The Doctor

They sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.

Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.

I keep a documentation page in my wiki for every thing I set up - how I did it, what I ran into, how I fixed it, and where everything is. Reason being, when it comes time to upgrade or I have to install it again someplace else, I remember how I did it. Basically, every completed step gets copy-and-pasted into a page along with notes about it.

As for watching the file system, I have AIDE on all of my boxen (configured to run daily, but not configured to copy the new AIDE database over the old one automatically). That way, I can look at the output of an AIDE run and see what new files were created where (which would correspond to when I installed the new thing).

The Great Game continues, same as it always has.

The true final exam would be writing code on an airgapped system.

And study the techniques used for currency manipulation, fraud, and so forth.

Gee. It’s almost as if rich people don’t give a single shit about anyone else. /s

Like wrecking the biosphere in its persuit.

How do we keep having to have these legal discussions every decade or so?

Odds I’ve been hearing for Trump being re-elected are about 3.4 to 1.

The thing about an operation as big as Amazon is that one or two people work on one component of one thing. If the folks who work on that one thing both bail, it doesn’t slow down Amazon or any of its constituent components overmuch. The way things are architected it can chug along for quite a while until somebody else is tasked with learning about and maintaining it.

This is, unfortunately, true. The kids of some family friends are trying in the worst way to get in at Amazon or Facebook to make their bones. They figure that they can build their brands by surviving there for four or five years (Amazon’s reputation for burning through people like toilet paper at Wing Wars is well known in the tech industry, and respected), sock money away because they still live at home, and get a jump on the good life.

I can’t tell 'em what to do. They asked for my advice and gave it. What they do is their problem.

People want to be lied to.

So much for going on a Shodan safari in South Korea.

News flash: IoT doesn’t always mean “backend is on AWS.”

Sheesh.

I was serious. BBSes would be an ideal long-distance communication method under some circumstances.

Or perhaps an unassuming office building that only has outbound VPN connections.

A few of us have a long-running joke that World War III will be started because somebody can’t reach Pornhub anymore.

Still have a modem?

Depends on which lines are affected.