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   Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 20:38:10 JST Tinker ☀️

   Looks like Corporate #infosec has made it's choice.

   #RSAC is filled with talks embracing AI and making it "secure".

   And they invited and encouraged the Trump regime to spread its disinformation - fully sanctioned and encouraged by the conference leadership(and by conference attendees who laughed at the regime's jokes and lies and issued no challenges or stands during the talk).

   With the ostracization of #ChrisKrebs by industry and the full embrace of Kristi Noem as a speaker, this was the moment that infosec made its bed.

   Y'all lie in it now.

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     Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 20:38:09 JST Tinker ☀️

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     This is damning.

     Kevin Collier, journalist from NBC News states:

     "I will say [Kristi Noem] has come out swinging, insisting her vision of CISA will improve [DHS] and falsely describing its previous work as being substantially devoted to policing misinfo.

     The crowd has been relatively into it. Tepidly bit on her laugh lines. No boos, no heckling. This is a corporate crowd, not Def Con, but I would have not been surprised to have seen some disruption."

     Source: https://bsky.app/profile/kevincollier.bsky.social/post/3lny67kekqc26

     #infosec #RSAC

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     robert daniel pickard (rdp@notpickard.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 22:46:55 JST robert daniel pickard

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     @tinker i don't know if defcon would react differently

     last year was so full of feds and cops giving presentations that i broke my brain and i decided i won't be going back

     i really think 2010 black hat having Michael Hayden was a turning point. I remember the room being pretty evenly split between boos and fanboys. i think the fed fanboys have gained ground at blackhat and defcon now

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     wall-e / Daniel (wall_e@ioc.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 22:51:24 JST wall-e / Daniel

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     @tinker also highlights a problem I've had with the US infosec scene for a while now: Y'all seem much too close with your law enforcement and defense agencies.

     They are not necessarily your friends. While they might share a common goal of securing the businesses you work for, on a larger scale, they are an adversary when it comes to digital communication.
     Especially now with your current regime

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     wall-e / Daniel (wall_e@ioc.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 22:51:25 JST wall-e / Daniel

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     @tinker this ties into a thought I had recently:

     How does responsible disclosure work in a world where these systems are used by a fascist government to harm people?

     Should anyone really be helping these fucking collaborators free of charge, to make their systems more secure and less destroyable?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 22:52:59 JST Rich Felker

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     • wall-e / Daniel

     @wall_e @tinker https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/110792959111399582

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     Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 11:40:27 JST Tinker ☀️

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     • Troed Sångberg

     @troed - No idea. But I hate to break it to you, management and policy is actual infosec. Tech folks who wield the tools do so at the behest and direction of the decision makers.

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     Troed Sångberg (troed@swecyb.com)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 11:40:30 JST Troed Sångberg

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     @tinker Were there any actual infosec people in the crowd or just infosec-aligned managers?

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     The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus (lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 11:42:11 JST The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus

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     • robert daniel pickard

     @rdp @tinker DEF CON needs to be brought back to pure hacker energy and a serious #ACAB attitude.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 12:55:57 JST feld

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     • dsp
     • The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus
     @lambdacalculus @dsp @rdp @tinker It's been dead long before pool2girl happened, so how far back do we really have to go
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 13:08:29 JST feld

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     • dsp
     @dsp I think most of the problem is that it's too big now. It needs to be significantly reduced in size -- maybe not even normal public ticket sales
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     dsp (dsp@social.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 13:08:30 JST dsp

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     • feld

     @feld
     I have faith in the DEFCON crew honestly. During all these years, mistakes happen(ed) for sure, but this group is, in a sense, all of us here. We can reclaim a hope for a future filled with hacking, truth and ethics.