I'm a Code Janitor.
Former Embedded Systems Drone from Sector 7G.
FOCAL ➡️ FORTH ➡️ C ➡️ C++
Too old to learn that snakey stuff.
256 op codes should be enough for anyone.
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TechCrunch has really good coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/uhg-change-healthcare-ransomware-compromised-credentials-mfa/
Change Healthcare didn’t use MFA on Citrix Netscaler. It was a bog standard ransomware incident.
One learning for the industry btw - I saw loads of threat intel channels circulating incorrect info about the incident. That’s fine, but some (eg the health info sharing authorities) reshared this wrong info.
Wowwww "The extent of the dysfunction at The Intercept is not publicly known in part because, for all management’s problems, they are very good at one thing: structuring hush money payments."
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept h/t @AnarchoNinaWrites
Scientists have been absolutely clear that we MUST make immediate and drastic changes if we are to avoid catastrophic eco-system collapse. But, as Greta Thunberg has said, all we ever get from politicians and industry leaders is more useless blah blah blah…
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BusinessAsUsual
@verge
"At over 90 MPH, you're a dick, so you can just die."
--USDOT
Another article said the "stoner" angle was apocryphal, basically just trying to obscure the origin of the IP...
Went down the retrocomputing rabbit hole, found this
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot
@faassen @futurebird
Went there and followed a link to this gem:
"The basic maze generating routine had been partially written by a stoner who had left. I contacted him to try and understand what the maze generating algorithm did. He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked."
https://www.techspot.com/news/85622-nobody-sure-what-makes-atari-2600-game-entombed.html
Kevin Beaumont
serenebabe
Bread and Circuses
Fesshole 🧻
