Matt Franz
mdfranz@infosec.exchange
<p>Recovering SecOps Director (currently a Cloud Security Engineer) with no delusions of ever becoming a CISO Ex-Mandiant, Cisco, Ping (Identity not golf), Tenable, and Gemalto.</p>
Posts
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Post #4353993
This is getting some viz following the HF nonsense - https://blog.calif.io/p/privilege-escalation-in-eks
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Post #4353488
Ugh. Too close. Maybe because my daughter made the "mistake" of getting into tech. Spent 2-3 hours pair-vibecoding with her last night.
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Post #4254022
So what is the fucking problem? https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/politics/kfile-troy-jackson-anonymous-alias-commenter-canadians-for-lepage
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Post #4089977
It is great having a SOC Analyst in the house! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/family-targeted-phishing-deconstructing-attack-anna-franz-8nv7e/
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Post #4086540
LOL
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Post #3992836
LOL - https://www.wired.com/story/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-tokens/
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Post #3988343
Such a fucking foot-gun
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Post #3972023
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/comparing-open-source-ai-code-security-harnesses <~ your favorite H word
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Post #3946103
The way to make this World Cup perfect is to boo POTUS.
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Post #3936594
I smell a #pedopardon coming https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/18/us/tate-brothers-arrested-miami
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Post #3917400
Pro-tip. Ask a dumber model to find out what is confusing in your design (gemini-3.5-flash here)
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Post #3870257
Anduril is the new Amazon and Facebook in terms of potential employers I give the big 👎️ to when they bug me on LinkedIn.
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Post #3845690
Sure this isn't a @theonion headline?
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Post #3807748
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-analysis <- 🤡 "The misstep compounded an earlier mistake — the failure to understand that Iran would close the strait in the first place. That this is still an issue a month after the MOU was agreed upon suggests its 60-day timeline for a full deal, including on Iran’s nuclear program, was absurdly unrealistic."
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Post #3769481
The fact that a shitty state like South Carolina (the first state to secede) continues to exercise so much power in America tells you all you need to know about what is wrong and how we didn’t resolve what we needed to resolve in the Civil War.
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Post #3751049
https://odysseylinux.org/ <- I doubt this is for Human Beings with a website like that. WTF.
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Post #3746433
Going down the microvm 🐇 🕳️ this weekend. https://github.com/buildkite/cleanroom
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Post #3742807
Playing around with this https://ki-utvikling.nav.no/cplt
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Post #3740836
Might actually make it Vegas during Blackhat this year. First time since 2003. The curse/blessing of being one of the few security folks so you get pulled into sales conversations.
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Post #3701853
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/politics/iran-strikes-kushner-witkoff-flawed-ceasefire?cid=ios_app Oh CNN, out of the mouths of babes….
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Post #3661999
https://guardbase.ai/attack-matrix/ valuable or framework slop?
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Post #3649225
Giving Claude access to your Elastic clusters on k3s is 😹
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Post #3648789
@mfowler@toot.thoughtworks.com @bboeckel@toot.thoughtworks.com Great article--especially calling out tool calling as a big problem.
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Post #3629910
Caption this. Wrong answers only.
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Post #3610393
Well I made it almost made it 11 mins in before getting too disgusted with the 27 year old founder because I remember how arrogant I was at that age and most people are https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kubernetes-bytes/id1580068566?i=1000775179593
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Post #3607166
Ah, yeah it is scary teenagers and not lax gun laws https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/us/florida-july-4th-shooting
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Post #3588969
Watching https://www.pbs.org/video/the-american-revolution-episode-3-the-times-that-try-mens-souls/
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Post #3556664
Happy Birthday 🇺🇸 you earned it!
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Post #3412912
RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/business-and-economics-9oqgllrlz/-/a-hWgGgsbBS1WVyd2hWOLPOA%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0 Means testing for the win—especially for rich boomers who don’t need the money.
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Post #1900900
Definitely gonna listen to this again and maybe take some notes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/detection-at-scale/id1582584270?i=1000590042380