Notices by Taggart :donor: (mttaggart@infosec.exchange)

If you're not:

White
Straight
Cis (Male preferred)
Christian (Evangelical preferred)
Rich

This regime wants you dead. They may not point the gun at you directly, but they sure as hell will put you in a position to die easily.

The BBC studied the use of its content in LLM output. It found that 91% of the output had mistakes. 51% of the mistakes were "significant."

I will not give up this fight. This technology is detrimental to human knowledge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-into-ai-assistants.pdf

@GossiTheDog https://github.com/search?q=%3CmachineKey+path%3Aweb.config&type=code

This could very well be a watershed moment for encryption on mainstream devices. If Apple delivers here (and they have to even if they appeal, if they want to remain in the UK), it will be the cookie given to the mouse to governments around the world—including the US.

https://www.theverge.com/news/608145/apple-uk-icloud-encrypted-backups-spying-snoopers-charter

While Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, still has her bio available on NASA's site, the linked "Honoring African Americans in Space," article for Black History Month is gone.

We are losing crucial parts of our story.

https://www.nasa.gov/former-astronaut-mae-c-jemison/

It might take some time to get past the "But that's illegal!" response. The law is not a body of documents any more than any contract. The soul of it lives in the people who accept its legitimacy. Those in power have rejected law.

The documents won't save us.

@feld Yeah, that tricked saved my bacon when building out the router.

Here it is: your complete guide to building a Wireguard network that doesn't require any open ports at home, and doesn't require any third-party tools. Just Wireguard, your devices, and a little elbow grease.

https://taggart-tech.com/wireguard/

Well I'll be damned. So they did.

https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2025-news-releases-and-advisories/Proposed-Initiative-Enters-Circulation-Requires-Future-Vote-on-Whether-California-Should-Become-Independent-Country

https://infosec.exchange/@Sempf/113908068771917175

@Sempf Are we seceding already?

Well, here's the cyberpunk part of the dystopia. Congrats Linux users, you're all criminals now.

Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.

https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20250127#sitenews

89 seconds to midnight. The closest the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has ever moved the Doomsday Clock to 12:00.

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2025-statement/

A detailed, well-written, and hilarious breakdown of the details of CVE-2024-55591, one of the latest Fortinet fiascos:

#ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence #CVE

https://labs.watchtowr.com/get-fortirekt-i-am-the-super_admin-now-fortios-authentication-bypass-cve-2024-55591/

Oh absolutely get the hell out of here with this "feature," YouTube. Apparently "Inspiration" is a non-removable tab in channel dashboards now that will LLM your material and come up with proposed (and nonsense) video ideas?

Burn it all down.

Hey hey! More #eBPF #malware in the wild, this one targeting Juniper devices.

https://blog.lumen.com/the-j-magic-show-magic-packets-and-where-to-find-them/

#ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence

Anonymous posting of a claimed former X employee. The author discusses how the algorithm was changed to promote right wing accounts and posts, and how the Eliza LLM was explicitly designed for election influence. Also an entire misinformation operation?

Horrifying if true.

https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"Lol," said Gandalf. "Lmao."

@catsalad This post is the social media equivalent of carefully bending a fork to fit perfectly in an electrical outlet, then willingly inserting it while standing barefoot in a puddle.

Wow do I wish Phanpy grouped push notifications too.

@catsalad I knew I'd regret it. Just not how much.