Notices by Lesley Carhart :unverified: (hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange)

Oh my god people

I don't know how Teramind managed to get two people's photos completely mixed up with somebody else, tag a dead person as the future of cybersecurity, and include someone under community legal action, but this is the most egregious case of LinkedIn lists I have ever had the unfortunate luck to be included in.

I was on @smashingsecurity and we were extremely silly but educational. Come find out the correct star sign to catfish people. It is not Wars or Trek, sadly.

https://www.smashingsecurity.com/449-how-to-scam-someone-in-seven-days/

I think the only other more ludicrous accusation I have received on the internet was somebody claiming that I used my position as a conference organizer to sleep with male band members.

I had not met the band, and am queer and asexual.

(Me just happily going along as a political refugee in another country publicly speaking against LLM use.)

Yo, I just got accused of both using LLMs to write content and shilling for the (current) US military industrial complex, and I have not seen a human being be more confidently incorrect on the internet since somebody mansplained Ian's own research to them.

I think one of the wildest parts of the Epstein Files fiasco to me is billionaires are so different that they talk about the darkest most blackmailable secrets of the worlds elite in gmail when I am miserably embarrassed Google is retaining my everyday online cosplay purchase history to train AI.

I have to have a deeply uncomfortable conversation with people my age and older about how they’re missing essential skills ATS will automatically reject without. How they’ll look to the computer worse than a new grad. Don’t trust corporations. Never trust corporations.

One of the crappiest trends I’m seeing in my mentorship sessions today is people getting laid off from large corporations after 20-40 years of silo right now. It’s really appalling if not unexpected.

If you’ve been somewhere over 5, 10, 20 years it’s worth looking at your employability elsewhere.

I’m hiring (Australia remote) Senior OT DFIR http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dragos/jobs/5013899008

This isn’t targeted at anyone in specific - I have had the conversation like 6 times this week,
Americans -
You need a work visa to work in another country, -even remote- unless they allow digital nomad
You can’t just go to most countries on a tourist visa and start looking for a visa sponsor & job

This Threads series is … really a great synopsis of how insane the past 24 hours have been on X since the location feature was switched on and then… quite promptly off 😀😅🫠

https://www.threads.com/@barrettpall/post/DRYI50AknvO

Nobody really knows what screenshots are real or fake, nobody knows what’s just broken on geolocation because X fired their engineers, but a statistically improbable bunch of “American” alt right accounts popped up as created in Thailand and Nigeria.

It’s pretty expected 2025 bananagrams.

In conclusion this is screwing over everyone except five problematic red team “rock star” seniors in a trench coat.

Cybersecurity also isn’t ready for the conversation about how we as an entire industry trick young men into perceiving red team as a way to be legally allowed to be a high tech, vigilante thief and then hire them for crap salaries to write repetitive and futile vulnerability assessment reports.

Women and older career switchers are generally not even exposed to red team as an option of interest that they’d be good at using socialized skills, which is kinda crazy when the most ignored people in society who can pretty much walk in anywhere are older women. Instead we portray it like esports.

Cybersecurity isn’t ready for the conversation about how bad sexism and ageism are in the whole pen test / red team community, or how influencer culture and the saturated market are enabling it to get worse. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tryhackmes-advent-cyber-2025-zero-women-creators-look-josh-mason--rz7ie?utm_source=share

I have Medicare for the time in my life.

I can get all the small things I could never get fixed… fixed. I don’t ever have to hoard medicine or give myself stitches again.
I have no idea what happens now. My plans only went to Tuesday. Maybe I do the reserves again, get another degree. I don’t know.

(You should all 👀 when established US hacking cons start losing venues over current politics,)

I have a friend who prefers to stay anonymous who gives this amazing talk in non US (but allied) countries about how long their internet will -really- function if they lose all comms with American data centers and it’s… phew. It’s a thing. Some resilient ones will last a few weeks before certificates expire. But CF is a wrench.