Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:
🛡️ adamshostack_at_infosec.exchange@momostr.pink
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Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content. Website: https://shostack.org Latest book: https://threatsbook.com Opsec status: Currently clean Youtube: https://youtube.com/shostack
Agencies like NASA, the Peace Corp, and the global support and assistance offered by the CDC, the NTSB and plenty more are America putting our best foot forward. They were the core of our soft power and our ability to win friends and influence people — another American idea that was so good that we forget where it came from.
I've been thinking about #GPS jamming and radio waves. Could jamming activity bounce off the ionosphere and impact other areas? I somewhat expect that the frequencies in use are designed to go through the ionosphere, and so "no," but also finding bits about scintillation causing accidental errors. Eg, https://novatel.com/tech-talk/ionospheric-scintillation/redundancy-and-resiliency-against-ionospheric-scintillation and https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024SW004217 shows 3d errors of up to 30 meters
If I understand this morning's news properly, we're invading Venezuela because they nationalized some American oil company's assets and gave it to Venezuelan companies. In unrelated news, America has nationalized TikTok and given it to American companies.
Fortune
'They took all of our oil not that long ago. And we want it back': Trump demands Venezuela return seized assets | Fortune
U.S. oil companies dominated Venezuela's petroleum industry until the the 1970s and then under Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
BBC News
TikTok owner signs join venture deal to avoid US ban - BBC News
The deals would end years of efforts by Washington to force ByteDance to sell its US operations.