straight up, I would trade every single moment of professional accomplishment and triumph I’ve experienced for one more day together with my family where everyone was healthy and we were all having a nice time.

sanderling inn, duck, north carolina, 1985

prigozhin is in his scamp arc. he’s mischief-maxxing. he’s hijinks-pilled. he’s shifted into rascal mode.

watching prigozhin talk shit about shoigu and the russian military:

proud to announce that yevgeny prigozhin has personally offered to give me $86 (USD) and a bottle of jewel of russia if i act as his champion in a slap duel with defense minister shoigu, streaming live this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY from a dirty alley behind a club in kitay-gorod at 0430 local time

Two myths that I often see repeated:

1. If a malware sample has 0 detections on VirusTotal it means it's undetectable by AVs.
2. If a sample has X+ detections on VirusTotal it means it's a malware.

Lots of well deserved remembrances of Ellsberg’s heroism today. I’ll just post my favorite passage from his incredible memoir, Secrets. He’s telling Henry Kissinger (who as many have noted is somehow still alive) what access to truly secret information can do to a person’s mind.

if i was a FVEY CI officer, my first thought on a RU-based company publishing on FSB ops wouldn’t be “look at the analytic freedom!” — it would be “why is the FSB comfortable with the world knowing about this now? did they figure out we were onto it in some way?”

keep in mind that foreign intelligence entities plan for a percentage of their ops to get detected/monitored/burned by either other governments or private industry. with that built into the cost model, laundering self-disclosure via controllable third-party can amount to a viable offensive counterintelligence tactic.

@activemeasuresllc I Love The Flag

i routinely say “no” to the authoritarian government i live under that arrests my employees and kidnaps my family members using off-duty police officers. they respect my independence.

it may surprise some people to learn that CISA’s Joint Ransomware Task Force (JRTF; a federal interagency body established by Congress to unify and strengthen efforts against the ongoing threat of ransomware) and IST’s Ransomware Task Force (RTF; a public-private group run by a think tank to work on non-binding policy “deep thoughts” about ransomware) are not — in fact — the same thing.

> If I told you that US venture capitalists promoted a Ponzi scheme that used a cartoon computer game to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from poor workers in the Philippines and send it to North Korea to fund a ballistic missile program, you probably wouldn’t believe me. Unless I said “… using crypto,” in which case you would probably say “oh yeah that sounds about right.”

I wish I could write like Matt Levine.

my boy <snorts loudly while taking a giant bite out of a renfair turkey leg that’s been in the fridge for 4 days> if you could only understand <wet grunt-fart> the complexities of <loudly passes a kidney stone while shitting at the same time> OCO where as relates vis-a-vis <snarls while leaping out a window to slide tackle a squealing hog, then screaming “AOOOOOGA”>

the content addiction continues as https://bsky.app/profile/wylienewmark.bsky.social now exists, but i’ll still primarily be posting here for the time being

Do Fortinet make remote access devices?

Kinda…

Rest in peace, Treat Williams.

That guy should’ve won an Oscar for Prince of the City — honestly one of the best films ever made — and as Xander Drax in The Phantom my dude was stuntin’ on everybody.

What a goddamn tragedy.

@bartmallio @john @TwShiloh

never used an RSS feed, sorry!

it’s almost like surveillance capitalism is a thing!?!?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-agencies-buy-vast-quantities-of-americans-personal-data-report-says-f47ec3ad

Chandelier toilet. Makeshift fake SCIF. I’m at the combination chandelier toilet makeshift fake SCIF.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23839629-trump-nauta-indictment