Gary Longsine 📱
Information security *is* national security. Free Birdseed podcast, for people who make software. InfoSec NatSec
- Billions. www.thefp.com/p/explosion-...
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- I mean, one of them accidentally killed himself by skiing into a tree. It's not like Bobby "bring back Polio" Kennedy junior didn't have competition.
- Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
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- Well, one would need to dig back a bit, as the name was his father's. Also, the honored relative wasn't always direct maternal line, and wasn't always the immediate precedent generation. I'm not interested enough to look into it. ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LHDF-VVR/...
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- That album is why Jim Morrison went into hiding. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
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- Long tradition of rich people plonking the surname of a close relative, often the mother's maiden name, or her mother's maiden name, into the middle name of a child.
- Reduce the attack surface. There's no bigger payoff, lurking in your enterprise security to-do list. www.linkedin.com/posts/gwlong...
- “I don't think people should be taking ... medical advice from me”, said RFK Jr. during his first hearing this morning. I agree 100%, but since this the case, he should be removed from office by close of business today. www.axios.com/2025/05/14/r...
- This administration is a fractal test of our societal tolerance for ignorance and hypocrisy.
- Sarah Mcfarlane writes: "Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers…" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
- AlphaEVOLVE #ai youtu.be/vC9nAosXrJw
- All the Progressives yelling at Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party to "DoSoMeTh1nG!!!" will be yelling at Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shortly, I'm sure of it. What's that you say? You hear crickets?
- Yeah, that tracks. @nbcnews.com
- "If any middle eastern dictators would like to sponsor / send me a "palace in the sky" flying brothel / jumbo jet for a review on DictatorsOfTheWorld dot com, I am down. I have done this with a variety of petty dictators and murders of journalists over the years and love doing it for them." — DJT
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to be quizzed on Capitol Hill on his handling of the measles outbreak, the firing of thousands of federal health workers and major cuts to the health agencies he oversees.
- Does the word "illegal" appear in this article? If not, you might want to take a closer look at what's happening.
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- The $2 billion to Kushner is mentioned early in this discussion by @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com … youtu.be/hChTPxJ8x8Q
- he thinks American voters are really dumb
- Well, 77 million people voted for the "I am your retribution guy" without realizing that he was, as he weirdly often does, speaking about himself in the third person. Dunno what that is, but it's not necessarily something a rational, informed voter would do. www.texastribune.org/2023/03/25/d...
- Trump also caused a drop in Boeing stock price before he took office after being elected in 2016 by threatening to cancel the Air Force One contact. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...
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- That occurred shortly after the end of the Trump first term, if I recall correctly. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
- RFK Jr. Claims Measles Can Be Cured With A Good Concealer
- It's becoming more difficult to shine a light between The Onion @theonion.com and ordinary headline news.
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- Don't miss this report from @maddow.msnbc.com on the hypocrisy of the GOP administration actions to destroy scientific and medical R&D, and programs that help millions of Americans get access to health care at all. youtu.be/AlrtMbgf49k
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- Not to mention a passenger jetliner and helicopter collision in the DCA airspace.
- Don’t forget, there is a new Air Force One fleet (2 new planes) being outfitted already. www.boeing.com/defense/air-...
- Regular government employee: can’t let you buy me that Diet Coke, might break the rules The president: government officials accept $400 million dollar planes all the time
- The first time I was a contractor for a federal civilian agency a federal employee told me, "never buy so much as a coffee or a donut for any federal employee; it's simpler that way." American influence in the world since World War II derives in no small part from a culture of anti-corruption.
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- Not always entirely safe, but almost always averages out for the better.
- SCOTUS infamously had an entire discussion around the possibility that a POTUS handed such immunity might order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival. John Roberts and MAGA-SCOTUS majority decided that was OK. www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
- Dear fellow Americans, please don't abandon the culture of anti-corruption.
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- I'm pointing out the important distinction in a way that I hope is easier to understand than most of what we see in the InfoSec jargon about passkeys. Passwords are shared secrets, and can be stolen. Passkeys are *not* shared secrets and *cannot* be stolen.
