Notices by Merry Jerry 🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️ (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 2

@patrickcmiller welcome, Hector!

I’ve been watching the aftermath of the big chemical fire in Atlanta that was apparently the result of a sprinkler system spraying water into water reactive chemicals and I’m reminded of my experience 25 years ago building a data center in Atlanta and wanting to use chemical fire suppression instead of water and the fire marshal’s comment was “you can use whatever you want, but it also needs to have water suppression” and I’m wondering if that’s what happened here.

Have a good evening, friends

The five eyes intelligence agencies released a guide to detect Active Directory compromises: https://www.cyber.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-09/PROTECT-Detecting-and-Mitigating-Active-Directory-Compromises.pdf

No word on whether the publication was delayed to ensure the guide doesn’t impact their own AD intrusions.

@lerg

I think parts of Atlanta got >10 inches of rain in the past day, which has me wondering: do cyber truck owners keep enough rice on hand to dry out their cars?

I want to call out @wendynather for something incredible. She was part of substantial layoff Cisco undertook last week. She’s active on LinkedIn recently not searching for another job for herself, but rather highlighting/spotlighting her co-workers that were also laid off to help them get jobs.

Looking like time to buy VIXY again

So many supply chain security experts online today.

In any event, if you're on mozilla.social and looking for a new fediverse home, we've been here for nearly 8 years, and will be here for 8 more. At least.

Damn, Mozilla.social is going away. Guess they need the hardware to run AI for their browsers

My guilty pleasure now is watching political conspiracy theories (most recently about the presidential debate) unravelling on LinkedIn. It's rapidly becoming facebook, but instead of your creepy uncle's dumb memes, it's hard charging sales leaders.

Just got a “the security of your personal data is of the utmost importance, but…” letter from

<drumroll please>

My bank

@thisismissem I grew up in Detroit and lived there for 30 years. I remember the 40’s being t-shirt weather in early spring. But I’ve grown really soft and weak here in the south.

May I introduce you to my new book, titled “Concepts of a Plan”

Looks like I have to face the reality that I killed the lightning port on my iPhone. Repeated dips in the saltwater were too much. Hoping the usb c port on the next one can do better.

The social media landscape is pretty frustrating from a user perspective. Cohost is the latest to fall. I’ve seen in my timeline scrolling by: “good news is that can’t happen here!”

But it has. Over and over again. We’ve seen instances come and go. Sure, that isn’t the whole fediverse, and people can move to or create an account on another instance. But to the person on an instance shutting down or already gone dark, it’s pretty deflating and some never come back.

I like it here. I encourage everyone to not take it for granted.

"We decided to go a different way. For the first time ever, the new iphone is 15% slower than last year's model". Now that would be revolutionary

oh dear... on the fly AI generated emojis

@TindrasGrove @teriradichel basically that. I am not saying there are NO jobs - clearly there are. I am saying that there are far fewer jobs than many of the industry organizations are purporting there to be. I can speculate on the reasoning for that. I know that anecdotes don't constitute data, but there are a many people expressing extreme frustration in their job searches. I, myself, am now unemployed. I'm only casually looking and working with a career coach who has impressed on me that the time to find a job right now is much longer than it has been for a while.

My main concern is this: we have a lot of seemingly qualified nad experienced people already not able to get jobs - recall that there have been massive IT layoffs over the past 12 months, plus the normal flow of new people entering the job market, and I would argue the cost of living necessitating people putting off retirement, so squeezing the tube at every point, and now the USG is embarking on an effort to train up hundreds of thousands of people to compete in an already tough job market.

So, my original post was definitely overly dramatic in terms of saying there aren't jobs, but I remain super concerned about the trajectory we are on, from the perspective of job seekers and and ability to earn a living wage.