Dave Bittner
bittner@hachyderm.io
<p>Your friendly neighborhood cyber security podcast host. The Cyberwire, Hacking Humans, Caveat, Control Loop, Grumpy Old Geeks. He/Him.<br />Be kind to one another. Seek contentment.</p>
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Post #3811744
I wonder if there's a parallel between all of the long-undiscovered bugs that AI systems are discovering, and the old rusty hand grenades and mortars that magnet fishers keep pulling up from the muck in their local rivers or lakes. The bomb squads seem almost annoyed that they keep being called out to deal with these things that could have simply been left untouched.
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Post #777935
Pretty sure I was first exposed to the Rolling Stones&#39; song &quot;Emotional Rescue&quot; at our local roller rink. Which is why TIL that the lyric is, &quot;I&#39;ll be your savior, steadfast and true&quot;, and not, &quot;I&#39;ll be your savior. Skate fast and true.&quot;
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Post #777934
Today marks 2,500 episodes of the Cyberwire Daily podcast! Ten years of learning and sharing. Thanks to everyone who has helped make it possible! #infosec
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Post #777933
Zero Trust World has kicked off in Orlando. Thanks to ThreatLocker for hosting us this week.
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Post #777932
Enjoyed a lovely chat over lunch with the OG tech podcaster, Leo LaPorte! Expressed my appreciation for his paving the way for the rest of us.
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Post #777931
I’ve been wrestling with a growing sense of frustration about the world we’re living in right now. And the more I try to understand it, the more I come back to a simple observation: Nearly everything we interact with today has been optimized for extraction. Extraction of our attention. Extraction of our money. Extraction of our outrage. Extraction of our emotional energy. If something can capture a little more of our focus, keep us scrolling a little longer, provoke us into reacting just a bi...