Claus Cramon Houmann
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Claus Cramon Houmann
@claushoumann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Infosec Librarian BSidesLuxembourg co-organizer. Forgetter of things. But never knew much to begin with. #OpenTIDE, #DetectionEngineering #IamTheCavalry […]

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One of the best pieces I've read in awhile. Emily Bressler in @mcsweeneys.net writes "I Work for an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person":

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person. Let me give you an example. Last quarter, I led a team of engineers on an initiative to grow my company’s artificial intelligence data centers, which use millions of gallons of water per day. My work with AI is exponentially accelerating the destruction of the planet, but once a month, I go camping to reconnect with my own humanity through nature. I also bike to and from the office, which definitely offsets all the other environmental destruction I work tirelessly to enact from sunup to sundown for an exorbitant salary. Check out this social media post of me biking up a mountain. See? This is who I really am. Does the leadership at my company promote a xenophobic agenda and use the wealth I help them acquire to donate directly to bigoted causes and politicians I find despicable? Yeah, sure. Did I celebrate my last birthday at Drag Brunch? Also yes. I even tipped with five-dollar bills. I contain multitudes, and would appreciate it if you focused on the brunch one. Mathematically, it might seem like I spend a disproportionate amount of my time making the world a significantly less safe and less empathetic place, but are you counting all the hours I spend sleeping? You should. And when you do, you’ll find that my ratio of evil hours to not evil hours is much more even, numerically. I just don’t think working at an evil company should define me. I’ve only worked here for seven years. What about the twenty-five years before, when I didn’t work here? In fact, I wasn’t working at all for the first eighteen years of my life. And for some of those early years, I didn’t even have object permanence, which is oddly similar to the sociopathic detachment with which I now think about other humans. And besides, I don’t plan to stay at this job forever, just for my prime working years, until I can install a new state-of-the-art infinity pool in my country home. The problem is that whenever I think I’m going to leave, there’s always the potential for a promotion, and also a new upgrade for the pool, like underwater disco lights. Time really flies when you’re not thinking about the effect you have on others. But I absolutely intend to leave at some point. And when I do, you should define me by whatever I do next, unless it’s also evil, in which case, define me by how I ultimately spend my retirement. Because here’s the thing: It’s not me committing these acts of evil. I’m just following orders (until I get promoted; then I’ll get to give them). But until then, I do whatever my supervisor tells me to do, and that’s just how work works. Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go. Speaking of the good we do at work, sometimes I wear a cool Hawaiian shirt on Fridays, and it’s commonly accepted that bad people don’t wear shirts with flowers on them. That’s just a fact. There’s something so silly about discussing opportunities to increase profits for international arms dealers while wearing a purple button-down covered in bright hibiscus blossoms. And when it comes to making things even, I put my money where my mouth is. I might make more than 99 percent of all Americans, but I also make sure to donate almost 1 percent of my salary to nonprofits. This way, I can wear their company tote bag to my local food coop. Did I mention I shop at a local food coop? It’s quite literally the least I could do. Of course, I don’t love everything the company does, but true love means loving something because of its flaws, not despite them. And more importantly, I’ve completely detached myself from reality and real suffering and intend to continue to do so as long as I work here and after I leave.
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then grown into tiny clusters that release insulin. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Even as a digital forensic investigator who’s seen people dragged to prison for their darkest evil impulses, I’m still stunned by so many powerful people letting their vices draw them into an incompetent circle of depravity and susceptibility to blackmail. Billionaires are truly maladjusted idiots.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Doing this now. Yay!

#europeanoutdoorfilmfestival
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS and submit to the BSidesLuxembourg 2026 CFP!

Dear Community.

We’re so very very proud to be able to open the CFP for BSidesLuxembourg 2026.

As we’re expanding into 3 days of happenings in 2026, we’ll be looking for many […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Claus Cramon Houmann
📰 Anthropic security team discovered that a state-sponsored group used Claude model to autonomously run almost an entire intrusion chain at scale!

Here is what I think 👇

The case is interesting but not really new. Offensive AI with autonomous agents is […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115548669842708588

WAT.

Far out, even for Trump. LOL.
Top #fanniemae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential #housing data

A confidant of #billpulte, the #trump admin’s top housing “regulator”, provided #confidential mortgage pricing #data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials of the govt-backed […]
Original post on masto.ai
masto.ai
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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"Leftists are the real fascists!"
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Stolen from my wife, who stole it from somewhere.

THIS IS HUGE. Also huge.
#epstein #donaldtrump
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
So just asked an #infosec #cybersecurity vendor to upload a vendor webinar to @peertube because YT no longer plays videos if your browser is protected against exploitation via ads.

This will be the plan from now on. PeerTube or nothing!
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Claus Cramon Houmann
Cette annonce est une avancée majeure.
Je ne pense pas qu'il fera quoi que ce soit bientôt ; il ne quittera pas X sans avoir préalablement construit une audience ailleurs.
Mais au moins il est capable de l'envisager !
Emmanuel Macron « n’exclut pas » de quitter certains réseaux sociaux dont X
Le président participait à Toulouse à un débat sur « la démocratie à l’épreuve des réseaux sociaux », ce mercredi matin, au siège du quotidi
www.leparisien.fr
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Reposted by Claus Cramon Houmann
Dammbruch im EU-Parlament: Erstmals beschließt eine Mehrheit aus Konservativen und Rechtsextremen - also auch CDU, CSU und AfD eine Gesetzesposition. Damit werden u.a. Kinderarbeit und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Lieferketten gefördert. Vollkommen verheerend. Schämt euch, CDU und CSU.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Italian sniper safaries.

Among things I never ever expected to read. So horrified if true.
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Who, apart from me, would like to see a list of journalists who're somehow complicit in the #epstein cover up?

Did any journalists frequest Epsteins mansions or the island?
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🇪🇺Today, EU gov'ts rejected changes to mandatory backdoor #chatcontrol & anonymity-destroying age checks. EU ambassadors are set to approve this soon.
ℹ️https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#councilpositions

📢Our protest isn't loud […]

[Original post on digitalcourage.social]
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
RE: n.social/@wingo/115536192398463757" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://mastodon.social/@wingo/115536192398463757

Folks, that's how you win the Internet anno 2025.

This will be the best post of week 46, nothing will beat it. Congratulations to @wingo !
mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
If people would love to read books written in a somewhat disconnected and disjointed way containing occasionally interesting thoughts and ideas, let me know and I'll quit my day job and start writing.
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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#epstein dump exposed #doj's massive #coverup for #trump

Law professor & co-editor-in-chief of Just Security Ryan Goodman said the latest documents from #jeffreyepstein is explosive & seems to implicate Trump's deputy attorney general [<a href="/hashtag/dag" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#dag] in a massive cover-up.

The emails released directly […]
Original post on masto.ai
masto.ai
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Reposted by Claus Cramon Houmann
I did not have "new surge of accounts on infosec.exchange due to X bungling their passkey migration" on my bingo card for today
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM