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Dustin Briles

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Dustin has been turning things off and back on again for SEM since 2018. He enjoys Christian apologetics, playing guitar, learning Japanese, and communicating in various dialects of toddler.

Why all these security things matter

I recently went through a (very minor) situation that reminded me why we go through the trouble of setting up all of these "security things" - things like a password manager, unique passwords for every account, and two-factor authentication.

Here's one of several identical emails I received last month (with

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Some thoughts about the Twitter hack

EDIT 2020-08-03: It looks like the Bitcoin scam was conducted by three younger people (one is a minor) after a long period of reconnaissance and successful social engineering attacks against internal Twitter employees.

Sources:

Honestly, in terms

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