Rob Rosenberger
@vmyths.bsky.social
#Retired I'm the longest reigning #critic of the computer #antivirus industry. I debunk #cybersecurity & #cyberwar hype. Bluesky #100,754
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Rob Rosenberger
@vmyths.bsky.social
· Jan 13
Exactly as I said — dare I say "predicted"? — Steve Morgan announced his BS ✌️predictions✌️ re: "the global cost of cybercrime" for 2026 through 2031!
Strap in, because this 🧵 is a Crazy Taxi ride. Morgan says we'll have lost a QUADRILLION dollars roughly 75 years from now! 😵💫
Strap in, because this 🧵 is a Crazy Taxi ride. Morgan says we'll have lost a QUADRILLION dollars roughly 75 years from now! 😵💫
He should've joined CISA
NEW: Guy who almost joined military now enjoying career as ICE agent www.duffelblog.com/guy-who-almo...
Guy who almost joined military now enjoying career as ICE agent
He may still join the military, but only after his mom gets back from Bingo.
www.duffelblog.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
He should've joined CISA
Historically, White House Cyberspace Security Advisor Richard A. Clarke expressed his ✌️opinion✌️ that cyber-terrorists e.g. Junaid Hussain deserve neither due process nor the right to remain silent under the 5th & 14th Amendments 📜
Phang: It is a fundamental premise of the law that there is no requirement that a criminal defendant be forced to testify to explain away the government’s evidence. Hallagan went to law school and knows better, but she’s so stupid that she made that misstatement of the law to the grand jury.
November 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Historically, White House Cyberspace Security Advisor Richard A. Clarke expressed his ✌️opinion✌️ that cyber-terrorists e.g. Junaid Hussain deserve neither due process nor the right to remain silent under the 5th & 14th Amendments 📜
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False Authority Syndrome is real.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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My "OG" readers will recall the repeated global hysteria in #cybersecurity that evaporated immediately: the 1992 Michelangelo Virus, the 1996 Hare Virus, the 1999 Melissa Virus. Oh! And let's not forget Chernobyl, ILOVEYOU, and of course all those 200,000 #Y2K viruses 🙄
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Why are we hearing nothing? #duet #charliekirk #murder #investigation #erikakirk #crime #fbi #kash
YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk
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November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My "OG" readers will recall the repeated global hysteria in #cybersecurity that evaporated immediately: the 1992 Michelangelo Virus, the 1996 Hare Virus, the 1999 Melissa Virus. Oh! And let's not forget Chernobyl, ILOVEYOU, and of course all those 200,000 #Y2K viruses 🙄
youtube.com/shorts/rr5q-...
youtube.com/shorts/rr5q-...
43 years I've suffered with explosive diarrhea and only now can I view it as a military-grade weapon that merits a felony charge for what I did seven years ago to the woman on my left who rode the train to Hogwarts in Orlando 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
43 years I've suffered with explosive diarrhea and only now can I view it as a military-grade weapon that merits a felony charge for what I did seven years ago to the woman on my left who rode the train to Hogwarts in Orlando 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
I wanted to vote electronically for #ZohranMamdani but I can't remember which borough my wife is buried in ⚰️😏
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I wanted to vote electronically for #ZohranMamdani but I can't remember which borough my wife is buried in ⚰️😏
Reposted by Rob Rosenberger
With Teen Vogue shuttered, Wired magazine is now one of the only truthful hard news outfits still running. Ain’t that some 2025 shit.
Well worth your subscription
Well worth your subscription
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
With Teen Vogue shuttered, Wired magazine is now one of the only truthful hard news outfits still running. Ain’t that some 2025 shit.
Well worth your subscription
Well worth your subscription
Welp, scratch that idea of mine… I expected this from a #cybersecurity conglomerate long before it happened to a car company
Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope
Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope
Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids
Norway's sovereign wealth fund has opposed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion share award, which the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain him.…
dlvr.it
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Welp, scratch that idea of mine… I expected this from a #cybersecurity conglomerate long before it happened to a car company
This is a #cyber joke you can't deny it
Military Issues #miltary #overweight #bodyshaming #general #standupcomedy #funny #jokes #shorts
YouTube video by Jason Salmon
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October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is a #cyber joke you can't deny it
This was a key component of the global #antivirus industrial complex from 1988 through 2005 — the tenure that spans from the Computer Virus Myths home page to Vmyths[.]com
October 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This was a key component of the global #antivirus industrial complex from 1988 through 2005 — the tenure that spans from the Computer Virus Myths home page to Vmyths[.]com
Historically, we in the #antivirus industry would've invoked the #InsurrectionAct over this cybertrocity because white-hat experts are never a valid target for attack under any circumstance blah blah blah…
New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Historically, we in the #antivirus industry would've invoked the #InsurrectionAct over this cybertrocity because white-hat experts are never a valid target for attack under any circumstance blah blah blah…
Reposted by Rob Rosenberger
On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay
October 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay
Have you tried turning it on and off again?
