No, you did not send a numeric code to my email to help me sign in "for my security." You did it because you couldn't be arsed to implement proper app-based authentication.
Control of any email address collapses down to a single factor for authentication. Do better.
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Tarah Wheeler
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Tarah Wheeler
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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In defense of Reviewer 2.
Dear Reviewer 2: Reviewers 1 and 3 snarked uselessly. You, however, did a damn fine job giving me actionable changes, sight reading the missing recall stat from my own graph, pointing out what it meant to my theory, and making my work better. Thank you.
Love, someone going to the conference and who has a brand new peer-reviewed publication thanks to your "weak accept". I ain't proud; I'll take it.
Dear Reviewer 2: Reviewers 1 and 3 snarked uselessly. You, however, did a damn fine job giving me actionable changes, sight reading the missing recall stat from my own graph, pointing out what it meant to my theory, and making my work better. Thank you.
Love, someone going to the conference and who has a brand new peer-reviewed publication thanks to your "weak accept". I ain't proud; I'll take it.
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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@josephcox v interested in this one
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Tarah Wheeler
@Tarah@infosec.exchange
♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Dec 23, 2025
So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.
Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D
https://cpi.harris.uchicago.edu/2025/12/23/harris-cyber-policy-initiative-taps-top-hacker-to-design-new-security-model-for-water-utilities/
Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.
Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D
https://cpi.harris.uchicago.edu/2025/12/23/harris-cyber-policy-initiative-taps-top-hacker-to-design-new-security-model-for-water-utilities/
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Tarah Wheeler
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Dec 09, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop some of my research is around hapax legomena, words that appear only once in a text. It refers to Greek poets deliberately or unconsciously choosing to use Homeric words to allude to specific parts of the Iliad or Odyssey. It’s now a technique to help in authorship attribution in digital humanities.
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Tarah Wheeler
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Tarah Wheeler
@Tarah@infosec.exchange
♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Nov 27, 2025
@Canuckduff does literally anyone know what the Skookumchuck is on the internet but you and me?
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♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Tarah Wheeler
@Tarah@infosec.exchange
♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org
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Nov 27, 2025
I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. It's just...I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade. That's all.
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