I've lost count over the decades of how many people I meet who imagine that I transitioned MtF, just to avoid prosecution for wrong-doing or engage in wrong-doing under the superficial guise of a woman, a literal dark femme fatale.
What People Get Wrong About Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
#trans #transmisogynoir #hyde #drjekyllandmrhyde #jekyll #horror #literature #gothic #gothichorror #did #identity #personality #movie #thesubstance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZqm6mqCJa0
Dating app categories could be shaping you more than you know
https://theconversation.com/dating-app-categories-could-be-shaping-you-more-than-you-know-256368
#CfP for the panel "Representation, #Identity, and #Gender in Korean/American #Literature, Film, and TV", which will be held at the 2026 Northeast Modern Language Association (#NeMLA) conference in Pittsburgh on March 5-8, 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2025
Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/representation-identity-and-gender-in-koreanamerican-literature-film-and-tv-nemla-panel-nemla/ #LiteratureGender #fidavlnews @litstudies #intermediality
FINAL POST FROM THE FLOOR: #BlackHatUSA 2025 Coverage!
Access Roulette: How to Stop Betting Your Security on Standing Privileges
This wraps up our on-location content from Las Vegas!
Next week we'll reconnect with our main event sponsors— BLACKCLOAK, Dropzone AI, Stellar Cyber, and Akamai Technologies—to bring you their post-event insights and feedback. Of course ThreatLocker's recap was already captured on the floor and published earlier today. Plus, watch for our closing reflection articles from me Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin, CISSP!
Our final floor conversation comes thanks to our friends at Apono 
Modern enterprises are gambling with security every day. Static permissions, manual approvals, and periodic audits create "privilege creep" that turns every over-privileged account into a potential breach waiting to happen.
At #BlackHat USA 2025, Ofir Stein from #Apono reveals how to break this dangerous cycle.
The stakes keep rising:
• Non-human identities (service accounts, #APIs, #AIagents) retain high-level privileges long after tasks complete
• Organizations discover risks during audits but lack scalable remediation
• #Business teams need rapid access while security teams battle expanding #attacksurfaces
Apono's Zero Standing Privilege model:
• Removes ALL permanent access by default
• Grants access dynamically based on business context
• Automatically revokes permissions when tasks complete
• Works for both human AND non-human identities
• Integrates with existing #identity providers—no rip and replace
Key capabilities:
• Context-based policy management aligned with business objectives
• Continuous discovery of identities, privileges
• Automated remediation of unnecessary privileges
• Real-time anomaly detection feeding #SOC workflows
• Scalable across centralized and decentralized environments
The result?
Engineers gain control over their access (building trust), security teams maintain tight governance, and organizations can finally stop betting their security on standing privileges.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/ciBsH84PVQU
➤ Learn more about Apono: https://itspm.ag/apono-1034
✦ Catch more stories from Apono: https://www.itspmagazine.com/directory/apono
Follow all of our #BHUSA 2025 coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/bhusa25
Ford Files Patent for In-Cabin Biometric System Covering Facial, Fingerprint, and Iris Recognition
LAX Launches Biometric Entry System for U.S. Citizens with Enhanced Passenger Processing
Canada Plans to Introduce Biometric Requirements for Citizenship Applications by 2027
University of Florida Launches Wicket Facial Recognition Express Entry for 2025 Football Season
James Baldwin Was Not Your Figurehead
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/james-baldwin-was-not-woke
Sir Walter Scott’s WAVERLEY
On BBC Sounds: Rana Mitter on the writer & the books which “conjured up a portrait of the British as an effortlessly multicultural people… uniquely qualified to take on the world” – with Jenni Calder, Robert Crawford, & Andrew Lincoln
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Stuart Hall (1932 - 2014) was one of the most influential scholars in the field of #CulturalStudies, shaping the discipline with his groundbreaking theories on #media, #identity, #power, and #representation.
In today’s episode of our DiscourseNet Podcast #CriticallyLinked we have three wonderful guests – Louisa Chihi, Elodie De Sousa, and Hawa Ibra Saidou War, all of them Bachelor students from UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles coordinated by Prof. Thomas Jacobs. Louisa, Elodie and Hawa will be hosting this edition of the podcast with a conversation about #StuartHall and the relevance of Cultural Studies.
I am deep in the rabbit hole about identity. Do you think you can develop identity without someone else? Like if you were bought up in complete isolation, could you have an identity? Can the self be proxy for community? #identity
The act of entering the temple through spatial and psychic layers moves the compass of identity from Australian-ness to Chinese-ness. It is a subtle movement of layers and reveals that identity is not monolithic but is a function of its environment. In this case the built environment of the temple. Although the temple is a physical, tangible part of the urban street, its influence on the visitor is more than that, the journey into its heart pulls at all our human senses.
More writing today #AsianDiaspora #architecture #identity
As Jamie Shields argues, self-identifiying is an important aspect of disabled people's autonomy:
'If someone chooses “Disabled person” or “person with a Disability,” “autistic” or “person on the spectrum,” “blind” or “person with sight loss”, that’s theirs. Not yours, but theirs....
We don’t need more debates about which words are “right.” We need more respect for each individual’s right to choose'
#disability #identity #language
h/t LinkedIn
NOW PUBLISHING: On-Location Coverage from Black Hat USA 2025!
We're back in the office and excited to start sharing all the conversations we captured on location in Las Vegas with our amazing sponsors and editorial coverage!
Follow ITSPmagazine, Sean Martin, CISSP, and Marco Ciappelli to get this content fresh as it drops!
We're proud to share this game-changing Brand Story conversation thanks to our friends at Stellar Cyber
#StellarCyber Revolutionizes #SOC Operations with Human-Augmented Autonomous Platform
Security operations centers are drowning in thousands of daily alerts while sophisticated threats demand immediate response. At Black Hat USA 2025, Subo Guha from Stellar Cyber shows how their revolutionary platform transforms this chaos into clarity.
Unlike traditional approaches that pile on more automation, Stellar Cyber recognizes that effective security requires intelligent collaboration between AI and human expertise. Their autonomous SOC concept dramatically reduces alert volume from hundreds of thousands to manageable numbers within days—not weeks.
Key innovations include:
• AI-driven auto-triage that identifies true positives among thousands of false alarms
• Natural language queries
• Advanced #identity threat detection catching physical impossibilities like logins from Portland and Moscow 30 minutes apart
• Vendor-neutral architecture supporting CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Sophos, and more
The result?
#MSSPs report dramatic efficiency gains, analysts focus on strategic decisions instead of alert fatigue, and organizations achieve faster threat detection with smaller, more focused teams.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/N3M1fxhMryM
➤ Learn more about Stellar Cyber: https://itspm.ag/stellar-cyber--inc--357947
✦ Catch more stories from Stellar Cyber: https://www.itspmagazine.com/directory/stellarcyber
Follow all of our #BHUSA 2025 coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/bhusa25
Dominican Republic deploys pilot facial recognition system on Haiti border
US Army seeks next-generation system to track detainees from capture to release
UK Online Safety Act angers users, NGOs, billionaires alike
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/uk-online-safety-act-angers-users-ngos-billionaires-alike
Digital identity ‘integral’ to US crypto ambitions: White House
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/digital-identity-integral-to-us-crypto-ambitions-white-house
Bipartisan support grows for mandatory UK digital ID
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/bipartisan-support-grows-for-mandatory-uk-digital-id
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