Simon Thomas  

@SecureStrategy@infosec.exchange
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Cybersecurity consultant helping organisations reduce their real (not theoretical) risks. Tramper. Passionate about the South Island of New Zealand.
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O’Brien said that if we wanted a vision of the future, we should picture a boot coming down on a human face, forever, but actually I think the most realistic image of our future is Dave Bowman in "2001", desperately trying to disable all the "AI” features in his computer after each upgrade.
Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2024

Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for systematically downloading academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR....

Electronic Frontier Foundation
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again β€” Ludicity

I am begging people to stop using AI generated image garbage on their social posts when trying to make smart points. Completely undermines your whole argument when the image is full of misspelled words and graphics that don’t make any sense πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

I firmly believe that the only people who come to work to do cyber security are people in those roles. Everyone else in the organisation has their own role they need to perform - whether in finance, payroll, marketing, management, production etc. The goal of cyber security is to implement measures that work in the background to reduce risk without adversely affecting the ability of people to perform their roles. Yes, people need to be aware of the risks to security and privacy, and to understand the actions they can take. But if someone clicks a phishing email, or buys a gift card, it doesn't mean that they have failed. The failure is in the security measures that are meant to protect the organisation.

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/05/on-fire-drills-and-phishing-tests.html

On Fire Drills and Phishing Tests

Matt Linton, Chaos Specialist In the late 19th and early 20th century, a series of catastrophic fires in short succession led an outraged pu...

The destruction of good websites at the hands of private equity & overpaid executives is excruciating.

But at the same time, these know-nothings have been making people's lives miserable for a long time and will soon find that they own nothing at all

https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-coffee-in-keyboards-and-venture-capitalists/

Behind the Blog: Coffee in Keyboards and Venture Capitalists

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss coffee in keyboards, OSINT and cybersecurity tools, and what venture capitalists will be left with once they've bought up all the good websites.

404 Media

Seventy seven #women #BletchleyPark codebreakers from #WWII revealed for the first time.

Many of them took the secret to their graves.

"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe – a #mathematician who worked in #cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock – was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: β€œOh, I made the tea.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/cambridge-newnham-college-alumnae-bletchley-park-codebreakers

#womenintech #womenshistorymonth

Cambridge college unmasks alumnae who were Bletchley Park codebreakers

Names of 77 ex-students of women-only Newnham College who worked at Bletchley Park are revealed for first time

The Guardian
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And that's why they banned me from the C++ committee
@vitaut When all you have is a hand grenade, every problem looks like a nail.
@vitaut that's called polymorphism, right?
@vitaut The difference is that the C++ engineers know that it's a hand grenade but insist that they are nevertheless able to hammer with it safely.
@gparker @vitaut Look, it's faster than a standard hammer, ok?
@vitaut @geerlingguy so.... "Working as expected"?
@blenderfox @vitaut @geerlingguy Most of the time.
@sir_toootenstein @vitaut @geerlingguy just needs that one edge case no-one thought about then the whole thing goes πŸ’₯
@blenderfox @vitaut @geerlingguy But except from that it has the potential of writing very elegant code.

@vitaut #alttext4you

Left: Chinese woman discovers she's been using a hand grenade as a hammer for the last twenty years.

Right: Mokey Puppet Meme with the caption "C++ engineers"

@vitaut

Could you add that alternative text ☝️ to the picture?

I believe that is available as an editing feature.

I despise sharing content that good without an alt text.

@vitaut nahh C is safe enoughπŸ’€
@vitaut okay ... that one made me chuckle. :D
@vitaut so, proves it's not at all dangerous?

@vitaut

Should become a text book definition of "WORKS-FOR-ME".

@vitaut Tbh, this would apply better on Rust than C++, given that usually C++ developers do not impose blind trust on compiler ;-)
@vitaut there's an array of things that could have gone wrong here.
@cjust @vitaut it's fine. You don't know the size of that array anyway.
@jdoe @vitaut maybe someone has some pointers on this case.

@vitaut

OT but what is the origin of the puppet meme on the right? I've seen it for years but never found what kids show(?) it came from. Thx.

Monkey Puppet

Monkey Puppet refers to a reaction image and GIF of a puppet appearing surprised. It’s used to express shock, particularly in situations where one party ow

Know Your Meme

@GeeF

Ah thanks for that! Monkey Puppet has a rich cultural history, no wonder I couldn't trace it. Half century old Japanese TV, borrowed by Spanish internet! He is the fusion cuisine of memes.

@vitaut @rixx minutes later I'm still chuckling :D
@vitaut @federicomena cualquier parecido con la realidad es mera coincidencia πŸ˜‚