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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 3d ago

Pick what's more disgusting: FOTUS using photos of dead soldiers coming home to fundraise, that he's wearing his dorky grifty hat (for sale), or that he's promising so-called 'national security briefings' to small-dollar donors.

He is a vile, repulsive, empty being.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 3d ago

"Hegseth’s suggestion that making the military more lethal is a lawyer’s job was particularly unnerving to many JAGs, who interpreted it as a signal to pay less regard to the international laws of war, such as those enshrined in the Geneva Convention, to which the U.S. is a party."

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/hegseth-comes-lawyers/686351/

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 4d ago

RE: @skykiss@sfba.social

Exactly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 4d ago

He's 85. EIGHTY-FIVE! These antequated clowns feel entitled to their seats until they die. At least Pelosi and Hoyer have (finally) stepped down for the next generation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/12/jim-clyburn-reelection-decision/

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 4d ago

I agree completely w/this former Fidelity fund manager's observations...

https://nitter.net/gnoble79/status/2031757996510839191#m

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 4d ago

Aaand now it’s wetlysnowing in DC …

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 4d ago

FOTUS: “The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.”

Jeezus this guy can't read a fucking room to save his life....

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 4d ago

Planet Labs and Vantor restricting access to satellite imagery of the Middle East.

They say they "were not ordered by any government to restrict image access."

Yes but they don't NEED an 'order' ... they have federal contracts and know the government can always cancel them and/or investigate them for not "being a team player."

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · 5d ago

WaPo: The anonymous artists who have targeted President Donald Trump with satirical statues and installations in Washington struck again on the National Mall on Tuesday morning with an enormous statue of the president embracing the deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a reenactment of a famous scene from the movie “Titanic.”

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Mar 05, 2026

"Hegseth provided at least one moment of clarity: He showed, yet again, why he is an execrable choice to lead the Pentagon. Like his boss, he does not talk to the American people so much as put on performances for them, and this morning, he played the role of the Fox News pundit castigating other journalists. "

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/03/pete-hegseth-american-soldiers-iran-media/686240/

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Mar 05, 2026

"Hegseth apparently prefers to sound more like a Call of Duty player leading a raid than a sober and judicious secretary of defense: “Death and destruction from the sky all day,” he said, along with other empty phrases such as “We’re playing for keeps.” (As opposed to what, exactly?)"

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/03/pete-hegseth-american-soldiers-iran-media/686240/

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Mar 05, 2026

Shipping updates...

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Mar 04, 2026

War Powers vote dies in Senate.

The GQP are utter cowards and continue to put politics and party ahead of country and sanity.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Mar 04, 2026

Americans stranded in the Middle East say the State Department hotline Marco Rubio told them to call plays a recorded message warning: “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time. There are currently no United Staes evacuation points. Please continue to check the embassy's website for updated information. "”

https://www.aol.com/articles/americans-trying-escape-middle-east-140153039.html

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Mar 04, 2026

One of the best scenes from any finance movie. Still gives me chills thinking about when I was trading during the GFC -- nice to see no CGI, no SFX, and lots of silence in the room. And of course, phenominal casting, acting, and delivery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISDgcB-J4fQ

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Mar 04, 2026

The People's Democratic States of Amerika

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/04/nx-s1-5717031/ice-dhs-immigrants-surveillance-confrontation-deportation-mobile-fortify

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Mar 04, 2026

My Uber driver this morning was a lawyer from Lebanon ... we had a *very* good conversation about things in the Middle East. Was refreshing to get 'local' views on things - I only wish the drive home was longer!!

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 14, 2026

Oh dear chripes..these idiots.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/02/suicide-only-one-option-social-security-staff-newly-assigned-phone-duties-raise-concerns-over-training/411429/

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 14, 2026

Proud to be an alumnus of American University, which is one of the schools now on SECDRUNK KegBreath's naughty list.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/politics/us-military-top-universities-tuition-assistance

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

Per BBG:

"The US Transportation Security Administration will now refer to non-US citizens as “aliens” in its regulations, according to a change announced Friday.

The decision was included in a final rule signed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The government said it was making the change to “align TSA’s regulatory language with statutory terms and definitions in the Immigration and Nationality Act,” a law enacted in 1952. "

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

It's ironic that Meta privately talks about launching a controversial surveillance product during a period of unrest that would distract its critics when that unrest is caused, in large part, by Meta's own products faciltating the conditions of chaos in society it wants to hide behind.

How convenient.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

He looks like a constipated toddler getting ready to throw a tantrum. In other words, an accurate portrayal, yes?

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

Gift link to the big WSJ article regarding the internal chaos and dysfunction under Noemadowski at DHS...

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/chaos-kristi-noem-homeland-security-f095ac95?st=WHZ7n1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

Gotta love Duffleblog, the Onion of the military and natsec community...

https://www.duffelblog.com/intel-whistleblower-accuses-director-of-national-intelligence-of-being-tulsi-gabbard/

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

Per WSJ, the 'special government employee' Corey Lewandowski. a political hack with NO law enforcement experience whatsoever, pressured and punished DHS officials until he was issued a badge and gun. So far, it seems he's got a badge.

(FBI Director Kash Patel, with a similar background, did the same thing, btw.)

somethingsomething abuse of power and ego trips...

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

Per WSJ, Noemadowski fired a Coast Guard pilot (and told him to fly home commercial) after her favorite blankie was left on a luxury DHS 737 MAX ... only to rehire him once they realized that someone needed to fly the grifting lovebirds back home to DC after their visit.

Clearly these are "the very best people" as Demented Donnie likes to hire, right?

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

Good move...

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/amazons-ring-cancels-flock-partnership-amid-super-bowl-ad-backlash.html

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity prof in MD overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards cyber, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. \m/ Posts deleted weekly.

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@rickf@indieweb.social · Feb 13, 2026

If you sign your kids up for a 'Trump Account' kiddie savings account you do so on a -- get this -- 'IRS Form 4547'

4547? This regime will do *anything* to reference, patronize, promote, and/or glorify Demented Donnie's snowflakey ego.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4547.pdf

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