Learning about systems that scale, occasionally taking apart (physical and digital) things. Writes posts at makerforce.io
Joined November 2011
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
26 Nov 2025
In the last few weeks, we somehow surpassed 10,000 followers on X.
We anticipate this to be short-lived when most people realise we publish drivel and poor-quality memes - but in the meantime, thank you! 🫡
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
24 Nov 2025
Over the past year, watchTowr Labs has uncovered repeated, severe credential secret exposures by major orgs, governments and more.
We’ve been quietly working with affected orgs (inter)national CERTs to support a coordinated response.
Our latest research drops tomorrow.
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
4 Feb 2025
8 million requests, $400 later - we’re back. 🚀
We have demonstrated supply chain attacks that could have allowed us to trivially compromise critical infra. networks, including .gov, .mil, and more.
This is real Attack Surface Management.
labs.watchtowr.com/8-million…
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
4 Feb 2025
If you decide to make your software available under an address you don’t control forever, don’t be surprised when someone else takes over after you abandon it. Your users might not enjoy the surprise software updates.
4 Feb 2025
8 million requests, $400 later - we’re back. 🚀
We have demonstrated supply chain attacks that could have allowed us to trivially compromise critical infra. networks, including .gov, .mil, and more.
This is real Attack Surface Management.
labs.watchtowr.com/8-million…
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
18 Nov 2024
1/ Devcon is not a conference, but an experience that shows you why Ethereum is different. The strong culture and values of Ethereum were on full display throughout the week. Our Devcon team worked tirelessly to create the space, but it was not complete without every one of you adding colors.
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Geekcamp is BACK!
We are now opening our CFP for all geeks to come share their knowledge with us on the 7th of December!
sessionize.com/geekcampsg202…
If you (or your friends or colleagues) are interested in speaking, submit your talks at the link above! CFP closes on 31st Oct.
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
11 Sep 2024
In August, watchTowr Labs hijacked parts of the global .mobi TLD - and went on to discover the mayhem that we could cause.
Enjoy....
labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-…
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Hot off the press from watchTowr Labs member @SinSinology, with a nice side of silent patching from Veeam 😉 details to come later (CVE-2024-40711 and friends..).
Special thanks to @irsdl for his help with this exploit!
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
12 Jan 2020
So, my thoughts on engineering performance management have always been a bit idiosyncratic, but Matt's tweets today have me reflecting, so... storytime. 1/
12 Jan 2020
I've seen this talk, and not surprisingly it's close to my own thinking and experience. Can you summarize the evolution in your thinking?
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
2 Jun 2024
THREAD: Show this to your IT manager on why you MUST deploy adblocking like uBlock Origin
Creating an ad network that abets fraud on a technical level is somehow legal as long as the ad network owner claims that advertisers are abusing their system.
This empowers scammers and intelligence agencies to deploy malware onto unsuspecting people's computers.
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
4 Jun 2024
🚨 NEW: Operations across 2 major London hospitals @GSTTnhs & @KingsCollegeNHS have been cancelled due to a cyber attack, with all transplant surgery at @RBandH axed. Problem is affecting pathology labs incl blood transfusions. Trauma cases at Kings being sent to other sites:
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
htmx sucks, btw
htmx.org/essays/htmx-sucks/
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
22 May 2024
Quite possibly one of the most insane defaults in SharePoint/OneDrive:
Allow guests to share items they don't own 🫠
Bonus points for hiding it under "More external sharing settings" which is not expanded by default...
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
22 May 2024
PSA for Cybersecurity folk: Our co-workers are tired of being "tricked" by phishing exercises y'all, and it is making them hate us for no benefit.
I have many thoughts that won't fit in a (non-bluecheck) tweet, so you can find them here:
security.googleblog.com/2024…
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
23 May 2024
John Carmack dropped a take so hot I had to do a video about it, just posted!
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
20 May 2024
v1 of Mermaid to Excalidraw library is out 🚀
Highlights:
Actor creation and destruction are now supported in Sequence diagrams ✨
By @aakansha1216 💜
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Ambrose Chua (@ambrose@makerforce.io) retweeted
17 Sep 2021
It's Friday, so I want to share one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on.
A few years ago, I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots.
We wrote many thousands and thousands of addresses on our direct mail, and wrote personal messages for high value prospects.
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