kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

I dream of a NATO statement on #CyberAttack that will essentially say "no, it's actually you who left your own infrastructure neglected and open to attacks" rather than ritually whine about things being "unacceptable".

All countries *do* have infosec extensive regulations and policies today. Yet, from personal experience, specifically public sector is the one that is most non-compliant with their own regulations. As result they get breached, defaced, phished etc.

"I demand departure from the communist heaven to the capitalist hell"

Soviet scientist and political prisoner Alexander Bolonkin, Buryat ASSR, 1978 #communism #capitalism

Recycling used #nuclear fuel - The Orano la Hague site has been recycling 96% of nuclear materials in used nuclear fuel into new fuel for decades. The remaining 4% nuclear waste is vitrified in canisters, which then require storage for about 300 years, significantly less than the storage time required for unprocessed used nuclear fuel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UJSlKIy8g

Certification Authority board votes on issuing DV certificates to .onion domains https://cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2020-February/001637.html

This history is full of perfectly consistent logic and legitimate arguments 👌

If you're just sitting with open mouth wondering how hackers could have been sitting unnoticed in Citrix corp network for a year here's why:

Random user's request for a slight change in main page color is a Functional Requirement.

Security patching, intrusion detection etc are Non-Functional Requirements.

Because users don't require that the system doesn't leak their data to random dark web forums.

It's good to be a dictator in a starving country:

"North Korea, one of the world’s poorest countries, imported 138 horses at a cost of $584,302 between 2010 and 2019"

(this is about purebred sport horses, not horses for work or meat)

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/19/how-north-koreas-leader-buys-purebred-white-horses-from-russias-stud-farms-a69317

#northkorea

Polish mining union wanted to block Russian coal imports into Poland but messed up tracks and blocked Polish coal exports to Ukraine instead. Plus, they're like 5 years late... https://www.wnp.pl/finanse/spolka-pkp-lhs-protest-zwiazkowcow-skutkowal-opoznieniem-szesciu-pociagow-towarowych,373262.html

"#wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet. People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right."

https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/