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Day 18 cont 🪓⛏️🔨👺😷🥷

#DanielJones claimed responsibility for the #confrontation on Tuesday, alongside alt-right group #Melbourne #FreedomRally, in an incident that sparked #safety concerns about the ability of #extremists to #infiltrate #SecureLocations during the #election campaign.”

The two most dangerous times for diplomatic and political security is INGRESS and EGRESS from cars to buildings, buildings to cars. How did the extremists learn the TIME and PLACE of the PM?

#AusPol / #OpSec / #PM / #security / #Labor <archive.md/R98nM> / <smh.com.au/politics/federal/it> (paywall)

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"The investigation remains ongoing," the official said without providing details about the nature of the alleged disclosure, including whether it was made to a journalist or to someone else.

[typical, punish the guy who let the press in on it, but not the freaking president’s CABINET MEMBERS who were actively divulging classified #military operations on a commercial app on their private devices!]

Hey #fediverse I could use some #opsec advice:

If I have a CMS, and its login page uses SSO with another 3rd party for authentication, I shouldn't need to lock that login page down by IP address should I? Isn't the security of it contingent on the 3rd party providing the SSO not me?

I talked a boatload of shit today about RFK, the Federal judiciary enabling Ostarbeiter to take place in the US, RFK's desire for concentration camps for ADHD & autistic folks, & the DOJ dropping charges on the Texas doctor who went after trans patients & violated HIPAA.

Why do I share this?

Im urging all providers to have similar conversations with patients before September. Some may glean services from ASD diagnosis. Factor in a risks benefit discussion. Let them decide.

It's urgent.

Sources:

Federal enabling: apnews.com/article/illegal-imm

Ostarbeiter: mstdn.social/@Npars01/11431606

RFK 1: cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cause-

RFK 2: motherjones.com/politics/2024/

DOJ: texastribune.org/2025/01/24/tr

Further, autism self diagnosis is largely valid & UWash website has links.

depts.washington.edu/uwautism/

depts.washington.edu/uwautism/

#question #didyouknow #todayilearned #til

Windows is reinstating Recall,
Snapshots of screen saved every 3 seconds and fed to AI.
Previously introduced in May, 2024 to some backlash.

(...)"a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device."
(...)"nothing stopping Recall from preserving sensitive disappearing content sent through privacy-protecting messengers such as Signal."
(...)"Windows 11 Build 26100.3902 preview version. Over time, the feature will be rolled out more broadly."
(...)"That would indiscriminately hoover up all kinds of User A's sensitive material, including photos, passwords, medical conditions, and encrypted videos and messages."
(...)"That level of detailed archival material will undoubtedly be subject to subpoena by lawyers and governments."

etc. etc.
Yeah...

#microsoft#windows#os

One MicroSD card and Raspberry PI. With $35 + $24 you get totally off the grid planning environment for your tasks. Plan and coordinate regardless access to infrastructure like cellular or satcom. Sometimes it's also good if you don't leave traces to great firewalls. Edgemap is open source and available at my Github for free!
#edgemap #preparedness #offthegrid #opsec #tak #atak #mesh #manet #meshtastic

youtu.be/CMUB8S3AKzw

Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat | Signal group chat leak | The Guardian

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related.

The Guardian · Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chatBy Hugo Lowell