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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Mar 04, 2026

Espresso owl (Americano double pull)

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Mar 04, 2026

Heroic work. Epstein first responders.

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Jan 31, 2026

No no no. Release ALL of the Epstein files as required by law. We are not going to stop the pressure as you ratchet the sleaze.

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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (and Neighbors)m NYC, 2017. All the pixels, each with an 11am checkout time, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32609074081 #photography

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@mattblaze@federate.social outstanding. How did you get the atmosphere to cooperate?

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Jan 05, 2026

@mattblaze@federate.social prescient use of the butterfly effect as a young boy?

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Jan 05, 2026

@mattblaze@federate.social outstanding. How did you get the atmosphere to cooperate?

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Going to need to get my block button refurbished soon.

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@mattblaze@federate.social I think you should put everything behind a content warning that says "Another post by Matt Blaze".

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@plragde@mstdn.social "May contain words with which you disagree"

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Dec 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @plragde@mstdn.social may contain blaze bits

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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @noplasticshower@infosec.exchange @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social The reaction to SATAN was an extremely useful tool for identifying people I’d never want to work with.

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Dec 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social I remember catching flack for talking about buffer overflow exploit automation at S&P around the same time

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NB: While I never intended to piss off locksmiths with my master keying paper, I did write a followup couple years later about safes and safecracking, partly out of spite. https://www.mattblaze.org/pa

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I wrote that paper after I had moved from AT&T Labs to U. Penn. The Penn locksmith went totally apoplectic, and wrote regular angry letters to the dean and to the head of campus security warning about

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It occurs to me that people outside the security field might find it odd that we openly publish stuff like this. Why help people who might use the knowledge to do bad things? There are a number of rea

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Dec 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social precisely why we published this book (in 2004). Incidentally we still expected some trouble...and we got none. I think your view about "guilds" is accurate.

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Now getting yelled at for "defending Marjorie Taylor Greene". Sorry, but that's just a wildly bad faith, or completely illiterate, interpretation of anything I've written or said, here or anywhere. Ju

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Dec 15, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social block early, block often

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@mattblaze@federate.social @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social we discussed the idea of writing a "necker play" where half of the audience thinks X and the other half thinks Y...then at the inflection point yo

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social Oh neat! I felt like Anatomy of a Fall was a missed bilingual opportunity to do something like that, where French-speakers would reach one

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social my fav of all his plays is rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

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@mattblaze@federate.social @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social we discussed the idea of writing a "necker play" where half of the audience thinks X and the other half thinks Y...then at the inflection point yo

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social Oh neat! I felt like Anatomy of a Fall was a missed bilingual opportunity to do something like that, where French-speakers would reach one

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social that is an excellent idea

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Just learned that the great Tom Stoppard, author of many of my favorite plays, has died. I met him once, when I found myself sitting next to him in the audience at the Donmar Warehouse. I was so stars

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@mattblaze@federate.social he was a friend https://apothecaryshed.com/2015/12/16/tom-and-dave-in-philly/

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social we discussed the idea of writing a "necker play" where half of the audience thinks X and the other half thinks Y...then at the inflection point you flip views. He was pretty psyched about that.

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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com It's terrifying to me that airplane manufacturers have for a while been software companies that happen to also make some hardware accessories.

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com coverage levels are set to MCDC levels and all engineers are certified

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United Nations General Assembly Building, NYC, 2021 All the pixels, each with diplomatic immunity, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335 #photography

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 24, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social in NYC today but on the opposite side of the island

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US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, 2021. All the pixels, each spending most of its time fundraising, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51221569646 #photography

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 24, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social sure wish the Congressholes would do their jobs

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Fighter jet flyby over the WH and up 16th street, rattled the windows just now. Presumably related to trying to impress the visiting Saudi prince.

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 18, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Republicans can't govern

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Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024. All the pixels, none of the gentrification, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655 #photography

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 11, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social great shot!

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Anyway, I'm pretty done with the Mastodon Homeowner's Association from two towns over coming to my door and telling me what color I'm allowed to paint my house.

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange · Nov 10, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social I'm sorry but this post is not the exact color of beige my hamster and I like

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