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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange. Displaced Philly boy. Executive Director of @ifin-intel.org. Threat hunter. Educator. Dad. General in the AI Resistance. taggartinstitute.org wtfbins.wtf linktr.ee/mttaggart

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Taggart@taggart-tech· 18d

My contribution to the threat actor naming discourse

Change my mind meme. Table says Attribution is irrelevant for non-state entities, change my mind

Taggart@taggart-tech· 28d

A quick reminder for all the research firms and cyber firms out there.

A simple flowchart.

Am I making criminals look cool?

Yeah! Action Figs and Trading Cards! goes to I'm part of the problem.
Ew, no goes to Rock on

Taggart@taggart-tech· Jun 22

Have you purchased your legally required America250! Americorn® yet?

A blue bag of novelty popcorn called Americorn. It is red white and blue.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Jun 10

If you like this, you'll love our "Flamethrowers for Firefighting" seminar!!

Webinar invite for "Claude for Budgeting and Financial Planning"

Taggart@taggart-tech· Jun 1

Just look at any top thread. Usage-based pricing is going great for GitHub Copilot www.reddit.com/r/Git...

Prince differential between prior billing and usage based. $39.00 compared to $5851.77 for a single user.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Jun 1

Achewood predicted Dario Amodei.

Panel from Achewood. Two cats stand behind a balding man in glasses bearing a striking resemblance to Dario. He says:

Here. Here's one. It's new. I like it a lot. It's a beer bottle, and the label's a talkie. It plays, live, the worst conversations being had in the English language. Watch.

Taggart@taggart-tech· May 23

Checks out

Star Trek Voyager: Janeway's A Terrifying Monster, Pt. 2

Taggart@taggart-tech· May 20

They can produce code. They cannot reason; they cannot strategize. Do not put system design in stochastic hands.

Simpsons bus meme

Bus driver: Don't make me tap the sign

The sign: NEVER ASK LLMS TO DESIGN SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Taggart@taggart-tech· May 16

This entire report from the Ontario government on genAI systems is worth a read, but the review of healthcare scribe accuracy is pretty devastating, imo. This *has* to work for the tech to be worth anything. If the notes in the chart are wrong, the whole thing falls apart. www.auditor.on.ca/en...

Figure showing hallucinations, incorrect information, and incomplete information in scribe systems.

9/20, 12/20, 6/20

Taggart@taggart-tech· May 5

I confirmed this Edge behavior. It stores passwords in cleartext in its memory in ways Chrome and other browsers do not. isc.sans.edu/diary/r...

Strings command finding my password in a memory dump of Edge

Taggart@taggart-tech· May 4

10/10 excellent brand synergy @cloudflare.social

313 Team Telegram message proudly proclaiming their attacks are powered by beamed.su

Taggart@taggart-tech· May 4

Hey @cloudflare.social, how come you're protecting beamed[.]st, the DDoS service that's attacking Ubuntu? It's an obvious criminal enterprise that literally advertises botnet access.

Beamed pricing with "botnet access" plainly displayed.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Apr 27

Okay so if I did this right with the EPA's converter, training/using (marginal) Mistral was mind-blowingly bad. Please someone check my math. The stated CO2e was 20.4 kilotons.

A screenshot of a Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator showing that 20,400 Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide equivalent (CO2e) is comparable to various real-world scenarios. This includes greenhouse gas emissions from 4,758 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles or 18,016 electric-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year, and 51,949,815 miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle. It is also equivalent to CO2 emissions from 2,295,488 gallons of gasoline consumed, 2,003,929 gallons of diesel consumed, 22,660,624 pounds of coal burned, 270 tanker trucks' worth of gasoline, 2,740 homes' energy use for one year, 4,251 homes' electricity use for one year, 113 railcars' worth of coal burned, 47,230 barrels of oil consumed, 937,157 propane cylinders used for home barbeques, 0.005 coal-fired power plants in one year, 0.053 natural gas-fired power plants in one year, or 1,649,274,178 smartphones charged.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Apr 13

New York Times, I beg you to crack open one (1) book that concerns dates prior to 1900.

New York Times headline:

Many Popes Have Been Entangled in Politics. Here Are 5 of Them.
Leo XIV, under fire from President Trump, has joined predecessors like Francis and John Paul II in confronting political issues.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Apr 12

Probably should've held this take back for like a day

Foreign Affairs headline: Why the Cease-Fire With Iran Will Hold
The De-escalatory Logic That Will Shape Negotiations

Taggart@taggart-tech· Apr 7

This is the one. Although I would have preferred it not be called "Earthset," good grief. images.nasa.gov/deta...

