Nostr notes by SwiftOnSecurity

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2026-05-17T17:45:36Z

RFK Jr in 2001 ...

2026-05-09T02:43:11Z

RFK Jr in 2001

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2026-02-19T06:25:23Z

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2026-01-11T18:08:03Z

Working in IT used to mean a solidly upwardly-mobile career now I ...

2026-01-11T17:09:24Z

Working in IT used to mean a solidly upwardly-mobile career now I can't even saturate my goonbox PCI-E lanes or fill my DIMM sockets

Holy crap I'm cited in a 2023 academic law paper... about a ...

2026-01-11T16:33:33Z

Holy crap I'm cited in a 2023 academic law paper... about a pull request on GitHub for a security fix I have neglected to integrate for five years LOL.

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2353&context=faculty_scholarship

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2026-01-10T05:01:35Z

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2026-01-10T00:30:18Z

https://x.com/kairo_anatomika/status/2009439905437634973

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2026-01-08T17:09:10Z

Use CarPlay/AndroidAuto and FAST-CHARGE phone at same time. ...

2026-01-08T04:41:33Z

Use CarPlay/AndroidAuto and FAST-CHARGE phone at same time. Compatible with USB-C phones. Just connect your CarPlay USB port, phone, and a USB-C charger.

Injects USB-C PD power into a CarPlay signal from USB-A (separate USB-C version available)
https://www.tindie.com/products/exode/usb-powerdata-injector-android-autocarplay/

GitGoon: Git for gooners Tired of your Pokemon Stadium mod to ...

2026-01-07T16:04:22Z

GitGoon: Git for gooners

Tired of your Pokemon Stadium mod to give Lapras heckin bonkers getting taken down by GitHub? Worry no more.
https://gitgoon.dev/

"Virtual Woman is a software program that has elements of a ...

2026-01-07T15:18:03Z

"Virtual Woman is a software program that has elements of a chatbot, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, a video game, and a virtual human. It claims to be the oldest form of virtual life in existence, as it has been distributed since the late 1980s."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Woman

"Every movie that inspired a generation of insufferable ...

2026-01-07T14:54:16Z

"Every movie that inspired a generation of insufferable city-striving millennials"
😅😅😅
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTIuUJykQHO/

"The anti-aging chemicals used in rubber compounds are more ...

2026-01-05T17:40:05Z

"The anti-aging chemicals used in rubber compounds are more effective when the tire is "exercised" on a frequent basis. The repeated stretching of the rubber compound actually helps resist cracks forming."
https://www.tirerack.com/upgrade-garage/why-does-tire-rubber-crack

Home furnishing help: Any recent furniture/decor/homegoods ...

2026-01-04T17:17:03Z

Home furnishing help: Any recent furniture/decor/homegoods you've bought and really like? Even if it's obscure style. Also places like Wayfair, Overstock, Ikea, etc.

East of West Germany

2026-01-04T01:21:41Z

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East of West Germany

In Soviet Russia, commoner could go entire life without seeing ...

2026-01-04T01:19:54Z

In Soviet Russia, commoner could go entire life without seeing more than handful of lamp. Then I come to America and see MANY lamp! Enough lamp for everyone!

"To the male Julodimorpha bakewelli beetle, a beer bottle ...

2026-01-03T19:26:45Z

"To the male Julodimorpha bakewelli beetle, a beer bottle lying on the ground looks like the biggest, most beautiful female he has ever seen.

He doesn't waste any time when he sees her. The male immediately mounts the object of his affection."

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152

"Nothing will dissuade him from his lovemaking, not even the opportunistic Iridomyrmex discors ants that will consume him bit by bit as he tries to impregnate the beer bottle. Should an actual Julodimorpha bakewelli female wander by, he will ignore her, remaining faithful to his true love"

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2026-01-03T10:02:28Z

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2026-01-03T03:18:28Z

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1twMAtoCTx_6AcuD2aocrokLLuCQZMI9Fv9kFJ6Yl3-8/mobilebasic?pli=1

Training AI on the Mewtwo voice in Pokemon Movie 1998 so it can ...

2026-01-03T02:05:23Z

Training AI on the Mewtwo voice in Pokemon Movie 1998 so it can tell me I'm not allowed to come yet

Hey maybe the AI can fuck you, too ...

