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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 07, 2026

Replying to @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club my residual sense of ethics, on the other hand, is apparently a significant handicap in the modern world.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 06, 2026

Replying to @discobiker@urbanists.social

@discobiker@urbanists.social @fesshole@mastodon.social it was "cycle to work", not "cycle from home".

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 05, 2026

Replying to @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden @davidgerard@circumstances.run the LNG turbines on a vessel intended to operate away from the shore are going to have trouble with refuelling, I'd wager.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @campuscodi@mastodon.social

@campuscodi@mastodon.social secret compromise largely happens at or near creation time. If it's still secure after 24 hours, it'll almost certainly still be secure a year later. This is just typical security theatre that will inconvenience many people for practically zero benefit.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @jonny@neuromatch.social I cannot for the life of me decide whether it's better or worse that he's doing his bit to burn all anthropic's cash for literally nobody.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @iagox86@infosec.exchange

@iagox86@infosec.exchange @davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social @Lana@beige.party @thejacenallen@mastodon.social @tehstu@hachyderm.io here's reporting from Australia on exactly this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-14/vulnerable-australians-targeted-in-huge-tax-evasion-scam/11785194

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @MortonRobD@mas.to

@MortonRobD@mas.to @zzt@mas.to @EverydayMoggie@sfba.social which is just a restatement of the arguments used to institute jaywalking laws. "Our murder-grade momentum machines wouldn't be killing so many people if they just stayed off the roads they've been using for forever that we decided unilaterally should be ours instead".

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run given Holmes' other wellness activities included cocaine and being insufferable, you might be on to something.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run "wellness activities like beekeeping" *record scratch* what the?

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange

@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange presidential podcasting.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 02, 2026

If you could force-pull one item, and *only* one item, what would it be?

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Aug 01, 2026

Replying to @mattly@hachyderm.io

@mattly@hachyderm.io the vast majority of modern software is just straight up malware with a ToS and marketing budget.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 31, 2026

Replying to @slothrop@chaos.social

@slothrop@chaos.social the thing about sloperators is that they just cannot stop telling everyone how much they love their spicy autocomplete.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 31, 2026

Replying to @quinn@social.circl.lu

@quinn@social.circl.lu every subpart of 18U.S.C. 1030 (a) includes the word "intentionally", or the phrase "knowingly and with intent", which would seem to suggest that intent is at issue. What's your legal theory for how this event is a felony under the CFAA?

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 31, 2026

Replying to @vicorva@mastodon.art

@vicorva@mastodon.art don't forget to have a good chuckle at their scare tactic lies to try and convince you to pay. "Radar is already stopping fraudulent charges for you!" they claim, providing a helpful link to the page that shows exactly zero fraudulent charges in recorded history that have been stopped.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 31, 2026

Replying to @leo@60228.dev

@leo@60228.dev @vicorva@mastodon.art the way I read the email was that they're changing what their plans include, and what I was getting for free before is now in one of their paid plans, so they're going to charge me extra now.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

Replying to @fullywoolly@mastodon.social

@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange like many of the most interesting problems, there isn't a complete solution to this problem. Partial solutions to some aspects exist, depending on your threat model.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

Replying to @quinn@social.circl.lu

@quinn@social.circl.lu it's possible that this is a publicity stunt, but it's a high risk, lowish reward one. It requires a lot of people to stay very quiet, including some people who won't necessarily have a reason to stay loyal in the next year or two (when they get laid off). With openai making a run at an IPO, making up a story like this is a risky move. If it did happen, it certainly *should* be a felony, but I'm at least partially persuaded that it isn't a CFAA violation because there was seemingly no intent on the part of a human to violate the law, and the CFAA requires the prosecution to prove intent. It's entirely plausible that openai's lawyers took a careful look and decided that, at the most, some low-level mook *might* end up carrying the can, not the company, but most likely it's not criminal. So sure, let's milk it for all it's worth. Now, was there gross negligence? Absolutely, but "I am a complete moron" isn't CFAA territory, it's (mostly) a civil matter, and no doubt hugging face and openai stitched up a quiet deal before openai admitted any kind of culpability. On the "intent" front, it's tempting to say that the model formed the intent, but allowing that precedent opens a huge can of worms for everyone. How do you punish the spicy autocomplete? The mental image of a data centre in a giant prison cell is amusing, but unlikely, and doesn't solve the problem that humans are being reckless. I'm not arguing, by the way, that this shouldn't be a crime, because hoo boy it absolutely should be. There's even precedent for holding humans accountable for the actions of a non-human entity (dangerous dogs, for example). It's just that the arguments I've seen thus far are more persuasive that this event, if it happened, was not, in fact, covered by any existing law.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

Replying to @fullywoolly@mastodon.social

@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange pretty sure it's "e2e from you through big search engine to someone you think is your friend, but is actually an adversary".

