Taggart
@taggart-tech.com
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange. Displaced Philly boy. Threat hunter. Educator. Dad. General in the AI Resistance.
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· Nov 11
The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft
The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.
taggartinstitute.org
Hey hey new friends! Perhaps a reintroduction is in order: I'm Taggart, and I make low-cost, high-quality tech educational material. Career educator, IT Director, and now threat hunter. Sometimes I stream, but rarely these days. Also interested in surviving the omnicrisis.
taggartinstitute.org
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Mozilla vs. their core audience
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Mozilla vs. their core audience
Mozilla vs. their core audience
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Mozilla vs. their core audience
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Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system.
PI granted.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PI granted.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system.
PI granted.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PI granted.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Serious question: is there any Firefox user who actually wants this? Is there anyone who doesn't work at Mozilla who thinks this is where the focus should be?
I remain bewildered by these choices.
blog.mozilla.org/en/...
I remain bewildered by these choices.
blog.mozilla.org/en/...
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it | The Mozilla Blog
We recently shared how we are approaching AI in Firefox — with user choice and openness as our guiding principles. That’s because we believe AI should
blog.mozilla.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Serious question: is there any Firefox user who actually wants this? Is there anyone who doesn't work at Mozilla who thinks this is where the focus should be?
I remain bewildered by these choices.
blog.mozilla.org/en/...
I remain bewildered by these choices.
blog.mozilla.org/en/...
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Actual threat intelligence! A few friends and I identified a new reverse phishing campaign leveraging Entra Guest User invitations.
This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.
taggart-tech.com/ent...
This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.
taggart-tech.com/ent...
TOAD Attacks via Entra Guest Invites
A new reverse phishing campaign uses Microsoft Entra Guest invites to bypass email filters.
taggart-tech.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Actual threat intelligence! A few friends and I identified a new reverse phishing campaign leveraging Entra Guest User invitations.
This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.
taggart-tech.com/ent...
This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.
taggart-tech.com/ent...
Actual threat intelligence! A few friends and I identified a new reverse phishing campaign leveraging Entra Guest User invitations.
This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.
taggart-tech.com/ent...
This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.
taggart-tech.com/ent...
TOAD Attacks via Entra Guest Invites
A new reverse phishing campaign uses Microsoft Entra Guest invites to bypass email filters.
taggart-tech.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Actual threat intelligence! A few friends and I identified a new reverse phishing campaign leveraging Entra Guest User invitations.
This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.
taggart-tech.com/ent...
This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.
taggart-tech.com/ent...
This is a great new feature from Kagi! Users can flag sites as "slop," providing a human reputational signal to penalize generative content.
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search | Kagi Blog
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Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms
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We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space.
blog.kagi.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is a great new feature from Kagi! Users can flag sites as "slop," providing a human reputational signal to penalize generative content.
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Clifford the Big Red Dog is a Kaiju
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a Kaiju
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a Kaiju
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a Kaiju
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A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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The world’s first microprocessor is *NOT* from Intel.
But you won’t find it in many textbooks.
It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason.
The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!
But you won’t find it in many textbooks.
It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason.
The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The world’s first microprocessor is *NOT* from Intel.
But you won’t find it in many textbooks.
It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason.
The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!
But you won’t find it in many textbooks.
It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason.
The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!
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Your periodic reminder that most CLI password prompts accept Ctrl+U to fully clear input so you can try again. Leave that backspace key alone.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Your periodic reminder that most CLI password prompts accept Ctrl+U to fully clear input so you can try again. Leave that backspace key alone.
Your periodic reminder that most CLI password prompts accept Ctrl+U to fully clear input so you can try again. Leave that backspace key alone.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Your periodic reminder that most CLI password prompts accept Ctrl+U to fully clear input so you can try again. Leave that backspace key alone.
Huge Ws for Rust adoption in Android!
"Historically, security improvements often came at a cost...The shift to Rust is different: we are significantly improving security and key development efficiency and product stability metrics."
security.googleblog....
"Historically, security improvements often came at a cost...The shift to Rust is different: we are significantly improving security and key development efficiency and product stability metrics."
security.googleblog....
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
security.googleblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Huge Ws for Rust adoption in Android!
"Historically, security improvements often came at a cost...The shift to Rust is different: we are significantly improving security and key development efficiency and product stability metrics."
security.googleblog....
"Historically, security improvements often came at a cost...The shift to Rust is different: we are significantly improving security and key development efficiency and product stability metrics."
security.googleblog....
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ICYMI, our gentle introduction to #Caddy last month, including how to use it as a low-rent red team reverse proxy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-J...
Caddy: A Hacker's Intro
YouTube video by The Taggart Institute
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
ICYMI, our gentle introduction to #Caddy last month, including how to use it as a low-rent red team reverse proxy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-J...
A modest relief. I'm okay with sideloading coming with "Developer mode" or something, as long as there's a clear process to do it.
Curious how this jibes with the recent settlement between Epic and Google that requires the possibility for alternative app stores.
www.theverge.com/new...
Curious how this jibes with the recent settlement between Epic and Google that requires the possibility for alternative app stores.
www.theverge.com/new...
Google will let ‘experienced users’ keep sideloading Android apps
It’s up to you to “accept the risks.”
www.theverge.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A modest relief. I'm okay with sideloading coming with "Developer mode" or something, as long as there's a clear process to do it.
Curious how this jibes with the recent settlement between Epic and Google that requires the possibility for alternative app stores.
www.theverge.com/new...
Curious how this jibes with the recent settlement between Epic and Google that requires the possibility for alternative app stores.
www.theverge.com/new...
Tiny helpful Ansible thing I've been enjoying: need to run a playbook against a single host without an inventory entry?
`ansible-playbook -i "host-or-ip," playbook.yml`
`ansible-playbook -i "host-or-ip," playbook.yml`
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Tiny helpful Ansible thing I've been enjoying: need to run a playbook against a single host without an inventory entry?
`ansible-playbook -i "host-or-ip," playbook.yml`
`ansible-playbook -i "host-or-ip," playbook.yml`
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tfw when I'm not allowed to see the aurora borealis
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
tfw when I'm not allowed to see the aurora borealis
If we ever really run out of IPv4 addresses, we have IPv6 ready to go, more or less.
But what will we do when we finally run out of acronyms??
But what will we do when we finally run out of acronyms??
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If we ever really run out of IPv4 addresses, we have IPv6 ready to go, more or less.
But what will we do when we finally run out of acronyms??
But what will we do when we finally run out of acronyms??
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This story has a section title "The risks of reading," and if you need to read books IN SECRET in a school, it is no longer a school. It's an indoctrination camp.
archive.ph/VyJc4
archive.ph/VyJc4
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This story has a section title "The risks of reading," and if you need to read books IN SECRET in a school, it is no longer a school. It's an indoctrination camp.
archive.ph/VyJc4
archive.ph/VyJc4
As the product of a very small liberal arts college, I both appreciate what's happening in this piece and the massive amount of writing talent that went into it.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
As the product of a very small liberal arts college, I both appreciate what's happening in this piece and the massive amount of writing talent that went into it.