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HoffmanLabs

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VSI OpenVMS, Apple macOS, iOS, iPadOS; Server & Network Security; IP & DECnet Networking; TLS, DNS, C et al. ⌘ irc·2600·net #vms pwd:VMS

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jerry , to random
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I just saw a commercial advertising “Freelance AI experts on Fivver”

video/mp4

HoffmanLabs ,
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@jerry Is that what they’re calling mechanical turk now?

HoffmanLabs ,
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@jerry Twas referring to the Mechanical Turk, which dates to 1770.

“The Turk” was created by Wolfgang von Kempelen; a mechanism which appears to play chess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

HoffmanLabs , to random
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Walking into a RadioShack, it was common for all the unattached sales reps on the floor to immediately swivel and target-acquire the newest store entrant.

Experienced customers knew to deploy the magic attachment-repellent word “parts”.

I still miss those parts racks.

Though McMaster-Carr does well.

jerry , to random
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I find it interesting that around 90% of spam account signups on Infosec.exchange use a gmail address to register. Now, that’s partly biased because I’ve blocked most of the junk email services that allow creating email addresses without needing to sign in or register, so I don’t know what it would look like if those were permitted, however it must be quite efficient for people to create large numbers of gmail accounts.

HoffmanLabs ,
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@jerry Google Groups was swimming in their own self-hosted spam, and was flooding targeted Usenet groups.

Rather than fixing their spam problem, Google de-peered from Usenet.

Groups remains deluged.

Probably all still getting indexed into Google Search, too.

jerry , to random
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I wonder how many security programs are designed around meeting the expectation of auditors, vs designed to protect the environment which is then inspected by auditors 🤔

HoffmanLabs ,
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@jerry Most of us with a few years in the racket have stories.

Had one trying to use an old UNIX security checklist on a not-UNIX platforms, and then demanded a copy of the password database. Yeah, no.

jerry , to random
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Time to set your Palo firewalls on fire: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-3400

HoffmanLabs ,
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@jerry Makes me want to keep a second warm- or hot standby firewall ready for a full vendor failover from a different vendor, but too many of the vendors have been exploited in parallel lately.

ElleGray , to random
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As of right this second I need to start a band with two other people so we can use this as the greatest album cover ever

HoffmanLabs ,
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@ElleGray One of my photos from a while back. Not sure when their album will premiere, though.

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