Aaron Parecki

Next year's red team exercises is going to go through a hostile takeover of your company by a maniac psychopath.

Think the worst that can happen is a database SQL injection? Think again.

If you're considering a career in cybersecurity, I really caution you to think about what's going to happen once everything is secure.

Elon repeatedly mocking Mastodon suggests that... he's seeing the magnitude of the shift of key people from here to there.

basically Twitter but with Discord mods who run it like subreddits

So Musk sent emails to European Twitter employees, firing them. Problem is, you cannot legally fire people that way here, so legally they're still employed and legally owed money for their time. But also, firing people as exists in the USA doesn't exist here...

I can’t wait till elon musk offers to buy twitter and delete it and everyone who calls it a “hellsite” has to pick sides for real

simply unforgivable that elon is forcing me to either get hot (instagram), get annoying (substack), learn what a server is (mastodon), or become an actual psychopath (linkedin)

You know that story about the bar owner who throws out the nice Nazi because otherwise the bar becomes a Nazi bar? This place is now self evidently owned by the far right and the doors are open for all of them. It’s no better than Parler or Truth Social now.

For posterity, here’s a screenshot of Twitter’s home timeline after creating a brand new test account during my first week there in 2009. I went looking for this to recall the name of the Everyone timeline. I have a whole folder of these from an audit I did that week.