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Rik Ferguson
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Immigrant. VP Security Intelligence @Forescout, Co-founder @RespectInSec. Board @vaultree, Cybersecurity Futurist, Researcher, Award-winning writer/producer. He/Him. Pussy in bio.
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Remember? It’s still happening.

Not sure if it’s a Xi-phoon or a Xi-clone though, difficult to tell them apart, they all rely on Xiploits.
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I used to have the same problem back when I was doing PGP technical support, “I’ve lost my private key can you decrypt to my data for me?”
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
And possibly also because many (?) of them are eventually reunited with their owners.
October 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Facetime and regular calls are about the only things that work in Lost Mode. No notifications, no apple pay and device is locked (duh).
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
You can “Mark as lost” using Find My, which disables it until found.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bloody lovely. And what a great read too.
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I reassert my claim from 2022; “The greatest challenge facing humanity over the next decade is to tell fact from fiction, reality from fantasy, and truth from lies”. It feeds into absolutely everything else.
October 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Of course! One condition you send Matilda a mini Rumi outfit, she is about to be 7, and only just got her hair back after 2 years. But she’s *desperate* for the Rumi do!
October 15, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Are you ready for the takedown, of course!
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Thank you Mary, this was the whole team at our fantastic Vedere Labs!
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yeah, I see “Post blocked” too and nothing there to tap on.
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
That hand though…
October 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Ok. Alert over, but departures is now a mass/mess of people. Expect delays.
October 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM