VessOnSecurity

Anti-virus, malware and infosec expert, crypto amateur, privacy advocate and general annoyance.

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2026-03-11 15:20:50 UTC

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At least for Twitter, this is not true. Yeah, the page exhorts you to create an account - but it *does* show the post. At least on desktop; maybe it's different on mobile.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/211/216/029/601/971/original/5b89e45d206b31e5.png

2026-01-01 07:37:02 UTC

"New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play":
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-phone-ban-clock-time-b2891919.html

2025-09-21 19:53:54 UTC

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It will be very hard to keep it non-violent. Don't forget that nearly half the country voted for him and is very happy with what he's doing. There are likely to be counter-protests and the two sides are likely to clash, resulting in violence.
As an aside, remember that a revolution has *never* succeeded if at least part of the armed forces (police, military) haven't joined the revolutionaries. There doesn't have to be an armed clash - but at least the silent support of the armed forces is needed.

2025-09-12 21:37:35 UTC

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A narcissist is someone loves himself. A sociopath is someone who hates society. While a narcissist is so much occupied with himself that he's often indifferent or even hostile to society, that's not necessarily the case. Similarly, a sociopath who hates society does not necessarily love himself; he might be hating himself too.

2025-09-05 06:13:11 UTC

"WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed":
https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/

2025-08-28 06:33:49 UTC

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Yay! Somebody has finally found a way to use a chatbot for something profitable.

2025-08-06 13:12:45 UTC

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Forgive my ignorance, but how exactly taking federal control over Washington, D.C. is supposed to stop carjackings?

2025-07-21 08:57:53 UTC

"Four-year-old girl dies of hunger in Gaza as Israel throttles food supply":
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/20/middleeast/gaza-girl-food-crisis-intl

2025-07-03 18:50:18 UTC

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Well, it's a useful skill...

2025-06-02 06:47:59 UTC

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What was the point of this? To annoy the cat? It seemed unphazed, though...

2025-05-19 08:44:42 UTC

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At least they have the option to pay. Can you imagine of paying the ransom had been made illegal?

2025-05-04 11:25:51 UTC

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I agree with most of your arguments. (In fact, the only one I take exception with is comparing ransomware with climate change. Ransomware is a much more real and urgent problem.) Those are pretty much arguments I've used myself when advising customers hit by ransomware not to pay.
But, ultimately, it's the company's decision. Even if the company makes the wrong decision, the government shouldn't be the one who decides for them.
See also this:
https://www.coveware.com/blog/2025/4/29/the-organizational-structure-of-ransomware-threat-actor-groups-is-evolving-before-our-eyes
"Decryption tools are worse than they’ve ever been."

2025-04-29 13:47:07 UTC

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https://github.com/menloresearch/jan

2025-04-29 13:46:03 UTC

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Oh, we've misunderstood each other. "Jan" is a program - a GUI for running various LLMs, not "January".

2025-04-29 13:44:54 UTC

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Yes, that's what I tried. Said it couldn't start the server.

2025-03-25 06:34:13 UTC

Use Tor, use Signal, add journalists to your chat groups.

2025-03-24 20:29:47 UTC

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Outstanding government transparency, what.

2025-03-21 16:25:58 UTC

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Brian, Tornado Cash is a *protocol*. Sanctioning it and its inventors is like sanctioning an encryption algorithm, because "it helps criminals". It flies in the face of 1s Amendment and I think there was a court ruling that basically "you can't do that".
By all means, sanction those who use the protocol for laundering money. But the protocol itself?!

2025-03-19 15:56:15 UTC

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Wait, what?!

2025-03-10 20:19:07 UTC

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If only Trump had looked at some charts showing how the markets reacted to the trade ward during his first term...
https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/trumps-tariffs-spark-market-volatility/

2025-03-07 07:53:26 UTC

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As I predicted. It's almost as if the stock market thinks that tariffs are bad for the economy.

2025-03-03 20:55:40 UTC

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Prices going up will be only one of the effects. Jobs will be lost (both in the US and abroad), capital abroad will be lost resulting in buying less from the USA, and many, many other unintended consequences. Regardless of whether one likes or hates Trump politically, anyone even slightly competent in economics should realize that tariffs are an idiotic move, economically.
As a side note, like most modern economists (not to mention laypeople), he confuses "prices going higher" with "inflation". The proper definition of "inflation" is "increase of the money supply", period. Whether it will result in higher prices (and which ones) is unpredictable and depends on many other factors. Prices are the equilibrium of supply and demand both of services/goods and money. If the money supply increases, we have inflation, but if the demand of money also increases, or if the demand for goods/services decreases, this inflation might not result in higher prices.

2025-03-03 15:54:19 UTC

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Starting wars? Maybe he *was* talking about the US government...

2025-03-01 18:48:43 UTC

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LOL, chaos and uncertainty. That's peanuts compared to the wrecking ball that the tariffs will be. They can destroy both the US and the world economy.
US government bonds aren't exactly safe, either, although the USG won't default outright; it can always print its way into oblivion. Even if there are no buyers of government bonds on the open market, the Fed can monetize the debt by creating money out of thin air and buying the bonds. Of course, that will result in (hyper)inflation eventually - but, look mom, no default!
Warren Buffett has raised a record amount of cash - I guess he foresees something most others don't:
https://financeand.money/2025/02/warren-buffett-cash/?lctg=341917604.3

2025-03-01 15:30:35 UTC

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It seems pretty clear to me. Let's see what the result will be.

2025-02-28 18:06:02 UTC

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In 1984, Dr. Fred Cohen proved mathematically that it is impossible to create an algorithm that decides whether an arbitrary program is a virus or not without causing false positives or false negatives.

2025-02-27 20:23:32 UTC

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Ah, but on 6th of August, 2024, Ukraine invaded Russia.

2025-02-26 09:50:12 UTC

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Have you asked Kaspersky?

2025-02-15 07:42:24 UTC

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The URL is but the content is not. The disparaging text has been removed; there is just a link to download an empty CSV file.

2025-02-10 00:16:03 UTC

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Of course J6 was an inside job. It was instigated by the outgoing President.
(I've always believed that Trump was the only one who should have been sent to jail over this debacle - the rest were just deluded fools who honestly believed that they were protesting a stolen election - but Free Speech, natch.)

2025-01-31 17:07:25 UTC

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Ah, OK. You called those raising the issue "the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts" - that's why I misunderstood that you're giving some credibility to that bullshit story. There is plenty of bad stuff and bullshit coming from the Trumpists; there is no need to respond to it with opposing bad stuff and bullshit.
And, yes, I agree that the current administration is full of vengeful jerks, although I don't see why anyone is surprised by that.