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Cyberoutsider@infosec.exchange

<p>Random InfoSec guy (mostly architecture) screaming at the world. Maybe a bit of running, politics and puns dotted in there too.</p><p>Toots set to auto-delete after 30 days (for server space and so stuff doesn&#39;t come back to haunt me years later)</p>

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    An IR analyst with 4+ years experience for £45k!?! Yeah, good luck finding anyone of quality for that. And seriously... those were the salaries when I first joined the commercial sector 10 years ago. If you&#39;re offering that still, you are part of the reason for the cost of living crisis.

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    Because being backed by the US Government right now is definitely an indicator that you&#39;re absolutely on the right side of history... US backs Elon Musk&#39;s bid to overturn €120m EU fine against X - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq0m373ee0v0o?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub

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    “AI allows you to get to a bad idea faster,” one of the sources said. Now, that&#39;s a line to remember. Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

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    I see the oil sector is continuing to feel the squeeze from both the Russian war in Ukraine and the US/Israeli war in Iran, just like the rest of us. Oh wait... Shell posts best quarterly profit in four years as Iran war boosts oil, gas prices https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/shell-2q-earnings-iran-war-oil.html

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    Did something happen to the Infosec.exchange notification preferences? Seem to be getting emails due to activity again 🤔 No biggie, I&#39;ve unsubscribed again but not sure why they turned themselves back on...

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    The only real - and widespread - benefit I&#39;ve seen of the &quot;adoption of AI&quot; in companies is its ability to highlight exactly how little of what most organisations do to generate market value is actually in any way essential or coordinated by management. Those processes which actually are essential to the organisation, very few companies dare introduce AI into them for fear of fucking them up. And the amount of sudden capacity &amp; funds found to push management&#39;s pet projects...

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    I&#39;m sorry, you want to pay what for a security architect? And how confident do you currently feel about your security and your chances of finding someone that will help improve that? Yeah... I think I can see the reason...

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    [Far too many people in today&#39;s western societies] &quot;Why do we even still need Pride events? Those people aren&#39;t being persecuted anymore...&quot; Errrmm... that&#39;s not quite true though, is it? There may be a tiny slither of legal acceptance (and even that is back-sliding in some countries), but culturally there are still many that think violence against LGBTQ+ is acceptable. One dead, 16 injured at Berlin Pride event after vehicle crashes into crowd, police say - BBC News http...

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    Hold on... he wants to tariff the likes of the UK and EU over [checks notes]... labour concerns?? Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... US announces fresh raft of tariffs on overseas goods - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgj61j6l08o

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    My offspring robbed a bank this morning. Held everyone at gun-point while they forced the cashier to put all the available cash in a bag. All I said to them was that they should earn some money. Isn&#39;t this an amazing outcome? Definitely something to brag about!

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    Something about being a party for free speech - just not that kind of free speech. Reform councillors try to &#39;close down&#39; Wakefield music festival - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjz1jqwpdo

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    Nepotism, is the answer nepotism? I bet it&#39;s nepotism... Fairly certain it&#39;s nepotism. Big bosses reveal the secret to getting hired - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cvgxelx3y78o

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    Well... that didn&#39;t take long for everyone to start calling for a new Prime Minister. Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2z9d4o

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    RE: https://mas.to/@alternativeto/116933779909903360 So how long do we think before we start seeing attacks via AI agents to dump all the contents of your password manager?

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    This feels like an appropriate time to remind people in the UK and USA that it is entirely possible to simultaneously hold the view that wishing ill / death on someone is too far and wrong... But also that the loss of a particular person&#39;s voice (and the type of world that they advocate for) is something that does not require a tear to be shed.

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    &quot;The best AI prompts aren&#39;t necessarily the most detailed - the best prompts are the clearest&quot; Well, that&#39;s why AI is failing management then, isn&#39;t it? We&#39;ve had years of being told that employees need to &quot;handle ambiguity&quot; because management have been crap at giving clear directions. AI is just reflecting that those instructions were always so crap and confusing... only now you don&#39;t have another person to blame it on.

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    Who knew that Count Binface wouldn&#39;t be the stupidest candidate standing in the by-election??? A bin, two foxes and a mystic: the candidates fighting Clacton - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlw69p6lyeo

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    I&#39;ve said it before and I&#39;ll undoubtedly say it again - I may even get this carved into my grave when I die... If you are a manager and you&#39;re lamenting to your team about how everyone is so busy - stretched to / beyond capacity, even - and the work demand is &quot;chaos&quot;... THEN YOU ARE FAILING AS A MANAGER!

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    Either the Supreme Court is going to rehear and side with Trump (which given precedent of not rehearing cases would look mighty suspicious) Or... Trump is going to try to get rid of the Supreme Court. Trump wants US Supreme Court to reconsider birthright citizenship - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx23zk1jp1go

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    What? ... What?

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    AI usage is going to destroy people&#39;s ability to communicate and work with others. Why actually talk to the person in an organisation that is the expert on a particular system / the team who implemented that system and know how it&#39;s configured when you can just ask AI to give you a set of instructions that have no context about your org?

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    Belgium football team suddenly - and mysteriously - have all their visas cancelled.

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    This will be the real reason why smart glasses fail as a product again - nothing to do with privacy concerns. The makers will be so desperate and greedy that they&#39;ll create a pricing model that puts off people that happily looked beyond the ethical implications of the technology. Meta glasses wearers hit with paywall to use built-in feature - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wy317d71jo

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    Huh... who knew that Trump would get rid of the Supreme Court?? Birthright citizenship ruling: Supreme Court rejects Trump&#39;s proposed limits | AP News https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-immigration-c73cf0c70bb550ebf0a55fafddbd935c

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    Someone the other day told me I&#39;d make a &quot;really good AI Security Consultant&quot; I still don&#39;t know whether I should have taken that as a compliment or Klingon-headbutted them right there and then for insulting my honour. Also, I&#39;m fairly certain all I&#39;ve done is read several AI company&#39;s documentation pages (largely under protest I may add, but I was at least being paid to do it) - is that all that constitutes a consultant in the AI world?

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    A single market for goods with the rest of Europe?? What an original idea... I can&#39;t believe that the UK were the first to think of it... 🤦‍♂️ UK officials suggested single market for goods with Europe - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5plpm3g2ro

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    &quot;Use AI to come up with an outfit for you to wear to the movies!&quot; Really?? That&#39;s where we&#39;re going with AI hype now? &quot;Pretend I&#39;m a doll and dress me&quot;? If people genuinely want to use it for that, the extinction of the human race probably can&#39;t come soon enough.

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    Did you click on a link today? If you did, then you&#39;re the security vulnerability! [Sarcasm... unless you work in Sales]

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    So in this case, the victims of injustice are arguably not the students choosing to take out a loan and pay for college now, but the many people I went to school with who were never even offered a choice about whether to borrow and study at all. Almost gave up reading on this line. It&#39;s a bollocks line to say &quot;more of you get to go to university, so it&#39;s only fair you&#39;re stiffed with the debt for the rest of your working lives while we got it for free&quot;... if your generati...