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• Post #4428196

  Orrrr how about you GFY. Hacking is a set of survival skills. I am not a computer criminal, I use my skills to help people, and my only crime is that of curiosity. (Everything else is past the statute of limitations.) #defcon Thanks and credit to @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me for the photo

• Post #4363664

  This Friday at DEF CON I host the @eff@mastodon.social Poker Tournament, and novices are especially welcome. We play Fri Aug 7, noon to 3, at the Horseshoe Poker Room in Vegas, with my dad running a beginner clinic at 11. This is not the ESPN boys' club version of poker. The room is safe, surveilled, and respectful, and the dealers are briefed to teach, not judge. Your buy-in donation is also a full year of EFF membership. Send eff.org/poker to one curious friend. #DEFCON #EFF #Poker

• Post #3974682

  I have a suggestion for folk watching The Odyssey. Treat it like a rock concert and wear earplugs. After the first three minutes I put them in and I heard dialogue much better. The music is So Loud in it, and the dialogue is more intelligible when you’re not wincing.

• Post #3700305

  SecurityWeek did one of their CISO Conversations pieces on me. Highlights include getting compared to being mugged by my own career and admitting I fail on purpose about 70% of the time. Also some actual substance in there about why we don't have real incident statistics in this industry and why that's a bigger problem than any single breach. https://www.securityweek.com/ciso-conversations-tarah-wheeler-cybersecurity-leader-thought-leader-and-original-thinker/

• Post #3698025

  isgithubupforeveryoneorjustme.com

• Post #3670626

  Delve. For when you need a SOC 2 Type √(-1)

• Post #3613000

  A hill I will die on: Mexican Wedding Cookies and Russian Teacakes are the best evidence we have for time travel and alien origins of human life on earth. they're. the. same. damn. cookie.

• Post #2301145

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Tarah/116540734885717411 They’re operational again as of 14m ago.

• Post #2256799

  @letsencrypt is in the middle of an active incident. Issuance of new certs has ceased. Heads up. https://letsencrypt.status.io/

• Post #2214766

  Good news, everyone! The password has been updated to "LouvreWinter2025!" and is now compliant with our password change policies.

• Post #1840968

  What's a good ad blocker for Chrome? [anyone suggesting I move to Chromium, Safari, or Mozilla will be summarily meme-d to death]

• Post #1734703

  RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@fazalmajid/116432350114276348 As a political economist by training, 👇👇👇👇

• Post #1688286

  RE: https://recurse.social/@lindsey/116189776923604763 It’s the same thing many techbros were saying out loud when they founded gig economy companies to do their laundry, cook their food, handle their errands, and clean their homes: “now that I have $app, I don’t need a mom/wife/gf to do it anymore.” It tells you what they thought women were for, all along.

• Post #1492320

  No, you did not send a numeric code to my email to help me sign in "for my security." You did it because you couldn't be arsed to implement proper app-based authentication. Control of any email address collapses down to a single factor for authentication. Do better. #TuesdayCyberGrouse

• Post #1160135

  In defense of Reviewer 2. Dear Reviewer 2: Reviewers 1 and 3 snarked uselessly. You, however, did a damn fine job giving me actionable changes, sight reading the missing recall stat from my own graph, pointing out what it meant to my theory, and making my work better. Thank you. Love, someone going to the conference and who has a brand new peer-reviewed publication thanks to your "weak accept". I ain't proud; I'll take it.

• Post #89544

  So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity. Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions. Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D https://cpi.harris.uchicago.edu/2025/12/23/harris-cyber-policy-initiative-tap...

• Post #19384

  I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. It's just...I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade. That's all.