Sysadmin-ish, jack of some trades. Storage, servers, switches, firewalls, PowerShell.
Cymru / Wales / Pays de Galles.
Will try not to let this account degenerate into the Blackadder-fueled cynical cess pit of my "other" account ;-)
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Question: how do you power the head torch? Could it be batteries by any chance? Which will run out?
@Cyberoutsider exactly! It's a good idea to behave as far as possible as if you are a target of interest, but you can only go so far.
Can't remember why but I once had to set up secure ftp on port 22; granted this was for functional reason, but it behaved like security through obscurity (was funny to watch someone try and ssh on to that service repeatedly one day)
@rj07thomas "Oh, you don't practice security through obscurity?? Okay then, publish your company's full asset register - including networking devices - detailing running OS and last patch date...
What? You say that's 'confidential'?
Sounds like obscurity to me!"
Just seen a post on LinkedIn to the effect of "we've all been practising security through obscurity but it's time that stopped."
We *all* practice security through obscurity, all the time, and not just digitally. If we really wanted to be secure, nobody would connect devices to the internet. But that's impractical, and on a personal level we assume that we're not very interesting targets. Same with companies. If you're a small coffee shop, you're unlikely to have an NDR in place because you assume a malicious actor is going to go after a big coffee shop chain.
Offline, it's unlikely you've laid landmines around the perimeter of your property or wrapped your car in barbed wire. These are very secure solutions but totally impractical. You've made the assumption The Last Of Us hasn't happened in your town yet so it's probably OK to skip these measures for now.
Security through obscurity is bad practice but there's no other way of living without going mad and turning into Fox Mulder.
@deirdrebeth @weatherwest that news footage I posted really hit me because it's only a month old; this is clearly making scientists more and more uneasy but is relegated below well, almost everything (I only found it because I started following noc.ac.uk on Bluesky).
I've left it far too long to take real notice but this unexpected timeout in my life has woken me up to the realities of what is happening to the AMOC.
Yes! We're 45 years past the largest push by scientists to get people to understand what was going to happen if we didn't change our ways (there were individuals pushing since at least 1910), and yet I hear people say "but they said it would take generations!". Yes, they did. And we've had 2-3 generations born since then.
@deirdrebeth @weatherwest one of the darkly humorous things I've noticed reading up on the dire (or not) state of the AMOC is people saying "yeah, but in reality this would take decades, not days or weeks.".
If it's been weakening since the 50s (and that's a big if) then that's lots of decades. Almost 10 of them in fact ;-)
That's one of my go-to disaster movies for that very reason. It skirts the edge of reality.
Quaid may have been all-American, but he was also a scientist, so the better made car works for me 😁
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