Parisa Tabriz @laparisa Twitter profile

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Parisa Tabriz

2 years

Last weekend, I gave the convocation speech at @uofigrainger about the importance of people, learning, and finding your fuel: My (retired professor) uncle offered this positive review: "I liked it since it was pretty short." 😆🎓

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Parisa Tabriz

@laparisa

8 years

Appalled graphic designer shows what the magazine cover should look like:

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@laparisa

6 years

... and props to Pied Piper IT (the @SiliconHBO set designers) for posting sound security advice. (Yes, I got permission to post this.)

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@laparisa

6 years

My opening joke at today's work offsite: "I was going to tell you all a UDP joke, but you might not get it." The only person that laughed was @__apf__

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@laparisa

6 years

Code gets rewritten all the time. Don't get too attached to it. The ideas are all that matter. ☸️👩‍💻

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@laparisa

2 years

I've been reflecting on recent events & how different my life would've been if my parents returned to Iran. I stand with the courageous women & allies protesting for freedom. My heavy heart goes out to the family & friends of #MahsaAmini & others that were senselessly murdered.

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@AlinejadMasih

2 years

This is Iran today. A woman proudly burning the most visible symbol of religious dictatorship; compulsory hijab. Hijab police killed #MahsaAmini but now there are millions of Mahsa in Iran who are shouting NO to Forced hijab NO to gender apartheid regime. #مهسا_امینی

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Parisa Tabriz

@laparisa

8 years

So, you want to work in (computer, information, cyber, etc.) security? Here's some advice based on my experience:

So, you want to work in security?

Every once in a while, I’ll get an email from an eager stranger asking for advice on how to have a career in security (computer…

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@laparisa

4 years

TIL: middle schoolers use @Google Docs as a chat app & @Google Sheets as a form of Slack (each slide is a new topic/channel) since other products are blocked at class. Ingenious! h/t @danshapiro Any other product hacks the kiddos are doing?

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@laparisa

7 years

Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is. 💃👩‍💻

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@laparisa

6 years

A day in the life of an engineering manager:

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@laparisa

4 years

I had a long week at work, so I'm legit not sure if I'm hallucinating or this traffic stop is telling me to... change my password?!! 😲

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@laparisa

6 years

Honored, excited, and nervous to do this. See you in Vegas! 👩‍💻🎙️🔐

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@BlackHatEvents

6 years

ANNOUNCEMENT: Parisa Tabriz ( @laparisa ), Director of Engineering at Google, responsible for Chrome security and Project Zero, to Keynote #BHUSA 2018.

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@laparisa

5 years

The @nytimes asked me what a typical work week looked like, so I shared a diary with @kateconger :

The Work Diary of Parisa Tabriz, Google’s ‘Security Princess’ (Published 2019)

When you oversee a web browser used by a billion people, you eat a lot of cereal for dinner.

www.nytimes.com

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@laparisa

5 years

... on the other hand, I'm the only @Google security princess, so I'm gonna just own it. 🤘

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@facesopensource

5 years

When I finally got @laparisa into the studio to photograph her for the @facesopensource series, I knew we also had to do a fun #security princess photo. 😉👑🔒

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@laparisa

7 years

Inclusion is not a zero-sum game. Making your team or organization a more inclusive place for X does not mean discrimination against 'not X'

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@laparisa

5 years

Thanks to @FortuneMagazine for including me in their #40Under40 list: I'm honored! 😊

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@laparisa

6 years

I was rejected by Microsoft, Berkeley University, and a guy named Tom during my senior year in high school. Their loss! 😆 #ShareYourRejection

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@laparisa

3 years

"Someone once told me that working in software is 90% collaborating with the smartest and best humans around, 10% realizing something Very Critically Important that you assumed was solid is in fact built out of toothpicks and guarded by angry raccoons" -- @arrkay

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Parisa Tabriz

@laparisa

7 years

I first learned how to program when I was 19. Now I'm an Engineering Director for @googlechrome #WITBragDay 👩‍💻

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@laparisa

6 years

Nothing says “Happy 10th birthday @GoogleChrome !” like a little friendly competition... Hey @rahulrc , @lockheimer , @darinwf , can you beat my score in 10 tries or less? No cheating! 🦖🎂🏆 #GoogleChrome

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@laparisa

5 years

why not both?

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@GillesvanWezel

5 years

This is for all young aspiring female scientists out there.

