5 years ago I got a call from Ukraine gov requesting help with a new destructive malware strain that was previously unknown. It would become known as #notpetya. By the end of the day I would be on a conference call with MeDoc, the initial victim, thats to Ciscos UA office. With other Talos team members we worked around the clock for the next week on analyzing #notpetya, hunting it’s source, reassembling fragments, and offering support to orgs around the world. Tomorrow is Constitution Day in Ukraine.

The most important thing I learned from supporting and working towards retaining freedoms in political environments is don’t get sidetracked.

Protesting doesn’t do anything. Doing fundraisers for opportunistic politicians doesn’t help. Hot takes on social media doesn’t help /1 What does help is organizing groups to put pressure on your elected officials. Not just opponents but from your party as well. Let them know they don’t have a blank check to fight the other side and if they don’t take action now their campaigns will be harder.

As a gun owner I live in constant dread that something that was legal yesterday will be made illegal today.

The worst fear is that after years of something being sold just fine the ATF changes it position on something and makes it not only illegal now but declares /1 it to have always been illegal and classifies anyone that ever bought the item is now a criminal.

I don’t have anything to say publicly about abortions other than this: the government should not interfere with the private physician-patient relationship.

We don’t /2