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Chris Merkel 🐀👨🏼‍🍳

chrismerkel@infosec.exchange

<p>Dad, beautiful nerd, storyteller.</p><p>AppSec, CloudSec, DevOps, DFIR, rainbow teaming, recreational hacking and dubious career advice.</p><p>By day, I lead teams comprised of the most talented people working in this industry.</p><p>Beyond that, I lead and volunteer my time doing career development work across many different venues.</p><p>Nerdy stuff I do for fun:<br />- Malware analysis<br />- Shodan safari<br />- Photo and video restoration</p>

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    Happy Pride, nerds!

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    Everyone complains when a TV series ends poorly, but what is your favorite TV series ending? Blowing up the entire set of Little House on the Prairie was pretty baller, ngl.

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    mutherf--- https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/117039427041780984

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    Why yes, person who thought the metaverse and NFTs were going to be world changing, I would be delighted to hear your thoughts about AI.

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    In gaming, &quot;can I pet the dog?&quot; is a fun measure, but when GTA6 releases, I&#39;m going to see if I can do a John McAffee and fuck a dolphin.

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    I&#39;m really disappointed to see @RGB_Lights piss away credibility for garbage like this: https://www.404media.co/smear-campaign-says-anti-flock-movement-is-chinese-propaganda/

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    Yall we just gave every normie with a phone their own openclaw. I can&#39;t wait to see what kind of nonsense ensues. https://karlbode.com/metas-latest-ai-product-is-a-terrifying-and-hilarious-mess/

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    Headed to @BlueTeamCon@infosec.exchange ! Who else is going? I&#39;m up for IRL convos on damn near any topic but right now things top of mind include: passkeysthreat intel red teaming and adopting agentic modelsAI economics (i.e. why I like AI and hate AI companies)

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    The current state of the AI bubble is this. Imagine in 2006 if the Solomon bros went on a livestream all hyped explaining how awesome it is to convert shitty variable rate mortgage debt into AAA-rated bonds, and how they cucked the ratings agencies to do so. Then as their guest, they get AIG and Lehman on to be like &quot;yo dawg we took out cheap ass polymarkets against you, hope your shit doesn&#39;t fail&quot; and all the while all of corporate america is watching this shit go down in real...

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    This is the cyber equivalent of &quot;this is what [horrific personal tragedy] taught me about B2B sales&quot; yall please. just don&#39;t.

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    The PRC responds: &quot;Hold my baijiu&quot;

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    Content pirates upset about content piracy.

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    Every day is like a loot box drop in software supply chain security https://app.opencve.io/cve/CVE-2026-29000

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    Just ordered a Macbook Neo for my personal daily driver. Mostly cloud-native, so on-box processing is always minimal, great for development work, AI projects, etc. Right now my PDD is a 5 yo Dell running Ubuntu. Better battery, ARM efficiency, long supported life and it&#39;s 600 bucks. What&#39;s not to love?

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    The reason you never leave your computer unlocked is because a threat actor will walk up to it and put a very small gap in your display arrangement, preventing your mouse from moving from one screen to the other.

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    Thinkpiece: How the appointment of Jawbone McBanjofuck going to affect long term strategy at CISA, 5 pros, 4 cons and one conclusion you&#39;ll have to see to believe.

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    This is the pinnacle of self-deprecating humor.

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    Cyberattacks that have the possibility of disrupting the supply chain for hip replacements seems like it might be a &quot;surgical strike&quot; against Trump&#39;s core demographic.

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    How long do you think before tech executives realize that they money they took from laying off developers was only enough to cover the cost of a few days LLM use?

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    How auditors think SOC playbooks work

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    I watched the first season of For All Mankind and now internally, I&#39;m calling Google&#39;s AI &quot;Gem eh knee&quot;

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    Github Copilot multipliers for premium requests are going to increase up to 27x tomorrow. Whatching this AI hype, it&#39;s just turtles all the way down: How are we going to pay for all this usage with people on fixed monthly plans? &amp;lt;- VCs subsidize us until ASICs are available and code is made more efficicent. Who is going to make these ASICs, chip fabs are at 100%, you need to build new chip fabs? &amp;lt;- VCs will fund building of chip fabs. Ok, you have chip fabs and you still nee...

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    If you have SAP in your environment and then get ransomed, it&#39;s going to be a tough call to determine which threat to mitigate first. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/official-sap-npm-packages-compromised-to-steal-credentials/