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Parisa Tabriz

@laparisa

7 years

Bubble sort has always gotten a bad rap, but its inefficiency is quite pretty! More sorting visualized at

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@laparisa

4 years

He called it all back in 1999. #DavidBowie

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@laparisa

7 years

Yup:

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@laparisa

5 years

Let's all repeat, "some of your users will be evil."

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@codinghorror

5 years

I wrote this in 2008. I only wish more people had read and acted on it.

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@laparisa

6 years

It may not solve all security problems, but block+chain does make for a nice necklace! Thanks to Caesar, a guy that randomly gave me one of these in passing @BlackHatEvents ! 😂 #BHUSA

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@laparisa

6 years

wearing my new fancy earrings {😁}

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@laparisa

6 years

I just got a physical letter addressed to "Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Security" 👸📬

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@laparisa

6 years

today's voicemail: "Parisa, your dad forgot the pin code to his tablet and can't login. Can you tell us how to do any blackhat magic to hack it? Also, call your grandmother. It's her birthday."

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@laparisa

7 years

Why are you trolling me @united ? NOBODY HAS A MOST FAVORITE VEGETABLE AS A CHILD OR FAVORITE SEA ANIMAL THIS IS INSANITY NOT SECURITY.

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@laparisa

5 years

My very own Gavin Belson Signature Box III! #SiliconValleyHBO @SiliconHBO Hardware dreams do come true if you only believe.

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@laparisa

5 years

I've been spending too much time in front of computers, so I decided to make something with my hands. 🧵🔨👜

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@laparisa

6 years

"The word 'trusted is a sneaky & confusing term: many people get a warm fuzzy feeling when they read it, and it is treated as a good thing. In fact the opposite is true. Anything that is 'trusted' is a potentially lethal enemy of any secure system." - @rootkovska

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Parisa Tabriz

@laparisa

6 years

ICED COFFEE: Just add coffee. 🤔🤨

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@laparisa

9 years

My crypto gingerbread house! Not pictured: back door

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Parisa Tabriz

@laparisa

5 years

Rise of the Hackers @SVComicCon group photo 👩‍💻👩‍💻👩‍💻👩‍💻 cc: @evacide @sheeraf @Jennifer_Arcuri #SVCC

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@laparisa

6 years

Today, like most days, I'm dressed as a woman that speaks her mind. I know how scary that is to some people! 😉👻 #HappyHalloween

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@laparisa

7 years

Whoa... my coworker has a Braille smartwatch! Some very cool, accessibile tech coming out of @dot_incorp

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@laparisa

6 years

@lorenzofb @googlechrome If I told you now, that would ruin the surprise! #GoogleChrome

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@laparisa

5 years

Here's our @googlechrome response to the Kazakhstan government order for HTTPS interception: ?

Protecting Chrome users in Kazakhstan

Posted by Andrew Whalley, Chrome Security When making secure connections, Chrome trusts certificates that have been locally installed on a...

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@laparisa

6 years

"Teens are more likely to be hacking computers than smoking..." via I have hope for the future.

Teens more likely to be hacking computers than smoking or having sex

Teenagers used to rebel by smoking, doing drugs and getting pregnant.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@laparisa

6 years

Heading home after a crazy 48 hours at #BHUSA ! So happy that my talk resonated with many folks & thankful to @BlackHatEvents for creating a literally out-of-this-world keynote experience 👨‍🎤🤘👩‍💻👸🌚🏔️

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@laparisa

6 years

Check out Tink, a multi-language, cross-platform cryptographic library that is secure, easy to use correctly, and importantly, hard(er) to misuse: h/t @XorNinja

Introducing the Tink cryptographic software library

Posted by Thai Duong, Information Security Engineer, on behalf of Tink team At Google, many product teams use cryptographic techniques to ...

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@laparisa

5 years

"There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months," she recalled. "That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead." - RBG, 💪👩‍⚖️

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@laparisa

6 years

Once upon a time, a teenager from Uruguay found a security bug in Google, reported it so it could get it fixed, got paid $36337, and then shared his work with the world. I love happy endings!

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6 years

Earlier this year I found a Remote Command Execution bug in non-production environments in Google App Engine, and I got 36 thousand dollars! Now the bug is fixed and I can finally publish my write-up about it:

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@laparisa

6 years

I made a new friend! 🦘🤗🇦🇺

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@laparisa

5 years

mom: your uncle said you're in , but it got blocked, and I can't access it. me: yeah, it's a list behind a paywall. mom: do you get any money for being on it? me: no mom: then I'm not giving money to them!

