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For the morning crowd— thanks for all your support. The Lyman students convinced the school board, who overruled the superintendent and admin. There will be no censorship of the Lyman High School yearbook!
Thanks to all for your outpouring of support for Lyman High School Journalism and their fight against yearbook censorship. The short summary is WE WON!
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As stupid as "rm -rf /*" is, it's arguably better than some mid-grade nation state threat actor playing Pokemon and collecting all the F5 BIG-IP appliances as staging points for operations. So there's that.
Critical F5 BIG-IP vulnerability targeted by destructive attacks - @LawrenceAbrams
bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
Technology is political. Working in tech is political. The decisions you make about the data you collect, how you store it, and who you share it with are political.
Here are some ways you can keep from being repression's little helper.
eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/wh…
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All in all, a great night and a huge win for Lyman students. It’s unfortunate that they had to have a civics lesson rather than simply being able to celebrate their yearbook. But here we are.
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The school board spoke out very strongly that this whole situation was ridiculous and not in the best interests of the students. I would personally like to thank the school board for advocating so strongly for our students and for voting their conscience over expedience.
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In the end, the school board voted unanimously to overrule the superintendent and admin. No content will be covered or censored. Small disclaimer stickers will be added to the yearbook to indicate that the pictured content was not a school sanctioned event.
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The community support at tonight’s school board meeting was truly humbling. Students from Lyman, students from other SCPS schools, parents, educators all turned out to speak in support. Even the “Mom’s for Liberty” rep said, “Let them have their book.”
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Thanks to all for your outpouring of support for Lyman High School Journalism and their fight against yearbook censorship. The short summary is WE WON!
Incredibly proud of the Greyhound yearbook staff and students from all over SCPS for speaking out against censorship and speaking up for themselves!
Also, unbelievably grateful to SCPS school board for their unanimous support tonight!
We stopped the stickers! 🎉
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
If you prefer video, I recorded some information on the CVE-2022-1388, post-exploitation activity, and the emulation plans here as well:
youtube.com/watch?v=1IChiQZM…
The @scythe_io team put together information and emulation plans for observed post-exploitation activity around CVE-2022-1388 (F5). Even if you're not a SCYTHE customer, there's still some good information on post-exploitation activities here.
scythe.io/library/f5-big-ip-…
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Timestomping Registry Keys >> Great information from @inversecos and @keydet89 windowsir.blogspot.com/2022/… inversecos.com/2022/04/malic…
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Incidentally, the next SCPS School Board meeting is tonight at 5:30pm. 400 E Lake Mary Blvd, ESC Rooms 106, Sanford, FL.
Buckle up, friends. This is going to be a long thread.
Earlier this year, the state of Florida passed the ‘Parental Rights in Education Bill’, aka the ‘Don’t Say “Gay” Bill’. The bill bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for K-3.
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There are times when censorship is a distant drumbeat happening somewhere else. There are times when censorship appears in your own community. But there is never a time when censorship should not be opposed with all our collective might.
Buckle up, friends. This is going to be a long thread.
Earlier this year, the state of Florida passed the ‘Parental Rights in Education Bill’, aka the ‘Don’t Say “Gay” Bill’. The bill bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for K-3.
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Take my words to heart. Take this story to heart. Get political, get active. Vote these people out of office. /fin
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There is nobody coming to save your rights. If free speech matters, if social justice matters, if our children’s future matters, we must fight this battle again and again. We must bring out the vote and not allow an arch conservative minority to enforce their bigoted agenda. 19/?
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Unfortunately, with @GovRonDeSantis polishing his conservative resume for an inevitable Presidential run, it seems like censorship is the central focus of Florida schooling washingtonpost.com/education… universitybusiness.com/woke-…
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The amount of time/effort this has already cost SCPS is astonishing. And the costs are sure to rise as the county must now contend with the fallout of its actions. This is money better spent on education than censorship. 17/?
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As a parent, as a husband, and as a human being, I protest the actions being taken by SCPS to cover up their mistakes and to silence the LGBTQ+ community. I am protest the ‘Don’t Say “Gay” Bill’ and other similarly racist, homophobic laws being enacted by the GOP minority. 16/?
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But now SCPS is further silencing a community protest regarding a bill that was aimed at silencing that community. And the fact that the censorship is being applied unevenly is even more problematic. 15/?
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At this point, the original content is already going viral and all SCPS admin is doing at this point are just drawing attention to the situation. Had the yearbooks simply gone out quietly and without comment, none of this blowback would have happened. 14/?
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