Notices by Bill (sempf@infosec.exchange)

@ryanc @erik @tychotithonus I was gonna say, I spend most of my time at 443 so I'm probably ok there.

@ryanc @tychotithonus No, just a brain.

@tychotithonus @ryanc I have learned more about SMTP in this conversation then I have in 25 years of fucking with it.

@ryanc That's a good point.

@ryanc That's direct violation of 5321 isn't it?

Remember to update your passwords to "Winter2025!" for the year change! If you want to be really sneaky and fool the hackers, misspell winter. That always fools them. #security #authentication

Well lookie there, our own @GossiTheDog got quoted in El Reg:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/31/us_treasury_department_hacked/

@horse

Watched the closing of the PopTarts bowl.

Fucking America. This place slaps. Where else? Nowhere, that's where. Love this country.

Well look who showed up for Christmas! #plushtodon!

I LOVE the ink example in this writeup! Totally using that forever.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-public-key-cryptography-really-works-20241115/

#encryption #mathmatics

I'm dense, I know, but I fail to see what is so bad about Rust that we have to patch C in protest!

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/rusthaters_unite_filc/

#rustlang #programming

RIP Thomas Kurtz, cocreator of BASIC.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/

#programming

h/t @Gabrielle

@horse @stinerman He is a sunk cost. He's not good

🏈 When do y'all think the Browns are gonna figure out that Watson is just not good?

@stinerman But he isn't.

@emarktaylor @cfb Everything is all topsy turvy. We knew the end of the season was gonna be weird, but week 2?

@horse @Lee_Holmes This is the stuff I come to the Internet for on a Saturday afternoon.

@horse @Viss @catsalad Yes.