The occasional university or higher ed BOFH can be a special level of snark. #pfy #lart #luser https://kolektiva.social/@adub/113033995536985631
A-Dub (@[email protected])

my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded 🔥 “Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires. — Local Cranky IT Guy” [shared with permission] #Enshittification

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It was the slowest of the slowest days
The snow drifted outside the windows
The BOFH dozed in front of their screen
And all the system said they were green

Suddenly there came a scream from afar
Through the door of the kitchen that stood ajar
"The coffee is cold" screamed the #PFY
And the #BOFH just smiled and drank their whiskey

#it #poem #infosec #xmas

🤘🏻#introduction Hi, I’m Adam.

I’m currently the Customer Identity red team lead at Okta. I’ve spent almost 3 decades in tech many of those years in the offensive security space. Long enough to have some good stories.

About a decade ago I started the node.js security project to make security a core value in the node.js community. I think it had a pretty good impact overall. It turned into a saas platform and was acquired by npm and integrated into npm audit. npm was later acquired by GitHub.

I’m fairly proud of the research and presentations I’ve done over the years. You can find those here; https://evilpacket.net/presentations/

I’m a 2x DEF CON black badge holder with team psychoholics! #pfy

My fire pit is open for conversation should you find yourself North of Seattle near Camano Island, just reach out. I’ll be there with my family, mess of chickens, and kunekune pigs. ✌️

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