YouTube video by Adult Swim
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October 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Yeah, I understand what you're saying but this wasn't state vs. state spying, rather it was a state spying on an organization of which it was a member - and doing a bad job of it, straight out of the old soviet playbook. That just strikes me as out of the ordinary.
October 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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"Bitcoin is so 2024. Let's mint physical coins!"
Republican lawmakers are introducing a bill to issue 400,000 silver dollar coins in 2026 featuring Charlie Kirk and the phrase “well done, good and faithful servant.”
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
September 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"Bitcoin is so 2024. Let's mint physical coins!"
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What if the purpose of code reviews isn't to prevent problems, it's to share knowledge? What if every review became an opportunity to level up everyone involved, not just the code?
Code reviews as a tool to build capability
Why are you doing code reviews?
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September 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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There's an untapped TV market right now begging for a three-season MCU Strange/Clea romance backstory—
—while the entire U.S. executive branch is filming an unreality show for one TV viewer in early onset Alzheimer's 🤔
—while the entire U.S. executive branch is filming an unreality show for one TV viewer in early onset Alzheimer's 🤔
"Over several hours of testimony on Tuesday, Patel dodged, seethed, screeched, ranted, and flung insults. On Earth 2.0, his performative assholery would have been a cringe for the ages. But Patel was performing for an audience of one, who was surely well pleased by the performance."
Unfit For (Any) Office
Kash Patel and the Confederacy of Toadies
charliesykes.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
There's an untapped TV market right now begging for a three-season MCU Strange/Clea romance backstory—
—while the entire U.S. executive branch is filming an unreality show for one TV viewer in early onset Alzheimer's 🤔
—while the entire U.S. executive branch is filming an unreality show for one TV viewer in early onset Alzheimer's 🤔
Thank God I clicked this on the second day of the month for my data plan 😏
you can kind of check by posting something and seeing how fast it shows up on the firehose
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firesky.tv
September 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Thank God I clicked this on the second day of the month for my data plan 😏
Historically, cybersecurity staffers created bizarre #technobabble charts that routinely convinced leadership at any level to commit funding to whatever ✌️solution✌️ the charts implicated. These charts reached critical absurdity in the ramp-up to a predicted global #Y2K cybergeddon.
Imagine the hypothetical person convinced by this graphic
when my entire career depends on AI:
September 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Historically, cybersecurity staffers created bizarre #technobabble charts that routinely convinced leadership at any level to commit funding to whatever ✌️solution✌️ the charts implicated. These charts reached critical absurdity in the ramp-up to a predicted global #Y2K cybergeddon.
OMG #CYBER TERRORISTS FLOODED SEWAGE INTO A RIVER TO EXTERMINATE OUR PRECIOUS MANATEES— oh wait, it was a conscious decision by sewage treatment personnel to fix an issue. Never mind…
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Bradenton spills 1.7 million gallons of sewage in Manatee River, report says
It’s the biggest sewage spill the city has reported this year.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
OMG #CYBER TERRORISTS FLOODED SEWAGE INTO A RIVER TO EXTERMINATE OUR PRECIOUS MANATEES— oh wait, it was a conscious decision by sewage treatment personnel to fix an issue. Never mind…
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Because mainstream media can't monetize it....
September 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Why doesn't the cybersecurity industrial complex report on all the daily #CyberPearHarbor attacks in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, et al.? Discuss.
September 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Why doesn't the cybersecurity industrial complex report on all the daily #CyberPearHarbor attacks in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, et al.? Discuss.
It's 2025. Which will come first?
1️⃣ Cyber Pearl Harbor
2️⃣ Economic Pearl Harbor
1️⃣ Cyber Pearl Harbor
2️⃣ Economic Pearl Harbor
September 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It's 2025. Which will come first?
1️⃣ Cyber Pearl Harbor
2️⃣ Economic Pearl Harbor
1️⃣ Cyber Pearl Harbor
2️⃣ Economic Pearl Harbor