A lonely earth rising over the gray-brown, crater-marked lunar horizon.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Apr 2

Seriously, what is with this genre and red blurs and scan lines? It's illegible and annoying.

Exit 12 meme. Straight ahead is readable docs. Exit is red blur effects. Car veering for the exit is AI Devs.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Mar 27

Handala is now claiming responsibility for a disruption of point-of-sale systems in the US. Unconfirmed, uncorroborated.

Telegram message: There is currently a widespread disruption in point-of-sale systems across chain stores throughout the United States. Further information will be provider later. Responsibility for this cyber breach has been claimed by Handala

Taggart@taggart-tech· Mar 27

Ope, found a single 2022 email. Kash flying economy though? Seems sus.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Mar 24

Eat fresh, chooms

Cyberpunk 2077 font and character but the text says Subway: Eat Fresh

Taggart@taggart-tech· Mar 16

Lmaooo Now that is what I call free advertising

OpenAI's Codex GitHub repo showing Claude contributed to it

Taggart@taggart-tech· Mar 11

Salty today

Two buttons meme. Button 1: writing markdown skills and praying. Button 2: actually learning to code

Sweaty choosing guy: Devs in 2026.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Mar 10

So AI is about as popular as the Democratic Party and ICE. Kinda encouraging, honestly. www.nbcnews.com/poli...

Poll results showing sentiment percentages for several topics:

Gavin Newsom: -18
Ice: -18
AI: -20
Democrats: -22
Iran: -53

Taggart@taggart-tech· Feb 18

Single pane of glass? Pfft, we have a rose window, rookies.

Circular stained glass window of many panes and colors

Taggart@taggart-tech· Feb 13

What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. arstechnica.com/ai/2...

Scott Shambaugh here. None of the quotes you attribute to me in the second half of the article are accurate, and do not exist at the source you link. It appears that they themselves are AI hallucinations. The irony here is fantastic.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Feb 11

Here's my CVE-2026-20841 PoC (Not really, but I have a feeling it's something that rhymes with this).

A terminal text editor with a markdown file and a calculator:// hyperlink. Over that is Notepad with the file open, and calculator above it.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Feb 10

Summary of my talk on OpenClaw today.

Except from a slide deck. White text on cybery background.

What you can do

Don't use it: Professional Edition
Don't us it: Home Edition

Taggart@taggart-tech· Feb 4

This study—from Anthropic, no less—is rather damning of the entire generative AI project. In code creation, the realm where it should shine, not only were the time gains marginal, but developers understood their code far, far less. And they didn't even have more fun doing the work!

Figure 6 shows that while using AI to complete our coding task did not significantly improve task completion time, the level of skill formation gained by completing the task, measured by our quiz, is significantly reduced (Cohen d=0.738, p=0.01). There is a 4.15 point difference between the means of the treatment and control groups. For a 27-point quiz, this translates into a 17% score difference or 2 grade points. Controlling for warm-up task time as a covariate, the treatment effect remains significant (Cohen’s d=0.725, p=0.016).

In exploratory data analysis (not pre-registered), the quiz score was decomposed into subareas and question types (Figure 8). Each question in the quiz belonged to exactly one task (e.g., Task 1 or Task 2) and exactly one question type (e.g., Conceptual, Debugging, or Code Reading). For both tasks, there is a gap between the quiz scores between the treatment and control groups. Among the different types of questions, the largest score gap occurs in the debugging questions and the smallest score gap in the code reading questions. This outcome is expected since treatment and control groups may have similar exposure to reading code through the task, but the control group with no access to AI assistance encountered more errors during the task and became more capable at debugging.

Task Experience In further exploratory data analysis, we also find differences in the way participants’ experience of completing the study. The control group (No AI) reported higher self-reported learning (on a 7-point scale), while both groups reported high levels of enjoyment in completing the task (Figure 10).

In terms of difficulty of the task, Figure 10 shows that although participants in the treatment group (AI Assistance) found the task easier than the control group, both groups found the post-task quiz similarly challenging.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Feb 2

Maybe we just blocklist VSCode? If your devs are vibecoding, may I suggest an alternative computing platform for them: www.koi.ai/blog/mali...

VTech baby laptop with fun colored and shaped buttons. "Brilliant baby laptop" label at the top. Shapes and simple objects on a static screen.

Taggart@taggart-tech· Jan 22

No you did not find a "hack" for Claude. You found a documented test string for the safety filter. platform.claude.com/...