Darren
darrenpauli.bsky.social
Darren
@darrenpauli.bsky.social
Ex infosec hack ‘06-‘17 @ TheRegister, SCMagazine, ZDNet, ComputerWorld. Now I write about writing and help regular folk understand infosec.
Well I suppose I'd drop the angle of decapitation/ impact to the group, and more simply ask whether those people are leadership or not.

Do those handles given to Krebs match those of the suspected four core members?
July 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
so essentially is this a decapitation against leadership or another hoovering up of lower level members
July 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I'm wondering if they are core scattered crew or part of the wider Com. John and others were in wired / axios / others last couple of weeks saying there's three or four core crew members.
July 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Would *guess* Jubair is given his history.
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Are these by chance the same or part of the same four people who make up the core scattered crew?

Krebs named them as Owen David Flowers (aka bo764 / Holy / Nazi)
and Thalha Jubair (aka Amtrak / Asyntax / Everlynn /Earth2Starr / Operator).
July 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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May 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Also Krebs as a DDoS bragging testbed 🤌😂 Brian really is a unique piece of cyber sec furniture.
May 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
everyone watching the Uber breach like 'a bird that's flown into the classroom'
L O L
May 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Here's the bit in nature written by academics who obviously had pet rocks as children rather than a cat or a dog, or dare I say it, a bird.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia
www.nature.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Or a Coelacanth, which faced with a life of drifting listlessly about in the cold depths, was content with what it saw in the mirror for the proceeding 400 million years.
May 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Birds, who bested by a clam that dug too deep in the mud or a nut that proved too hard to crack, evolved a wardrobe of ridiculous beaks to solve their problems.
May 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reposted by Darren
Gish gallop - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Darren
IQ-anon is a classic
May 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Australian governments absolutely loved going after the media and whistleblowers. This 2019 story from a raid on the public broadcaster.
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07...
AFP wanted fingerprints of journalists behind ABC special forces investigation
The raid on the ABC appears to be part of a new climate in which journalists and their sources of information are targeted and receive the sort of treatment previously reserved for criminals, writes J...
www.abc.net.au
April 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Wonder why they didn't grab him before he could make the pledge?
April 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
That is, we evolve into who knows what and have a deeper insight into the nature of the universe in ways we can't perceive now?
I've probably read too much sci-fi.
April 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Loved the piece and loved your book. Fantastic work.

One question from this ignoramus that I can't shake: is there a chance that our understanding of the universe in the far future could fundamentally alter perhaps in part due to our species engineered evolution over very long timescales?
April 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I'm utterly ignorant on these matters but am I right to interpret this as there was enough trust before LLMs that references were taken on face value?
April 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM