Notices by Pseudo Nym (pseudonym@mastodon.online)

#infosec

#humor

No lies detected.

@scy

I feel seen by this rant.

Lugging big CRTs to someone's house, fighting with firewall antivirus to allow the games to connect. StarCraft to all hours of the morning with too much caffeine.

Everyone who confuses correlation with causation eventually dies!

Stay safe out there.

https://xkcd.com/552

@cstross @graydon @lain_7 @karchie

Reminds me of

https://www.deviantart.com/a-r-k-l-i-t-e/art/how-to-summon-a-lemon-1104364657

Copied from a friend's discord.

The intersection of #RTO and the recent concern of CEOs around the healthcare shooting.

@swift @dtelder @evacide

This. Fame and credit for the good folks. Ignominy and quiet forgetting for the bad actors. They want fame. Deny it to them.

I love stories like this where they get to the FO portion of the show.

@skinnylatte

I always wondered about the HR department at the bad guys evil lair at the volcano Island with all the tech and office workers.

So they have 401k and dental?

Are there budget fights if they should build the 100 or 200 megawatt orbital Death Ray?

Do they use Jira projects?

Do they have "destroyed by super spy" insurance?

@shiflett

There is always a relevant xkcd

https://xkcd.com/1015

@samiamsam @shiflett

You mean like when they removed the French angel statue from the fountain?

It was a sans seraph font.

@horse

Fair enough. But are we sure this isn't confusing correlation for causation?

I worry that the policies and procedures become an end unto themselves, for checkbox compliance.

Your observation can be explained by thinking there are robust security cultures, and weak ones, and the robust ones both understand the value of having and following frameworks, and also have good practice. But it's not clear to me that the frameworks cause the practice.

The culture causes both.

#infosec professionals. Do you ever feel like we've gone 2 or 3 levels too meta in our field?

What I mean is, actually securing a business with 2FA, password managers, and code reviews for #OWASP top 10 issues all seem practical, and useful.

But once we get into "Cyber Security Frameworks" and iso-27001 audits, and a bunch of GRC (Governance) stuff, it feels...abstract, to the point of being work for work's sake, and not for actually getting the result of improved security.

Thoughts?

Gentle reminder and request.

We are all going to see a lot of inflammatory, viral, racist, sexist libelous shit over the next months.

Your rage is what they want. They want you to dunk on it, repost it with your hot takes, and spread it.

Deny them the free publicity and platform. Please don't link, quote, or share that stuff.

Let it wither in darkness and loneliness.

Sunlight may be the best disinfectant when facts are in play, but this is influence. Repeating lies spreads them.

May all the rest of your times be boring and precedented.

Fuuuudge. Predicted high of 107 F, here today.

As long as electricity grid holds, we've got A/C, but this week-long heat warning of 100+ days is brutal.

It's a lovely 74 F now, at 7 am.

Feel an odd kinship with those who live with extreme cold, where one can't go outside for long without serious protective gear.

Stay cool folks. Get to a cooling center, or library or something, if you can.

#weather

Wife says "Quick, here, hold the pee-soaked cat!"

Me: huh? What? Ok, ewww.

Wife proceeds to start the shower hose and attempts to clean the cat, without informing me of this plan.

Proceeds to my involuntary blood donation. Ouch!

End result, very damp, but less pee covered cat. Band aid and Neosporin applied to my wrist.

How is your night going?

#pet #cat

@mike805 @kaye

Hah. But our ghosts still have the last laugh, as we have the peace of the departed, while the AI chatbots are still stuck in meetings, taking notes nobody but them will ever read, forever.

@paul_ipv6

I called @smitty from the ride once just to play him the music.

Sort of an in joke version of a Rick Roll

Who started that @smitty ?

Today's nightmare fuel.

A friend claims that the animatronics in #Disney "it's a small world" ride aren't turned off at night, to keep the hydraulics from seizing up.

So, while you sleep, they are silently waving around in the dark, singing with mute voices, to each other.

What a great set for a horror movie.

Sleep well.

@RickiTarr @Kierkegaanks

There is a fine line between between enjoying it, and criticizing it for "not making sense".

You just know.

It's like the difference between a good bad movie, and a bad bad movie.

Riding in passenger seat in the car, looking at my phone, and some nearby car (a #Tesla) tried to Bluetooth pair with me.

It nominally had the owners's name in the pairing request. That's a #privacy and #infosec problem.

I denied the request, of course, but was really tempted to accept, then play "Baby Shark" out their speakers.