Notices by Security Writer :donor: (securitywriter@infosec.exchange)

Sooo say you’d found a vulnerability with a protocol used by the majority of OT devices of a particular kind…

How might you disclose that given there’s potentially billions of devices currently use it across thousands of vendors?

@Viss what’s the gl.inet stuff like? Not a brand I’m familiar with, but I’m looking for a new secondary WAN given today’s bullshit

@Viss I’m just looking for a 4/5g connection to the WAN port on my main router. Don’t care if it’s double NAT as I tend to run double NAT with my DMZ anyway.

Work begins on my first novel this week.

It’s probably going to take a very long time, but it’s something I’ve been working on in my head for years.

Just a reminder to do some self care.

You’re all doing amazing things, but you gotta look after number one or the amazing things stop happening.

Hydrate, meditate, eat, exercise, have a personal day, whatever it is you need. Make sure you do it.

I PROMISE you the world won’t stop turning.

Ok. I’m installing Ubuntu on my gaming laptop. This device won’t be a Windows machine ever again.

If this goes steady for a couple of months, my main gaming rig is making the switch.

Given the conversations around capital punishment at the moment, it’s worth knowing for any advocates of it:

1) If guilty people still end up on death row, it’s not a deterrent.

2) If innocent people still end up on death row, it’s not a deterrent.

3) If it’s not a deterrent, it’s vengeance.

4) If your desire for vengeance is so great that you’re willing to kill innocent people for it, it’s time for some serious introspection.

There is no counter to this, by the way.

4) If you try argue that *you’re* not seeking vengeance, then it’s the state that’s seeking vengeance.

5) If you vote for the state to be able to seek arbitrary vengeance against private citizens, it’s time for some serious introspection.

All of our US travel has been cancelled for the indefinitely as we’d all probably be detained or shipped who the fuck knows where due to our work and public status.

Really sucks as I don’t get to meet up with my wonderful friends and colleagues, but beats the alternative.

On the plus side, 125% tariffs on China means a lot fewer Temu IoT devices on domestic networks 🤷

Ever the optimist.

Ok. I’m just about done with Careless People now.

It made me angry at everyone involved, including the author, which obviously wasn’t the intent.

I’m infuriated at the coverage it’s getting. The ‘bravery’ and ‘truth’ aren’t doing it for me. It smacks of the washing and wringing of hands.

All involved are complicit. You can’t work somewhere for 6 years, when you’re in the heart of the whole rancid management of it, and not be.

It’s not like she was trapped in a job trying to make ends meet. Executive wages in silicon valley circles. Could have left at ANY time.

Any longer and Apple are going to need to change the app icon.

If the EU does retaliate, we’re really in for some interesting times.

So much winning.

Fiddling while Rome burns.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/surprise-surprise-president-trump-says-he-won-another-golf-tournament/

Semantic irk rage #3027

You are RESPONSIBLE for your actions.

You are ACCOUNTABLE for their consequences.

You don’t take accountability for the things you did, you are accountable for what they resulted in.

They are not the same despite being conflated by the entire internet content creation community.

*screams*

Not a great example. But here’s another:

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever used this term, nor heard it used in serious discourse.

For a start. The acceleration of brain rot exhibit A:

There has to be stats of some sort to back this up doesn’t there?

France calling for a boycott of US products, and I expect more to follow.

I also expect the withdrawal of major US investment from European industry, at least until Trump puts the crack pipe down.

The crazy thing about these tariffs is that even the number stated for other countries were just made up.

Which is why the EU et al aren’t just cranking up tariffs in retaliation, because that would actually be damaging to both the EU and US.

You know, because considered diplomacy or something.

‘Liberation Day’

I’m on Hayao Miyazaki’s side on this.

AI slop is soulless, unimaginative, and artless.

I don’t want to watch, listen to, or view media created by it.

The joy of art isn’t the end result. It’s the journey, the story, and the emotion that got it there.

The hyper-commodification of a labour of love.