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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes
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It’s really hard to focus on infosec, or pretty much anything else during the #KavanaughHearings
I need to explain something important that’s not infosec related.

I can remember just about every time in my life a guy has walked up and slapped my ass, groped my crotch or chest. I remember how my clothes felt. The anger and shame. I can’t tell you what stupid event I was at.
That moment in time, though? It’s crystal clear. A decade or more later. Like all my senses were turned up to 11 and it’s engraved on my brain.
I bet not one of those guys remembers.
(And that’s the relatively minor stuff that happens to pretty much everyone. I’ve been tremendously lucky.)
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This. THIS is the reason I have to carefully research and buy hundreds of dollars of new clothes before business travel to any new locale, before appearing on news outlets, before attending a formal event. This.

Because not even the most powerful woman in US politics is immune.
Have you heard about the 'weathergirl dress'?

It's a $25 dollar dress on Amazon, and one you have seen it you can't unsee it. Because tons of newscasters wear the same one in various colors - it fits some bizarre dress codes and on-camera requirements.

dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…
Okay so, there are only certain colors you can really wear on video. Red, white, black, and patterns like stripes don't show up on camera well. Green is no-go. So the majority of women's business attire is out, because it's all patterned crap, or colored suits.
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I know it seems silly to complain about something that benefits my research personally - but this latest Shamoon incident (and story) is another textbook case on training your analysts and IT teams to not upload potentially targeted malware to VirusTotal (etc) without approval...
Once it’s out there, it’s out there. And people start asking Questions. Researchers on a good day. Reporters on a bad day.
(Once the cat is totally out of the bag, of course, I highly encourage sharing samples and IOCs within policies.) 👍🏻
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The Zurich / Mondelez case is going to have implications for cyber insurance sales and where CISOs spend money. Not only is Zurich’s claim apparently that nation state adversaries can’t be insured against, but it adds the ever tenuous question of attribution to insurance claims.
I mean, they’re not entirely wrong to be wary - if a dedicated state actor wants to compromise your organization, they probably will. That’s not really what happened in the case of NotPetya, though. By design, most of the victims were merely recon-less targets of opportunity...
I can see some really fuzzy semantic space there, even with a clause involving state-sponsored / wartime activities. What if codebase from a state adversary is reused in a commodity attack? Will insurers present their own reversers as expert witnesses?
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Brett Kavanaugh's opening statement makes him seem overtly political. Not a good look for a Judge hoping to be a Supreme Court Justice. #KavanaughHearings
HOLY SHIT!!! Did Brett Kavanaugh really just say this is a political hit by the Clintons?!! Really?! The GOP playbook is so predictable, and getting old, when in doubt blame the email lady. #KavanaughHearings
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I missed catching Grassley's opening statement live and I'm kind of glad for it. The quotes are disgusting.
Chuck Grassley just told Diane Feinstein that "other issues will be considered at other times". Is that a promise, @ChuckGrassley? #KavanaughHearings
The hitch in Dr. Blasey's voice as she reads her opening statement is gutwrenching.
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1/ During the #KavanaughHearings today, remember that Christine Blasey Ford isn’t the only woman who has accused him of sexual misconduct.

Here’s a refresher on the women who have come forward:
2/ Ford, the first to come forward and who we will hear from today, accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party in high school. bit.ly/2OUr3Ls
3/ Deborah Ramirez says he exposed himself to her and thrust his genitals in her face during a drinking game at Yale. bit.ly/2QdBk5t
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During the #KavanaughHearings, Kavanaugh referenced his dissent in a case on the contraception coverage requirement by employers for employees' healthcare. In his testimony, he referred to contraception as "abortion-inducing drugs". This is not medically accurate and is a tactic.
Medically and scientifically, pregnancy begins at implantation. Most contraception works by blocking an egg release or blocking or disabling sperm; sometimes they work to block implantation of a fertilized egg. No contraception works after implantation or causes an abortion.
Medication abortions, or surgical abortions, remove an existing pregnancy. Contraception works before a patient is pregnant. Contraception, Plan B, and IUDs do not cause abortions. There is a huge misinformation campaign to conflate how these things work to undermine access.
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THREAD: Let's say you haven't been following everything #KavanaughHearings related. Here's what you need to know: this guy is a liar and under no circumstances should he be a Supreme Court Justice.
Let me break this down because it's actually kind of astonishing the lengths Kavanaugh and Republicans have gone to conceal how right wing this guy really is. #StopKavanaugh
Republican fought to conceal secret emails that reveal his true feelings on #RoevWade. And how *does* he really feel about Roe? He believes the Supreme Court can overturn it. #StopKavanaugh
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Obviously this immediately got added to my reading list #infosec #threatintel
Well, off to the races. I'm starting to read through The Perfect Weapon. I'll share my train of thought as it comes up. Sadly, because I'm doing it as an audiobook the snippets I want to quote may not be available online
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