John Woods

@[email protected]
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Information Security Professional, Old Time Musician Amateur, among other things.
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/secjohn/
My Bloghttps://secjohn.blogspot.com/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/zenbanjoman
John WoodsMay 6, 2024
I'm going to try Bluesky and see how that goes. I still have my Twitter account, although I'm not active there, so I was able to use that to find some people. I don't see a way to find Mastodon friends in Bluesky, though. So if you see this and are there please give me a follow so I can find you. @zenbanjoman.bsky.social
John WoodsMar 21, 2024
Patrick C Miller Mar 21, 2024
Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds https://www.wired.com/story/saflok-hotel-lock-unsaflok-hack-technique/
Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds

The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.

WIRED
John WoodsJan 8, 2024
bbdd333Jan 8, 2024
Passenger iPhone survived 16k foot fall and still working after getting sucked out of the Alaska Air plane that lost a door panel in flight.
John WoodsNov 29, 2023
Sam Bowne Nov 29, 2023
Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.html
Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT

John WoodsNov 27, 2023
Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiNov 27, 2023

NEW: People affected by the cyberattack on Fidelity National Financial, which hit many subsidiaries, have no idea what's going on.

One subsidiary is calling it a "catastrophe."

A woman who sold her house said she doesn't "know where my money is at."

Another one said "everything is shut down and no one can pay the mortgage and you can't get them on the phone."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/27/ransomware-catastrophe-at-fidelity-national-financial-causes-panic-with-homeowners-and-buyers/

Ransomware 'catastrophe' at Fidelity National Financial causes panic with homeowners and buyers | TechCrunch

People affected by the cyberattack on Fidelity National Financial, which also hit its many subsidiaries, are left confused and concerned.

TechCrunch
John WoodsNov 27, 2023

Is it me, or did someone give him a kid vest to be funny?

https://www.politico.com/video/2023/11/27/elon-musk-visits-site-of-hamas-attack-after-antisemitism-backlash-1148621

Elon Musk visits site of Hamas attack after antisemitism backlash

POLITICO
John WoodsNov 2, 2023
mhoyeNov 1, 2023
People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage. TLDR exists because the docs and error messages are garbage. People ask ChatGPT for help because the docs and error messages are garbage. We are going to lose a generation of competence and turn programming into call-and-response glyph-engine supplicancy because we let a personality cult that formed around the PDP-11 in the 1970s convince us that it was pure and good that docs and error messages are garbage.
Show threadJohn WoodsNov 1, 2023
Thanks for the boost! I should have said @siliconshecky found some evil IPs.....:-)
John WoodsNov 1, 2023
Hive mind question: I found some evil IPs that now have reverse DNS records pointing to non-existent hosts on my companies domain. What kind of attacks use this? This seems like a sign this is being used to attack us or will be. But I don't know how, anyone else know? #infosec
John WoodsOct 5, 2023
ꙮ ⚗️ pnathan ⚗️ ꙮSep 25, 2023

Well. Soft layoff. It sucks. I'm looking for work. Site reliability engineering, software engineering. Keyword bag: Linux, Golang, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP.

Can build out a full cloud infra and then the software running on it, database backends, observability infra, can work through the whole operational lifecycle incl paging and decomonissioning.

Will do contract work too for the right price.

[email protected] is the email.

Free free to retoot.

Ed: remote only. Travel fine.