MIT @techreview cyber journalist, senior editor. Patrick.ONeill@technologyreview.com & Signal: +1-650-488-7247.
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(1) Love the pictures (2) I really sympathize with the recent home buying experience with lots of weird and expensive surprises. Home ownership is insane.
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Here's a very 2022 request: A family member tested positive for COVID while overseas and is now quarantined in a small hotel room for an indeterminate period. What's a good way to help them stay entertained? They've got all the streaming passwords, what do we do next to help?
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Open Source Security Summit III: Ronald's Revenge
the most consequential figures in the tech world are half guys like steve jobs and bill gates and half some guy named ronald who maintains a unix tool called 'runk' which stands for Ronald's Universal Number Kounter and handles all math for every machine on earth
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So this undermines a few ubiquitous political narratives about the great resignation and how no one wants to work, no? nytimes.com/2022/05/13/busin…
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This was a good read on free expression in China. For a cyber angle, may I introduce you to the “VPN dealer.” Hardcore. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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Patrick Howell O'Neill retweeted
I am looking for a ransomware intern to help with writing up information on new samples. You basically get paid to blow up ransomware. The position is part time, paid, remote and will be through the summer and fall. (cc: @CyTalks, @hawkinsw, @Vamegabyte)
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remember when mike rogers tried to make "front doors" happen? that was a good time. more of an unlocked second floor side window man myself
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My “I scheduled this tweet before you tweeted your tweet” t-shirt has people asking questions already answered by my “I scheduled this tweet before you tweeted your tweet” t-shirt
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Pat put in like a dozen great years, made the Knicks perennial contenders, and got us to the finals before eventually the cons outweighed the pros, please do not sully the great hero’s name
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Patrick Howell O'Neill retweeted
US secretly issued subpoena to access Guardian reporter’s phone records theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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Not according to the Dunkin NASA Einstein fellow at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, NO BIG DEAL
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Important work on the future of open source security:
Even as we move on from Log4j, the OpenSSF report argues that its recommendations remain urgent.
"The next world-altering critical open-source software vulnerability … is almost certainly already existing, undiscovered, somewhere in our codebases today."
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Patrick Howell O'Neill retweeted
33 tech giants, big banks, and nonprofits are meeting today & tmrw to discuss an ambitious @theopenssf plan to secure open-source software ecosystem, from coding education to crisis response teams.
I got the exclusive on the report and meeting: subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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Patrick Howell O'Neill retweeted
NEW: Al Jazeera says its correspondent @ShireenNasri was killed by Israeli troops this morning in Jenin, occupied West Bank.
The network says she was covering a raid by Israeli forces and was wearing a vest clearly marked with PRESS.
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