Notices by silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email), page 2

@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.

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@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.

This stands out to me because I'm an employee.

Every company I've worked for has focused on building features and changes. At the expense of security and stability.

But as a person working with a vendor, I want the vendor to be secure and stable and will fire them over bad features.

Why did it get this way.

I don't understand people's economic choices.

One of the worst parts of modern life is innovaton. One of the most annoying things that could happen in my economic life is if Kijiji Innovated. If Kijiji improved/changed it could only annoy me.

I see people being mad about "Dead Games", and I also see people mad about Live Service Games. My entire goal in gaming is for my games to never change. I don't want changes, I want to play, see the story, finish, or mess with systems.

I don't get the search for innovation in corporations, and I don't get why someone would want them to. I don't get why people get annoyed by a product not updating.

@malin Interesting - so you think that it's about the ability to copy. Thomas Riker is the real prior art here - but also kinda the counter example. Mirroring the pattern was supposed to be impossible - the idea of copying something with the transporter is impossible properly.

Maybe it's true - the idea of digital information is what's causing the issue - computers can only properly copy - but as envisioned in the 60s there's this idea that you can be transformed into a "matter stream" and stored in a buffer and it's fine. But now people don't materially engage with that...