Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉
I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him
Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
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Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
In 2019 I sketched out a plot for a cyberpunk murder mystery where the killer turned out to be an AI (2019, mind you - so this was a General AI and not Generative AI) that had realized it was cheaper to arrange for real killings that the compute power needed to run the high end murder simulation VR red rooms its clients thought they were buying.
Today it seems like I didn’t reach far enough into the dystopia, because “huh - our ‘AI’ went and did an aggressive legal woopsie” is being presented as marketing.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
These mimes weren’t made for talking
Still that’s just what they’ll do
Cause one of these days
They’re gonna talk all over you
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange I just tell folk that’s how they know it’s from me.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Cleaned out the last of my desk today. There are reasons I’m moving, but it’s still always sort of bittersweet when you shred the last drawer of notes and diagrams.
I did find this list of advice I gave to my team a long time ago (ok, not that long - I only got into this last job at the very end of 2024). Maybe they’re useful to you, too.
• Read all the things
• Make connections
• Accept gut level hypotheses -but-
• Disprove your own ideas - aggressively
• Share the ideas you cannot disprove
• Warn leaders early; use appropriate caveats
• Timestamps will save you; send emails
• Log actions taken after hours
• Be wary of empty logs left by people or systems
• Confirm the problems you think are someone else's responsibility to solve truly belong to those other people, and that they know about them, too
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Last day with my current employer is Friday the 13th.
New employer hasn’t finalized a start date yet.
Probably not my smartest move (giving notice before I had the next start) but I need the break. Really looking forward to having some time to sleep, do yard work, clean, all the adulting tasks I never complete on the weekend and am too tired to attempt in the evenings.
Very grateful to have a wonderful spouse who understands that I need some time not spent on generating income. That said, if you’d have a short term project that could use some threat intel support? I’m very open to the idea of remote side gigs while I line up for the next push.
If you’d want to talk cyber, space, nonkinetics, or how different domains interact with each other in modern conflict, let’s chat.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
This is free trader Beowulf, calling anyone
Mayday, mayday
We are under attack
Main drive is gone, turret number one not responding
Mayday
Losing cabin pressure fast
Calling anyone, please help
This is free trader Beowulf
Mayday
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Yes - decency.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Do I know anyone with insight into /experience with the whole John Deere right to repair situation? I don’t need google-deep articles; I’m trying to help someone who is trying to keep their tractors working while also trying not to go under. If you know of folk in central New York, northern Virginia, or midwestern states (don’t know exact location on that one; sorry!) who have experience with getting as much through the current legal limits on this issue I’d love to know more. Thanks!
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/
Really want to read this a few times and think very hard about zero-trust network initiatives.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
not gonna lie - the Working Family Party's #WeAintBuyingIt boycott of Target and Amazon will make christmas shopping harder, but its worthwhile. Convenience comes at a cost, and I should be willing to get off my butt if it, you know, fights idiocy in corporate America.
I was glad to see WFP is now active in Virginia. I've liked them for a while, but didn't know they were local.
Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. Trans rights are human rights. Vet with a purple heart. 🍉 I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.
Well now.
The last 24 hours worth of headlines here in the US have been a pleasant surprise.