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self-appointed security, wireless, and telecommunications guru

USA
Joined March 2008
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how is it still legal to have an unsubscribe link where you then have to enter your email into a form, I know you know my fucking email, you emailed me
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My son is taking a cybersecurity class at the career center, he is normally a C/D student - straight A's in cybersecurity. He had a pop quiz today and he was like dude, these things are so hard. I was like - "OK just fire off the quiz questions to me." Mason: "Whats telnet port?" Me instantly: "23" Pop3 / 110 RDP? 3389 FTP? 20/21 DNS? 53 HTTP? 80 HTTPS? 443 Mason: "alright tough one... what steps would you do if you couldn't RDP to a server?" Me: "port scan, is it open? No? Firewall issue or RDP isn't enabled on that system or... using old version of RDP due to CredSSP." Mason: "OK, you the goat. Dad, you actually know your stuff." "And you can too, just keep going dude, I started from the same point you did, all about stacking that knowledge."
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Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year. So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away. It's called World Monitor. Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land. > Military movements. > Economic shocks. > Natural disasters. > Cyber incidents. > Flight paths. > Shipping lanes. + 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other. It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen. It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel. It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key. Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.
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Microsoft is laying off 9,000 Americans while simultaneously seeking approval for 14,181 new H-1B visa hires in 2025. Follow: @AFpost
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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian state media: U.S. tech giants in the region are fair targets Tehran published a hit list naming Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle, and Palantir offices across Israel, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi as legitimate targets. Iran already drone-striked Amazon data centers in Bahrain and the UAE last week. Source: CNN
🚨🇦🇪🇮🇷 BREAKING: Dubai has confirmed it shot down 2 drones near its international airport. 4 people were injured, while flights are still running normally. Source: Dubai Media Office
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A wave of concentrated cyberattacks targeting Israeli 🇮🇱 organizations has been observed.
Cyberwar Activity: Availability-Attack Claims and Data-Leak Advertising During the 2026 U.S.–Israel–Iran Conflict (28 Feb–9 Mar 2026) Between 28 February 2026 and 9 March 2026, multiple hacktivist-branded groups circulated claims of cyber operations targeting organizations across Israel 🇮🇱 (IL), Bahrain 🇧🇭 (BH), Qatar 🇶🇦 (QA), Kuwait 🇰🇼 (KW), United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 (AE), Jordan 🇯🇴 (JO), Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 (SA), and Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 (AZ). Reported activities included website/service disruptions, alleged network intrusions, and the advertisement of leaked data, with supporting screenshots depicting service outages, system interfaces, or monitoring outputs. More details : platform.stealthmole.com/cas…
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❗🇮🇱 Israeli spyware company Paragon posted their surveillance software's control panel by mistake. This is a major opsec flaw. Paragon's spyware has been used to target journalists, government critics, and human rights defenders.
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This would absolutely be worldwide headline news if the races were reversed
If these races were reversed it would be the number one story in America for a month. But this will get almost zero attention since a white woman is dead.
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此视频提供安全联系中央情报局的全套步骤。以下有几个在进行安全联系之前及在过程中务必考量的事项。中情局想知道中国的真相,我们正在寻找知道并能告知真相的人。
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We found a significant bug in the 𝕏 For You algorithm that resulted in users seeing far fewer posts from people that they follow. It should be fixed by tomorrow.
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We just blocked over 5,000 botfarm accounts. Interesting they all pivoted from their passion for Ukraine to Canada at the exact same moment. Most originated from Chinese Communist Party PLA efforts using Canadian, US and UK IP addresses.
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Avaya has more layoffs... 2024 the year of 10's of thousands of layoffs in telecom, tech, cloud comms. Not the year they thought it would be
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Looking to level up your call analytics game? We're excited to introduce #Scribe for #FreePBX and #PBXact, your new #AI best friend and transcription tool! Read more at freepbx.org/get-ai-transcrip…
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I see all the CCaaS noise. The CCaaS carriers added UC. They are going down market. NICE has a promo for 150 seats or less. Talkdesk is at $60 seat. Too many providers. Too much Yak-Yak-Yak. Businesses need Solutions, not hype or noise or a roadmap.
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I always find it interesting to hear "enterprise communications". Most businesses are not enterprise. Enterprise is about 30K companies. 32M businesses are SMB! So go talk about Enterprise, but the majority of the market happens in SMB
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Hezbollah says Israel is dropping leaflets with very dangerous QR codes. It would seem a bad idea to visit a QR code dropped in a war zone. You might get hit by an exploit but it also reveals a lot of client information to the server: IP Address Device Info Geolocation Data Cookies Mobile Carrier/Network User-Agent String
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a landmark 9-0 ruling on Wednesday that you will never hear about in the media, the US Supreme Court has undercut all DEI-based discrimination, sending the Marxists into a tizzy. The US Supreme Court's ruling that a St. Louis police sergeant can sue over a job transfer she claims was discriminatory lays the foundation for legal action against employers who push discrimination against white people in job hiring, work assignment and promotion. That’s right, those “diversity-preferred” job postings, the practice of passing over whites for promotions, discriminatory job transfers, pushing unfair diversity trainings, etc…all of these are now legally actionable. The ruling was championed by human rights groups as "an enormous win for workers,” but has lawyers for companies like Disney warning that it could have a chilling effect on employers' diversity initiatives. Disney’s "Pale and Male is Stale" policy is a prime example. Disney has allegedly used it to drive out white animators by giving them the worst assignments, even though they them have the most experience, skill, and seniority, in order to make the job humiliating enough that they quit…which many of them have done. The same companies argue that there is ‘good discrimination’ and “bad discrimination’, that white people should be purposely disadvantaged to pave the way for diversity. The lawyers stated that the decision will ‘complicate’ DEI programs and limit their ability to discriminate against white men. The Supreme Court torpedoed these claims, re-asserting that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. Further, the court has established a relatively ‘low standard’ for bringing discrimination cases. The victim need not suffer ‘actual harm’. An employee only must show "some harm" under the terms of their employment, AND that harm need not be "material," "substantial" or "serious." The decision makes it much easier for workers to sue over discriminatory practices. This is a big win for equality!
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tonight 8x8 has a market cap of $330M and about $450M in debt. Someone could scoop up $700M in ARR and $150M in cash for less than $1B
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