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Host of Discovery’s “Scam School” - Nat Geo’s “Hacking the System” - “Modern Rogue” on YouTube - and (my favorite) the podcast “World’s Greatest Con”
Mar 30 11 tweets 3 min read
1/ Here’s our inciting incident: (FBI data + Deloitte projections)

The bad guys are about to have robots capable of human-grade deception at machine scale.

That means we need to rethink the entire cybersecurity stack, especially the human layer.deloitte.com/us/en/insights… 2/ My hot take: the dominant security training models have a role problem.

People are onboarded as hypothetical victims. Trained as hypothetical victims. Graduate as hypothetical victims.

In an age of AI voice clones, deepfakes, and native-looking fraud, that's the wrong role.
Oct 6, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
Son of a cunt. I think I signed up for it Twitter Blue correctly. Hopefully I can edit the motherfucking dogshit out of this hairy-balltacular fuckin' tweet!

Testacles! oh... oh dear...
Aug 30, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
My brother Jay knew the secret to a great hug: hold on about 4 more seconds than is appropriate.

Something happens at that threshold. You enter uncharted space and both the moment and the people become more real. 1/

I'm sharing this with you because someday it'll be important. My brother Jay died almost a year ago.

I'm on a journey working through that.

Today, on my way back from a gig, 3 seats over from me, a woman was absolutely bawling.

I didn't know what it was about (and it's not my business), but I know soul-crushing tears when I hear them. 2/