RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jbhall56/117304799813737763
My kids complained once that my husband and I knew too much about technology; we were the wrong generation. I said, “Honey, who do you think BUILT the Internet?”
#MyLawnGetOffIt
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Wendy Nather
@wendynather@infosec.exchange
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchRecovering industry analyst, research director & CISO. Senior Fellow at @AtlanticCouncil @CyberStatecraft. Single, childful cat lady.
General Content Warnings: snark, bad words, even worse puns, occasional flashes of borrowed insight, plugging of selected $employer events and publications, random brain radio songs, multilingual commentary
BECOME UNPROMPTABLE
Note: Sufficiently advanced shitposting is indistinguishable from thought leadership. — @jwgoerlich@infosec.exchange
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Joined November 20, 2022
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Vānaprastha
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She/her
Chocolate:
Yes please
Seriously, who tailgates in a car wash??
I’m not menopausal, I’m rogue. So it’s not my fault if I tear you a new one
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It’s so lovely to see halls named after our dear departed in cyber, including Becky Bace and Howard Schmidt. I almost lost it when I saw one named for Aloria 😭😭😭
PSA: If you have never actually tried to defend a water or power facility, and you are now going on about the latest cyberattacks, you are earnestly requested to sit the fuck down. Nobody wants to hear your uninformed opinions.
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117334631253067704
This is (yet another) warning about AI.
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day!
Many people have received the Nobel Peace Prize for doing a lot less than him. On this day 43 years ago, Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet military, the commanding officer of a USSR nuclear early warning site.
On Sept. 26th 1983, he watched in disbelief as the monitoring software showed that the US had launched 5 nuclear missiles. Why would America send 5 missiles when they had thousands? It didn’t add up.
Petrov stayed calm. His job was to suggest retaliation, but he chose not to, and did nothing. He was proved 100% right – it had been a false alarm.
Stanislav's choice to do nothing saved the world from destruction.
#ColdWar #NuclearAttack #FalseAlarm
It Is Done!
Three continents. Two hemispheres. Two keynotes. One week.
Don’t try this anywhere, kids.
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@dk@tldr.nettime.org Probably so.
Written by my dad: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
Oh no. NO NO NO NO.
NO, NEIL. NOT YOU TOO. PLEASE. DON’T YOU DARE. 😭
https://youtu.be/jnDHgQ4Xw6o
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts - Soon I Might Be Going (Official Audio)
Super bonus #Caturday as we just brought home two new rescues!
IT’S HAPPENING
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Four other stages here at #MindTheSec
Okay, just a tiny bit more pão de queijo before I leave …
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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social I can’t be the only one who sees this as having only one purpose: to be used against our own population.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@brianhonan/117294859194556959
ALL THE THIS. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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@Tarah@infosec.exchange and stop having woman or others from a diverse panel being the panel host. Have them on the panel properly so they can share their expertise and not simply be asking questions
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@nolan@microsh.art Oh he would NEVER.
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Eat deep the gathering spoon
Watch mates come from every room
Chair sitter housemates look on and relent
Another meal's tasty energy is spent
Impassioned diners, digesters one
Hungry man cries for rolls and they come
New mothers scoot up and supple their sons
Senior citizens wish Matlock was on
Cold-frozen yogurt that rules delight
Remove the dishes from our sight
Red is jam and yellow tart
But we decide which is smart
And which is consumption
#MoodyBlues #SorryNotSorry
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Based on the book, it came out in the ‘70s and I absolutely loved it. Songs by Neil Diamond.
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OK got it. This is a thing that will both say something about YOU and also help people discover fun new stuff to make their lives a little bit better:
What is THE movie you would put in your all-time Top !0 Movies that would make people/normies go "wait, wtf?"
Open quoted postCrimin’ in flight. #smdh
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@danielkennedy74@infosec.exchange That quote could have been a fortune cookie.
Can’t; I’m escaping containment
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club “There’s no good thing that you can’t turn into a bad thing if you’re really bad at doing things.” - words to live by 😆
I’m in Vegas. May @thedarktangent@defcon.social have mercy on my soul.
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@winterknight1337@infosec.exchange @rand0h@defcon.social Well, I doubt I would know if I met you 😆 so yeah, rand0h for sure at least
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@bosh@infosec.exchange Ohhh 😮 Why do I not remember any of this? I’m sure it sounded like a good idea at the time
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange Do you think you’ll ever be forgiven? 😉
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117010000858044866
See you there! Come and take my money; I’m a lousy poker player
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@healyn@normal.style @the_etrain@beige.party Or they’re just wrapping up the one news update you really wanted to see 🤬
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Apparently I am a 5n4ck3y Benefactrix — thanks to @bosh@infosec.exchange for clueing me in …
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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange @newsguyusa@flipboard.social You’re right, and I didn’t realize it was 2.4 miles away from the WH.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca I used to get questions on what reading to do for new cybersecurity people, and I’d just say “Follow whoever I’m following. If they post a link to an article, paper or blog post, then I read it.”
RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/116983195057231821
I don’t have a book, but if I did, it would likely be a series of rude noises and a tiara.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Tarah/117033474618518745
Come take my money! I’m really bad at poker. So bad, that I have to relearn here every year. #yolo
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This Friday at DEF CON I host the @eff@mastodon.social Poker Tournament, and novices are especially welcome.
We play Fri Aug 7, noon to 3, at the Horseshoe Poker Room in Vegas, with my dad running a beginner clinic at 11. This is not the ESPN boys' club version of poker. The room is safe, surveilled, and respectful, and the dealers are briefed to teach, not judge.
Your buy-in donation is also a full year of EFF membership. Send eff.org/poker to one curious friend.
#DEFCON #EFF #Poker
Open quoted postI kan haz badge 🥰 Thank you @rand0h@defcon.social !!
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@llorenzin@infosec.exchange @monteiro@simian.rodeo I needed that. Thanks.
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@winterknight1337@infosec.exchange @rand0h@defcon.social Much excite! Hope to see you tomorrow evening!
Just argued with my Tesla-driving, laid-off tech exec Uber driver about AI. And with a flourish, my #WSIIAX badge announced very loudly, “HACK THE PLANET!!” #PeakVegas
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We are living through the AI-accelerated death of security through obscurity.
Which is forcing us to learn what turns out to have always been the true definition of obscurity: every possible variant of obscurity, whether deliberate or accidental. Every gap between our theoretical or practical understanding of a security model ... and its underlying reality.
The maximum worst-case impact of every scrap of potential technical debt ... now has a looming balloon payment.
Only the "assume everything is broken" model -- designing, monitoring, and prepping for incidents accordingly, and demolishing anything (technical, cultural, organizational) that blocks risk reduction -- seems likely to prove the only long-term mitigation strategy.
The "undue diligence" (in my long-time catchphrase) is becoming due ... and coming due.
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