Security & database software engineer, game developer. Former mainframe guy. Big fan of FreeBSD, modern Fortran, and XQuery. Also interested in precision time (IRIG, IEEE-1588, White Rabbit) and typography.| Website |
@mms I once mentioned we could have IRC server as a low-maintenance backup, in case Teams or Slack goes down. Everyone laughed.
But I was serious. I'm not against new stuff, but IRC server can run on a potato and it's just pure unbloated communication experience 
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Hearing about a young hacker whose being extorted by the University of Washington, not cool UW.
The student claims they built an app to help kids get the course schedules they want, a hack as old as time, and the university decided to expel him until he ports his app to the university's internal systems.
This would be unpaid labor.
Until then his class registration is on hold and he can't register or attend his last few classes. 🥴
@Cyberoutsider I also remember when I was a rookie IT Auditor in the ‘80s. (Back then the called us EDP Auditors.) I would write up some very complicated and technical vulnerability, and my boss would say “That’s nice, but what about the fact that they have plaintext passwords in their files?”
Penetration testing can be fun, if you are into it, but it is just a small part of overall security.
@Cyberoutsider When I was working on mainframe security in the ‘70s, hackers were starting to have a sort of bad-boy glamorous reputation.
I used to tell people that I liked being on the defending end, because I got to find vulnerabilities and then fix them—twice the fun.
The @washingtonpost editorial board published a scathing article condemning the ICC for issuing an arrest warrant to Netanyahu.
Every word of their argument was propaganda, a contradiction, or a flat out lie. Here I bring the receipts that legacy media refuses to acknowledge.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/rebuking-the-washington-post-for
How do we get to where letters like this are too ordinary to astound us—or aren’t needed at all? 😭
Meantime, let's celebrate those who do get it.
Beam me out!
nullagent
Jeff Jarvis
David Gerard
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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