- Career Arsonist of the Constitution Asks Georgetown Law Students: "Does Anyone Smell Smoke?"
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- More Honest Headline™ — "Career Arsonist of the Constitution Asks: 'Does Anyone Smell Smoke? I Think I Might Smell Smoke. Certainly Not from Any Fire That *I* Set! Is There a Fire?'" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen...
- Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale." This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other: newrepublic.com/article/1951...
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- I listened to several podcasts with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Sarah Longwell during the previous election, where she played clips from focus groups of “undecided” voters. Many Americans don’t seem to understand the mapping from party control to actions of Congress. She might not agree with me.
- I’m running a quick little survey: what would you do if you discovered your cable modem or wifi router had a critical security vulnerability? If you have a LinkedIn account, click through to vote! 🗳️ www.linkedin.com/posts/gwlong...
- Thread of the day, category: punny
- Finally, a politician with a real job newjerseyglobe.com/legislature/...
- Trump saluting Saudi generals.
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- Remember that time when for eight years the entire GOP was obsessed with tiny alleged violations of protocol? youtu.be/KKB4W1iaHTg?...
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- The role of Project 2025 is underestimated in the analysis of the war against science and facts. This brilliant documentary about the rise of QAnon has become an essential primer for understanding American politics. “They are trying to create a flat Earth.” youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44?...
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- The Snowball Earth geologic history is fascinating, though, and the video titles above are a bit confusing. Lovely collision of concepts. The band name is a curiosity. youtu.be/4ONwQV26L-k?...
- 🧐😳🤣 This was a musical interlude, a modern band enamored with the moment in music history known as psychedelic rock (“1969”). Reminiscent of the other bands, mostly lost in the mists of time, who were adjacent to The Pink Floyd just before The Dark Side of the Moon. youtu.be/JcfgJrHo9XA?...
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- Congress? The Republicans have the majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives; they control the calendar, they decide who chairs all the committees. It’s dreadful, yes, but this is the Republican Party. Still, 22 GOP Senators found their spine… www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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- Only Alia. Possibly you were exposed to heavy doses of the Spice in the womb. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alia_At...
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- Hey Doc @jonathanstea.bsky.social this might brighten your day. 👆🏼
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- How did that work out? 🧐🤔🤣
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- You might enjoy the graphic novel by Robert Crumb, The Book of Genesis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo...
- Reminder: by preventing the Republican Party and Trump from shutting down the government, Senator Chuck Schumer forced Republicans to have this debate in the open. Rather than buried under a burning mountain of “blame the Democrats for shutting down the country” BS. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
- when you’ve lost Rand Paul
- Rand Paul had opportunities to stop this. He chose to kiss the ring and polish the boots with his tongue. www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/p...
- Satire, struggling to stay mere moments ahead of the looming thunderclouds of dystopia.
- “Why can’t bribing the president be as straightforward as doing a dead drop of a briefcase in a parking garage like it used to be?” said Ben Tormos theonion.com/man-can...
- "At press time, Tormos’ phone was reportedly glitching as a result of the Chinese spyware that came with the app." 🤣
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- Nixon would have seen a story or two like that, as the Watergate scandal was unfolding.
- Frozen Planet… 1969 youtu.be/RhYH5qHNI60
- Brawndo has what plants crave, it's got electrolytes.
- Imagine if an Arab country, oh, let's pick one at random, maybe Qatar, gave Barack Hussein Obama a $400 million Boeing 747 called "a palace in the sky".
- Last summer, 22 Republican members of the Senate voted for aid to Ukraine, despite then-candidate Trump pressuring them to block it. Some of their colleagues probably can't be reached, but those 22 GOP Senators probably know right from wrong. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
- The Constitution disagrees. The Emoluments Clause, part of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, bans office holders from taking ANY gifts from foreign countries. There is no mention of quid pro quo. That is because the Founding Fathers knew that even the *appearance* of corruption promotes corruption.
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