#Secure Protocols

[legarski]

Leveraging SolveForce and The Telecom Broker to Address Key Cybersecurity Risks

Introduction Recent guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), alongside other global cybersecurity agencies, highlights significant vulnerabilities in telecommunications infrastructure exploited by malicious actors, such as state-sponsored cyber threats. The risks include unauthorized configuration changes, weak access controls, and insecure protocols. By…

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

Hunger Pangs series (True Love Bites) by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn't to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he'd never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn't been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn't been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that's the problem.

Torn by their allegiances--to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves--the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

Fantasy, romance, paranormal, series, adult

[snailsnaps]

its okay to be a bit clingy, and to feel a little bit jealous

[catspawcreates]

A week ago I thought I was drawing Korosu, and this bean took the spot instead 😹

Protocol is so silly. Even if he’s not looking for love, he wants you all to feel loved in your lives!

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I adore this cutie pie platonically. He’s very fun to draw, but it’s both a blessing and a curse not having to draw hands, but still figuring out how he’d hold things 🙀

[idkwhyyouaskingm3-blog]

Dane really giving "my uncle got me this job" energy this episode

[demonic-lair]

More of Sun and Moon dynamic in the Au I worked on a few years back. Got some motivations to work on an old sketch and finish it (I feel i could have done better, yet my phone can handle only so much of layers and heavy files)

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Sun often draws or writes stuff so that Moon later on can read or see. It's a way for them to communicate since Moon is not responsive anymore due to the virus. However, sometimes, they manage to have a few sane conversations, even if they don't last much before the virus take over again.

For Sun, those chats are both hopeful (he believes there is a way to cure Moon) but also distressing, knowing these conversations are limited in time or who knows if it will be the last time he will ever be able to talk with Moon.

(Sun is affected too by the virus, yet he believes he took the hit better than Moon, which might be untrue)

Some drawings that Sun makes end up being shred when Moon is out of control. Sometimes, Moon mocks his counterpart harshly. This behavior and those comments hurt the solar animatronic, but Sun knows he has to ignore all of that because the real Moon, when present, clinges so much on whatever thing Sun gifts him.

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In the rare moment of clarity, free from the virus, Moon hides away in solitude, scared to hurt someone, and clinges on Sun's gifts, trying to remember the last time he got a normal chat with Sun or the last time he hadn't been used as a night security animatronic.

When his "mind" his clear, Moon also hides in very tight places. He doesn't like feeling like a beast in a cage, yet, at the same time, such places give him a sense of comfort and safety. It gives him the illusion that he won't be able to hurt anyone there.

He misses interacting with humans. He misses taking care of the kids and comforting them when they have nightmares, reading bedtime stories for them. He misses sharing conversations with Sun. He wants to go back to being a performer and not a "night guard."

The fairy lights are the only type of light he can handle without getting his eyes hurt. Their warm color also reminds him of Sun.

Full drawing without the text below the cut.

[ghostcashewart]

more of everyone's favorite human-form bot, miki!

[lilyw-catears]

Curious as to how the lie detector system thingy in Freddy would handle an avatar of the web showing up at the OIAR, at what point does it consider manipulation and bending the truth lying I wonder

[chryseis]

So, we all agree that this is all leading to Mr. Bonzo eventually attacking the OIAR, right?

[strawbubbysugar]

Don’t have time to colour them for real rn but - meet the Siren Security Protocol!

[toomanyferrets]

☀️ Why not have two tall, lean and pointy men(?) living in your head rent free at the same time, surely nothing bad will happen right? ...Right? 🪡

Yesterday before sleep came upon my restful eyes I realized how much my Needles reminds me of Sun from FNAF security breach but like an evil fucked up version, just try to get a glimpse inside my twisted mi- (BONK)

Anyways it's a fun thought experiment to imagine what'd happen if these two ran into each other and had a proper chat.

(Ps: Huh, editing text on phone is fun and looks much better. This is great :} )

[llamaisllama777]

WELL, THIS JUST HAPPENED!!!!

So, it looks like that security protocol is a lot more... violent, then we thought.

@shi404 gave me two theories that could happen.

1. It's Creator. The most likely one. Creator is activating a fail-safe he had installed in Earth before he sent her out. The security protocol isn't just a security protocol, but it's basically a "must-follow-orders-code!" And now Creator is trying to use Earth to kidnap Lunar. Which I don't think the Astrals will be big fans of that!

And the more interesting theory...

Theory 2. Earth's trauma and bent up emotions from all the trauma from Nexus is now breaking throughout and making Earth's security code act up. Turning the security code into a pseudo-killcode!

The G.A.I.A. protocol is basically starting to go nuts and become a brand new killcode.

Killcode will return.... through Earth.

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 3

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Science fiction, classics, speculative fiction, anthropological science fiction, distant future, adult

[snailsnaps]

y/ns tryna rizz up the DJ

[stardustcleaningguy]

i think the visceral reaction i have to tape recorder clicks in tmagp should be studied . its like being stabbed in the chest twenty times all at once

[rambunctioustoons]

chit-chatting :) !