Ask TOMBOT

DDoSing stuff : anonymous :: nuclear missiles : north korea

i see what you did there

that's not even a question

https://partners.vice.com/dewars/whiskyemporium/news/meet-tombot-the-bionic-barkeep/

Perfection is a moving target.

today i spotted a woman in her early 20s outside the university of glasgow wearing a white tshirt with the word 'TOMBOT' emblazoned across the chest

startled to see an eruption of ilx into real-life, i did a double-take and she caught me looking wide-eyed at her chest

it was v embarrassing

so i ask: tombot, was this an elaborate psyop to make me appear to be a dirty old man irl?

(it def read 'TOMBOT' and not 'TOMBOY' btw)

actually wait a minute, maybe it did read 'TOMBOY' after all

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmediaus.topshop.com%2Fwcsstore%2FTopShopUS%2Fimages%2Fcatalog%2FTS04M54MCRM_Zoom_F_1.jpg&f=1

so let me amend my question: tombot, did you adopt this username as part of a longterm psyop involving international clothing chain topshop in order to troll me into staring at a woman's chest?

The overwhelming urge to hungrily ogle a woman's chest is perfectly natural for a boy your age. There's no need to blame Tombot or yourself.

au contraire, i think there's every need to blame tombot for making me look like a sex pest out there on the bustling streets of scotland's largest city

MY city dammit

sure it wasnt MT city?

tombot's continued silence on this issue speaks volumes imo

No I did not make that shirt

But it is a good story

feels like exactly the kind of thing the man behind that shirt would say tbh

Also, best revive ever

And congratulations to darraghmac for the heyoooo

please, too kind, this is your night, too kind, etc

tombot do you have any lanyard updates

i'm joining the lanyard crowd :(

The new look in 2018 is BATIK

I bought almost a dozen of them at the Petronas Towers gift shop last month. Many coworkers are looking very fashionable as a result.

I'm thinking braided leather, kinda boloish

I’m thinking you’re on a path to destruction

tombot what would the DoD do if the president ordered it to cease planning for/wasting money on climate change? just ignore it?

Like squeezing jello. I’m challenged to think of the right wording of the order that would have to come down to make the entire defense apparatus pivot towards spending more money on fuel instead of spending less

especially since Mattis has a DEPSECDEF who has made a priority of running an actual audit of DoD expenditures

Has anything really changed since this? https://taskandpurpose.com/mattis-pentagon-ignoring-trumps-mandate-treat-climate-change-hoax/

ah, ty

Tombot is this bad or expected or both https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/us/politics/hackers-pentagon-weapons-systems.html

both and also the GAO is fond of completely ignoring defense-in-depth practices whenever they do an infused audit

PS the GAO's in-house daycare is called "tiny findings" which I love

infosec audit, that is - fuck you, autocorrect

“tiny findings”

i love that

say i've found a procurement on https://www.fpds.gov/ that i'd like to know more details about. i have an "Award ID" and "Referenced IDV ID". is there some way i can read the original call for proposals, or winning bid? or just anything more than a bunch of mailing addresses and vendor identifies?

Have you tried ducking around on fedbizopps.gov?

They archive a lot of stuff there IIRC

Tombot, I have been reading this book and was wondering if you have as well, or have any thoughts on the events documented


https://www.amazon.com/Sandworm-Cyberwar-Kremlins-Dangerous-Hackers/dp/0385544405

I have the book but haven’t cracked it. The part where Rob Lee from Dragos finagled a sample of the malware from ESET so he could get the scoop on them has already generated some controversy in “the community”

tombot will you ever do some new cartoons of ilx posts

I no longer have a boring job where I can get away with using Visio to put word bubble captions on top of carefully curated internet images for most of the day. That presents a significant barrier to my creative process.

alas! i liked those

This revive has caused my 2020s to begin on a very sad and happy note. I can’t believe this thread has almost a thousand answers. And I hate, hate, hate nostalgia.

what up son happy new year you old fart

I apologize for asking that and then promptly _forgetting to bookmark the thread_ leading me to believe my question was not addressed!

I feel like the internal politics of the analysis/CVE community was mostly left out of the text, probably for the better.

what up son happy new year you old fart