Nick Le Mouton

So Luxon can condemn this but not when the US wipes out a school? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Reminder: regime voter suppression means you need to enrol early. vote.nz/enrolling/en...

Currently listening to youtu.be/FEu7xIEaXWo?.... Nothing says Christmas like Mongolian throat singing 🎄

As a parent in Australia this law makes it HARDER for me to keep my kids safe. They’ll all move to alt services on the dark web instead, using Tor or VPNs or proxies that will be harder to keeps tabs on. A few smart techy kids will figure out how and show everyone else. The law is dangerous

At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. www.wired.com/story/this-h...

Morena #kawaiicon!

Good morning #chcon2025

Wtf Christchurch, you can’t use contactless payments on public transport? Is this the 1900’s? #chcon2025

💟 Thank you again to everyone who made Dreamforce such a success. Our partners, our customers, and our employees were all instrumental in creating an innovative and exciting #DF25. Up next: further harnessing the power of #Heroku through new capabilities like AppLink and #HerokuVibes. 💪

GPT 5 is really like having Phd's in your pocket! It will write a 40 page academic paper on how many b's are in blueberry. We are truely living in the future!

Borrowed from discord via @kyhwana.org Looks like BGP strikes again!

Seems that @cloudflare.social 's 1.1.1.1 resolver is having issues. It also seems to have affected 2Degrees DNS for my broadband, but I'm not sure how. I would think that 2Degrees would run their own DNS infra?

Oh neato, a 13 year-old vuln in (checks notes) all US trains that allowed anyone to control the brakes? Cool cool cool.

We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299

Samsung NZ messing up sending out emails. Inserted what looks to be a password hash instead of first name in the email subject. I guess the positive is that they're hashing passwords and not storing as plain text!

@marcdaalder.bsky.social hey Marc, I'm trying to put together some data around bills/acts that NZ govts have passed and came across: newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/29/g.... It doesn't look like the govt mentions a bill/bill stage is under urgency. Did you have to dig through transcripts to get this data?

As I wrote in the newsletter last Monday.... this was Russia's way of telegraphing an incoming block. They did the exact same thing with YouTube

✅ Made submission against the Regulatory Standards Bill ✅ Emailed local MP ✅ Informed friends and family about the RSB and encouraged them to also submit

Hey all -- this is not happening -- Slack will be comped for CNCF communities in perpetuity.

I love Bluesky. JD Vance joins and thousands of people are like “Fuck off couchfucker!”

It is that time! Call for Participation (CFP) time! Got a talk in mind? Done some cool research? Want to do something for hallway con? Want to be able to summon sparkle pots on cue? Submit to our CFP! Closes eventually, so just get your submission in now! kawaiicon.org/cfp/

Shout out to the Auckland Council for bringing back the chemical free weed control. There was talks of scrapping this as it costs more than using glyphosate. I just had some folks with the steam truck treating the weeds in our street. Not sure if this was you @richardhills.bsky.social, but thanks!

Oh man, this brings back memories. I had a bunch of these on my geocities pages. Thought I was so cool, even though I’m sure only 5 people ever visited them

Go 1.25 RC1 released, set for full release in Aug. tip.golang.org/doc/go1.25

OWASP NZ Day 2025 registration is open. Great for devs, security folk and everyone in between - appsec.org.nz/conference/

Kicking off the community day with @hacker0x01.bsky.social

In Sydney for the @hacker0x01.bsky.social live hacking event with Salesforce. Great day for it

Starting to take a look at owasp.org/www-project-.... Looks like an interesting way to record threat models in a standardised format that can be used by tools/AI. There also seems to be some talk about this being a part of CycloneDX in some way, but not sure how that's going to work.

GitHub has added secret patterns for Heroku and Salesforce. github.blog/changelog/20...

#NZPol

What the Government doesn't want you to know about the Regulatory Standards Bill... Submissions are open until 1pm Monday 23rd June. Link in comments. 🔗🔗🔗

One-Click RCE in ASUS’s Preinstalled Driver Software mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/

Stolen from discord

Neat way to disable Windows Defender (or possibly other AV products)... Register a no-op AV product in the Windows Security Center (WSC). This action is protected by an NDA that AV vendors sign, and, well... Anyway, yeah, admin users can do admin things […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

While it feels futile, I just emailed my local MP expressing my concerns about the Equal Pay Act changes being pushed through parliament. The changes are outlined here: www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan... and ChatGPT does a great job of simplifying/summarising this if you don't speak politician

New AirPlay zero click vuln write up dropped today from Oligo Security (CVE-2025-24252 and CVE-2025-24132) This was patched in iOS/iPadOS 18.4 etc www.oligo.security/blog/airborne

PLEASE SHARE! - The phenomenal team at Abilities Group have helped our community in many ways for decades, now they need our help. Please donate and share if you can: givealittle.co.nz/org/abilitie... All the info in the link too.

Wow, it’s hard to think I’ve been online since 1996. Back when we had dialup and only 30 hours of access a month. Now we have gigabit fibre to the house and our kids have never known life without internet

Great, apparently my dishwasher now uses AI…

👀 woah... Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental cybersecurity model security.googleblog....

TIL about "brew bundle" for homebrew on MacOS. Can create a Brewfile to setup/maintain MacOS, VSCode and brew dependencies. I found this gist with a few tips:

@nzclover.bsky.social makes a really good point here. Insurance companies look for any reason to deny a claim. AI mistakes and hallucinations could be used against you in the future