Blenster @Blenster@social.cleverlibre.org

Reading a Wired article about Flipper Zero which is a $200 device that can be used to capture and replay data transmitted over radio signals like NFC, RFID and blue tooth.

It’s gone viral on TikTok as people have shown outlandish hacks as many of these protocols were not designed with security in mind.

You can find the article here https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-flipper-zero-tiktok/

“White” is NOT a race…although it is codified as such [see any government application]

“Whiteness” is a moving target that expands and contracts based on who, in that moment, is ALLOWED to benefit from and leverage its systems, institutions, and policies of white supremacy and anti-Blackness

Who’s “white” changes whenever those in power need to distract its beneficiaries, from addressing the inherent harm and violence that is white supremacy; making them a complicit partner in exchange

Pour one out for all of the security practitioners who are going to have to spend the holidays patiently explaining that using a password manager is still good, actually, to people who have glanced at a headline about the latest LastPass breach.

To all my LGBTQIA sisters and brothers.

Once this idea came into my head, it refused to go away until I tried it. So now you can all share in my build of "Frosty the Glowman."

Making progress on putting up IKEA SKÅDIS pegboard on all of my lab's vertical surfaces. The one on the left is mounted to my BEKANT adjustable standing desk, and has a KUNGSFORS magnetic knife rack mounted to it with 3D printed hooks. It makes a perfect #PCB #badge display.
Still working out where everything goes. So far it's a great way to keep everything I need close, but off of my precious horizontal work surfaces.

I crocheted this resistor on the livestream this morning with @anu1905!

What value and tolerance is it?
Pretend the last black stripe is brown.

We’ll pick a correct answer at random tomorrow Fri @10am Pacific, winner gets one of our fancy cherry resistor benders!

Boosts appreciated!

Absolutely not day dreaming about the beauty of slime molds.

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

You resting soon?
Just checking.

Let’s change the perception of
and access to
rest as a luxury
to what it truly is,
a necessity.

Just a reminder that tomorrow morning at 10am Pacific we’re live-streaming with @anu1905 ! Join us as we crochet a resistor and talk about electronics and also her gorgeous moon phase and period-tracking calendar PCB! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhbQjyEI_Q

In a moment of inspiration as privacy folks prep for CPRA & SCC updates at the end of the year, I decided last week to gift my team a modified book, re-titled: "'Twas the Night Before Privacy Updates"

I made a customized version for each person on the team. Here's what I wrote:

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits