2026-09-16 23:16 UTC
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@jjdavis@infosec.exchange 2026-09-16 23:21
@sawaba@infosec.exchange That's certainly a whole lot of... words.
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@sawaba@infosec.exchange 2026-09-16 23:29
Let’s break down this first paragraph. CHQ maintains ratings on a standing set of structural security conditions. CHQ is the website. Okay. What is a standing set of structural security conditions? I have no idea. Why does the set need to be standing? Why are the conditions structural? Couldn’t you just say “CHQ maintains ratings on a set of security conditions?” Is AI trying to ‘juice’ the token use here so you needlessly pay extra? Each rating reflects the current maturity and confirmation of a condition, not a forecast. Nobody said it was a forecast, why so defensive? So we’ve got ratings that are based on maturity and confirmation that some condition is in some unmentioned state? Conditions carry their permanent identifiers from the public CHQ Structural Conditions Registry, where dated definitions and falsification criteria are maintained. Ah, conditions carry permanent identifiers from the public registry. So you’re telling us that each condition, of which there could be several it sounds like, gets an identifier. Like 0001, 0002, 0003? Why is this important for us to know? Why even mention this? It’s more useful to know that there is a Structural Conditions Registry, where definitions and criteria are maintained. I have no idea what this means, but hey, the definitions are DATED! The report leads with what changed; the full board follows. This page is the report? Or is the report elsewhere? Is the report in the Structural Conditions Registry? And the report tells us what changed? The full board follows? Board of what? Reports? Conditions? Criteria? Conditions? Did I already say Conditions? What are words, even? It isn’t until TWO PARAGRAPHS LATER that we find the words “a Fortinet flaw” strung together. Our first clue as to what the topic for this whole post (newsletter? article? report? board?) is. I’m actually impressed. This whole thing reads like a Monty Python sketch where the goal is to make something as unreadable as possible.