Timo Laaksonen

No longer active on X. See you in Bluesky: @timocybersec.bsky.social

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

Time to call it quits here in @X. Moving over to #Bskysocial, hope to see you there @timocybersec.bsky.social

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

@SwiftOnSecurity Espresso coffee beans

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

An excellent thread by @RadioFreeTom. Even a regular joe like me is in awe how the media reacts to Putin’s bs threats precisely as they were intended. To scare the living daylights out of politicians and ordinary people in Western democracies

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

When r*ssia kills Ukrainian civilians in their residential blocks - it’s just a normal day online.

When Ukraine wants to defend itself - it’s a major WW3 escalation.

Doomed. This world is doomed.

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

The moral cowardice of Scholz can only hurt #Ukraine, his country and the rest of Europe. Citizens in the west deserve a better, wiser and more courageous breed of politicians than this.

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

Good observation. https://t.co/XDxSZ8yVp5

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

@markussuntila @AlanSalehzadeh Bluesky Social

[Tatarigami_UA @Tatarigami_UA]

Ukraine has held its ground for nearly three years against one of the world’s largest militaries. Where others might have surrendered, Ukraine endures. Even with dwindling support and North Korea’s direct involvement, it stands, deserving far more respect than it’s given.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

@DefenceU I Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦🇫🇮 #SlavaUkraini

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

@dim0kq May the force be with you ✌️

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

Not only a story about honorable public service and American heritage of presidency but as importantly about the principles of true leadership. An impressive and enlightening article by @RadioFreeTom

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

I'm always effusive when my friend @RadioFreeTom posts a new article in @TheAtlantic because they are so prescient & descriptive of our current state.

But this is a masterpiece. It especially touches my soul as a former soldier. Thanks, Tom.
https://t.co/mZVgK97ALe

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

😂 Free speech equals my speech. Neutrality equals my side. Objectivity equals my views. Same as it ever was.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Love it that Trump preferred to comfortably forget about the fact that Zelensky came to the US to meet with Biden and also talk to Harris AND Trump, too.

Because this is what a wartime leader of a country under attack in the largest European war of aggression since 1945 would be doing -- talking to the currently serving American president and also to potential next American leaders who can soon enter the White House and start defining policies towards Ukraine, less than two months away from the November election.

Besides, that was a gesture of respect towards DJT and his role in U.S. politics.

Ukraine is obviously interested in not taking sides in the U.S. presidential campaign and demonstrating its readiness to work with whoever wins the race.

Zelensky is responsible for saving a 40-million European country from Russia's relentless war of extermination, the outcome of which greatly depends on the U.S., so it's just silly to seriously believe he's in a position to "campaign for Harris" now.

But sure, why not spit Zelensky in the face, directly insult him, call him a "salesman," mock Ukraine's desperate fight for survival against one of the largest war machines in human history deathly feared by the entire West -- and for what?

For extra two seconds of cheap demagoguery of the I-will-end-this-war-within-24-hours populism that Trump himself does not really believe in?

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

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[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

⚠️ Breaking: North Korea just burned an 0-Day in Chromium.

They used it to install a Windows rootkit and the campaign targeted cryptocurrency platforms and users.

Here's what we know:

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

@WarMonitor3 Father served in field artillery holding back the Soviet onslaught against Finland

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Hello @POTUS. Hallo @Bundeskanzler. How many more Ukrainians will you allow Russia to kill before you do what is right? Self-defense isn’t escalatory. Impunity is.

[Timo Laaksonen @TimoCybersec]

Sweden shows character and conviction when and where it matters #SlavaUkraini

[Sweden in Ukraine @SwedeninUA]

🇸🇪Foreign Minister @TobiasBillstrom: "We have never put any restrictions on the weapons that we have delivered to Ukraine🇺🇦, and we do not intend to do it now. Ukraine has already put those weapons to good use."