drwho
@drwho@beehaw.org
Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
I try to post as sincerely as possible.
- Comment on Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI 1 week ago:
Our security@ address at $dayjob gets about that many a month. Lots of folks blindly sending bug reports and “politely requesting a finder’s fee for disclosing properly.”
The shit of it is, they’ll all for stuff we don’t even use. IIS vuln reports when we only use Apache. Stuff like that.
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight 1 month ago:
They sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight 1 month ago:
Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.
- Comment on China 'compromised' Canadian government networks and stole valuable info for years, Canada's cyber spy agency says 1 month ago:
The Great Game continues, same as it always has.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium 1 month ago:
The true final exam would be writing code on an airgapped system.
- Comment on FBI created a crypto token so it could watch it being abused • The Register 2 months ago:
And study the techniques used for currency manipulation, fraud, and so forth.
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! 2 months ago:
Gee. It’s almost as if rich people don’t give a single shit about anyone else. /s
- Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable 2 months ago:
Like wrecking the biosphere in its persuit.
- Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement 2 months ago:
How do we keep having to have these legal discussions every decade or so?
- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 2 months ago:
Odds I’ve been hearing for Trump being re-elected are about 3.4 to 1.
- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 2 months ago:
The thing about an operation as big as Amazon is that one or two people work on one component of one thing. If the folks who work on that one thing both bail, it doesn’t slow down Amazon or any of its constituent components overmuch. The way things are architected it can chug along for quite a while until somebody else is tasked with learning about and maintaining it.
- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 2 months ago:
This is, unfortunately, true. The kids of some family friends are trying in the worst way to get in at Amazon or Facebook to make their bones. They figure that they can build their brands by surviving there for four or five years (Amazon’s reputation for burning through people like toilet paper at Wing Wars is well known in the tech industry, and respected), sock money away because they still live at home, and get a jump on the good life.
I can’t tell 'em what to do. They asked for my advice and gave it. What they do is their problem.
- Comment on Cameras were designed to be connected to a specific server in China: South Korean military removes Chinese-made cameras at bases over security risks 3 months ago:
So much for going on a Shodan safari in South Korea.
- Comment on Cameras were designed to be connected to a specific server in China: South Korean military removes Chinese-made cameras at bases over security risks 3 months ago:
News flash: IoT doesn’t always mean “backend is on AWS.”
Sheesh.
- Comment on Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage' 3 months ago:
I was serious. BBSes would be an ideal long-distance communication method under some circumstances.
- Comment on Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage' 3 months ago:
Or perhaps an unassuming office building that only has outbound VPN connections.
- Comment on Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage' 3 months ago:
A few of us have a long-running joke that World War III will be started because somebody can’t reach Pornhub anymore.
- Comment on Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage' 3 months ago:
Still have a modem?
- Comment on Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage' 3 months ago:
Depends on which lines are affected.
- Comment on U.S. School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety, Digital Rights Says 3 months ago:
Not all of these kids have any other computer.
- Comment on U.S. School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety, Digital Rights Says 3 months ago:
Just as securicams in schools in the 90’s conditioned a lot of people to accept on-street surveillance.
- Comment on U.S. School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety, Digital Rights Says 3 months ago:
- Comment on ‘New NSA document highlights Israeli espionage in US 3 months ago:
That article is from 2014.
- Comment on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Xitter & Co.:Tenet Media posts still online, despite US claims of Russian influence campaign 3 months ago:
Gee. What a shock.
- Comment on Has anyone tried Proton VPN? 3 months ago:
I’ll just leave this here: techradar.com/…/nordvpn-confirms-its-no-logs-clai…
- Comment on Has anyone tried Proton VPN? 3 months ago:
I use it when I’m on travel. It’s pretty decent, and it wasn’t hard to import the Wireguard configs into Network Mangler.
- Comment on Lionsgate Marketing Consultant Built Movie Trailer Filled With AI Generated Fake Movie Reviews Of Old Films 3 months ago:
Seagull consulting has come to marketing, I see.
- Comment on Massive Cyber Attack On AWS Targets 230 Million Unique Cloud Environments 3 months ago:
Yeah. They’re background radiation on the Net.
- Comment on Massive Cyber Attack On AWS Targets 230 Million Unique Cloud Environments 3 months ago:
Nope. The summary is a dog’s breakfast of words.
- Comment on Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine 4 months ago:
Businesses invest where there’s money to be made. Microsoft will probably try the same with Azure in the next two or three years.