Sean O'Brien

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🤓 Prof Diggity @IvyCyberEd 🛡️ Founder @YalePrivacyLab 🤖 Deputy Director @fsf 🔆 @GetPrivacySafe 📲 PrivacySafe.app

New Haven, CT ivycyber.com Joined October 2018

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity Nov 4

🤓 Our @GetPrivacySafe team has done it again and offers a FREE #cybersecurity tool for fixing a major vulnerability on GNU / #Linux. Support our effort! privacysafe.foundation/donate

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity 1d

The one thing I knew about the @nvidia dude was his love for @denny's grand slams and now I can't see anything on this site but memes about him and his comare. Anyway, some... interesting #cybersecurity tips from my friend @JohnKiriakou below 😏

John Kiriakou Verified account @JohnKiriakou 1d

Some counterintelligence advice for CEOs. Things you should look out for:

- Any woman under the age of 50 who compliments your hair transplant
- Woman who says your leather jackets look cool
- A 24-year-old with a suspicious interest in export controls
- A podcaster who says you are smart enough to run for president
- Mossad. Particularly Mossad agents who tell you you’re funny enough to do stand-up comedy

These are the oldest tricks in the book. Please complete the cybersecurity training you keep making your employees take.
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity 1d

🌡️🔥Great conversation yesterday with @RedactedNews about the #cyberattacks on fridges across Europe. Thanks for having me on the show!

Sean O'Brien @profdiggity 4d

Great coverage in @slashdot of my piece for @fsf on @aaronsw and his legacy. We are all better for his contributions to our world, and poorer for him leaving it far too soon. Support @AaronSwartzDay activities like the #hackathon w/ @eff @creativecommons slashdot.org/story/458793

slashdot.org Aaron Swartz Would've Been 40 Today. His 'Legacy Lives On' Says FSF - Slashdot "Aaron Swartz would have turned forty this year," writes FSF deputy director Sean O'Brien. "November 8 is Aaron Swartz Day, when we remember a pioneer of free software and information sharing whose...

Sean O'Brien @profdiggity 5d

Encouraging proper attribution (citation essentially) and reciprocal terms that *guarantee* sharing is *more freedom* not less. It just means some work to actually keep track of what's in your codebase, which is what these folks seem afraid of, even though they have LLMs to help

Peter Steinberger Verified account @steipete 5d

The Asahi project was all about taking something closed and restricted and opening it up.

Adding new restrictions that make it harder for other projects to build on that is not the way. And that AI rejection is just silly.

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