DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!

[avincentinspace@furry.engineer]

@micahflee I cannot help but notice the "Contractors" file is about three times the size of the "Contracts" file.

[micahflee@infosec.exchange]

@julie huh, this is quite interesting

[generalx@freeradical.zone]

@TerrorBite @julie @micahflee
Bugcrowd HackDHS

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@skua @micahflee Maybe every hour?

[skua@mastodon.social]

@dalias
Forking Reply

"Frequency of bot posts" - ideally something that could be swapped over to "User selected frequency of receiving posts by a bot".

For me, if I checked my notifications after 2 days away from Mastodon and found 48 posts by a bot I'd unFollow.

But really I have no idea where a sweet spot might be found.

#FrequencyOfBotPosts #UserControlBotReceipts

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@skua Posts go in your home feed not notifications.

[skua@mastodon.social]

@dalias
You're right.
And on my home feed I'm choosing to unFollow some accounts as I want a Home feed that moves pretty slowly - ideally slowly enough that I "often" get to see posts by my most favourite accounts.

Thinking multiple bots could work.
@HourlyQuislings
@DailyQuislings
@WeeklyQuislings
User gets to choose frequency.

[geniodiabolico@mastodon.geniodiabolico.synology.me]

@micahflee

FYI - some of the more perplexing names on this list:

The Linux Foundation
National Public Radio, Inc.

[wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe]

@manchicken @micahflee it looks like that started in 2014 and ended in 2018?
if i'm reading the dataset correctly. Still not a good look

[seruko@mstdn.social]

@phillip sure that's correct and the best type of correct. Broadly it's true that donors with money always have some kind of vote

[lioh@social.anoxinon.de]

@micahflee I find this scrolling visible between floating menus quite irritating.

[jamey@toot.cat]

@micahflee Oh, I see this is from all of DHS, not just ICE, and also that it includes contracts which ended years ago. That's good to be aware of. I actually worked on part of this one contract, over a decade ago, and it was purely about improving cybersecurity for people's smartphones; it had nothing to do with immigration. https://micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/?state=OR&modalType=contract&modalAwardId=937

[opiobf@piaille.fr]

@micahflee poke @ddosecrets

[tofuhuehnchen@fedi.at]

@micahflee Departement of Peace? Reminds me a bit of "Minipax" from Orwell's 1984 or the same Ministry in Babylon 5

[tokyo_0@mas.to]

@skua @dalias These last few days I've been really glad I put a chunk of time in a while back organising accounts onto topic-based lists (which works better now you can have those posts excluded from your home timeline). Let's me avoid news when I want to, but still have it right there when something big happens.

[libertat_22@mastodon.world]

@micahflee

Yesterday’s documents confirm the deep role of Microsoft and Palantir in ICE’s repressive machinery, with technologies enabling mass surveillance disguised as “immigration management.”