this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

DOJ Admits ‘Unprecedented’ National Security Staffing Challenges The Justice Department acknowledged facing “unprecedented” national security workforce constraints due to high turnover compounded by rising overseas threats and new responsibilities, according to a d...

This was entirely foreseeable, and many of us warned that if the Department abandoned all of its principles, the decent public servants in its ranks would abandon the Department.

Options for Phones at Protests Simply showing up to a protest leaves you susceptible to all sorts of surveillance, including cameras, drones, facial recognition, and more. There's not always a lot you can do about pernicious street...

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.

Scoop: CISA CIO Bob Costello is being pushed out, per three people familiar with the matter, ending a standoff between Costello and CISA's beleaguered acting director, who tried and failed to get him reassigned last month.

Two sources said Costello is being reassigned to FEMA.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Invalidating ID cards based on gender is literally a key plot point in The Handmaid’s Tale. This is horrifying.

Episode 251 - Inside the Flock Controversy with Mark Keierleber and Michael Klein

Around the country, Flock cameras have become a source of privacy concerns for parents and teachers alike. IST’s @michaelfklein.bsky.social joined the K-12 Tech Talk Podcast to weigh in on the recent controversy, impacts on schools, and how #securebydefault could be the solution.
🛡️ Listen now:

Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack The attack was launched on Thursday and prompted hospital officials to close all of its 35 clinics across the state.

The attack was launched on Thursday and prompted hospital officials to close all of its 35 clinics across the state. n.pr/4tTCzuA

Why AI Is a Big Problem for School Cybersecurity Many school districts are ill-prepared to defend themselves against AI-powered cyberattacks.

As AI techs proliferates, so too do #cyber attacks, including those against schools, IST Senior Director @michaelfklein.bsky.social told EdWeek. AI tools greatly enhance the capabilities of the average hacker, lowering “the barrier for sophisticated cybercrime,” he explained.
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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:

www.404media.co/leaked-email...

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"power holds no value unless it is exercised"

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

Cyberattack Targeting Poland’s Energy Grid Used a Wiper A cyberattack that targeted power plants and other energy producers in Poland at the end of December used malware known as a “wiper” that was intended to erase computers and cause a power outage and o...

Exclusive: A cyberattack targeting Poland's energy infrastructure in December used wiper malware that would have erased grid computers and rendered them inoperable had it not been thwarted, a researcher at @ESET told me. The researcher calls the attack "unprecedented" for Poland and "substantial"

Make it viral.

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

MJM Committee Session Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Biotechnology Other for Tuesday, December 9, 2025 @ 12:00 PM

IST experts testified before the Maryland General Assembly this week, sharing our strategy to protect K-12 schools from cyber threats and our efforts to help water facilities in hospital communities become “undisruptable” by 2027.
Watch @joshcorman.bsky.social & @michaelfklein.bsky.social:

TL;DR a couple hundred IPs suddenly started exploiting Cisco devices today

- Entire exploitation cluster is originating from OVH (@ovhcloudus.bsky.social).
- Payloads are interesting- attacker is even checking hardware temperatures most likely to ensure they are not honeypots

Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.

U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance

The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test

Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."

1/🧵

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens Practicing good “operations security” is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers (and anyone else) who wants to button up their digital lives.

I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...

11:19 14 in shot, i the Post's facts are correct it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the "two men were blown apart in the water," as the Post put it. It is unclear from the Post's Seporting precisely what role Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Andrea is one of over 170 U.S. citizens who have detained by ICE. It should never have happened, and we will hold Kristi Noem and the Trump Administration accountable.

My 6yo has started pretend electronic locking her bedroom door at night so Trump can't get in. She seemed to think that he himself is going into homes and causing harm. There are children in her school whose families have been impacted by ICE so we assume this is where the concern came from.