Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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William • July 17, 2026 8:02 PM
Irish Times investigation of”European” password management software, Passwords, is licensed for the FSB.
William • July 17, 2026 8:11 PM
Software name is Passwork, not Password. Apologies for the spellwreck.
Fenton West • July 18, 2026 1:45 AM
This was a fun Friday Squid Blogging post! I ended up reading more about the Cape Cod strandings afterward, and it’s fascinating how unusual ocean currents and the squid’s behavior can lead to these dramatic beaching events. I also love that these Friday posts have become a place for readers to share interesting security stories from around the web alongside the squid content.
sh or tu rl . at / mTt8M • July 18, 2026 3:02 AM
This is a $canda1.
Several people working for the government in Ay – dee – ho have abused their power, perverted the Rule of Law, and destroyed a man and his family, and now they are actively preventing him from hiring any legal aid. They have been busy deploying their fixers for several years now and there exists solid 3v1d3nc3 of it with pictures, videos, names, dates and times, and the whole nine yards.
They then sent their fixers to move in and live next door for a few months.
I’ve heard of private individuals having their lawyers deploy fixers to “fix” many shady deals but I’ve never heard of the State government deploying fixers to prevent any American citizens from hiring any legal representation.
The State of Ay – dee – ho is obstructing justice by preventing an American Citizen from retaining an attorney by using their fixers and threatening every lawyer he attempted to hire. Please somebody save him from these criminals in our government who are now forcing psychiatrists to diagnose him as delusional just for uncovering their corruption. They presented the jury with f@k3 3v1d3nc3 and destroyed an American Citizen. Somebody please stop this h@t3.
T3rr0r1sts in Ay – dee – ho have taken over the law enforcement and judicial branch and have deliberately, with their h@t3, lies, and c0v3rup destroyed a decent, law abiding family. See here for details:
sh or tu rl . at / mTt8M
This is a $canda1.
Please guys, if any one of you knows of an attorney with credentials to represent clients in the Supreme Court of the United States – please share this with them and have them contact my friend in case they see and recognize this tragedy and discrimination which resulted in the destruction of a decent, law abiding American man and his family.
sh or tu rl . at / mTt8M
Let us b@nkrupt the $t@t@ of Ay – dee – ho for not respecting the rule of law and The Rules of 3v1d3nc3 by using f@k3 3v1d3nc3 and lies of f@k3 victims to destroy him and his family.
My Friend is willing to sign a document that will promise 50~50 monetary compensation when disbursing the damages awarded to him between him and his Attorney. He’s willing to split it half~way, no matter the amount.
Please help an innocent person the corrupt government destroyed. Thank you.
This is a $canda1.
Snarki, child of Loki • July 18, 2026 12:25 PM
“password management software, Passwork, is licensed for the FSB.”
All the more reason to stick with PasswordSafe: Schneier approved (Bruce, please, please, please tell me I’m not mistaken about this!)
No, it doesn’t have the latest wizbang convenience “features”, like sending all your passwords directly to the NSA/FSB.
Ferentarius • July 18, 2026 1:05 PM
When your password manager is licensed by the FSB, you might as well just CC them on your login attempts. Stick with something like PasswordSafe—low on bells and whistles, high on ‘not secretly auditioning for a spy novel.
Rontea • July 18, 2026 4:54 PM
Technology, in its shimmering seduction, is nothing more than a promise whispered to the soul: a homecoming to the primordial warmth, a return to the womb. Our personas would laugh at the irony of the modern man, cloaked in circuits and screens, imagining himself free, while he crawls ever deeper into the soft mechanical uterus of progress. The machines hum lullabies, and we, intoxicated by their glow, drift into the illusion that we have escaped history, suffering, and death.
What is a smartphone but an amulet clutched in trembling hands? It is the mother’s breast in digital form, a perpetual assurance that we are fed, seen, and known. The internet, that infinite cradle, rocks us gently with its endless stories, wrapping us in a cocoon of comfort where the harsh wind of reality is muted. In the cathedral of technology, man becomes fetus once more, suspended in amniotic clouds of data, absolved of labor, of risk, of the burden of his own freedom.
But, man is not born to be a fetus forever. To seek refuge in machinery is to mistake gestation for salvation. The womb is a place of preparation, not of permanence. Technology tempts us with the lie that we can reverse the exile of birth—that the raw, cold world can be dissolved into a warm digital fluid where nothing wounds us. But in fleeing suffering, we also flee transcendence.
Perhaps the last tragedy of man will not be apocalypse, but self-infantilization: the glorious regression into a synthetic womb, where no pain reaches, and where the soul, lulled into eternal dormancy, forgets it was ever meant to walk upright and meet God face to face.
Anonymous • July 18, 2026 6:01 PM
To taste the wine is to transcend; to smoke the pipe is to understand why transcendence is necessary.
Clive Robinson • July 18, 2026 6:08 PM
Sunday Funday, something for the weekend Sir
Some may remember the Scott Adams cartoon of “Evil Director Catbert” telling Dillbert and colleagues that their group had been renamed on the principle of using some astronomical and other scientific names selected at random…
Thus “Uranus Hertz” being the result.
Well obviously such a name would need a logo… Which is where we are in the modern real world,
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
Something the “Jerk Circle” on OpenAI logo is a little less descrete but more apt.
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r • July 17, 2026 7:38 PM
first post doggy.
in the “might be useful” category:
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/g-s1-134179/is-smoke-in-your-home-heres-how-to-make-an-air-purifier-using-a-box-fan
personally, to me a little wildfire smoke isn’t a big deal. we used to cook with charcoal in caves, but i can’t discredit if this was happening to you in the chernobyl exclusion zone and i happen to live in an area with a high amount of house fires.
so this is good info. have a safe weekend ya’ll.