Freekdeman

Freekdeman

@freekdeman.bsky.social

Does stuff with computers. Works around infosec. Lover of bad jokes, poor taste and lapses of judgement.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

EFF has released a State Legislative Agenda to end ALPR mass surveillance. The ideal solution? Ban ALPRs entirely. They are fundamentally incompatible with a free society and cannot be fixed.

eff.orgEFF’s State Legislative Agenda to End ALPR Mass SurveillancePolice agencies across the U.S. have deployed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to capture images of passing vehicles along with time, date, and GPS coordinates. While the technology itself isn’...

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Charlie Warzel
@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.
Freekdeman
@freekdeman.bsky.social

Van der Plas is verstandig daar niet aan tafel te gaan zitten. Femke maakt er gehakt van.

Roelant Siekman🌱⚡️@roelant.bsky.social

Burgemeester Femke Halsema laat de ondermijning door Kamerleden niet over haar kant gaan. Stut de democratische rechtsstaat en stel de volgende keer eens kritische vragen aan die populistische politici! In plaats van mee te gaan in hun schandalige frame. De luiheid van landelijke media helpt niet.

Freekdeman
@freekdeman.bsky.social

Oeff, that's bad.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com

Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics said it's been hit by a cyberattack & has paused its Quanum LSM system that some of its customers use for placing tests & looking up results. In an SEC filing, the company said it believes hackers "accessed certain patient records." www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

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Phil Hagen
@philhagen.com

Excellent writeup for those waking up and wondering what the PHP news is. Gonna be a long few days for a lot of folks.

Wolfcat 🥄@wolfcat.bsky.social

A good recap on the PHP shit show... thehackernews.com/2026/10/php2... The more interesting thing is what they are not saying, which implies a lot of oh FUCK.

thehackernews.comPHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security AlertPHP2Shell involves two critical PHP RCE flaws rated CVSS 9.2, with emergency fixes scheduled following a disclosure leak.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

VICTORY! EFF, our co-counsel and our clients have won our lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. A judge agreed OPM violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. The court will decide the remedy at a later date.

eff.orgVictory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is UnlawfulA federal court in New York definitively ruled that the Office of Personnel Management violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. The court will decide the...

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Joe Slowik
@pylos.co

It isn't wrong, but holy shit. On the other side, at least SOMEONE is calling this out for what it is - and leave it to military Onion to do so since the actual "press" in this country fucking sucks.

Freekdeman
@freekdeman.bsky.social

It's free, usefull and entertaining.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com

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this.weekinsecurity.com~this week in security~a weekly cybersecurity newsletter by Zack Whittaker, plus articles and more.

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Andrea Devon
@andreadevon.sheshed.rocks

Lise Meitner was the 2nd woman to earn a physics PhD at the Univ of Vienna and Germany’s first female physics professor. She fled Nazi Germany, helped explain nuclear fission, and has an element named for her. 49 Nobel nominations, she never won. Her male colleague did. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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Zack Whittaker
@zackwhittaker.com

New, by me: An OpenAI employee on the product team has been arrested by the FBI and charged with planting a secret recording device in an OpenAI conference room. The Saudi national was arrested last week and fired on Friday after OpenAI allegedly caught him. Bypass for ad-blockers: archive.is/J7s6j

techcrunch.comFBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room | TechCrunchThe FBI arrested a Saudi national who worked at OpenAI on the product team. The AI maker accused the employee of hiding a recording device in an executive conference room.