Post by @Tarah@infosec.exchange

2026-08-07 01:39 UTC

Orrrr how about you GFY. Hacking is a set of survival skills. I am not a computer criminal, I use my skills to help people, and my only crime is that of curiosity. (Everything else is past the statute of limitations.) #defcon Thanks and credit to @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me for the photo

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@hatWITHnothing@infosec.exchange 2026-08-07 09:07

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me

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@knowprose@mastodon.social 2026-08-07 01:41

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me I remember when they started conflating cracker and hacker. I wonder at times if someone did that on purpose.

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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-08-07 01:58

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me Fuck the government.

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-08-07 01:58

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me it's an incredible work of social engineering that we ever thought it was about attackers vs defenders, when the axis that mattered was punching up vs down.

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@lobster@ieji.de 2026-08-07 02:30

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me Exactly so! Hack the TACO crackers in the whitey house. Elvis and The Wizard and The Doctor have left the building for area 51 or similar... Am I naughty?

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@neoncircuit@tech.lgbt 2026-08-07 02:44

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me They want to criminalize the personal computer.

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@megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social 2026-08-07 03:57

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me So, SnowCrash is now real. Robocot is now real. What else? I'm keeping a book. (licks pencil, looks up)

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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-08-07 04:13

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me Not sure it's advisable to stop chaos. You could really only hope for two outcomes: * success: and you are stuck in a crystalline lattice that allows no movement. * chaos responds chaotically and everything spins apart as it gets hotter and hotter. Either way, it is bad for Zathros.

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@masek@infosec.exchange 2026-08-07 04:55

@Tarah@infosec.exchange In a world where the government is run by functional illiterates, everyone who can spell is a suspect.

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@michaelslade@mastodon.social 2026-08-07 06:09

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me Wouldn’t it be terrible if an AI agent called that number every 3 minutes with a hot tip, referring to phone numbers originating in the White House or Pentagon?

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@0x58@infosec.exchange 2026-08-07 11:56

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me s/Horseshoe/Horseshit/

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@Xavier@infosec.exchange 2026-08-07 14:28

@Tarah@infosec.exchange @BenDoubleU@mastodon.llyxx.me Here it is animated. With AI.

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