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Alex Stamos

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CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.

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Good point, just complaining about the bicoastal insanity of the ACC might be a safe space.

03.03.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Election Interference Hypocrisy How Trump is using Iran's past election interference to justify his own

Anyway, I appreciate @katestarbird.bsky.social doing a good writeup of the situation. katestarbird.substack.com/p/the-electi...

03.03.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah. I wrote a long draft thread about our 2020 election research being used to justify this illegal war after the same academic work was held up as cEnSorShiP, but I deleted it instead of (gestures around). Post on X and have my kids threatened by Russian LLMs or face a BSky struggle session? Hmmm

03.03.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was recently asked why I don't post on BlueSky more. Well, if Jamelle Bouie isn't pure enough to survive here...

03.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

28.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 3878 πŸ” 1269 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 42
I cannot wait until the White House changes hands and all of you ghouls switch back from "you're a traitor unless you bootlick so hard your tongue goes numb" to "the government asking any questions about my offshore fentanyl casino is vile tyranny and I will throw myself in the San Francisco Bay in protest", like werewolves at the last ray of the setting moon.

I cannot wait until the White House changes hands and all of you ghouls switch back from "you're a traitor unless you bootlick so hard your tongue goes numb" to "the government asking any questions about my offshore fentanyl casino is vile tyranny and I will throw myself in the San Francisco Bay in protest", like werewolves at the last ray of the setting moon.

Fatality.

27.02.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The full URL shows up clean on VT, likely because they have Cloudflare's anti-bot protections turned on and it defeats all these security vendors fetching and analyzing, so they are only getting Cloudflare's Javascript and marking it clean.

29.01.2026 06:17 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
VirusTotal VirusTotal

Here is the MSI it downloads: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6f2...

29.01.2026 06:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just don’t try to fetch it with curl or run it in a sandbox, CloudFlare will protect the malware authors from your evil bot!

29.01.2026 05:58 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Another day, another phishing site protected by @cloudflare.social. This one is totally ripping through my kids’ school. Thanks CloudFlare, for the useless reply to my abuse report!

Toxs[.]digital for the threat hunters

29.01.2026 05:56 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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This Week in Tech: Toto's Electrostatic Chuck | TWiT.TV Microsoft quietly hands over BitLocker keys to the government, TikTok’s new privacy terms spark a user panic, and Europe's secret tech backups reveal anxious prep for digital

Microsoft hands BitLocker keys to the government as @leolaporte.me, @stamos.org, @docrock.bsky.social, & @notpatrick.com discuss TikTok's privacy panic on TWiT, covering Europe's secret tech backups & Grok making millions of sexualized images! twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1068

28.01.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Week in Tech: Toto's Electrostatic Chuck | TWiT.TV Microsoft quietly hands over BitLocker keys to the government, TikTok’s new privacy terms spark a user panic, and Europe's secret tech backups reveal anxious prep for digital

@leolaporte.me, @stamos.org, @docrock.bsky.social, and @notpatrick.com unpack privacy fears, encryption access, and digital resilience.
Listen here:

27.01.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Clearly only possible with Soros money.

27.01.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it.

A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE?

A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

23.10.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 29012 πŸ” 5923 πŸ’¬ 347 πŸ“Œ 332

We have, but @riana is the expert on this specific topic and has already been invoked by mentioning her one true name.

14.01.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome to the rathole, chat. (You will talk like this after watching)

03.01.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm all for keeping California a competitive business environment, but I think we can let Seoul own 14 year-olds having their joints rebuilt for the benefit of billion-dollar corporations and the IG fanbase.

02.01.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watching the Katseye documentary with my daughter and my initial conclusions are:
1) Wow, these young ladies are talented and work hard
2) How has @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov not opened an investigation into HYBE for child work conditions? There are two orthopedic surgeries documented ON CAMERA.

02.01.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Gotta use those miles before they expire.

05.11.2025 23:44 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Big Sleep | TWiT.TV From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacksβ€”and

AI boosts productivity while arming adversaries as @leolaporte.me, @jilleduffy.bsky.social, @stamos.org, & @gigastacey.bsky.social discuss the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks on This Week in Tech covering OpenAI's security researcher & the F5 hack! twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1056

05.11.2025 00:58 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Human bug finders at least had a reasonable speed limit placed on them. I think it’s reasonable to ask the Big Sleep team to try to get their model to also spin out patches if they are going to bury OSS teams under CVEs

03.11.2025 14:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think there are a lot of things going on:
1) A long build up of frustration of ffmpeg being used by big companies without financial support

2) A history of anger at Google for their rigid 90 day policy (which will actually flex under circumstances)

3) The volume impact of AI

4) AI backlash

03.11.2025 14:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
FFmpeg dealing with a security researcher | Hacker News

I haven’t seen any outlets cover it yet. The arguments are happening on X, here is a discussion on HN news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4578...

03.11.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wide World of Cyber: A deep dive on the f5 hack - Risky Business Media In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the f5 incident. They talk abou [Read More]

I published a Wide World of Cyber edition today about the f5 incident with @stamos.org and @thekrebscycle.bsky.social

No video for this episode… our video platform is AWS dependent πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

risky.biz/WWC11/

21.10.2025 07:04 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Wide World of Cyber: Microsoft's China Entanglement
Wide World of Cyber: Microsoft's China Entanglement YouTube video by Risky Business Media

The Wide World of Cyber podcast is back, featuring @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, @stamos.org and yours truly!

AUDIO: risky.biz/WWC10/
VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8B7...

25.08.2025 05:21 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This post is praxis.

18.07.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIn the last 1224ms I contacted mcp.ancestry.com and the Library of Congress and found both an ethnic background that you never knew about as well as an archaic slur for that ethnicity that has not been used in print since 1947.”

09.07.2025 00:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So efficient

08.07.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhat’s grok’s competitive advantage over, say, Anthropic’s newest offerings?”

β€œWell, first off, it’s 50x more likely to figure out and use the correct ethnic slur for your highest revenue customers when deployed in a customer service role!”

β€œRiiiiiiight.”

08.07.2025 23:03 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

The funniest part of this was *venture capitalists* not understanding that AI safety and alignment is not about censorship and political correctness, but F500 customers not paying foundation model vendors 7-9 figures a year for LLMs to do insult comic crowdwork with their customers.

08.07.2025 22:59 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1