2026-01-02T21:46:33Z

Hey maybe the AI can fuck you, too

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2026-01-02T03:50:54Z

TCP/IP is a social construct

Save this came in handy today. Remember to search NEMA in your ...

2025-12-30T19:54:24Z

Save this came in handy today. Remember to search NEMA in your photo library.

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2025-12-28T04:34:05Z

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2025-12-27T17:03:31Z

Any movie where you leave the theater thinking "I would fuck ...

2025-12-27T09:16:56Z

Any movie where you leave the theater thinking "I would fuck that alien" is a good movie

Woot is currently selling 64 and 32 megabyte RAM sticks as a joke ...

2025-12-27T06:39:44Z

Woot is currently selling 64 and 32 megabyte RAM sticks as a joke 😭

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2025-12-26T22:03:13Z

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/mystery-amazon-pallet-unboxing/

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2025-12-25T19:02:24Z

Lexus December to Remember – SNL https://youtu.be/WcEylCwkSxE

2025-12-24T20:31:16Z

Lexus December to Remember – SNL https://youtu.be/WcEylCwkSxE

The US National Weather Service formally defines a White ...

2025-12-24T14:51:02Z

The US National Weather Service formally defines a White Christmas as at least 1 inch of snow on the ground on the morning of Dec. 25.
https://www.weather.gov/dvn/ChristmasSnow

Everything is GPU ...

2025-12-24T14:30:13Z

Everything is GPU https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/private-equity-continuation-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E8.Tr4f.3h1LKtFrqg3h&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Name Age Calculator Estimate the age distribution of people based ...

2025-12-24T14:07:45Z

Name Age Calculator
Estimate the age distribution of people based on their first name

The median living female named Jackie was born around 1962 and ranges from 53 to 69 years old.
https://name-age-calculator.randalolson.com/female/jackie

When you realize that sleigh was transporting christmas presents ...

2025-12-21T17:50:59Z

When you realize that sleigh was transporting christmas presents

The time I found out 10 years ago that scrolling with a Dell ...

2025-12-20T20:38:05Z

The time I found out 10 years ago that scrolling with a Dell touchpad set registry keys every few milliseconds to adjust the scroll rate in a hack way 😵‍💫

I did hear that someone at Microsoft complained to them about this.

O RLY? ...

2025-12-20T15:43:49Z

O RLY?

My cube 10 years ago ...

2025-12-20T14:55:08Z

My cube 10 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY81HQ7byfU

2025-12-20T00:05:55Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY81HQ7byfU

A data scientist was involved here – they aced the 1 sweet ...

2025-12-18T02:15:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…se5g
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A data scientist was involved here – they aced the 1 sweet helicopter to 2 Taylor Swifts golden ratio.

SWEET: Apple's latest update to CarPlay adds slideshows of ...

2025-12-18T02:06:22Z

SWEET: Apple's latest update to CarPlay adds slideshows of Taylor Swift and videos of helicopters

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2025-12-16T18:35:39Z

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/roomba-obit/

2025-12-16T15:12:39Z

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/roomba-obit/

It's like a theme park ride you get to drive around 😊 ...

2025-12-14T06:12:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…jlc4
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It's like a theme park ride you get to drive around 😊

One of the best fringe benefits of a convertible each year is ...

2025-12-14T06:08:40Z

One of the best fringe benefits of a convertible each year is driving topdown through old-growth neighborhoods with Christmas lights. Went out for about two hours today.

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground – and ...

2025-12-13T17:46:53Z

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground – and when Google Inactivity Manager despawns his account.

People. it was delivered to the wrong house. I did not drunkenly ...

2025-12-12T03:16:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…mesr
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People. it was delivered to the wrong house. I did not drunkenly porch pirate my neighbor

Windows erasing your Linux bootloader ...

2025-12-11T18:38:09Z

Windows erasing your Linux bootloader

Months ago I got a nut milk maker. "I don't remember ...

2025-12-11T01:01:08Z

Months ago I got a nut milk maker.

"I don't remember being drunk enough to buy this."

Put it away.

Today, pick up box - curious. Look at label. It's my neighbor's lol.

thx for helping him get unblocked though. Spooks me how much I ...

