Soatok Dreamseeker21h ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116274789062787020

Tangent, but this is one reason why I don't bother with "burner phones" at DEFCON.

If my day to day security practices are insufficient for DEFCON, they're insufficient for day to day life. I'm just as likely to get attacked in a random cafe.

I roll my eyes a bit at people who insist that burner phones are necessary.

Show threadSoatok Dreamseeker21h ago

A lot of security rituals you hear about from folks online are like this.

This is the kind of culture that leads to giving blanket paranoid security advice without threat modelling first.

Show threadRabbit21h ago
@soatok It’s the security equivalent of cargo cults. If the ritual is complex, the protection must be strong!
Show threadRichard Penner

@ra6bit @soatok And lo, the number 42 arrived with wit from a very clever man. And from then on, we agreed our random seed would be 42 so that we too might be clever men. And the API key shall be checked into the public repo lest we lose it in our sticky notes ....

#SecurityAntiPatterns #AntiPatterns #GeekHumor

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