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Followers
4.5K
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 27latest
11
Avg engagement / post
3–5
Typical post (engagement)
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
0/100
Spiky reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 3 and 5 likes + reposts (median 3) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.

🔥 Top post: RE: https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/117021737054965508 We mo · 92 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
13.9 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
6.6×
Follows 688 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
🔥 Top post RE: https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/117021737054965508 We mostly replaced “caveat emptor” with product quality laws because it’s good for business and society to be able to expect products are fit for purpose. ★ 92
Dear YouTubers: when you set up your scene, ask if the microphone should even be visible. Hint: if you are not a sound engineering YouTuber, the answer is no. @jscalzi https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DbjbgpiGSNO ★ 3 RE: https://sigmoid.social/@cigitalgem/117012132756167391 If you want to play in the big leagues you need an agent that’s smarter than you ★ 2 Go home Word, you drunk again. ★ 4 RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@simonbp/117000560404338238 Look I don’t make the rules but if you skip this opportunity to swiftly make “satellites with attitude problems” jokes that’s on you. ★ 3 I'd like to announce that, to the best of our knowledge, @shostackassociates.bsky.social has not been hacked by OpenAI. ★ 3 Image by Gemini: “draw an 8x3 image of robot in a black hoodie with an aliens-style face hugger attached to it; the robot should be sitting at a desk hacking; redo the colors in Watercolor style impressionist colorism; redo in cinematic v… ★ 2 PHANTOM-B at Black HatI'm presenting PHANTOM-B on Wednesday at Black Hat and reprising it on Saturday in the AppSec Village at DEF CON. Check out our full schedule (https://shostack.org/blackhat) for details and read the whitepaper ahead o… ★ 2 Other commentary:• Neil Wyler (aka Grifter) wrote an excellent article, OpenAI gave its model a test, it broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to steal the answers (https://coalfire.com/the-coalfire-blog/openai-gave-its-model-a-… ★ 3 We see these issues: anthropomorphization, overreliance on benchmarks, and aspiration-driven thinking all the time as we help clients navigate how to use LLMs in threat modeling, but they are really about LLMs. They extend far beyond threa… ★ 5 Understanding the value of an improvement, rather than focusing on a single benchmark, is a crucial part of engineering. Engineering is always about tradeoffs, not “maxxing.” (11/15) ★ 5 But moving beyond OpenAI, most organizations are not competing on the basis of those benchmarks, they’re competing on value delivered to customers. (10/15) ★ 5

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 11 views per post.
📤Posts about 13.9× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
52/100
Fair Credibility score
76%
Mixed Real audience
Medium Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Author, game designer, technologist, teacher. Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board. Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security. Following back if you have content.

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