Lesley Carhart

@hacks4pancakes.com

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I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires. ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️‍🌈

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Source: Movement Advancement Project (MAP) LGBTQ Equality Maps See original source of US LGBTQIA safety study for tabular data by state.
As each day ends. From the Book of the Dead, 4500BCE As each day ends, may I have lived That I may truly say I did no harm to humankind, From truth I did not stray; I did no wrong with knowing mind From evil I did keep I turned no hungry soul away I caused no one to weep.
“People won't know when I'm rich but there will be signs Like having my own personal encase and cobalt strike license”
"I follow Mike Holcomb and Lesley Carhart and I'm really excited about OT" "Hi, I'm Lesley!"
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Re-examining the Physics Experiment (ctd) When you see the latest announcement of a quantum breakthrough • Don't say: "We're all going to die Do say: "Where did they cheat this time?" (Easiest to wait a week or two
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Iltwon © 3d if you're so smart why are you still broke hacks4pancakes • now I'm literally an expert computer hacker who could do big crimes but I feel bad for embarrassed people on TV and can't hurt a mouse.
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“"Calm down. He won't be that bad." "He won't go after political opponents." "He won't try to overturn an election." "He won't start a stupid, costly war." "He won't purge the military." "He won't use nukes." We're currently here.”
transphobes: when archaeologists dig up your skeleton they're going to find MALE bones archaeologists: holy sh*t you guys are not going to believe what we found in this SIX FOOT TALL PRIESTESS' eye socket
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Headline about Pokémon Go existing to build training data for AI
Reddit: " It's a weird one and more an amusement than annoyance, but when I moved here I asked what food I should try that was uniquely Australian and every Australian I talked to told me there was absolutely no "Australian food". Yet, I am constantly bombarded with weird (but sometimes quite delicious) Australian food and more often extremely unique *takes on international food*, from HSPs to uncut sushi rolls with little squishy soy sauce fish, to lemon lime bitters, to Bunnings sausages on a slice of bread rather than a roll, to pizzas with bloody whole in shell clams and prawns on them, to fairy bread, to scrolls with vegemite and cheese in them, to whatever is going on with Guzman and Gomez and Mexican chips, to boozy ginger beer on tap. You have a cuisine. It's mostly adopted from other cultures and stitched together, and mostly made to eat while 3 beers in, but you definitely have a cuisine. "
“Hi Nathan, Following up since teams like yours are losing time and money every month to stricter cyber insurance rules. Most Midwest security leads now work with vCISOs to keep up, which puts your clients at risk of falling behind.”
2001 spaceship scene on 2026 aircraft scene
“Congrats, you've been selected! There are fantastic Democratic candidates running for Senate around the country, so we're asking top Democrats to make their voices heard before MIDNIGHT! 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝘀? 𝗬𝗲𝘀: 𝗡𝗼: - DSCC Text STOP to quit”
A Marine Corps veteran suffered a broken arm as he was dragged out of a hearing in the US Capitol by police and a senator. Brian McGinnis called out during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing in protest of the US attack on Iran. He was dragged out of the room and a sitting senator broke his arm in the process.
“To The Folks Who Said We Were Overreacting When Trump Got Re-Elected: It's worse than we thought, faster than we thought.”
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Said request for free interviews with multiple zoom calls.
“What in the everloving LLM hell was that?”
Search result: “Melbourne tap water often tastes better than Chicago's due to its source from protected, pristine mountain forests in the Yarra Ranges, requiring minimal treatment. Conversely, Chicago draws water from Lake Michigan, necessitating higher chlorine levels for disinfection. Melbourne's water is also naturally filtered by soil and stored in reservoirs for up to five years, improving taste.”
-hacks4pancakes- • 4h • Top 1% Commenter "How dare these 17 year old kids not act like Picard or Geordi?" 127 mojorific • 11m Missing the point entirely. It portrays them as dumb, so they can't put them in unrealistic situations. "I swallowed my com-badge" is not something a cadet would say. ••• 个 vote 少 -hacks4pancakes- • 2m • • Top 1% Commenter I can't decide whether the worst medical incident I had to deal with as a Sergeant in the military with trainees was the 19 year old who shocked his friend with a camera flash capacitor or the 20 year old who tried to sterilize himself with a radar dish so no, these seem unfortunately plausible.
The Honorable John Ratcliffe Director Central Intelligence Agency McLean, VA 22101 Dear Director Ratcliffe, I write to alert you to a classified letter 1 sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Sincerely, Por Wyler Ron Wyden U.S. Senator
