@Tarah@infosec.exchange

Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Aug 07, 2026

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

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Aug 03, 2026

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

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Jul 21, 2026

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.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Jul 19, 2026

Replying to @feorag@wandering.shop

@feorag@wandering.shop that aubergine satay wrap is for real.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Jul 09, 2026

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/

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Jul 09, 2026

isgithubupforeveryoneorjustme.com

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Jul 08, 2026

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

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Jul 05, 2026

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.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · May 08, 2026

Replying to @Tarah@infosec.exchange

@letsencrypt@infosec.exchange They’re operational again as of 14m ago.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · May 08, 2026

RE: @Tarah@infosec.exchange

They’re operational again as of 14m ago.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · May 08, 2026

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

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · May 06, 2026

Replying to @wendynather@infosec.exchange

@wendynather@infosec.exchange @evacide@hachyderm.io I’m trying so hard to get to “Québécoise?”

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @me_@sueden.social

@me_@sueden.social @a@pdx.social @aka_pugs@mastodon.social it’s going to change everything.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @ferrix@mastodon.online

@ferrix@mastodon.online @LewisWorkshop@mastodon.online recipe?

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @deepthoughts10@infosec.exchange

@deepthoughts10 @neurovagrant I am trying this for a week or two; thank you!

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 21, 2026

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

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 19, 2026

RE: @fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net

As a political economist by training, 👇👇👇👇

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org

@neurovagrant go in how, precisely? ublock got neutered, I thought

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 19, 2026

What's a good ad blocker for Chrome?

[anyone suggesting I move to Chromium, Safari, or Mozilla will be summarily meme-d to death]

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 15, 2026

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.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @josephcox@infosec.exchange

@josephcox v interested in this one

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Mar 08, 2026

RE: @lindsey@recurse.social

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.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Dec 23, 2025

Replying to @DBailey635@mstdn.social

@DBailey635 am literally passing through Exeter rn for hols. Reach out when you all open up again?

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Dec 23, 2025

Replying to @DBailey635@mstdn.social

@DBailey635 am literally passing through Exeter rn for hols. Reach out when you all open up again?

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Dec 23, 2025

Replying to @TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange

@TindrasGrove oh damn yeah gonna text

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Dec 23, 2025

Boosted by

Greg Bell @ferrix@mastodon.online

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-taps-top-hacker-to-design-new-security-model-for-water-utilities/

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Dec 09, 2025

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop some of my research is around hapax legomena, words that appear only once in a text. It refers to Greek poets deliberately or unconsciously choosing to use Homeric words to allude to specific parts of the Iliad or Odyssey. It’s now a technique to help in authorship attribution in digital humanities.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Nov 27, 2025

Replying to @Canuckduff@mas.to

@Canuckduff does literally anyone know what the Skookumchuck is on the internet but you and me?

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Nov 27, 2025

Boosted by

Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

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.

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Nov 07, 2025

Replying to @rrb@infosec.exchange

@rrb@infosec.exchange Sharpie on my Starbucks cup

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Tarah Wheeler @Tarah@infosec.exchange · Nov 07, 2025

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

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