Tom Cross

Video from our @defcon talk (by @cyberbgone and I) is now available: The highest purpose of computers is to augment human intelligence, and to do so, our computers must be designed to challenge the way we think. youtu.be/gHqDEMrqTjE

I was told that it was really important to vote for Trump in order to protect Freedom of Speech on social media. #8647 popehat.com/p/the-comey-th…

TWO KINGS. 👑

@WhiteHouse I was told that everyone at the “No Kings” protests is a moron and that Trump certainly never characterized himself that way.

@jeremie_strand @anton_chuvakin @k8em0 @AnthropicAI Yes this is a real problem!

@_decius_ @anton_chuvakin @k8em0 @AnthropicAI Agree on the CISO side. The sharper edge is the triage pipeline though. If most disclosures shift toward the long tail of less-scrutinized software, maintainer burnout and SLA slippage become the real bottleneck, not patching capacity.

Great advice from @AnthropicAI on prep for accelerated AI vulnerability discovery, including what to do if you don’t have a dedicated security team, if you’re reporting bugs you found, or are an open source maintainer. /ht @_decius_ for sending the link claude.com/blog/preparing…

@anton_chuvakin @k8em0 @AnthropicAI I wrote similar thoughts here: getrealsecurity.com/resources/the-…

@anton_chuvakin @k8em0 @AnthropicAI Its a lot of bugs in other kinds of software that isn't scrutinized as carefully, but is also well covered by those aforementioned secondary controls. The net is that this is a bigger deal for software development organizations than CISOs.

I wonder if “feeding USAID into the woodchipper” is resulting in a large number of measurable deaths? The answer, of course, is yes. The person running this website wanted this outcome and pursued it. wsj.com/health/for-fir…

The message here is crystal clear - naturalized citizens should not vote for Republicans. Our lives are not immune from being affected by their extremism.

“These words are literally violence”. - Elon Musk

Self described “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk says people should face criminal prosecution if they criticize the government:

This is good, although it fails to fully dissect the problem with the Biden admin's allergy to tech policy. Paraphrasing: "Apple cofounders had barely grown out of their shaggy-haired days selling 'blue boxes,' - now the big tech companies have became The Phone Company."

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact. wired.com/story/silicon-…

@CommishSmith @RangerDave2001 @DavidAFrench Brad - you say you’re a free speech guy. It’s important to get this right. The Murthy court record was a rats nest of nonsense peddled by partisan grifters and thats why SCOTUS denied standing. techdirt.com/2024/06/26/sup…

@RangerDave2001 @DavidAFrench The district court record in Murthy is over 100 hundred pages. I agree they were not as specific, but they were repetitive and serious. I’m not sure it would be better if Carr had merely said “or there will be hell to pay.”

This is a misconception I'm seeing all over this website. In Murthy v. Missouri, the Court ruled 6-3 that the plaintiffs didn't have standing. It did not endorse the Biden admin's actions. In NRA v. Vullo, however, the Court *unanimously* held that government officials can't coerce companies into censoring speech. So the court didn't allow coercion; it specifically prohibited it. As Justice Sotomayor wrote, for the unanimous court, The government violates free speech rights by coercing third parties when it engages in conduct "that, viewed in context, could be reasonably understood to convey a threat of adverse government action in order to punish or suppress speech.”

Apparently making lists of people who’ve committed thought crimes is something “free speech absolutists” do.

@robertgraham Different baseline health means different consequences from Covid, so the vaccines have different consequences. We’re replacing scientists with kooks because we don’t want to pay for the vaccines that are needed because we don’t want to pay for basic healthcare.

@robertgraham “The CDC recommendations were clearly politically biased.“ No they weren’t. All the reasoning is published. Unlike our country, all the other countries you are talking about have national healthcare systems, and consequently people there have better baseline health.

On one hand, the CDC's recommendations were out of step with most of the rest of the world, where most countries only recommended continued Covid boosters for old people and those with conditions. The CDC recommendations were clearly politically biased. On the other hand, RFKjr's overreaction seems to now make such booster shots harder to get than in other countries. He's not just fighting the culture wars, he's determined to squash the opposition.