SwiftOnSecurity on Nostr: I tell the story often but in the beginnings of my career in IT I was fascinated by ...

I tell the story often but in the beginnings of my career in IT I was fascinated by stories of 0days by state actors. And I worried about them.

As our entire client base was XP SP2 with zero governance and many machines shared huge groups of local admins. Some of them made Authenticated User a local admin.

And I sat there and I was worried about foreign military 0days. Perspective later is hell of a thing.