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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · 2d ago

Remembering the good times

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · 2d ago

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · 3d ago

Got an AI-written reply from a vendor we pay tens of millions of dollars a year to, and it doesn't feel good.

Three people spent enormous
deliberative effort for a whole day in very expensive company time to make every word of that.

You put it in an answer shredder and spit it at me with some editing.

Feels bad.

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · 4d ago

RE: @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · 4d ago

Uncropped original SwiftOnSecurity, 2014

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · 4d ago

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · 5d ago

Microsoft advertising Windows 98

#MillennialSnapshots
Maxim, November 1998

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · 6d ago

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Mar 07, 2026

Feels like there used to be a lot more fiction storylines about old explosives that degraded and would detonate if you jostled them

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Mar 06, 2026

This is what junior security people think a USB charger at the airport is

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Mar 06, 2026

Funny enough, my most positive professional experiences as a class are with General Counsel.

Seems like the kinda job you just smoke a cigarette and rub your eyes saying "oh my God not this shit again" and, "please repeat what you said they did," all day – forever.

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Mar 04, 2026

One of best aspects of my firm is a Teams chat run by our incident management department, with about 700 key techs across enterprise receive updates on problems and issues trending that way. Anyone can raise flag about something weird, if confirmed gets split out. Just discretion. Not intended for management consumption, that's handled by incident department.

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Mar 01, 2026

They really convinced Americans we'd have to defend Burger Town on our own soil

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 28, 2026

RE: @the_other_jon@mastodon.social

Dr. Horrible: “Conflict Diamond told me you were doubling with Bait ‘n’ Switch”

Moist: “Yeah…”
Dr. Horrible: “Yeah…?”
Moist: “It was alright. I kind of thought I was supposed to end up with Bait…”

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 28, 2026

Too much bait

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 22, 2026

What people don't understand is it never used to be this bad. Even the tunnels under the Internet used to be well-kept by their inhabitants. Radscorpions were trained by diligent owners and didn't need leashes. There was a sense of community.

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 09, 2026

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 07, 2026

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 03, 2026

On Unix, every user is a phile

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 02, 2026

@jpsays@mastodon.social is there any hack way in Windows firewall to apply outbound restriction to a program without enabling it for everything? Other than the IPsec/AppLocker program group trick?

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 01, 2026

NYT: Billionaire Faux Pas? Jeffrey Epstein Fails To Give Land Acknowledgement to Indigenous Inhabitants of Pedophile Island

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 01, 2026

Buying CPU because I can't afford RAM

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Feb 01, 2026

I have isolated most of my private life and media from my Windows desktops. That all resides in the Apple ecosystem including a separate Mac terminal I keep on my desk.

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 18, 2026

They had Master Chief show ass on the TV show. And I'm like, that's not fair. The only bare ass I want to see in Halo is the AI cortex reconstruction of the brain of the woman that's kind of his mom wearing skin-tight circuit print lycra but before she turned into Cyber Hitler.

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 11, 2026

(credit: buttersafe.com)

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 11, 2026

Working in IT used to mean a solidly upwardly-mobile career now I can't even saturate my goonbox PCI-E lanes or fill my DIMM sockets

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 11, 2026

Holy crap I'm cited in a 2023 academic law paper... about a pull request on GitHub for a security fix I have neglected to integrate for five years LOL.

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2353&context=faculty_scholarship

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 10, 2026

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 10, 2026

https://x.com/kairo_anatomika/status/2009439905437634973

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 08, 2026

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 08, 2026

Use CarPlay/AndroidAuto and FAST-CHARGE phone at same time. Compatible with USB-C phones. Just connect your CarPlay USB port, phone, and a USB-C charger.

Injects USB-C PD power into a CarPlay signal from USB-A (separate USB-C version available)
https://www.tindie.com/products/exode/usb-powerdata-injector-android-autocarplay/

EDIT: Oops they're sold out now but you can request a stock notice.

I ~THINK~ this does USB power injection to car USB data ports like what I linked, but just not at USB-C rates. $6. I used something like this with my Accord because it would not charge my phone while playing

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098L4HTVG

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Jan 03, 2026

"To the male Julodimorpha bakewelli beetle, a beer bottle lying on the ground looks like the biggest, most beautiful female he has ever seen. He doesn't waste any time when he sees her. The male immediately mounts the object of his affection." https://www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152 "Nothing will dissuade him from his lovemaking, not even the opportunistic Iridomyrmex discors ants that will consume him bit by bit as he tries to impregnate the beer bottle. Should an actual Julodimorpha bakewelli female wander by, he will ignore her, remaining faithful to his true love"

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Dec 21, 2025

When you realize that sleigh was transporting christmas presents

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Dec 05, 2025

Also be aware there are like 42 minute YouTube documentaries assembled with skill with real footage and they actually seem to overall built a great narrative. But there's all these little very subtle factual things they get wrong. It's delivered with authority but like the World War II ones have factual misunderstandings only an AI would do. I really was like truly enjoying one about American production numbers. And then you see there's like three subtly different versions of the same thing it's a production line. Sigh. It's really really valuable to sell advertising space to Americans

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Nov 25, 2025

You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable. You have literally no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable Who knows if I saved the entire firm doing this

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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever

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My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words. I cannot search three words in quotes. Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It wa

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Nov 14, 2025

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally. And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue. This could be said of technologies before. Doesn't make it wrong.

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Nov 14, 2025

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words. I cannot search three words in quotes. Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests. And now we have condescending mollycoddled shit.

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange · Nov 14, 2025

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

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