Emerson Tan
@squeakingwheel.bsky.social
I've been asked to help with some awards (Phrack 40th Yr). Pls nominate your favourites from the last year. Please provide links and citations where appropriate.
Most Cringe Security Marketing award:
Most spectacular attack:
Technical attack ingenuity award:
Worst Technical security idea:
Most Cringe Security Marketing award:
Most spectacular attack:
Technical attack ingenuity award:
Worst Technical security idea:
August 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I've been asked to help with some awards (Phrack 40th Yr). Pls nominate your favourites from the last year. Please provide links and citations where appropriate.
Most Cringe Security Marketing award:
Most spectacular attack:
Technical attack ingenuity award:
Worst Technical security idea:
Most Cringe Security Marketing award:
Most spectacular attack:
Technical attack ingenuity award:
Worst Technical security idea:
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emergency managers in Kerr County were absent in a realtime chat between NWS and regional emergency managers in the hours before the flood emergency in Texas. cc @samlmontano.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...
Local officials facing questions over lack of preparations in the years and hours before deadly Texas floods | CNN
As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy – both in the decades lead...
www.cnn.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
emergency managers in Kerr County were absent in a realtime chat between NWS and regional emergency managers in the hours before the flood emergency in Texas. cc @samlmontano.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...
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BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
In Bell, CA an entire community stood up against ICE, including the local police and the fire dept. The fire truck appears to not allow ICE vehicles to move forward nor remain and pushes forward to escort them out. A police car also helped with escorting. /
June 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
These pricks are going to drive the world back into some sort of hell on earth.
The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely.
This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal.
This is bioterrorism.
This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal.
This is bioterrorism.
May 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
These pricks are going to drive the world back into some sort of hell on earth.
It’s bank run time!
BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me.
FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.
FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.
April 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It’s bank run time!
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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!
and they want to do it ...
... in *a few months*
I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...
... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here
1/9
and they want to do it ...
... in *a few months*
I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...
... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here
1/9
browse by category
www.wealthsimple.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!
and they want to do it ...
... in *a few months*
I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...
... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here
1/9
and they want to do it ...
... in *a few months*
I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...
... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here
1/9
Perhaps the best way of thinking about the current regime is as the last gasp of white supremacist patriarchy before it gets drowned by irreversible and unstoppable demographic change
March 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Perhaps the best way of thinking about the current regime is as the last gasp of white supremacist patriarchy before it gets drowned by irreversible and unstoppable demographic change
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
This Executive Order is functionally the same as the Enabling Act of 1933 which gave Hitler total authority over the German and effectively renders the legislature and judiciary into a point of irrelevancy. Unless this is stopped now, America is a dictatorship
This Executive Order is functionally the same as the Enabling Act of 1933 which gave Hitler total authority over the German and effectively renders the legislature and judiciary into a point of irrelevancy. Unless this is stopped now, America is a dictatorship
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reins in Independent Agencies to Restore a Government that Answers to the American People
RESTORING DEMOCRACY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order ensuring that all federal agencies are
www.whitehouse.gov
February 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
This Executive Order is functionally the same as the Enabling Act of 1933 which gave Hitler total authority over the German and effectively renders the legislature and judiciary into a point of irrelevancy. Unless this is stopped now, America is a dictatorship
This Executive Order is functionally the same as the Enabling Act of 1933 which gave Hitler total authority over the German and effectively renders the legislature and judiciary into a point of irrelevancy. Unless this is stopped now, America is a dictatorship
There will be war. Putin cannot demobilise the Russian war economy without it collapsing so he is compelled to keep attacking until either most of central and Eastern Europe surrenders and pays his bills or he is defeated.
Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, British General Richard Shirreff: The only path to peace and preventing a larger war is for European forces to defeat Russia in Ukraine.
Britain needs to call up the reserves for duty and mobilize its economy for war.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=907P...
Britain needs to call up the reserves for duty and mobilize its economy for war.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=907P...
Europe 'will almost certainly be at war with Russia' if Trump's Ukraine chaos continues
YouTube video by Times Radio
www.youtube.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
There will be war. Putin cannot demobilise the Russian war economy without it collapsing so he is compelled to keep attacking until either most of central and Eastern Europe surrenders and pays his bills or he is defeated.
Fuck me this timeline is stupid as fuck.
February 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Fuck me this timeline is stupid as fuck.
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-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-
American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
February 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-
American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
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1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
How would this all be reported if it was happening anywhere other than the U.S.?
How would this all be reported if it was happening anywhere other than the U.S.?
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
How would this all be reported if it was happening anywhere other than the U.S.?
How would this all be reported if it was happening anywhere other than the U.S.?
By taking control of the purse away from Congress they have just rendered it irrelevant. There will now be rule by decree.
January 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
By taking control of the purse away from Congress they have just rendered it irrelevant. There will now be rule by decree.
Were the masses ever to correctly identify the enemy, the war would be very very short.
January 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Were the masses ever to correctly identify the enemy, the war would be very very short.
Ubermensch in his own mind
January 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Ubermensch in his own mind
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It’s payday for a bunch of techies, so y’all should throw a coin towards one of the nicest guys in the business of making the bad guys cry. He needs our support because American healthcare is garbage.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...
Donate to Support Marc Rogers' Road to Recovery, organized by Katie Vogel
Jan. 9 update: How this fundraiser supports Marc's recovery
Every penny of this fun… Katie Vogel needs your support for Support Marc Rogers' Road to Recovery
www.gofundme.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
It’s payday for a bunch of techies, so y’all should throw a coin towards one of the nicest guys in the business of making the bad guys cry. He needs our support because American healthcare is garbage.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...
Coming soon to America, Genocidal Violence when the deportations either fail to materialise or prove logistically impossible.
www.404media.co/email/3d360e...
www.404media.co/email/3d360e...
Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations
Multiple experts drew comparisons between Meta's recent changes around immigration and what happened in Myanmar in 2017, where Facebook contributed to a genocide by allowing the spread of hate.
www.404media.co
January 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Coming soon to America, Genocidal Violence when the deportations either fail to materialise or prove logistically impossible.
www.404media.co/email/3d360e...
www.404media.co/email/3d360e...
What does Aristotle say about how Oligarchies fall apart and get overthrown, and why the middle class is so important (and why it must be destroyed in order for Oligarchs to retain power). Timing is everything Comrades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbJ...
Why Oligarchy Falls (And How to Speed It Up)
YouTube video by Legendary Lore
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
What does Aristotle say about how Oligarchies fall apart and get overthrown, and why the middle class is so important (and why it must be destroyed in order for Oligarchs to retain power). Timing is everything Comrades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbJ...
Crapitalism the religion has its rituals too.
January 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Crapitalism the religion has its rituals too.
I’m sorry Donald. It’s on the computer, it must be true. Those are the rules. You made them.
January 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I’m sorry Donald. It’s on the computer, it must be true. Those are the rules. You made them.
How will the South ever rise again?
January 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
How will the South ever rise again?