The 15 most powerful women at Google

Women at Google are starting to lead some of the largest and strategically most important teams within the company.

www.businessinsider.com

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Parisa Tabriz

@laparisa

7 years

If you press the wrong floor button inside an elevator in Tokyo, you can unpress it (or press it again to deactive). THIS IS INNOVATION!

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@laparisa

8 years

weltschmerz, backpfeifengesicht, fremdschämen, kopfkino and other German words I want in English:

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@laparisa

6 years

✔️ thought leadership in slides 😉 ✔️ pink hair refresh 💅 ✔️ @granick on speed dial in case of trouble ⚖️ I'm ready for Vegas and #BHUSA2018 ! 👸🎰👩‍💻

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Parisa Tabriz

@laparisa

6 years

Just gave a talk to 5th grade girls about coding and hacking. I can confirm that juice boxes and gummy snacks are still hip. Facebook is not.

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@laparisa

6 years

I want to be like James Mickens when I grow up. A snippet from his glorious @USENIXSecurity abstract (): "Some people enter the industry to build newer, more exciting technology. My keynote will savage these people & burn important professional bridges."

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@laparisa

6 years

Honored to be included on the @InStyle list of badass women who show up, speak up, and get things done: 💪 Also, OMG I AM PICTURED NEXT TO NOTORIOUS R.B.G. SQUEEEEE!!!

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@laparisa

5 years

I found an Innovation Boardroom in my hotel. It was locked, probably to protect all the innovation.

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@laparisa

5 years

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." --Albert Einstein

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@laparisa

5 years

My husband sends me proof-of-life pictures when I'm traveling. 🍞🍞 🤗

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@laparisa

8 years

Love our new Department of Chromeland security pins! h/t to @metromoxie @lgarron

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@laparisa

6 years

Or just navigate to chrome://dino 😋🎂🦖👩‍💻👨‍💻

Chrome

@googlechrome

6 years

Do you think you can beat @laparisa ? Turn off your WiFi, open a new tab, press spacebar to start, then spacebar to jump. Share your score with #GoogleChrome

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@laparisa

4 years

Today is both my first full day of a 2-week vacation, and unfortunately, my first full day of a 2-week quarantine; first responder hubs tested positive for COVID yesterday :( Stay safe folks! 😷

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@laparisa

5 years

She's giving me her best "the toilet paper must have jumped out of the closet and started shredding itself" look, but I'm not buying it! #HappyCaturday #CatsOfTwitter

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@laparisa

4 years

I accidentally typed my corp password into the launch celebration meeting chat with 50+ teammates that worked on some of the security and privacy improvements in #Oops #PasswordsAreHard #Ironic 🥸🤪😬 (And then promptly reset it, of course!)

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@laparisa

4 years

Easiest decision I've made all ever. #BidenHarris2020 #VOTE

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@laparisa

5 years

Looks like WannaCry hit the Israeli / West Bank wall.

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@laparisa

8 years

But I'm crepe. I'm a weirdough. What the hell am I doughing here? I donut belong here. (via @lingvistov )

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@laparisa

7 years

This is exactly how you should be explaining all this stuff to your non-techie friends, family, and pets.

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@xkcdComic

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Meltdown and Spectre

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@laparisa

8 years

Time to get honest about connection security: h/t @__apf__ @emschec @estark37 @alexainslie & @googlechrome security

Google's Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security

Parisa Tabriz and her team of security engineers are using the world's most popular browser to drag the web towards encryption.

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@laparisa

2 years

Sooooo much fun at my first @F1 race in Austin, cheering on @McLarenF1 from the garage & seeing their @googlechrome logo & wheels up close 😯🏁🏎️😆

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@laparisa

6 years

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels." #BHUSA

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@laparisa

3 years

I've decided to, once again, not sign up to run a marathon. Thank you for supporting me!

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@laparisa

8 years

He is everywhere, in the heavens and Earth. He is noble, abundant and fills the universe. Praise be unto He. #helium

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@laparisa

6 years

30 minutes till showtime... #BHUSA2018

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@laparisa

7 years

I just missed a call from an unknown number. It was PROBABLY @TIME calling to honor me as their "Gingerbread House Decorator of the Year," but I don't answer calls from unknown numbers. PASS!

