Mid-July update from Porto: I remain delighted by my new Portuguese life. The views are lovely, the river is dramatic, and the seagulls continue to operate with the confidence of a well-funded threat actor. At first, I thought they were merely loud. I was naive. Their organization appears to be growing in both power and sneakiness. They have rooftop lookouts. They have waterfront patrols. They have that one seagull who pretends to be casual but is absolutely running logistics. I have been keeping an eye on them, purely for community safety and definitely not because one of them looked at me funny near a trash bin. Meanwhile, I have been busy with actual cybersecurity work too: updating, monitoring, and deploying honeypots as the attacks continue to roll in. The internet remains the internet, which is to say a glittering dumpster fire with packet capture. But I must ask the obvious question: Are the seagulls behind some of these attacks? And emartin? Could emartin possibly be one of the seagulls? The evidence is inconclusive. The feathers are circumstantial. The squawking logs have not yet been normalized. Perhaps we will never know. But I am watching. From Porto, with suspicion and impeccable balance, Sasha 🦩