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Followers
4.4K
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for

WHAT'S HAPPENING?!?!?8 views WHAT'S HAPPENING?!?!? Ten years ago this month, the DNC got hacked and emails were leaked by Russian intelligence ("Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear", as per CrowdStrike). Why does it feel like it's been twice as long as that?8 views Ten years ago this month, the DNC got hacked and emails were leaked by Russian intelligence ("Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear", as per CrowdStrike). Why does it feel like it's been twice as long as that?

📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 16latest
4
Avg engagement / post
2–8
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
71/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 8 likes + reposts (median 4) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.

🔥 Top post: Regrettably, I will not be at Black Hat, DEFCON or BSides LV aga · 8 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
6.1 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
4.8×
Follows 921 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Regrettably, I will not be at Black Hat, DEFCON or BSides LV again this year. I will instead be packing a subset my parents' belongings out of their house into a UHaul trailer as we put their house up for sale. Last year at this time, I had been shuttling back and forth between… ★ 8
WHAT'S HAPPENING?!?!? ★ 8 Hey @dgl I just sent a paste[.]sh abuse report in, and it's a doozy. Ten years ago this month, the DNC got hacked and emails were leaked by Russian intelligence ("Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear", as per CrowdStrike). Why does it feel like it's been twice as long as that? ★ 8 AT&T appears to have. But not everyone. Check how much tmomail[.]net spam you're getting. ★ 1 So you know how the mobile companies said they were shutting down their SMS-to-email gateways? Not so much. ★ 4 When people who write sanctions don't understand how the Internet works: https://meduza.io/amp/en/news/2026/07/14/u-s-treasury-sanctions-on-a-vpn-service-knocked-out-telegram-s-short-link-domain-worldwide ★ 1 What a difference a decade makes. LOL. 😬 ★ 1 On this day 10 years ago at Ars Technica: Facebook's quest to have global surveillance, er, broadband capabilities takes to the skies. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/facebook-tests-full-scale-solar-powered-internet-… ★ 2 Here's to continued bad opsec by The Com-spawned cyberistas: https://fancybearfriends.org/2026/07/21/teenage-opsec-lulz/ ★ 6 https://thepacketrat.com/2026/07/17/on-patriotism-in-a-fcked-up-country/ ★ 3 Pigeon portraits. http://thepacketrat.com/2026/07/15/pigeon-portraits/ ★ 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 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 6.1× 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 (~0.1% 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

Security Research Engineer @Cisco Talos. Past: Natsec/Infosec Editor Emeritus @ Ars Technica. Ex Navy officer and actual battleship sailor. Verified cat furniture. Bird paparazzo. Still mostly s***posting as @. Also federating @thepacketrat and @thepacketrat

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