Negahyphen

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IT & Infosec Director. Always up to chat about politics, rescue dogs, restorative gardening, books, travel, or my quest to throw the greatest dinner parties ever.
IndustryConsulting
FieldInfoSec-GRC
SpecialtyCrisis & Disasters
HeroesDavid Bowie, Brian Eno
Career GoalLobbyist/Policy Wonk
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Negahyphen1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116296836571133176

Well it's a good thing they aren't already at historic levels of lobbyist spending for the midterms this fall, could you imagine the damage of a misinformed electorate only exposed to an echo chamber of falsehoods?

Show threadNegahyphen1d ago
@luckytran That's how I feel about the Pentagon diverting aid from Ukraine to send to Iran, where it's no biggie that Putin is sharing our troop positions.
If only someone had warned us about Trump's ties to Russia before now!
Show threadNegahyphen2d ago
@saraislet I went back to get my undergrad recently and MPF was the bedrock of the management course. Anytime I quote her line about "management is the art of getting things done through people" every leader always nods and says something like "that's the most concise way I've ever heard it put."
When they ask who said it, I say "A woman in the 1930s." And they're always like, "Well, that's why I never heard of it before."
Negahyphen2d ago

OMG, y'all will never believe this, but evidently Microsoft misled federal investigators. Oh how the fallen have, um, remained consistent.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.

A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

ProPublica
Negahyphen3d ago

I first flipped to Mac OSX when Windows first released XP. I wanted to start learning more about *nix systems.

In the last few months they have burned every ounce of goodwill I ever had. And you shouldn’t pay a premium if a company is going to act as shitty as everyone else.

https://www.makeuseof.com/apple-is-bringing-google-style-ads/

Apple Maps is about to include ads like Google does, and users are furious

Starting as early as this summer

MakeUseOf
Show threadNegahyphen4d ago
@Bandersnatch @zannesan @pluralistic even Whole Foods /Amazon are phasing out those experiments as they have shown to cause a dramatic increase in shrinkage. Mm.
There are more people who admit to taking an item from a store with self checkout than support war with Iran (even without ground troops).
Show threadNegahyphen4d ago
@MLE_online Hopefully it's just FOMO with all the folks stranded in lines at various airports across the US today.
Show threadNegahyphenMar 19
@aphyr I think they mostly like that it isn't Slack.
There's a new one coming up, runs off Tor, looks really awesome but not quite ready for prime time. It's called Quiet.
NegahyphenMar 17
I agree that Joe Kent was a crazed egomaniac and loser but for different reasons. I think he was a revolting, unqualified conspiracy theorist who illegally accessed data sets he shouldn’t have had access to in order to make himself look important after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, violating the privacy of countless Americans and jeopardizing the safety of pretty much everyone in witness protection.
NegahyphenMar 15

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Negahyphen/116234548604154417

Because here's the thing: if companies were planning large scale reductions in workforce and NOT currently working to reduce CRE budgets, their officers as well as board of directors could all be subject to serious legal action from shareholders/investors for grotesque financial malfeasance. Identifying a significant, even existential risk like material losses due to real estate investment exposure then failure to in any meaningful way respond or attempt to mitigate that risk? Oh yeah that's a paddlin'.