Matt Franz
mdfranz@infosec.exchange
<p>Recovering SecOps Director (currently an IC again) with no delusions of ever becoming a CISO. Ex-Mandiant, Cisco, Ping (Identity not golf), Tenable, and Gemalto.</p>
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This is getting some viz following the HF nonsense - https://blog.calif.io/p/privilege-escalation-in-eks
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Ugh. Too close. Maybe because my daughter made the "mistake" of getting into tech. Spent 2-3 hours pair-vibecoding with her last night.
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So what is the fucking problem? https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/politics/kfile-troy-jackson-anonymous-alias-commenter-canadians-for-lepage
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It is great having a SOC Analyst in the house! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/family-targeted-phishing-deconstructing-attack-anna-franz-8nv7e/
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LOL
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LOL - https://www.wired.com/story/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-tokens/
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Such a fucking foot-gun
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https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/comparing-open-source-ai-code-security-harnesses <~ your favorite H word
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The way to make this World Cup perfect is to boo POTUS.
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I smell a #pedopardon coming https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/18/us/tate-brothers-arrested-miami
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Pro-tip. Ask a dumber model to find out what is confusing in your design (gemini-3.5-flash here)
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Anduril is the new Amazon and Facebook in terms of potential employers I give the big 👎️ to when they bug me on LinkedIn.
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Sure this isn't a @theonion headline?
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-analysis <- 🤡 "The misstep compounded an earlier mistake — the failure to understand that Iran would close the strait in the first place. That this is still an issue a month after the MOU was agreed upon suggests its 60-day timeline for a full deal, including on Iran’s nuclear program, was absurdly unrealistic."
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The fact that a shitty state like South Carolina (the first state to secede) continues to exercise so much power in America tells you all you need to know about what is wrong and how we didn’t resolve what we needed to resolve in the Civil War.
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https://odysseylinux.org/ <- I doubt this is for Human Beings with a website like that. WTF.
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Going down the microvm 🐇 🕳️ this weekend. https://github.com/buildkite/cleanroom
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Playing around with this https://ki-utvikling.nav.no/cplt
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Might actually make it Vegas during Blackhat this year. First time since 2003. The curse/blessing of being one of the few security folks so you get pulled into sales conversations.
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/politics/iran-strikes-kushner-witkoff-flawed-ceasefire?cid=ios_app Oh CNN, out of the mouths of babes….
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https://guardbase.ai/attack-matrix/ valuable or framework slop?
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Giving Claude access to your Elastic clusters on k3s is 😹
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@mfowler@toot.thoughtworks.com @bboeckel@toot.thoughtworks.com Great article--especially calling out tool calling as a big problem.
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Caption this. Wrong answers only.
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Well I made it almost made it 11 mins in before getting too disgusted with the 27 year old founder because I remember how arrogant I was at that age and most people are https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kubernetes-bytes/id1580068566?i=1000775179593
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Ah, yeah it is scary teenagers and not lax gun laws https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/us/florida-july-4th-shooting
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Watching https://www.pbs.org/video/the-american-revolution-episode-3-the-times-that-try-mens-souls/
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Happy Birthday 🇺🇸 you earned it!
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/business-and-economics-9oqgllrlz/-/a-hWgGgsbBS1WVyd2hWOLPOA%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0 Means testing for the win—especially for rich boomers who don’t need the money.
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@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com yeah and especially true when you are building AI features and products. I took a break in late Spring when I changed jobs and stopped working so much trying to understand LLMs and it was a cognitive rest.