Notices by Marcus Hutchins :verified: (malwaretech@infosec.exchange), page 7

Biggest scam in history was Americans convincing everyone their taxes are low. Once you factor in having to pay for all the things everyone else gets for free/cheap (healthcare, education), it's more than than anywhere on earth. Also you don't actually get anything for the taxes you do pay, except infinite amounts of poorly trained cops.

It looks like Twitter might have rolled out the feature that boosts the replies of blue checks. Majority of the top replies to every viral tweet are low quality responses from blue checks with almost no engagements.

Chat GPT being able to write malware is very concerning for cybersecurity if you missed like the entire history of malware and don't know Github exists

I've got to thank Elon for releasing me from the prison that is Twitter. I get so much done now and no longer hate my life.

Andrew Tate picking a fight with a teenage girl, getting owned so badly he felt the need to spend an entire day filming and editing a response video, then said response video alerting the police to his location allowing them to arrest him, is I think the maximum amount of schadenfreude physically possible.

Web3 Doesn't Exist
https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/why-web3-doesnt-exist.html

#web3 #tech #technology #blockchain #finance #cybersecurity

Does anyone know if this feature of the Mastodon web client is intended? Mastodon will show something like 10+ lines of a post, but if your post is over a certain length it folds it down to basically less than one line. Was this intended as a punishment for too long posts, or is it just a design flaw?

I know people really like quote tweets, but the Mastodon devs made a conscious decision not to implement an equivalent. Your reasons for wanting them are completely valid, but overall the bad outweighs the good. It's not just dogpiling, it tips the platform in favor of accounts who are willing to say the most outrageous things possible with the intent of boosting their reach by getting dunked on by quote tweeters.

Reactivated my Twitter account to cause problems on purpose

I really despise this idea some people have about the need to stay on Twitter "to fight". To fight what? This isn't a war where ground is won or lost. The platform is wholly and unquestionably owned by the person you're trying to fight against. He has shown he doesn't care about loss of advertisers, loss of respect, loss of users. Twitter is now nothing but his personal alt-right cult. The only valid reason to stay is to assist others in leaving. If you're generating any other forms of content, you're simply enabling him to radicalize *your* userbase.

One of the journalists Twitter banned found out that you can still join Twitter Spaces from a banned account. So, a bunch of the banned journalists were hosting a Twitter Space discussing Elon's actions. Eventually, Elon himself joined the Space, then after getting grilled for a few minutes, unplugged the entire Twitter Spaces infrastructure because he couldn't figure out how to ban them ☠️

My graph of total number of new Mastodon followers per day, also doubles up as "how stupid was Elon today" chart.

We spent all this time saying what if China abuses user data harvested by TikTok, or what if China uses TikTok to manipulate public opinion. Now basically all that is happening but it's not TikTok and China, it's Twitter and a single emotionally unstable billionaire. Maybe the real threat wasn't TikTok after all, it was our reliance on social media in general.

As a security professional, not much scares me. I've seen my personal data stolen numerous times, watched nationstate hackers spray zerodays across the internet, and I'm a shameless user of TikTok. But now you have someone sitting on top of the personal data of several billion users, someone who has a long track record of vindictive harassment, someone who has the ear of the far right, and someone who has just shown us his willingness to weaponize internal company data to score political points. That scares me a lot.

Got roasted by Lensa AI ?

No matter what photos I submit the AI just turns me into a white guy ?

I wonder if this will work
https://test.malwaretech.com/mastodon.php

I'm skeptical to call stuff like this a data breach. If you enable the setting to allow people to find your account via your email or phone number, then people can find your account via your email or phone number. Yes, ideally the platform should prevent simply bruteforcing random email addresses and phone numbers to correlate them to accounts, but this is expected behavior. With enough resources you can always perform such correlations regardless.

If you really want to help Mastodon take off, I highly recommend committing to exclusively posting here, even if only for a week. Set your bird site username/bio to your mastodon handle and announce you'll be switching to Mastodon for some time. It's really hard to get a feel for the platform when you're just crossposting from the other place. After switching over, if found Mastodon to be far better, and plenty of people followed me over here.

Just launched a cybersecurity message board! Big fan of social media but always felt like there wasn't many options for more persistent discussion formats.

https://updatedsecurity.com/