The hacker in the video is plugging in a USB A to a PC with ps2 ports
r/Defcon DEFCO! u/Objective_Vanilla965 • 21m Am I safe to bring devices to defcon? So I have a friend who will be going (I'm not sure when it is) and they invited me to go for free. But my question is, is it safe for me to bring devices with personal info? I've heard other people say to not bring anything that could possibly be hacked. Sorry if this is a stupid question 少 3 -hacks4pancakes- • Now No, it's way too hot in Vegas in August. You run the risk of your devices overheating and lithium ion batteries exploding. Bring nothing but lots of water and sunscreen.
-hacks4pancakes- • 1d The reason the good faith seniors on here are posting that the junior / mid level market is bad (it is) is because we have watched it crash in real time and a lotta of us are dealing with serious fallout as both hiring managers or mentors. It's genuinely a good faith warning. It's not like, "don't get into the field we love". It's just that for a really long time you could get into cybersecurity with no degree and no IT experience because the demand was so high. And schools, influencers, and parents still play it off that it's like that. That people can work full time remote and make 80k entry salary. It's not. It hasn't been for a couple years. We've been hit by "professionalizing" and oversaturation of graduates. Can you still get in with a sec+, a kali box and a dream? Maybe, if you really meet the right people and get lucky. Pragmatically though, that won't be the case for 99.9% of young people now, and if we care at all we need to counter the "everything is rosy" message people are using to sell boot camps. We are getting hundreds of cybersecurity grads and laid off professionals with work rights applying for positions. How can organizations even take the time to look beyond that at hundreds more juniors with no degree, criminal convictions, a GED, needing a' v sponsor, etc?
An Instagram video screenshot of a man receiving Nokia phones 16 years late because of geopolitics and war. The comment reads “I bet they still had a charge” 🫠
“At the time, I knew @hacks4pancakes was right to leave the US. I did not, however, expect the turning point showing how right she was to be this swift, egregious, and devastating.”
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A wall mural reading “where there is oppression there will be resistance”, with symbols for Palestine, BLM, and indigenous people.
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Let me use this analogy: You have a band. The band is pretty good, lots of Spotify listeners, a tour. Objectively popular in the music industry, but not Taylor Swift by any means. You put them in a local medium size venue and it the place is packed, sells out. A person going to that show would say they’re doing really well. You put them in a football arena and all of a sudden you have tons of empty seats and it looks like they’re crap. They get mocked on social. You’re seeing the health of the cybersecurity job market through the lens of what schools and bootcamps tried to sell. They tried to sell out the arena of job opportunities and pay and that market never really existed. That artificial inflation makes it look 10x worse. There were jobs. There are jobs, there will be jobs in cybersecurity. But there were never millions of pen test or analyst jobs. That’s crazy. It was always crazy. The bad economy is just exacerbating this as more and more people jump on the hype train.
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Happy 1 year anniversary of Mastodon people shaming me for posting this.
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Governor JB Pritzker v 6h•③ This morning, the Trump Administration's Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will. In the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. They will pull hardworking Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance -- not a serious effort to protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control. This demand follows unprecedented escalations of aggression against Illinois citizens and residents. Yesterday, Kristi Noem's and Greg Bovino's masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart. None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos. I want to be clear: there is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois. State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people's ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights. I will not call up
Political cartoon - General. “m i insulted… “
Meme: mfers be like I’m an alpha male Ok bro, tell me about your low penetration power Wave diagram
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A Reddit post from security career advice “Seriously, how are you able to go to work every day? What's the goal that keeps you going? How does dealing with the world for more than a few hours not completely drain your energy? I feel like everything drains me. I reach my limit in any job I do, but I have to work to live. How do you resist the idea of just withdrawing from all of this?”
Hegseth jokes about firing a woman commander and doctor on Twitter.