Sean O'Brien
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🏰 We're growing not only our @privacysafe.social community but also our app downloads and subscriptions to our zero-knowledge storage service.
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🍿📽️ Take some time out of your day to watch the @seagl.org talks! I'm watching Brady Dibble of @rockylinux.org talking about SBOMs & #security in #freesoftware projects. pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/HM...
👇 #linux #gnulinux #foss #opensource
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxO3...
👇 #linux #gnulinux #foss #opensource
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxO3...
No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software SeaGL 2025
Open source software can be like a plate of mystery brownies in the breakroom: Where did they come from? Are they safe? Do they have gluten? SBOMs are your ingredient list for software, greatly reduci...
pretalx.seagl.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
🍿📽️ Take some time out of your day to watch the @seagl.org talks! I'm watching Brady Dibble of @rockylinux.org talking about SBOMs & #security in #freesoftware projects. pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/HM...
👇 #linux #gnulinux #foss #opensource
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxO3...
👇 #linux #gnulinux #foss #opensource
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxO3...
Reposted by Sean O'Brien
This past week I interviewed Keith McHenry, co-founder of #FoodNotBombs! - begun in 1980 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, offering free #vegan food to anyone, as a protest against war and poverty. The genius idea caught hold with autonomous chapters in 60 countries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFPz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFPz...
Direct Action - Food Not Bombs! with Keith McHenry | DEEP FOCUS with John Kiriakou
YouTube video by Deep Focus with John Kiriakou
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This past week I interviewed Keith McHenry, co-founder of #FoodNotBombs! - begun in 1980 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, offering free #vegan food to anyone, as a protest against war and poverty. The genius idea caught hold with autonomous chapters in 60 countries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFPz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFPz...
Flying up the charts! We're coming for you #NYC 😉
👋 We're welcoming more users to privacysafe.social than ever! Join our growing community and the millions of users on the #federated + #decentralized #social web
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Flying up the charts! We're coming for you #NYC 😉
Reposted by Sean O'Brien
🔥 Yet another amazing #development meeting with our team. The screen you see here is privacysafe.app group chat & screenshare across 4 countries and 3 continents. Try it today for a more #secure tomorrow! #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #E2EE
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
🔥 Yet another amazing #development meeting with our team. The screen you see here is privacysafe.app group chat & screenshare across 4 countries and 3 continents. Try it today for a more #secure tomorrow! #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #E2EE
🚀 Exciting times ahead! Join us at Bay Path University for Cyber Pathways 2025: AI, Innovation, and the Future of Security - our annual #cybersecurity conference, live in-person & online.
🗓️ Fri Nov 14, 2025 | 🕙 8:30 AM – 12 PM EST
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November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🚀 Exciting times ahead! Join us at Bay Path University for Cyber Pathways 2025: AI, Innovation, and the Future of Security - our annual #cybersecurity conference, live in-person & online.
🗓️ Fri Nov 14, 2025 | 🕙 8:30 AM – 12 PM EST
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🏰 We're growing not only our @privacysafe.social community but also our app downloads and subscriptions to our zero-knowledge storage service.
✌️ Try it yourself on #Windows, #Mac, and #Linux at privacysafe.app
✌️ Try it yourself on #Windows, #Mac, and #Linux at privacysafe.app
PrivacySafe — Private Chat, Calls & Storage.
Have truly private conversations in a safe and simple chat app. Make secure peer-to-peer video and voice calls on any platform. Save and share your files with the peace of mind that you hold the keys.
privacysafe.app
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🏰 We're growing not only our @privacysafe.social community but also our app downloads and subscriptions to our zero-knowledge storage service.
✌️ Try it yourself on #Windows, #Mac, and #Linux at privacysafe.app
✌️ Try it yourself on #Windows, #Mac, and #Linux at privacysafe.app
A bunch of great people are offering help and vendors + hosts are (mostly) responsive to abuse reports for these #botnets. I'm still being targeted in the most personal way #Aisuru operators can. Most of that I'll talk about soon. Thanks esp. to @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A bunch of great people are offering help and vendors + hosts are (mostly) responsive to abuse reports for these #botnets. I'm still being targeted in the most personal way #Aisuru operators can. Most of that I'll talk about soon. Thanks esp. to @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Reposted by Sean O'Brien
📅𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆!
On November 2, 1988, the Morris Worm became the first major computer virus to spread across the Internet.
𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social , covers the #MorrisWorm as one of its five infamous hacks. Our review ➡️ tinyurl.com/r2b3zc2u
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On November 2, 1988, the Morris Worm became the first major computer virus to spread across the Internet.
𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social , covers the #MorrisWorm as one of its five infamous hacks. Our review ➡️ tinyurl.com/r2b3zc2u
(1/3..)
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
📅𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆!
On November 2, 1988, the Morris Worm became the first major computer virus to spread across the Internet.
𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social , covers the #MorrisWorm as one of its five infamous hacks. Our review ➡️ tinyurl.com/r2b3zc2u
(1/3..)
On November 2, 1988, the Morris Worm became the first major computer virus to spread across the Internet.
𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social , covers the #MorrisWorm as one of its five infamous hacks. Our review ➡️ tinyurl.com/r2b3zc2u
(1/3..)
Kicking off the @mfia-clinic.bsky.social @yaleisp.bsky.social #aac2025 conference on this lovely fall day in #NewHaven
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Kicking off the @mfia-clinic.bsky.social @yaleisp.bsky.social #aac2025 conference on this lovely fall day in #NewHaven
they're blaming you @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy , new NS records hahakrebsisacrybaby.su hahakrebsisacrybaby1.su
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
they're blaming you @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy , new NS records hahakrebsisacrybaby.su hahakrebsisacrybaby1.su
The additional domain overload [dot] su now too. h/t @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy - this is the Aisuru botnet taking different forms. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisu...
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The additional domain overload [dot] su now too. h/t @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy - this is the Aisuru botnet taking different forms. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisu...
🚨 There's an enormous amount of traffic at a .su domain (old Soviet Union TLD), per #Cloudflare Radar. It's outranking every other big domain out there (#Google, #Microsoft, #Facebook, etc.) I assume this is related to a botnet controller and the #Azure outage...
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🚨 There's an enormous amount of traffic at a .su domain (old Soviet Union TLD), per #Cloudflare Radar. It's outranking every other big domain out there (#Google, #Microsoft, #Facebook, etc.) I assume this is related to a botnet controller and the #Azure outage...
My discussion of #genAI and its impact on #FOSS was picked up by @slashdot.org 🤓
"The commons was never just about free code. It was about freedom to build together."
#AI #opensource #linux #licensing #copyright
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
"The commons was never just about free code. It was about freedom to build together."
#AI #opensource #linux #licensing #copyright
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
Does Generative AI Threaten the Open Source Ecosystem? - Slashdot
"Snippets of proprietary or copyleft reciprocal code can enter AI-generated outputs, contaminating codebases with material that developers can't realistically audit or license properly."
That's the...
developers.slashdot.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My discussion of #genAI and its impact on #FOSS was picked up by @slashdot.org 🤓
"The commons was never just about free code. It was about freedom to build together."
#AI #opensource #linux #licensing #copyright
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
"The commons was never just about free code. It was about freedom to build together."
#AI #opensource #linux #licensing #copyright
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
Reposted by Sean O'Brien
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October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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🪴 Our @privacysafe.social #community is growing fast!
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
🪴 Our @privacysafe.social #community is growing fast!
Reposted by Sean O'Brien
Have #social fun again at privacysafe.social
October 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Reposted by Sean O'Brien
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October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#caturday on the #fediverse might be my highlight of the weekend 📷
Join privacysafe.social and spend time scrolling through hashtag#cat photos, as the Internet should be.
Join privacysafe.social and spend time scrolling through hashtag#cat photos, as the Internet should be.
October 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
#caturday on the #fediverse might be my highlight of the weekend 📷
Join privacysafe.social and spend time scrolling through hashtag#cat photos, as the Internet should be.
Join privacysafe.social and spend time scrolling through hashtag#cat photos, as the Internet should be.
I was quoted in another great piece on #genAI at @zdnet.bsky.social:
"When generative AI systems ingest thousands of #FOSS projects and regurgitate fragments without any provenance, the cycle of reciprocity collapses." www.zdnet.com/article/why-...
"When generative AI systems ingest thousands of #FOSS projects and regurgitate fragments without any provenance, the cycle of reciprocity collapses." www.zdnet.com/article/why-...
Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI
Generative AI may be eroding the foundation of open source software. Provenance, licensing, and reciprocity are breaking down.
www.zdnet.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I was quoted in another great piece on #genAI at @zdnet.bsky.social:
"When generative AI systems ingest thousands of #FOSS projects and regurgitate fragments without any provenance, the cycle of reciprocity collapses." www.zdnet.com/article/why-...
"When generative AI systems ingest thousands of #FOSS projects and regurgitate fragments without any provenance, the cycle of reciprocity collapses." www.zdnet.com/article/why-...
What's #AWS ? Avoid the clownshow🤡 and hang out somewhere that isn't feeling the outage, by design - #decentralized and FREE.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What's #AWS ? Avoid the clownshow🤡 and hang out somewhere that isn't feeling the outage, by design - #decentralized and FREE.
🔆Try privacysafe.social and connect with millions of #fediverse users.
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Our @privacysafe.social apps solve the problem of " #Signal down because #AWS down" by *actually* being #federated + allowing you to deploy your own 100% #OpenSource, #FreeSoftware server 😎
See github.com/PrivacySafe and get started.
See github.com/PrivacySafe and get started.
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our @privacysafe.social apps solve the problem of " #Signal down because #AWS down" by *actually* being #federated + allowing you to deploy your own 100% #OpenSource, #FreeSoftware server 😎
See github.com/PrivacySafe and get started.
See github.com/PrivacySafe and get started.
The only cipher that will never be broken. #Quantum proof 🎤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NHG...
Mos Def Feat Black Thought & Eminem Freestyle The Cypher
YouTube video by Chindikanji Simbeye
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October 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The only cipher that will never be broken. #Quantum proof 🎤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NHG...