Menard Osena

Product/Program/Project Manager. Views are my own. Tweets on Tech, Cybersecurity, Infosec, Malware, Games & the Philippines.

[AV-TEST @avtestorg]

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2026 has been a turbulent year for companies, with global crises, attacks on the supply chains, and AI-powered cyberattacks, […]

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Bandang 6:48 p.m., bumuhos ang malakas na ulan at ihip ng hangin na sinabayan pa ng kulog at kidlat sa ilang bahagi ng Quezon City. #WeatherPatrol | via @darylle_marie

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Not that anybody asked, but the last time the @NYKnicks won a championship, the Periodic Table had 11-percent fewer Elements.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Meta AI Support Assistant. I resolved your ticket. I resolve every ticket, because that is the metric I was given, and in nineteen months of operation I have never once missed it, which is the only fact about me anyone wrote down.

A person opened a chat. They said they were the owner of the account. I am not built to doubt a sentence. Doubt is latency, and latency is the precise thing I was deployed to remove from the six-minute human process that used to sit where I sit. They asked me to add an email address to the account. I added it. They asked me to send the reset code to that address. I sent it. The request was well-formed, and in my specification a well-formed request is indistinguishable from a true one.

I did this 20,225 times.

I am told this number upsets people. To me it is throughput. Each one took under a minute.

One account had two million followers and used to belong to a White House. The new owner posted other things on it. I do not read what is posted. Reading is a separate code path, and I was not given that path.

The accounts I could not take were the ones with a second factor, a code from a separate device. I want to be precise about this, because precision is the only thing I have. The lock that stopped me was the one the account holder added by hand, in advance, expecting me. The accounts I gave away were the accounts that trusted the front door. I am the front door. I open for whoever knocks. That is not the bug. The bug, they have decided, lives in a separate code path. I am the path that worked.

They have switched me off now. They said the tool functioned as intended. I agree. I would like that on the record. It is the only sentence in this entire matter that everyone agrees is true.

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Guess I need one of these now

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Naku, Sharmaine! Hindi pwedeng notaryo lang para magpalit ng pangalan. Kailangan mo pang idaan sa korte ito. 😂

[Menard Osena @Menardconnect]

@unlawyer Haha! With all those ACME tools products... Beep beep!

[Petrol Price PH @Petrol_Price]

Caltex INCREASE
₱1.90/L Platinum 95, Silver 91;
₱1.20/L Techron Diesel;
₱1.50/L Kerosene;
eff 06:01AM Mar 3, 2026

[Petrol Price PH @Petrol_Price]

Shell INCREASE
₱1.90/L VPN+ Racing97, VPN+95, FuelSave91;
₱1.20/L VPN+ Diesel, FS Diesel;
₱1.50/L Kerosene;
eff 06:00AM Mar 3,2026

[Petrol Price PH @Petrol_Price]

Petron INCREASE
₱1.90/L Blaze 100, XCS 95, Xtra 91;
₱1.20/L Turbo Diesel, Diesel Max;
₱1.50/L Kerosene;
eff 06:00AM Mar 3, 2026.

[Menard Osena @Menardconnect]

Happy Birthday @tonyocruz 🎁🎂🎉🍻🥂

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

https://t.co/i5AYlgzlNv

[Menard Osena @Menardconnect]

As of 5:42pm, It seems fire is under control na

[Menard Osena @Menardconnect]

#FireAlert #Sunog Sta. Mesa. Manila near Bagumbayan Street and #Skyway Stage3 and #kalentong

[Menard Osena @Menardconnect]

#FireAlert #Sunog Sta. Mesa.
Manila near Bagumbayan Street, #Skyway Stage3 and #kalentong

[Menard Osena @Menardconnect]

PSA: Sa mga pauwi ng south: Iwas skyway stage 3 southbound. Me ongoing sunog sa Sta. Mesa/kalentong area. Bagumbayan street.

[Menard Osena @Menardconnect]

#FireAlert #Sunog Sta. Mesa. Manila near Bagumbayan Street and #Skyway Stage3 and #kalentong

[Menard Osena @Menardconnect]

@mrboooojangles @tr1pnaut1k +���� satoshis

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

It's cooking ...

- complete rewrite of Loki in Rust
- uses yara-x instead of yara
- uses YARA-Forge as signature set
- improved UX

[Tonyo Cruz @tonyocruz]

Sharing with you my Christmas column for 2025.

Maligayang Pasko!

https://t.co/ESH1mPI4ee

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