Paco Hope @paco@infosec.exchange

I see a WiFi that I SO want to mess with....

Ok #security folks, help me out. I’m moving to a new house in the US. I will be replacing the ordinary household deadbolts with a lock that hopefully doesn’t show up in the “easy” pile at your local #lockpick village. What brands/models should I look at for a normal US front door?

This is a beautiful and diabolical collection of dark patterns and broken user interface elements. It’s awe inspiring in its awfulness. https://userinyerface.com/index.html

Check my math (I wonder if I'm missing something). $480K after taxes, minus $117K restitution and $55K fine still leaves $308K net proceeds. Divide that by 4 (number of months in prison) and he's getting paid $77K per month of prison. Imagine he paid $100K to his lawyers. He's STILL getting off pretty damn good. I must be doing some of the math wrong.
https://www.grahamcluley.com/ex-equifax-cio-who-knew-about-huge-data-breach-jailed-for-insider-trading/

Colleague just stuck a meeting on my calendar right between 2 other important meetings. Then he messaged me to ask if it was ok. I said "it's fine as long as we are strict on time". His reply: "We are in Switzerland. We will have no trouble being on time." :) I'm sure he's right.

This just in from the VP of Solutions Hunting for Problems (https://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2019/05/192915-i/)

I have a call in 5 minutes, I desperately need the loo, and my laptop seized up and needs rebooting. Ugh

This headline is kinda garbage. Let me try rewriting it: "Confirmed: 20 years of consistently cutting NASA funding left an agency that can't do all the thing we want it to do."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/20/confirmed-nasa-has-been-hacked

I've just discovered a somewhat troubling statistic. In the last 17 years, which is like 6198 nights since I joined, I have 286 nights in just one hotel's programme. That is like 4.5% of my life. And while that's probably the single largest brand of hotel nights in my career, it's probably at most 50-60%. It makes me think I've spent like 10% or more of my life in hotels the last 17 years. Not sure how I feel about that.

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.

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/