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🇦🇺Trying to do my bit to make sure things keep trending towards better.I trust experts in their area of expertise, be they plumber, nurse or climate scientist
some interesting specific stats from Australian Federal Police on how they claim end-to-end encryption has impacted their work
I never ever ever ever ever ever ever want to paste text with styles intact.
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn, but it changed everything.

Software security lessons from someone who has spent a number of years cleaning a toilet used primarily by a small child:

1) end users cannot be trusted to provide input in the way you expect, they will continue to surprise you
2) end user input will make it way to places you thought impossible
3) end user input utimately will need to be sanitised multiple times

I created an interesting new (free, web-based) puzzle app for mobile devices (works best on iPads, less-well-to-not-at-all on other devices). Want to try some challenging puzzles that blend spatial reasoning and manual dexterity? Just Slide to Unlock! https://slide.isohedral.ca/
I think things would be better if we could trade in each billionaire for a thousand millionaires

Genie: I’ll give you one billion dollars if you can spend 100M in a month. There are 3 rules: No gifting, no gambling, no throwing it away.

SRE: Can I use AWS?

Genie: There are 4 rules.

I really hate password/PIN code expiration. It WORSENS security, because you're forced to remember a new password/PIN and after forgetting it a few times will probably write it down. Or you might be tempted to use an easier to remember and less secure password.

NIST no longer recommends expiring credentials regularly. PLEASE STOP DOING THIS.