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@laparisa

5 years

When I lived in Zurich, I learned that Swiss women didn't get the right to vote until 1971 & needed permission from their husbands to work or open a bank account until 1985! Switzerland still lags on many gender equality issues. Kudos to those demanding better. #Frauenstreik

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Hundreds of thousands women rally in Switzerland. Probably the biggest protest ever seen in the history of the country. #Frauenstreik

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@laparisa

6 years

I ❤️ the title. Also, this quote: "Better security won’t come from a team of ninjas repelling into your company. Rather, it will be a longer, harder & much less sexy: a group of dedicated professionals, working tirelessly to overcome technical, cultural & economic hurdles.”

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@InfoSecHotSpot

6 years

Special Black Hat Coverage: Google’s Parisa Tabriz Says Don’t Be A Jerk via @InfoSecHotSpot

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@laparisa

5 years

Hi from the Black Corridor.

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@laparisa

7 years

The software interpretation of Grey's law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetent software is indistinguishable from malware.

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@laparisa

8 years

She sells C shells by the back door. The shells she sells are C shells for sure. #InfosecTongueTwister

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@laparisa

3 years

Wishing you lots of R&R this #Caturday

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@laparisa

7 years

Santa, if you're listening, ALL I want for Christmas is no 0days or CA compromises until at least the New year's champagne wears off. Thank you! 🎅🎄🎁👩‍💻

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@laparisa

6 years

I'm so excited to share the @googlechrome 10th birthday update... COMING THIS WEEK! My team has been hard at work on polish, performance improvements, auto-magic to help users get things done (safely!) with less clicks or bumps, & more... Also, CAKE! 🥳🦖🎂 #GoogleChrome

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@googlechrome

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In case you couldn’t tell…it’s our birthday. Plus, we’ve got a surprise for you this Tuesday. #GoogleChrome

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7 years

I ❤️ the unisex bathrooms in @Google Sydney!

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@laparisa

6 years

my very auspicious @googlechrome mehndi 👇😊😉😛🇮🇳

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@laparisa

2 years

Seeing some less-than-sophisticated “research” on Chrome security this week, and wanted to clarify a few things, because some reporters seem to unfortunately be confused about what CVE *counts* actually mean. The answer: not much. 🧵(1/4)

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@laparisa

7 years

Only in the Bay Area will you find adults selling lemonade for cryptocurrency in January.

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@laparisa

6 years

On the phone with a helpful service rep from @united who's asking me what my favorite pizza topping & favorite sea animal are so I can change a flight because their website doesn't work. Dear @united , please get rid of these nonsense security questions & adopt 2-factor auth.

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@laparisa

7 years

Never trust suspicious links.

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@laparisa

5 years

Someone gave me a Mewgler mug! 😸☕ cc: @Google

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@laparisa

6 years

Holy crap, I just got 🍕 delivered to my office from #Sliceline 😆😋

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@laparisa

5 years

survived my first day back from vacation

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@laparisa

3 years

Today, I went on a virtual site visit to see our @googlechrome team in Montreal and they sent me this 🇨🇦🍟🧀🟤😋

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@laparisa

6 years

My mom watched my #BHUSA keynote, sent me this picture, and asked if I have thoughts on skee-ball and computer security! 🤪

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@laparisa

6 years

#GoogleChrome carbs 😋

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@laparisa

5 years

Oh my, Google Calendar is temporarily down.

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@laparisa

5 years

Merry Christmas from the #GrandCanyon 🌲⛄

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@laparisa

3 years

The rumors are true: @CraterLakeNPS is gorgeous. 😎

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@laparisa

6 years

Hmmm... @MegginKearney has presented me with a very hard @googlechrome decision to make this morning.

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@laparisa

7 years

And now... full details of the speculative CPU vulnerability research from @tehjh of Project Zero, posted at

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@laparisa

7 years

I'm proud of some recent work feedback I got: "She has no tolerance for jerks (firm dealing w/ them) & no acceptance of jerk behavior." 💪

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@laparisa

6 years

May you live in interesting times.

Windows Central

@WindowsCentral

6 years

Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser for Windows 10

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@laparisa

5 years

😬

Martin Costello 🏳��‍🌈🇪🇺🪿

@martin_costello

7 years

Just paused Star Trek Discovery to read the code Burnham is working on, and it’s just the Win32 APIs. Looks like Starfleet runs Windows.

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Some translations I've learned: 🇦🇺 I lucked out – I was lucky 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 I was unlucky – I lucked out 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Yeah, right – I don’t believe you 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 I do believe you – Yeah, right 🇺🇸 I'm nearly conversational with locals!

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