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Jason Kikta
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// Somehow a CTO
// JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct
// @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor
// Former USCYBERCOM/CNMF
// Retired US Marine Corps
// Personal views and invective
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You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable.

You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable

Who knows if I saved the firm
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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"I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.

It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Imagine spending billions of dollars on influence operations in an attempt to dismantle US democracy only to find out all you had to do was pay Elon's wife to divorce him
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The NSC is wasting time on hack back as if our tech oligarchy hasn't caused more disruption of the Internet than every state and criminal action combined.
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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To be truly effective, a cybersecurity researcher must know and love online content.
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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So far this morning, we’ve had an incredible kickoff with on attribution alphabet soup with the one and only @dmitri.silverado.org and then a fascinating meme-ful talk from @activemeasures.bsky.social and @wylienewmark.bsky.social on SVR cyber espionage and Russian analytic battlefields.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I just realized the thing that set back social democracy in America a hundred years was Hunter Biden not inviting media elites on his cocaine benders and sharing his hookers and I will spend the next 48 hours staring at the wall.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Woke military elites scoff at the idea that the blade is a proper finishing school, insisting that the humanities teach judgment, ethics, compassion, and forbearance. I can tell you that when the night screams with the sound of steel our warriors aren’t thinking of Homer, they’re thinking of home.
USAFA- the liberty u of service academies
The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Decided to look through the pictures buried in the Epstein emails and I was not prepared.
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Realizing we didn't need all this fucking red string at all
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
If this many wealthy people are illiterate idiots and so many in leadership roles are spineless outside of their own selfishness, perhaps there’s some flaws in our system
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Straight up, I developed and taught — and @kikta.net now teaches — an entire course at the @alperovitch.institute that boils down to “you can shape adversary cyber activity but you can’t deter it because that’s how intelligence operations work”. Being mad at China for playing the game is ridiculous.
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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“We can deter espionage if it involves computers” remains the dumbest shit ever.

If you’re a reporter who’s going to be at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social, feel free to get me started on this — I’ll probably say something clinically insane but still entirely accurate.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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“Are you really going to die for some bananas?”

“Someone is.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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“Do you like bananas? Because we are going to fight a war for it”
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I pray that all my brothers and sisters get an ounce of comfort on this day as we come together to celebrate our shared heritage of 250 years.

Whether you are at a glittering ball, stuck in a fighting hole or knee deep in the shit of the day, remember that we what we make of ourselves.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!

250!!!
a man with glasses is screaming in front of another man
ALT: a man with glasses is screaming in front of another man
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Happy Birthday to all the Marines.
youtu.be/6Vw0jTk4rqQ?...
250th Marine Corps Birthday message
YouTube video by Marines
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM