Buddy Bear Security

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Buddy bear security: debug your security with a teddy bear, and then snuggle said bear as you panic at said security! There is no security unless there is security for all. Canadian/American in Halifax, NS Cybersecurity by day, astrophysics by night.

A stuffed bear and stuffed pigeon in a graduation cap in front of the book “Will the pigeon graduate?” By Mo Williams
A teddy bear and a stuffed grey kitty are propped up and facing each other between a window sill and a table ledge. The window overlooks Halifax downtown during the day.
A teddy bear on a window ledge overlooking a grey Saint Mary’s University.
A whiteboard diagram of many things that go wrong when trying to image a star. On the left hand side, there is a column starting with the title “Get Fucked!” And details a few challenges such as distance, wave-particle duality, SNR ratios and the speed of light changes in a medium. On the main section there is an orange line going diagonally from a star at the top left corner, through the centre with a crude telescope drawing saying “starlight bucket contraption” and then to the bottom right with a square and a scribble and the caption “WTF is this??” - along the path there are statements or questions in green about how one might try to image a star, and then blue saying how this goes wrong. Then off the blue there are correction ideas and then more blue saying how this also goes wrong
A small teddy bear in front of a black SUV with the back window smashed in and bent bike rack
A tire with a flat section. The flat tire sank to the rims on the ground.
A photo of the book Countdown to Zero day that has a tldr of “in 2010 a USA report said not to fuck with Iran. They will retaliate.”
A picture of the book “We Are All Targets” with a set of page flags with bunnies and flower on a grey fuzzy pillow.
"For the love of security and teddy bears... please patch before the CVE drops. Buddy Bear SECURITY" A cute, smiling, brown teddy bear wrapped in a blanket and a warm cup of hot chocolate on the floor in front of a green laptop on a green pillow looking towards the viewer. A small plant on the left, and a small light, book, and duck on the right. The words are below, with "Buddy Bear SECURITY" in a banner. The banner has the bear's head on the left, and a padlock on the right. The duck is the homage to "rubber ducky programming" where you literally talk to a rubber duck to debug software.
Two Bluesky posts: 1. Kenwhite’s post about ProPublica journalists being next for arrest. 2. ProPublica’s post of their article identifying two CBP agents involved with Alex Pretti shooting
A cute colouring books with cats in a yoga studio partially coloured using watercolour paints
Mostly plowed dedicated bike lane surrounded by snow. Picture is of a downtown scene at sunrise
A couch with various art and paper craft supplies. There is a watercolour paint pallet, ZIG Clean Dot pens, a ruler, a white bin full of stamps and stamp pads, watercolour pens, a swan sticky note set, a stencil set, and a container of fountain pen cartridges and a fountain pen.
A teddy bear looking out of a car windshield at an open sign at Cortado (coffee shop) in a snowy scene.
Two watercolour pages with cartoons. One page is of a frog on a seat with a briefcase and the sign “me on my way to make things worse” the second page had four areas of drawings. On the top left is a frog at a laptop saying “just doing my silly little task”. Top right has a raccoon with “don’t be a part of the problem - be the whole problem.” On the bottom left, there are six small frogs with FERG, FORG, FIRG, FURG and FARG. The bottom right is of a shah head where the eyes are looking outwards with the word “hi”
A small teddy bear in front of a sign on a glass window into a dark classroom. The sign says “AT305. Meeting room. Astronomy and Physics.”
A paper roll dispenser with paper out to the left hand side as if it’s a scroll of paper from traditional books. On the page is written ASTR 4200 and lists 11 book chapters from To Measure the Sky - an introduction to observational astronomy textbook.
A teddy bear in front of a poster for cybersecurity awareness. The poster is of a stuffed husky in front of a laptop, and the top banner says “Be Vigilant… Protect the Pack” for Saint Mary’s University cybersecurity awareness month
A picture of a bear in the pocket of a tote bag on a desk. The bear’s head, arms, and part of his body is sticking out. He has a brown body, white belly area and mouth/nose area, yellow inner ears and black eyes, nose and mouth. The bag is light pink. The desk is wooden with frosted glass dividers. There’s a sign saying “quiet please! This is a non-taking floor” signifying it’s a quiet study area of a university library. It has been graffiti’d with cute space people.
A small brown teddy bear in a pink toy baby stroller being pushed by a child in green Christmas clothing. On a day lit wooden floor with a brown couch on the left.
A share image of the audiobook Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove, from the Libro.fm platform. The image structure that the audiobook cover image on is the left, with the text of the book title and author centre-right, and the logo of Libro.fm in the bottom left hand corner on a gradient brown-black background.
A construction vehicle is parked in a protected bike lane.
A photo of a construction vehicle parked for the evening in a bike lane. It’s a scene taken at night in a city.
A bicycle is lifted up onto a service clamp in a bicycle shop where repairs also occur.
A small teddy bear propped up by beige headphones in an empty classroom auditorium. There’s a sticker saying B-Sides Halifax in front of him
USB-c + lightening Yubikey dongle being held by a hand to show the dual ends
A very red sunset with reflections on a large puddle in an excavated rocky place
A park bench with fallen leaves and blue sky in the background. A teddy bear is in a pink bike heat and a reflective bag is on the bench.
A paint by numbers acrylic kit of a white kitty
A paint by numbers kit of an acrylic (transparent) pane with the numbers on a sheet in the back. It’s of a kitty and only some paler colours have been painted.
A bike in the sidewalk by a bus shelter that has a small stuffed kitty on the seat
"This is my boomstick" - Ash, from the Army of Darkness movie, is thrown back in time to castle raids but he has a rifle. He calls it his boomstick.
“Shoppers Drug Mart: Your Rx(s) beginning with METH are ready for pickup” Text message for methylphenidate, a stimulant used to treat ADHD, is entertaining for the Meth shortening.
A picture of the night sky with a large area of light with dark spots that go across the photo - it’s the Milky Way and the dust is from the spiral arm we belong to.
A stuffed teddy bear in front of a giant blueberry statue.
A stuffed kitty next to a pair of broken glasses in a ziplock baggie
Two stuffed kitties are placed on a tree branch, with an apple behind one of the kitties. They're in an apple tree.
“Be Vigilant… Protect the Pack” sign for Cybersecurity Awareness Month at Saint Mary’s University (SMU). The sign is of a cute, plush husky with a scarf and earmuffs in front of a laptop as if the husky is using the computer. The SMU mascot is a husky. The website is of smu.ca - the university homepage.
A small teddy bear looking at the camera in front of a white brick wall. The text on the wall is of “nature folk” with a bohemian style logo of two flower looking outlines.
Four books in a stack in a car. Books: The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll We Are All Targets by Matt Potter Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari Tracers In The Dark by Andy Greenberg
A blurry teddy bear head in front of a building with people outside. There is blue sky.
Two green stuffed dinosaurs and a teddy bear buckled into a seat of a car.
A small Teddy Bear head is looking at the camera as if he’s taking a selfie. A morning scene of a lake, a mountain in the background, blue sky, and fog lifting from the lake. In the foreground is a grass bank to the lake, trees, and a humming bird feeder. The trees have started to have their leaves turn colour for Autumn.
A teddy bear looking up in nighttime city background of tall buildings, large electric billboards, and people. The view is of New York City’s Times Square - a popular tourist destination so is very crowded.
A small brown teddy bear sitting on a commuter train seat. The headrest reads Marc to denote the train system the bear is on.
A picture of a brown teddy bear face in the foreground and the background is a concrete subway wall. On the wall is a sign saying “Pentagon” to denote the subway stop the bear is at.
A photo of a sunset on a body of water. Across the water are trees and hills. There is a wheel for a boat dock visible, and a boat on the water. There’s a small white spot in the sky that is the moon
Photo of a building peak and starry night
Two men on the street with sights protesting the Dalhousie University faculty lockout. One sign states “DFA: Faculty LOCKED OUT”. The other states “DFA: Dal is PEOPLE not BUILDINGS”
A kids book with the title “Will the pigeon graduate?”
An emergency alert notice to not fly drones near an active wildfire relief efforts. Water bombers will need to stop operations. The alert sounds pissed off.
A meet and greet of SpongeBob SquarePants in an outdoor festival.
A bicycle in a parking lot next to a car with a small teddy bear by the car mirror. The parking lot is next to green grass, and a waterfront view of a city across the harbour.
A photo of a elementary-aged child in a hospital room holding a grey stuffed kitty that has a hospital arm band saying "Baby Kitty". He's watching a blue tablet while a hand holds out the kitty's paw to show the wrist band. The child is wearing an orange "every child matters" t-shirt and blue pants, and the face is covered by a kitty face emoji.
A teddy bear head facing towards the front cover of a book. The book is titled “How to hack a modern dictatorship with AI: the digital cia/oss sabotage manual” by Chris Kubecka
A teddy bear packed into the mesh side pocket of a backpack. Next to another travel bag. The bag is green with a bear donut keychain hanging next to the smooshed teddy bear.
A teddy bear with the Pulse logo for Gainsight Pulse 2025