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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange
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Author, game designer, technologist, teacher.

Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board.

Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security.

Following back if you have content.

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Joined November 06, 2022
Website:
https://shostack.org
Latest book:
https://threatsbook.com
Opsec status:
Currently clean
Youtube:
https://youtube.com/shostack

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Feb 28, 2026
So: What comes next? What does the US want from Iran, what's our plan for getting it, and what are the side effects of our plan? I feel that since 2001, the US has been unwilling to answer those exceptionally simple questions. (And yes, maybe before, but for example, the goal of Gulf War I was "restore the status quo ante.")
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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Feb 27, 2026
Has Jack Dorsey ever run a profitable company? That seems sort of relevant in evaluating his claim that AI changes everything.
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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Feb 23, 2026

NASA: We discovered an issue where the rover's calculated position was off by 1mm because of 25 corrupted bits in memory.

Meta: Well, sometimes it just goes and deletes your inbox! throws up hands

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars/

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Feb 22, 2026

If it doesn't rebuke "qualified immunity," it's just off broadway theater, not champagne.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Feb 22, 2026

If only there were a conflating factor that muddied the picture, he wrote, quote tweeting on his pocket computer.

But alas, I have no cognitive capacity to make a counter-argument in this reel. @markhurst.bsky.social https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vplvqcy7a225mwtje3sld62d/post/3mffiax5nb22g

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Feb 01, 2026
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the ... right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
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Maybe I’m out of touch with what “everyday Americans” care about, but I’ve literally never heard anyone say they wanted the US to take over Greenland. Or anything else about Greenland, come to think o
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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Jan 20, 2026
@mattblaze@federate.social At a diner in rural Red Square, Greenland was all these average Americans who happened to be vacationing in Russia wanted to talk about.
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Commanders specifically ordered Navy SEALs to fire on and kill two survivors of (alleged) drug boat sinking in September. "The order was to kill everybody". Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as h
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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Nov 29, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social The phase “kill them all” was clearly a stain on a commander almost a thousand years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominus_qui_sunt_eius
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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
@adamshostack@infosec.exchange

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange · Nov 26, 2025
I'm especially pleased with this line in a thing I just wrote: "You should be aiming to catch up with the attackers, not your peers."
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