Paco Hope @paco@infosec.exchange
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- #cloud, #security, #cigars, #travel, #overwatch
Cloud Security Consultant at AWS. Based in London. Opinions are my own, etc.
Joined Sep 2018
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Say hello to Telephant!
I've written a little Mastodon client for the Desktop - called Telephant - and am currently looking for beta testers!
Want to help out and don't mind compiling the app yourself? (Don't worry it's fairly straight forward and I've added detailed instructions to the README!)
Join me here:
https://github.com/muesli/telephant
Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
I run iRedMail (iredmail.org) as my personal email server (it's really postfix+dovecot+etc) and Nextcloud (nextcloud.com) for file, calendar, and contact sharing. You can link the two so they share identities. Taken together, this combo is really solid replacement for the free and surveillance-capitalism-based ecosystem. https://forum.iredmail.org/post69001.html
Just had my 3rd or maybe 4th pull request accepted to a public project. On the one hand “yay”. On the other hand, most of my PRs are just like syntax fixes on a couple of lines.
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Warning: If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you.
Just spent a bit of time opting out using the privacy forms on some of the American companies I do business with. http://simpleoptout.com/
Would all staff please note the new #password policy. Employees' mothers' must change their maiden names every 90 days.
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Guess which fire alarm company is going to become famous on the fail blogs:
So Marcus Hutchins, of #WannaCry fame and who had been arrested in the US has pleaded guilty to writing banking #trojan software. Over on the birdsite there's lots of strong opinions. I blogged my opinion that it's a big world out there and trying to dismiss him as a criminal or pardon him because he's a hero are fundamentally misguided. https://blog.paco.to/2019/marcus-hutchins-infosec-soul-searching/
I’m upgrading a server that runs #FreeBSD using iocage jails. I prefer something like xcp-ng as my hypervisor. So I can completely separate upgrading the kernel from the guest OSes. https://xcp-ng.org/
“The media reports of our security incident were wrong on several points.”
“Hi, this is Brian Krebs, the reporter who handed your ass to you. (This is your ass, isn’t it?) Which points were incorrect?”
Hilarity and sadness ensue.
https://mobile.twitter.com/gcluley/status/1118203223528169474
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My #blackHole humour is getting substantial attn in that other place. It just seemed to tasty to not share…
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You've met "this meeting could have been an email", now let me introduce you to "this in-person event for which multiple people have travelled could have been a Slack chat"
This is such a powerful poem. Very apropos at this junction in world history. http://theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v2-constantine.html
The only thing I am”legendary” at in #ApexLegends is dying early.
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Americans are at such risk of identity theft. The fact that there are DOZENS of companies, each with its own opt-out hoops to jump through. There are no laws to protect people. So invasive of #privacy. https://www.reputationdefender.com/blog/privacy/how-remove-yourself-top-peoplesearch-sites
I just spent the day in Dundee, Scotland at #Securitay2019. If you are looking for the best #infosec talent coming out of UK universities, this is the con to go to. They’re such great kids, incredibly clever, and the conference is a great time. https://securi-tay.co.uk/
After the con I always pull out a box of cigars and we have “cigar-itay”.
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Worst feature ever: Netflix’s brutal automatic preview. It’s so against the user that is clearly designed to be that way.
- Interests
- #cloud, #security, #cigars, #travel, #overwatch
Cloud Security Consultant at AWS. Based in London. Opinions are my own, etc.
Joined Sep 2018