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

Replying to @stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au

@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @phocks@bne.social actually proving the source of misused PII is really hard (read: expensive), so this requires strict liability for enforcement to be effective.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

Replying to @LyallMorrison@cloudisland.nz

@LyallMorrison@cloudisland.nz @sarahtaber@mastodon.online the US is fine with violence, and "taxation is sexy" is a very niche kink.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

I note that "don't use plastic matting" or even "reuse the plastic matting" are not even considered worthy of mentioning. It's single use plastics or bust. "Farmers seek solution to mounting plastic waste problem "Rows of black and white plastic weed mats are giving vegetable seedlings their best start in life. But disposing of them has become a logistical and cost burden." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/mounting-agricultural-plastic-waste-problem/106965248

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Farmers seek solution to mounting plastic waste problem

Rows of black and white plastic weed mats are giving vegetable seedlings their best start in life. But disposing of them has become a logistical and cost burden.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @sarahtaber@mastodon.online

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online mild capitalism themes

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @target@infosec.exchange

@target@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange the great thing about bad ideas is that they never go away, instead popping up every now and then until they can finally gain a toehold.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @petrillic@hachyderm.io

@petrillic@hachyderm.io @mhoye@cosocial.ca internet, we have a winner!

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca

@mhoye@cosocial.ca soul fork.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @da_667@infosec.exchange

@da_667@infosec.exchange I guess if you spend long enough with the hell machine that uses words but does not know that words have meanings, you lose the knowledge yourself that words have meanings.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @lhp@mastodon.social

@lhp@mastodon.social @zzt@mas.to yeah, just because Sam botfucking Altman goes and powers down in a closet whenever he's not in his office doesn't mean that the rest of us aren't able to find meaning and purpose in our lives outside of a paycheck.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems I hadn't come across this Akrides thing before, and to say that I'm horrified is a serious understatement.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @Aissen@social.treehouse.systems

@Aissen@social.treehouse.systems a strict reading of the "asserting a disclosure timeline" would seem to exclude project zero, but I got the impression this is a "pirate's code", in the "they're more... guidelines, than rules" kind of way. @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to on universeodon.com

@SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com "we towed it out of the environment" (Clarke & Dawe, "the front fell off", if anyone needs the reference)

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @arazil@elvenstar.cafe

@arazil@elvenstar.cafe @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca @Javvad@infosec.exchange nope, that's always going to be Oracle.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @gbargoud@masto.nyc when you get to the bunker, "well *technically* they're adolescents..."

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run "people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated" my goodness, I bet he thinks that somehow he got a quarter wedged in his ear that he didn't feel, before the magician pulls it out.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @soatok@furry.engineer

@soatok@furry.engineer @securingdev@infosec.exchange if you can get unbaked goldfish crackers, sure.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk @davidgerard@circumstances.run I don't think the bears deserve that.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @securingdev@infosec.exchange

@securingdev@infosec.exchange no, because there's no rice.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 26, 2026

Replying to @dcoderlt@ohai.social

@dcoderlt@ohai.social play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @MaddieM4@raphus.social

@MaddieM4@raphus.social wow, that title. Codeberg didn't "divide", it just told your (the author's) slop-loving self to please find another place to hang.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @boplaid@mas.to

@boplaid@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run the counter-proposal being a tired re-hashing of the "ethical, legal, and environmental issues aside" talking points is a perfect distillation of the problem. The plagiarism machine is fundamentally incapable of ever producing anything original, and those who delegate their production to the machine quickly discover they can no longer produce anything original, either.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @fesshole@mastodon.social

@fesshole@mastodon.social 💔

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I'd hope for James Earl Jones, but I'd expect Christopher Walken.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @zzt@mas.to

@zzt@mas.to he would absolutely appear in court wearing Lycra pants with built-in butt padding and those tiny shoes with clip-ins, so he can clop his way across the courtroom floor like the extremely serious cyclist he was.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @zzt@mas.to

@zzt@mas.to I'll bet his opinions on fixies vs gears were extremely well-reasoned and nuanced.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @zzt@mas.to

@zzt@mas.to his "only serious cyclists" schtick would have spontaneously combusted with incoherent rage at the sight of hundreds of calm, relaxed Dutch people casually cruising around at little more than walking pace.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @lerg@infosec.exchange

@lerg@infosec.exchange I'll have you know that I also eat an entire bag of cookies from time to time.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @drahardja@sfba.social

@drahardja@sfba.social @zzt@mas.to but it's okay, because he doesn't use it for editing, just spelling correction, grammar checking, and a little light rewriting now and then, as a treat. But never for editing.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @timnitGebru@dair-community.social

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social every single time.

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange ex-trillionaire tears are the only thing more delicious than doritos liquor (h/t @zzt@mas.to )

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Matt Palmer @womble@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run reminds me of the old IE ad, with the slogan "Where do you want to go today?", using Mozart's Requiem as the background music, where the chorus is singing "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis", which can be translated as "The damned and accursed are convicted to the flames of hell".

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