Notices by ChatJERRYPT (jerry@infosec.exchange)

A friend of mine sent me this exclusive video from the marketing department at Proton

Here is an example video:

Perhaps my favorite thing on TikTok is the flurry of Chinese people recording “goodbye from your Chinese spy” videos, overlayed with the song “When I see you again”

Great idea, Youtube! I am sure people would be very interested in our security predictions for 2023 now that it is 2025.

Interesting discussion about VPNs and bypassing pornhub blocks on certain states here: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/113817114100239029

It has me wondering about the economics of VPN providers. I think the current pricing model likely relies on many customers minimally using them and seeing large numbers of customers suddenly leaving them up and streaming video over them nonstop seems like it will drive up their costs or reduce performance

I think I am going to record the presentation I gave at the Raleigh ISACA meeting and post it on my Youtube channel this week. I put a lot of work into it and don't want it to just end with that meeting.

Serious question: when companies are renewing their Ivanti maintenance agreements, what is going on in their minds?

Time to start planning a downgrade of the infosec instance. Member numbers are falling as are donations - I was thinking that all the hoopla around X and Meta would drive another surge of accounts, but the opposite seems to be happening.

@JorgeStolfi to kill mealybugs

PSA: it’s not good to spend too long spraying plants with isopropyl alcohol in an enclosed space for too long.

Based on what has been happening the last few days, the next 4 years are going to be painful on the moderation front. (No, I don’t mean relative to Threads).

This person gets it. #PushToProdFriday

@risottobias honestly, I think most people just want to signup and go. I’ve noticed that even slowing down the signup process by requiring a signup reason and moderator approval, which adds maybe an hour or two at most to the process, results in nearly all of them finding a different instance or just leaving altogether. I think we have this view that most people here want the level of control that running their own instance brings, but that’s not really the case. They don’t want to worry about what happens behind the app or the web page. Some of them recognize there is a lot to it and donate to support, but most don’t. @dma @raphael @esk @thisismissem @mekkaokereke

I presented to a room full of people and did not die. That was an accomplishment for me.

@davep I decided to do this because I knew I wasn’t going to get better by continuing to hide at home

Hi all. Given the recent announcement from Meta about AI personas and allowed behavior, I am moving threads.net back to a limit, and will likely move them to a block in the future on infosec.exchange. I can’t ignore the reality that the changes they’re making are specifically intended to permit attacks on many of the people that call this place home. I won’t rule out that they walk the changes back, which is why I’m not jumping to sever the nearly 4000 mutual follow relationships between people on threads and here.

@sam I can agree on that. But I am seeing people here railing on the fact checking angle, not the “we are going to let racist, sexist, anti-trans comments slide”

My apologies if I’m having a bad reaction, because I’ve seen the horse shit that my elderly parents are fed via Facebook and I see zero indication they have any fact checking whatsoever.

There’s a lot of uproar about Meta announcing that is no longer fact checking. Honest question: was there any evidence that they were actually doing this before, or is that performance BS to make sure Meta remains a lap cat to the US government?

@hrbrmstr I think a lot of former infosec twitter has landed there.