“What did you do all night?”

“Oh yeah, spent the entire time sifting through more than 6TB of data in hopes myself and family weren’t affected by various security breaches happening all at the same time that leaked PII. No the house isn’t on fire, just my soul.”

Our workplace decided to move off of Iterm a while back for our Mac based terminals. So far it’s been an interesting process, since we tried a few different ones but decided to settle on Wezterm due to the similarities. One of the greatest mistakes was giving us a .lua config with the ability to add .gifs and silly backgrounds. You can also make panorama’s that scroll when you do, so that’s pretty cool.

I regret nothing.

Some people liked this when I use to do it on Twitter/blogging years back, so I’m bringing it here, screw it. I do a lot of cooking and tend to come up with fun, somewhat original ideas for food that have some security/networking name. I don’t have either of those socials anymore, so here we go.

Ping Flooded Stir Fry:
Ingredients:
- 1 pound of flat steak
- 1 pound of chicken tenderloins
- 2-3 assorted peppers, sliced.
- 1 pound of mushrooms.
- 2-3 cups of rice (white, jasmine, yellow, etc), depending on people serving.
- 2 eggs
Sauce for the steak:
- Soy
- Ginger
- Basalmic Vinegar
- Chili powder
- Brown Sugar
- Garlic Powder
For chicken, replace the liquids for a dry rub of the above with some red pepper flakes.

In a Wok, pour some sesame oil and olive oil together and cook the meat, remove it from heat, then do the chicken. Once both are cooked and removed, combine the mushrooms and peppers and cook them until soft. Combine everything into the wok, mix with some Hoisin sauce.
In a separate pot, boil the rice, move it over to a pan once done, mix the egg and any leftover sauce from the meats. Grab a plate and combine. Egg roll suggested as a side.

Enjoy!

Thought experiment that I’ve seen some application for recently at my job. Ever heard of the boat of Theseus?

Consider a large network: is it still the same network if you replaced every device within with new equipment or patchwork of a similar devices? Or is it a new abomination that has no similarities to what it’s original boundaries and abilities were?

Applies to security as well, which is a forever evolving abomination.

5 in the morning, all is quiet in the NOC, casually sipping on coffee.

5:20am rolls around, start hearing something hit the building. I spit out my coffee on my screen.

“The Hell was that?!”
Oh right, a tornado of souls going across Ohio. Knocking out fiber in its wake.

Whole country: ATT and other networks down?! Cyberattack! Cyberattack!

People who work in NOC’s at 3am: Looks like someone fat fingered something again at AT&T.