2025-12-10T18:32:34Z

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thx for helping him get unblocked though. Spooks me how much I would lose if my Apple account got killed

thank you

2025-12-06T00:34:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…4n7g
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thank you

For the fake World War II documentaries what I bet they're ...

2025-12-05T23:25:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…xcu0
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For the fake World War II documentaries what I bet they're doing is taking long-form professional historical accounts and having AI remix it and then probably lifting the footage from legitimate documentaries and public sources.

This is why they can produce multiple versions of the same thing just in a different way each week.

Damn it's all slop all the time now isn't it.

I was really really hot stuff in the early years of ...

2025-12-05T23:17:43Z

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I was really really hot stuff in the early years of SwiftOnSecurity major people requested interviews and I got put on you know the top 20 lists of social media accounts for InfoSec.

Unfortunately I'm a kinda burned out brand now and I can't always really talk so freely about interesting stuff.

It was an interesting experience for sure. Wish I could've kept that going.

Also be aware there are like 42 minute YouTube documentaries ...

2025-12-05T23:04:33Z

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Also be aware there are like 42 minute YouTube documentaries assembled with skill with real footage and they actually seem to overall built a great narrative.

But there's all these little very subtle factual things they get wrong. It's delivered with authority but like the World War II ones have factual misunderstandings only an AI would do. I really was like truly enjoying one about American production numbers.

And then you see there's like three subtly different versions of the same thing it's a production line. Sigh.

It's really really valuable to sell advertising space to Americans

I 100% NAILED IT Casual Navigation was sold to a Singapore ...

2025-12-05T22:58:22Z

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I 100% NAILED IT
Casual Navigation was sold to a Singapore production company

Casual Navigation. There is some real parts of quality but ...

2025-12-05T22:53:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…08ry
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Casual Navigation. There is some real parts of quality but it's just it's just not built correct anymore.

Their latest is very strangely assembled and there's lots of people in chat talking about it

Another carefully-curated educational YouTube channel sold off to ...

2025-12-05T22:50:04Z

Another carefully-curated educational YouTube channel sold off to private equity and turned into significantly AI slop.

As far as I can tell I think it's now run outsourced to a foreign college-educated professional with animation skills and some technical chops, but not fully fluent in the topic using an AI to write it.

They'll usually have a decent narrator for the bigger channels.

Just must be so cheap they can just invest in these things and coast forever.

Arnold turned out to be a genuinely thoughtful guy and he would ...

2025-11-28T23:55:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…0eez
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Arnold turned out to be a genuinely thoughtful guy and he would be of infinite preference to this

I was gonna bring up we have a TV show host running the American ...

2025-11-28T20:00:38Z

I was gonna bring up we have a TV show host running the American military right now but then I realized that wouldn't really clear up who I'm talking about by like even three

oh hell yeah I never scammed anyone but I was tempted

2025-11-27T08:25:00Z

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oh hell yeah I never scammed anyone but I was tempted

negative downvote but I was never a web professional

2025-11-27T07:22:53Z

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negative downvote but I was never a web professional

oh no

2025-11-27T00:28:26Z

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oh no

see my other follow up to this thread lol

2025-11-26T23:53:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…d25e
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see my other follow up to this thread lol

that is honestly completely wild to me oh my god. Thank you so ...

2025-11-26T23:45:50Z

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that is honestly completely wild to me oh my god. Thank you so much.

Pretty much everything I have always disclosed has never been a secret at all. People got the idea I was some corporate insider telling them secret shit.

I just prefer being private and so far everyone I interact with has agreed it's better that way.

and for the record that isn't true you're right I had to ...

2025-11-26T23:33:54Z

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and for the record that isn't true you're right I had to Google what that word meant lol

when I joined many of them did but not anymore

2025-11-26T23:24:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…e96r
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when I joined many of them did but not anymore

look I couldn't just tape a banana to my cube OK

2025-11-26T23:22:16Z

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look I couldn't just tape a banana to my cube OK

Just to be clear this is my cube at work that is my 3D printed ...

2025-11-26T23:15:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…60ca
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Just to be clear this is my cube at work that is my 3D printed clippy

Banana for scale ...

