereignty. It’s about long-term access in a contested Arctic. In ISRS’s latest Flashpoint Briefing, @BAMcCown and @davevenable examine why access assurance and alliance legitimacy now define Arctic risk. isrs.ngo/fpb/greenland-strat…
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When the AI adds “genuinely” to a response… 🤔
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Well, if it’s not us-east1, it’s Cloudflare… And it’s always DNS
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