2026-05-19 13:44 UTC
Today is L0pht Day. In 1998 7 hackers in suits told the US Senate the internet was a house of cards. We said we could take it down in 30 minutes. They looked at us like we'd landed from another planet.
28 yrs later, the gap between what the security community knows and what decision-makers act on remains a fundamental problem.
Miss you, Peter Neumann. He testified that day too, with decades of hard-earned wisdom. We owe him.
The work isn't done. It never was.
#L0phtDay #InfoSec
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@KatS@chaosfem.tw 2026-05-19 14:04
@spacerog@mastodon.social 20 years later, we took down a large portion of it just by b0rking a network change. This wasn't even in an ISP, so I can affirm your claim on practical grounds. No, I don't remember which member of the team pushed that change, only that it wasn't me :) "House of cards" is an apt description.
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange 2026-05-19 14:14
@spacerog@mastodon.social 🤘
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@Kancept@infosec.exchange 2026-05-19 15:17
@spacerog@mastodon.social I tell everyone to read it. 🫡
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@weaselx86@mastodon.social 2026-05-19 15:43
@spacerog@mastodon.social I wonder how much those ties are worth :-)
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@lemgandi@mastodon.social 2026-05-19 15:45
@spacerog@mastodon.social Those decision makers are all geezers like me. Unlike me, they spent their time getting elected instead of writing code.