2025-11-26T23:08:01Z

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Banana for scale

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2025-11-26T23:06:47Z

An exposure analysis would say hey people having VLC is a source ...

2025-11-25T16:02:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…uaet
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An exposure analysis would say hey people having VLC is a source of vulnerability because the parsers are not exactly strong and easy to exploit.

And I would come back and tell them people are literally directly installing malware on their computers. They download the EXE and they run it. Is that good enough for you?

Our much larger much more prestigious competitor got completely ...

2025-11-25T16:00:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…htwh
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Our much larger much more prestigious competitor got completely owned like three times the decade I worked there. Just destroyed.

I have a real belief in doing the unorthodox.

You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the ...

2025-11-25T15:56:15Z

You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable.

You have literally no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable

Who knows if I saved the entire firm doing this

You just have no idea what computer security looks like. There ...

2025-11-25T06:32:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…j66s
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You just have no idea what computer security looks like. There was no 0day there was no military hacker. A human wasn't even involved in compromising hundred hundreds of machines and a major corporate office. It was the choice of a person making a change they didn't understand and would never suffer for.

And it took me sitting there as a fucking nobody asking why the fuck this was happening.

I discovered someone had sent one of our major offices Group ...

2025-11-25T06:26:55Z

I discovered someone had sent one of our major offices Group Policy with Authenticated User as local admin. Every computer in the office had a history of logins from hundreds of people because of an incestuous computer worm that of course spread to all of them and logged in to all of them continuously spreading itself, completely unable to comprehend how badly this company had fucked up.

Other people notice but they didn't question it. I did. And I suggested to the Director of IT that maybe we should change this. Working in Helpdesk.
https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/115605413541812892

Fuck https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/115607840098491545

2025-11-25T01:58:17Z

Fuck
https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/115607840098491545

Anyway. Just posting through it. I wish I could tell you the ...

2025-11-25T01:36:12Z

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Anyway. Just posting through it. I wish I could tell you the whole story.

The story behind SwiftOnSecurity involves a car crash, it ...

2025-11-25T01:35:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…ua97
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The story behind SwiftOnSecurity involves a car crash, it involves a post about heartbleed, and involves discovering I had a voice people cared about even as I portrayed myself as a joke. And found out I wasn't one.

I have enormous vulnerability in my origins working helpdesk. I ...

2025-11-25T01:28:16Z

I have enormous vulnerability in my origins working helpdesk. I didn't know it was the most important thing I ever did, that made me who I am today.

But I worked that job thinking I was nothing. And that I had to lie about who I was. I created SwiftonSecurity to be someone I wasn't. I created as a role-play became. Because I had to pay it to believe it. And I had to believe it to be it.

And that is how I became it. Because I was already working a security job.

I just didn't believe it yet.

thank you Jeff.

2025-11-25T01:09:59Z

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thank you Jeff.

that means the enormous amount coming from you

2025-11-25T01:05:12Z

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that means the enormous amount coming from you

I think this thread is finally finished and I really do ...

2025-11-25T01:01:11Z

I think this thread is finally finished and I really do appreciate how much people have appreciated it. https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/115605366950673501

I swear to god don't betray me

2025-11-25T00:51:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…f69m
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I swear to god don't betray me

Posting this only on Mastodon on because you're the real ...

2025-11-25T00:44:03Z

Posting this only on Mastodon on because you're the real G's (don't fucking tell the other ones)

The essential question is how are you gonna save them without ...

2025-11-25T00:26:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…j5ps
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The essential question is how are you gonna save them without breaking it?

First you need to understand it. And that. That my friends. Is the bedevilment.

Because it has to be fucking broken because it is intolerable and in its current state. You were not just gonna go in there and fucking break it.

You have to fix it in a way they never understand you did anything. Your job is to do nothing but change everything.

The thing about computer security is you get confused by ...

2025-11-25T00:22:31Z

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The thing about computer security is you get confused by benevolence.

All you wanna do is save them. You want to save them from themselves and you want to save them from the past.

It is so easy that you will be cavalier. Your job is saving them. What could ever be simpler than that?

And in this frame you're gonna do the wrong thing and you're gonna ruin your credibility. Which is saving them without breaking it. They would rather it be broken.

You have to establish a human relationship. And I'm gonna ...

