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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Feb 10, 2026

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Current snow forecast for DC is for up to about 20" over the weekend, which is double the level at which cannibalism becomes temporarily legal under local law.

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Jan 22, 2026

@mattblaze@federate.social /me stops chewing and looks up quizzically... You mean we're supposed to wait until it snows first?

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RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/115929786807742426 This reads like an Onion article. "'You know, the president, the [health] secretary, we talk all the time about religious freedom, health fre

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Jan 20, 2026

@mattblaze@federate.social Americans will have to travel with a carte jaune in the near future, assuming our passports get us anywhere to begin with.

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Jan 14, 2026

Amazing. It takes a certain ironic kind of bravery to demonstrate this much cowardice. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-democrats-appear-ready-to-duck-ice-dhs-government-funding-deadline #uspol

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Jan 12, 2026

@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange I guess there are worse things, but I wonder what this will do to colon cancer rates that are already rising.

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Jan 12, 2026

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Anyway, my intent in looking at locks and publishing my paper wasn't to disrupt the lock industry. I believed, as I still do, that mechanical locks and physical security have quite a bit to teach comp

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I never did reach a truce with the locksmiths. A couple years later, I met Billy Edwards, the author of that editorial denouncing me, at a trade show, and when he learned who I was he refused to shake

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NB: While I never intended to piss off locksmiths with my master keying paper, I did write a followup couple years later about safes and safecracking, partly out of spite. https://www.mattblaze.org/pa

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Dec 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social We should really start a multidisciplinary peer reviewed open access Journal of Spite.

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The thing to remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene says the occasional sensible or decent thing these days is that she's demonstrating that she's been capable of being sensible and decent all along, bu

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What I've not heard from Greene is any actual repudiation of her own past awfulness, which should be an absolute prerequisite for rejoining normal, reality-based society.

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Dec 15, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social I welcome what she's said and done recently, even if it is woefully insufficient. My most charitable view is that she has earned a right to fade away into obscurity, and not one bit more. But given her personality and lack of impulse control, I doubt she'll take advantage of even that. She's probably just lining up the next grift.

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The weirdest thing about Trump's disgusting, narcissistic, and utterly baseless response to the Reiner's murder (which I won't repeat or link to here; you can find it if you want) is that he seems to

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Dec 15, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social he should really leave the baseless conspiracy theories about ongoing criminal investigations to the professionals, like FBI Director Kash Patel.

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The Trump regime wants to start making a list of Jews (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/eeoc-university-pennsylvania-antisemitism-jewish.html). Now where have I heard that one before?

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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange the peope who think swastikas aren’t hate symbols want a list of Jews, in order to protect Jews. Naturally.

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Nov 22, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange Cue SCOTUS ruling that the US Government collecting a list of all Jews is good actually, which is supposed to be an unsigned opinion to shield themselves from shame except that Brett Kavanaugh parachutes in at the last minute to write an opinion that no one asked for explicitly calling for all the Jews to be rounded up into camps. John Roberts will then hit the speaker's circuit lamenting the lack of respect for SCOTUS.

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WTF. Trump snaps at reporter "Quiet, piggy!" after she pushes with line of questions about Epstein. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c70j210g4e7o I'd not seen this, but it apparently happened on AF1 la

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Nov 19, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social I'm under the impression that American healthcare professionals are forbidden by ethics rules from publicly diagnosing mental illnesses. But I also rather suspect that every foreign intelligence service on the planet has an expert on staff doing exactly that in classified reports for their respective governments, and that their assessments prominently include narcissistic personality disorder.

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Fighter jet flyby over the WH and up 16th street, rattled the windows just now. Presumably related to trying to impress the visiting Saudi prince.

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Normally they warn about these flyovers on the DC alert system, but I saw nothing about this one. A surprise, I guess.

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I think I figured out why I have such a visceral reaction to these unannounced flyovers: residual post-9/11 PTSD. For several weeks after 9/11, fighter jets patrolled around and over NYC. I think it w

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Nov 18, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social it's the same kind of confused thinking that inspired them to deploy the National Guard to DC and other American cities in recent months. Cowards need their safety blankets, and authoritarians will take any excuse they can get to militarize our society.

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Paul Krugman nails it: "Heritage has always been a fraud." https://mastodon.social/@rbanffy/115548080363599183

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Nov 14, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop eh... Yes, they were an explicitly partisan think tank heavily invested in culture war bullshit from their founding, but they had some minor successes that reflected serious thought and expertise here and there in the 20th century, including developing the blueprint for the Affordable Care Act and policies standing up to the Soviets during the late stages of the Cold War. It wasn't until the 21st century that they abandoned all rigor and any pretense of serious policy work, especially under Jim DeMint and onward.

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@taylor@social.axfive.net @mattblaze@federate.social They're not called "Direct message" in the UI. They're called "Private mention". The text right below elaborates, "Everyone mentioned in the post".

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange · Nov 10, 2025

@Gargron@mastodon.social @taylor@social.axfive.net @mattblaze@federate.social Please understand that I'm offering this as a friend, as someone that has advocated and evangelized for Mastodon and the Fediverse, and as someone who has overall enjoyed the platform that you've built for us. Rather than making excuses for poor UX that causes harm to users based on simple misunderstandings, it might be better to address the underlying issues. If people keep getting harmed, then it's not human error, it's poor design.

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