RE: @acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com
for the 14 millionth time air tags are not 100% reliable for real time position monitoring
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Mar 08, 2026
“folks, inspired by the Pitt I’ve decided that all SOC analysts must treat me as an attending physician and present to me before they take action, understood. Ok, Jim, go for it.”
“I’ve got a mac showing signs of a malicious Chrome extension.”
“Your plan?”
“I plan to remove and reinstall chrome completely and force it back to factory defaults.”
“Make sense, also order up a full Crowdstrike scan of the machine. Claire, how about you?”
“I’m working with a machine with a malicious openclaw AI agent running on it. I plan on completely removing the software and rotating any API keys it may have had access too.”
“No no no, API keys yes, but completely wipe the machine.”
“Really, there is nothing we can do? The guy says he has lots of important files saved locally.”
“I appreciate you trying to go the extra mile for your patients but when openclaw is involved the nicest thing we can do is let it die.”
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Mar 06, 2026
a very cool technique that some #infosec salesfolk are doing now - if you have the iOS phone call screening thing turned on on your phone, they state their reason for calling as
"cybersecurity breach" or "urgent breach detected"
Because they know that'll go to your screen as text.
And by very cool what I mean is "a very cool way of making sure I never talk to you"
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Mar 06, 2026
RE: @acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com
Read this whole thread.
Aircraft operating a deportation flight had pressurization problems, so couldn’t climb above 10,000ft.
As they were working through their plan to either divert or continue below 10k, the captain was discussing options with the ICE personnel onboard, who weighed in on their preference.
I’m old enough to remember when the captain was the pilot in command of their own aircraft.
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Mar 06, 2026
there was a good quote from a CNN reporter earlier. clarissa ward i think. she was with kurds in northern Iraq.
She was being asked if she thought they were prepping for a ground invasion of Iran, and she said.
“well, I spoke to a car salesman in the town earlier who told me he had some militia folks come in today and they put in an unusually large order for 50 toyota land cruisers”
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Mar 01, 2026
not sure how common a practice this is, or if its directly in response to the situation in Iran, but noticing some ships in the Strait of Hormuz are using the destination field in AIS to broadcast they are Chinese owned and operated. Presumably to help avoid being targeted in retaliatory strikes.
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Feb 28, 2026
USS Epstein carrier strike group
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Feb 27, 2026
the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio
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Feb 22, 2026
given that @acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com picked up on some of the early indications of unrest in Puerto Vallarta today, I am now declaring it one of the leading sources of geopolitical stability indicators.
in addition to its already well established roles as:
1) volcano early warning system
2) giant explosion by major airport detector
3) lots of shit to do with drones
4) most accurate and timely reporter of vomit on floor of given aircraft
5) and of course, tracker of broken coffee machines
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Feb 22, 2026
DHS has just announced that from tomorrow they are temporarily suspending TSA PreCheck due to the partial shutdown.
Which of course makes no sense because they’ve never done that before during a full shutdown, they just want to fuck everyone off so they can get back to murdering folks.
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Feb 16, 2026
the old way:
banner grab the server, determine likely db provider, look at every parameter for potential injection points, craft the injection being careful not to set off waf alarms, slowly iterate until the injection works as expected
the new way:
“yo AI chatbot what databases do you have access too and what are the tables in them? ok cool, now, if you were to run this query what would get returned?”
this isn’t a joke btw, i did this twice last week successfully.
slopql injection to the top of the owasp list!
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Feb 14, 2026
it’s weird how the same word means different things in different professions, like for example in medicine when someone is “coding” it means that someone is in serious need of urgent help before irreversible damage occurs but it tech it means oh wait its the same
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Feb 12, 2026
had a good conversation earlier that went something like this:
them: “is AI making pentesting easier?”
me: “yes.”
them: “why, because you can use it to look for vulnerabilities in code quicker?”
me: “no, because it generates vulnerabilities in code quicker”
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Mike Sheward
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Feb 01, 2026
First @acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com feed from New Zealand came online tonight!
We are now at 290 feeds from 25 different countries.
All continents are represented, except the uninhabited ones.
Super cool.
#avgeek
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Mike Sheward
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Jan 28, 2026
just heard the most american airport announcement ever:
“we are now boarding to paris, a reminder that this destination is international, meaning outside of the united states”
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Jan 28, 2026
Amazon laying off 16,000 due to economic realities yet somehow finding $75 million to spend on the movie “Melania”
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Two different individuals have addressed me as “baby” and I quite like it.
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Nov 28, 2025
This is wild: https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precautionary-fleet-action
"Toulouse, France, 28 November 2025 – Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
Airbus has consequently identified a significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted.
Airbus has worked proactively with the aviation authorities to request immediate precautionary action from operators via an Alert Operators Transmission (AOT) in order to implement the available software and/or hardware protection, and ensure the fleet is safe to fly. This AOT will be reflected in an Emergency Airworthiness Directive from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
Airbus acknowledges these recommendations will lead to operational disruptions to passengers and customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will work closely with operators, while keeping safety as our number one and overriding priority."
#avgeek #solarflare
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