2025-11-25T00:09:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…5hfm
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You have to establish a human relationship. And I'm gonna tell you something. A human relationship is the most difficult thing in the world for me. I can talk to thousands. But I cannot establish a human relationship. And that is why it is my job. I have to get fucking paid to do it.

Credibility is something harp so much on in InfoSec. Your ...

2025-11-25T00:06:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…4y44
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Credibility is something harp so much on in InfoSec.

Your performance relies on your credibility more than your technology. Nobody gives a shit about the fucking firewall vendor. They don't care about the nuances of injecting TLS inspection certificate chain in 3rd-party toolchains.

They care about your credibility. If it is something that is impossible to describe or proscribe, but is the most important ingredient in your success.

With the people that fucking matter. Who are the people that decide if your benevolent campaign gets implemented on their goddamn network.

I have been through changes by people that did not understand the ...

2025-11-25T00:01:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…ly9j
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I have been through changes by people that did not understand the gravity of what they were implementing. The people they talked to probably felt it. But allowed it in grace.

They broke things that were extremely nuanced in the networking of Windows. I don't know why I didn't know, likely because it was upstream.

You understand what they've done. In perfect innocent honesty.

They did the right thing. But accomplished the wrong one. The victims will never trust us again.

[@Lee_Holmes](https://infosec.exchange/@Lee_Holmes ) it's a ...

2025-11-24T23:39:36Z

[@Lee_Holmes](https://infosec.exchange/@Lee_Holmes ) it's a joy to hear from you Lee. Thank you.

your reply means a lot more than you know and I appreciate it

2025-11-24T23:37:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…h8zg
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your reply means a lot more than you know and I appreciate it

I am the only one in the company who sits on the different ...

2025-11-24T23:25:40Z

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I am the only one in the company who sits on the different helpdesk and frontline support group chats. Because that is where I'm gonna hear about us getting breached first. And I need them to be comfortable talking to me. I join the calls occasionally and I tell them my story. And they come to me and you would be surprised what I hear.

The funniest thing I find about my history and Helpdesk is the ...

2025-11-24T23:15:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…n2gm
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The funniest thing I find about my history and Helpdesk is the credibility. Yes I can talk your language and I know your priorities and I know what worries you about technical change. I know the results of an outage because I have had to support it. I took the calls and I took them for a decade.

I know exactly what it means to fail. Which is something you should understand when you make a change for IT Security.

They don't need to hear perfection. They need to hear empathy. They need to know you thought this out and that you know exactly what will mean if it fails. Because you sat on that call. The thousands of them.

Failure is pain. And they need to hear that in your voice when you tell them the plan about changing everything.

The reason IT Security is so hard is someone has to do it. ...

2025-11-24T15:50:52Z

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The reason IT Security is so hard is someone has to do it. That's the answer.

That is not a technical challenge it is an interpersonal one.

Do you know how many smart people there are trying their very best? You think it would be deluged in security.

But it's not. This is a personal problem and that's what ruins everyone that tries it.

I tell the story often but in the beginnings of my career in IT I ...

2025-11-24T15:36:59Z

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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.

A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you ...

2025-11-24T15:25:08Z

A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you are battling computers.

No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.

You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.

https://youtu.be/2Vi4z_BxrfA

2025-11-22T05:57:54Z

https://youtu.be/2Vi4z_BxrfA

[@irvingreid](https://hachyderm.io/@irvingreid ) thank you

2025-11-22T05:30:21Z

[@irvingreid](https://hachyderm.io/@irvingreid ) thank you

I work on a team with a peer who is even more into the weeds that ...

2025-11-22T05:26:29Z

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I work on a team with a peer who is even more into the weeds that I am. We lead significant parts of our IT security paradigm for Windows. And it is because we have the contextual knowledge that was never important. It was never a stepping stone.

But here we are today. That stone is what we stand on. It is why we are query about random weird things we reliably have answers for. You just don't get it.

You don't get it until you've lived it.

You would be utterly astounded at the waves of effort and the ...

2025-11-22T05:13:32Z

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You would be utterly astounded at the waves of effort and the things that I learned come back to me 15 years later. It all mattered. All that effort in that life. It mattered. And I just didn't know it then. But I did it anyway. I was the one that did. And here I am today.