kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

A classic virtuous circle in information security: CIS benchmark alerts reported by Wazuh nagged me into implementing new dev-sec.io hardening flags which are now released as part of standard hardening playbooks. Oh, and don't forget ansible-lint :)
https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-os-hardening/releases/tag/6.0.0

Very true. Also for infosec.

@MichaelA @sir

You're right, the most effective governments I saw were the local ones.

@sir

That's the thing. You can agree on *something* concrete among 10 people, with 100 it's already almost impossible.

@chuck

1) People who expose their configuration management daemons to the Internet

2) People who don't patch them when a HUGE REMOTE CODE EXECUTION HITS THE NEWS

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This came totally... unexpected 😂 Russia Today defending David Icke 🤦‍♂️

@guenther

You're right, although if you look at Czech it's very similar - are people wearing masks in Germany voluntarily? I know they did in Czech very early, while in the UK the message from the gov was always like "meh" and most people were like "why worry"...

I can testify that in the UK almost nobody is wearing a mask (maybe 1 in 10 people do) with the main arguments being 1) govt never said we should, 2) we wouldn't look good.

@thor @dump_stack

I meant that if you can keep your clients in Norway *while* living outside. That's probably the best option, as even if you charge them a bit less your living costs will be much lower.

@dump_stack @thor

Oh yes, that's absolutely true. As long as people have employment opportunities - as we do in IT - the employees need to offer a competitive salaries.

@thor @dump_stack

As long as you can keep your Norwegian paying customers and find local people to do the work, it's certainly a viable business model. There are companies in EE who grew from a few people to huge multi-nationals just by this model - e.g. EPAM, Luxoft etc.

@thor @dump_stack

Obviously, you can still exploit these price differences for your benefit, for example by hiring people in low-income countries, both as a business and as a private person.

For example, dental services or plastic surgery are very expensive in the UK, so it makes sense for many Brits to fly to countries like Poland just to fix their teeth.

Which is generally good for everyone as it increases income of low-income countries, and helps middle class in high-income countries.