mcfunley

Maybe take a few steps farther back

Yeah I agree, caveat emptor and all that. The blameful framing is bad work product though.

The point is really after working through remediations, there were pretty massive issues remaining that weren’t hard to find and were relatively vastly easier to exploit if the attacker is a Russian teen and not Bruce Lee. And the budget for such things was blown. Priorities, etc

I worked at a company that had hired Mitnick as a security consultant.

His report for a client that turned out to have been rife with SQL injection at the time was largely movie plot physical security stuff. Not wrong exactly, but not the center mass of the threat model they needed either.

He seemed to lack systems thinking, producing a report that focused on calling out specific employees as dumb or incompetent. Counterproductive at best. It seemed like his PR exceeded his utility by a great deal.

That trend continues beyond the grave, maybe.

This was the best conference there ever was and I miss it a lot

By the time this is all said and done we’re going to wind down the DHS in its entirety, bogus lists of political enemies included

Did HN start automatically translating posts from their original German?

To your point, the thing that jumped out at me reading this book is how familiar the German characters are. People have loved to imagine that the Nazi era in Germany was so anomalous it could never happen again. But no, the Germans were just like us.

Category error to think there's a strategy. Trump doesn't even know what a tariff is. People try to project a strategy because it's probably too discomfiting to believe that the greatest superpower the world has ever known elected a complete nimrod king.

Yeah you are right about this, psychological safety is a key ingredient in what “good” looks like. Blameless culture stuff is a bit of another ball of wax, so I didn’t get into it too much.

Glad that one landed, thanks!

Unfortunately no, I've only done it as a private event within a company so far.