modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

CIA 2010 propaganda proposals to combat pressure to withdraw troops from #Afghanistan:

"messaging that dramatizes the potential adverse consequences of a... defeat for Afghan civilians could leverage French (and other European) guilt for abandoning them"
https://t.co/PfxHZrzghU https://t.co/3Cwvlp6UHw

Question for infosec people

Is there an open source alternative to Cyberark and similar products?

I'm looking for something that can manage secrets of all types, and not just user credentials (which is what things like Keycloak does)

#infosec

Did we not already learn our lesson that nuclear power plants on or near the ocean are bad, very very bad! Stop this nonsense. Build it on tracks or as a vehicle if you realy want to... anything but this!

"Hey, DT! You Should Make Udemy Courses." (And Other Comments)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pZpzHXxpn8

I Still Burn CDs, DVDs and Blu Ray (And You Should Too!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCw0oiUa2SU

Just A gorilla's gentle reminder that he could easily kill you

[Announcement] The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk @ VCFW 2021
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1590
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #commodore #c64

I always found it funny how scuba divers need to adjust their buoyancy control device to account for their flatulence.. Like if you are perfectly neutral and you fart you will start to noticeably sink if you dont readjust your buoyancy controls.

My thoughts on how to configure your systems to protect against the Dolos Group's excellent demonstration of sniffing TPM protected disk encryption keys: https://trmm.net/tpm-sniffing/

This is really interesting. They colorized a photo by overlaying some lines in a grid and ONLY adding color to the lines but over-saturating the color. The rest of the image is black and white.

The result is that at a distance or in the thumbnail it just looks like an ordinary color photo. It is only when you look up close you notice what is going on.

SpaceX Starlink Review - Four months in

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/spacexs-starlink-review-four-months

NIST still offers a dial-up service that will give you the current time.

GitHub Copilot can write my articles 😂 #RustLang #RISCV