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@hypolite To be fair, this is partly me thinking about your own thoughts (I read your post yesterday). But tthis line definitely was most formed with yelling at Zelenskyy for not saying thank you. But it's all fucked, but it's such background noise in all the warcrimes vomit.

I think the fact that they killed 50ish innocent people who no theory they were involved in anything is also wildly important to this stry!

Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the US.

Ok, let's sum this up. The thing that gets to me about the Signal chats is the Vice President of the US talking about bailing out Europe. There was a comment about how only the US could drone a building, which is wild, I feel like I could probably throw a bomb at a building using the contents of most kitchens. Sure - maybe the US's bombs and drones are fancier - but I think we need to zoom in on that.

The US administration thinks that it's getting value for its money on defense. There's a theory that the US military budget is being spent on getting stuff rather than mostly just a slush fund for defense contractors. But this leads them to believe that they're the most powerful people in the world and that they're as much stronger than any other country by the amount more they spend on weapons.

And because of that they think that Europe couldn't stop terrorists. There's a belief that people aren't shooting drones at civilians because they *can't*, and they're mad that people are relying on them to fire drones at civilians. They believe that everyone else is just ungrateful for their droning of civilians. They can't envision a world where blowing up innocents in an apartment building is considered a bad move.

Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the US.

@stefano It's annoying because people are, as usual, conflating "secure" and "authorized channels" and "secure" and "encrypted".

InfoSec fails by flattening security to an on/off state because boardrooms treat us like that. Fuck.

I've been threatening to start a blog for a bit now. I guess the Signal War Plans forced me to do it. Fuck.

securingeverything.ca/The_Auth…

@hypolite sorry, I don't think the Trump admin is special...

I stopped feeling safe going to the US during Obama admin...

@zxaos Writing your own SSG is half the point of the internet.

What was I supposed to be doing? Writing a worthless security blog to do certificate maintenance

@zxaos It always is!

I finally wrote an SSG though so it's almost real?

@hypolite So I tend to work in companies with 10-100 people. I joke my career is turning companies from 10 person companies to 100 person companies and then moving on.

It often means my teams are unresourced - working with dev teams under 10 people. Often we'll have not enough bandwidth to do the things we need to do. But we primarily add to the things we have rather than improve the daily drive experience.

It's the same mindset as google only promoting for creating things and not maintaining things.