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

The most benign but still absolutely terrible part of Palantir surveilling every move we make in global groceries is someone actually does know and permanently record when I eat nothing but paneer tikka masala instant meals for 10 days straight

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here’s a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug and psychosis. Try being an immigrant American living somewhere with social medical and telling people it’s actually good and less expensive. The bots and naysayers come screaming out of the woodwork to try to make excuses for why it’s actchully terrible.

I talked to Decipher about my upcoming academic paper on legacy malware response in critical infrastructure https://cybersecpods.com/podcasts/decipher-security-podcast/industrial-cybersecurity-and-malware-archaeology-with-lesley-carhart/

It’s a really bad sign for capitalism when consumer society is like, f this, I want to buy things from 2015.

It’s fascinating to live in a time where the majority of global consumers are just fed up and hate everything new on the market.

Hate removal of physical media
Hate forced AI
Hate video surveillance in cars and homes
Hate micro transactions
Hate digital subscriptions

What a time to be alive!

When you’re an atheist, but you join the UUC to do human rights activism - and you get to sing songs from the book of the dead on Sunday whilst talking about First Nations rights

Went to the doc today and she was like, here’s your bc prescription and your shots, see you in a year” and I was like “but no exam?” and “shouldn’t I lose some weight?” and she was like “what no, you’re perfectly healthy?” and fam, I genuinely love Australia and I’m sorry I have US healthcare trauma

This might be my favourite slide on quantum computing, ever. From Peter Gutmann at #AUSCERT

One of my mentees today wanted help getting a “department of war! ✨✨🇺🇸” position and was super excited about it and I barely made it through with credulity and manners. Like, they signed up with me.

He got sicker and sicker and there were pretty much zero support services for the poor outside temperamental churches there. Public transport was dismal. He had horrible chronic health problems the ERa couldn’t address.

I wish I could have gotten him out but he wasn’t in a mental state to consent.

I can’t stop thinking about the redistricting in TN. My cousin, who practically lived as my only brother for years after his parents passed away, died indigent in TN. I had to dig his belongings out of insects and food waste and pay for his cremation. He was 38. There were no mental support services

It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague. Who isn’t a DFIR person.

I fully realise Singapore legalised being gay only three years ago, and I still feel safer here every time I visit than large swathes of America. My trans friend hasn’t been harassed, once. We spent the evening lesbian bar hopping. Americans get lied to, so dismally.

Okay. Let’s try this again a year and a half later. Just because it’s one of the most frustrating social media moments in my life.

Can I say, “that looked kinda staged” this time without being told to wait for official investigation and watch my tone?

Daily reminder that there are tons of lovely, brilliant, kind Jewish people in the world who aren’t Zionist - the two things have next to nothing to do with one another - and that even as a simple nerd I can make an effort to boycott and refuse to amplify Israeli cybersecurity software and tools.

Maximum shareholder profits

If you weren’t just woken up at midnight one of two refineries in Australia is on fire

Ya know, I wasn’t much of a conspiracy theorist until people started doing ludicrously stupid, cartoonishly evil conspiracies. But a major explosion at any refinery this specific month is sus af.

Shouldn’t have taken this long for the market to turn on Palantir