Eric Hutchins
@ehutchins
Started in infosec, co-authored the kill chain paper, dabbled in countering influence operations at Meta, and now back to infosec. Lover of command line, python, and rust.
@thefarce.org (and maybe @emptywheel.bsky.social ?) Would love to hear how you learned about the kill chain and realized it could apply to political systems?! While our employer branded it as “cyber”, we, the authors, always emphasized its generality as “intrusion”. But never did we imagine this!
Started reading “This Vast Enterprise: a new history of Lewis & Clark” by Craig Fehrman and come across “portable soup” which I knew of thanks to @lubbershole.bsky.social
Tokens are now cell phone plans from the early aughts with “nights and weekends” discounts support.claude.com/en/articles/...
@activemeasures.bsky.social (which is a real llc!) and I assume @wylienewmark.bsky.social with a jaw dropping presentation. Best analysis of SVR vs GRU and history of the forgeries in 2016 leaks I’ve ever heard. #cyberwarcon
Did Xfinity steal its “Imagine that” slogan from these guys @latenightseth.bsky.social ?
The previous analyst concluded the threat actor was in the room. Our two senior analysts notice that the evidence is inconsistent with that hypothesis. Which of course led to a discussion of Analysis of Competing Hypotheses from this classic: www.cia.gov/resources/cs...
The other half of that brown bag deserves its own thread. Of course, it’s The Wire
American health care system in a nutshell: received letters that kid’s pii was breached and insurance denying coverage for a dr prescribed treatment
Me coming for the spotted lantern flies with the pump sprayer loaded with vinegar dish soap and epsom salts
Just a thank you to all the trans and queer community writing amazing open source Rust and Python code
The pretty white blossoms are actually from an invasive species of tree pyrus calleryana or Bradford pear which has seeds laced with cyanide