Dave Bittner
banner
bittner.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Dave Bittner
@bittner.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Your friendly neighborhood cyber security podcast host. The Cyberwire, Hacking Humans, Caveat, Control Loop, Grumpy Old Geeks. He/Him.
Be kind to one another […]

[bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@bittner on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Reposted by Dave Bittner
Okay this deserves unbridled cursing;

Holy mother fucking shit are you fucking shitting me?!?!?!!!?

#us #coastguard will no longer classify #swastikas, #nooses as #hate symbols
The #military service, which falls under the #dhs, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially […]
Original post on masto.ai
masto.ai
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We've officially hit that time of the year where every event seems like it should be further away than it actually is.
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Talk about your crotch-rocket...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXUuExL8Cac
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Surely someone out there can knit me a scarf modeled after Chewbacca's bandolier?

#starwars
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osAvIsgwIV0
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Reposted by Dave Bittner
I have another Reddit AMA scheduled! Tell your youts! https://www.reddit.com/r/SecurityCareerAdvice/s/LQquOxjhjG
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yesterday's Cyber Innovation Day in Washington DC was a first-class event hosted by Datatribe.
I moderated a panel with my N2K Cyberwire colleague Maria Varmazis @maria and Daniel Whitenack from Practical AI. We'll have that session on an upcoming CyberWire Special edition.

#infosec
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I've noticed an increased error-rate when typing in the latest iOS, but I chalked it up to my aging fat-fingers.
Turns out it's not just me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

#iOS
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What is love?

Love is smiling when your partner lights up at an old favorite song on the radio.

Love is nodding along as they say, “Ah, George Michael! I had this on a twelve-inch single, played it ‘til the needle gave up.”

And love - real love - is quietly resisting the urge to mention that […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Today is the last day to vote in the SANS Difference Makers awards, for which I have been inexplicably nominated.

https://www.sans.org/about/awards/difference-makers

#infosec
SANS Difference Makers Awards
These are the people and organizations acknowledged by the SANS Institute for their oustanding contributions to cyber security each year.
www.sans.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
While interviewing a remote guest I noticed he had a model of a Klingon Bird of Prey hanging from his office ceiling.
So naturally, I found a way to work a Kobayashi Maru reference into our conversation, much to his delight.
#infosec
October 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reposted by Dave Bittner
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thanks to the team at DataBee for inviting me to Comcast Connect in DC.
September 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Reposted by Dave Bittner
A new, independent source of news launches tomorrow.

“We are a group of former Guardian and Observer journalists who think our turbulent times call for a different kind of media title: courageous, independent, diverse and built around a community of readers and journalists.

“Our beat will be […]
Original post on norcal.social
norcal.social
September 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"Even if these glasses worked as well as Meta suggests they should, there is no way I would buy a pair. You are to tell me that I should strap a legacy of twenty years of privacy violations and user hostility to my face? Oh, please."

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-steak-sauce-demo/
Meta’s Steak Sauce Demo Should Have Been Dumber – Pixel Envy
John Walker, Kotaku Rather than because of wifi, the reason this happened is because these so-called AIs are just regurgitating information that has been parsed from scanning the internet. It will have been trained on recipes written by professional chefs, home cooks and cookery sites, then combined this information to create something that sounds a […]
pxlnv.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Happy that Apple, at long last, added cross-fades to the Apple Music app, but my goodness is it ever buggy.

#ios26 #Apple #iPhone
September 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In DC to emcee the annual DMV Rising event, hosted by Virtru.
#infosec
September 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Dave Bittner
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Reposted by Dave Bittner
I've always thought that the larger the company, the less important the individual client.

Last evening, a client asked me to supervise a remote connection with one of their software providers - a large company - at 9:30. It was urgent, so I completely rearranged my schedule for today […]
Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe
mastodon.bsd.cafe
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“Garden hoses connect like XLR cables, not BNC cables.”

#geekhome
September 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
AI security hypothetical - suppose an organization shares a report under embargo to a media outlet.
If the media outlet uses an online LLM to summarize the report before the release date, have they violated the embargo? (Not publishing anything, just using the LLM as an assistant for internal […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
September 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The new 8X zoom on the iPhone 17 Pro claims "optical quality zoom" at 200mm, but seems to indicate only capturing a 12 MP image from a 48 MP sensor. So does that mean it's doing a crop on the sensor? In other words, is "optical quality zoom" just marketing […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Dave Bittner
Happy #909 Day - get your beats on at: https://roland50.studio/
Roland50.studio
Emulate the sound of Roland's most famous and influential musical instruments from Yuri Suzuki and Roland.
roland50.studio
September 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM