In an interesting twist of events it turns out that my host here (I rent a room in sweden for a while) is employed by the swedish military.
Most of you are probably not aware that some years ago I turned down an employment offer from a certain secret service, so that gave us something to talk about.
The problem with secrecy is the mandatory lies you tell your loved ones. Simple questions of interest turn into hedge mazes with thorns. This is why I turned down the offer in the first place, but it is well worth noting. Often the lies we tell do not matter specifically. Once we lie we are no longer a secure touchstone for those around us.
Even worse, if work is going bad, we cannot share that, and it would affect our everything negatively.
So I would, real quickly before I have to move on, suggest that a part of true security is brutal honesty and a network of trust around yourself.
Find a life partner that you can leak state secrets to. Be monogamous (i would say) so that no-one can buy one of your less favorite lovers, or pry secrets from you during pillow talk after a one night stand.
Before you say that that sounds stupid... Promiscuity is one of the easiest human exploits and it is actively used in the field.
In this sense you might not be the best secret agent with immediate results. But! You will be a very trustworthy agent and your results will be treated with care.
Because your employers will know you to be extra difficult to compromise.
But I digress, my point is to stay secure is to have secure relationships as well. To stay secure is also to stay trustworthy and truthful. All of that is connected, and I think that is a wonderfully intricate thing to think about more.
Stay safe out there, and greetings from Örebro!
There is so much more to this one chapter, but it is so good already!
I had to cut it short because guests arrived, but this should get you started on your own study :)
@calvinrempel Thank you once again for the Theology Tuesday you did, I refer back to it in this one :)
@JamesDerian Congratulations with your Marriage :)
Next time there might (almost certainly) not be a Theology Tuesday, so the official next one will be February 22nd! I have a marriage to attend. As the groom. Our home is still half a project.
Fun times!
Alc and I talk about my book that is now officially finished. This is part 1 of 2. Parts have not been neatly cut. Part two will air 5 minutes after part 1 for coninuity!
Hope you enjoy :)
This is the third corner to have persistent discussions and talks in. I love tech, but especially once it transcends hardware a little. I have two degrees; a bachelor's in Software Engineering and a master's in Information Security Technology. My graduation thesis focused on assembly-level optimizations (that is, one level above the hardware level) and my free subjects were in formal verification. This is why I love programming in the security corner, or maybe it is the other way around.
I started going down the Security path because I early on saw that the world around us would become a dangerous cesspool of badly-implemented and hostile tech. Now I am one of the people that understands the field around that mess :)
So in here you can discuss secure phones, weird programming languages, sad truths about internet-connected fridges. Also about malware, adblockers, and so on and so fort!
A lot of tech talk I do over at the @Lunduke community, where a lot of nerds hang out and it is ...
Much like the reading corner, let's have a music corner! A few rules for this one, since some music can be provocative. I don't mind much but let's keep youtube links with risque thumbnails out of here.
Other music I might also mind. "Do you find that offensive?" might someone ask. Yes, there is some music I choose not to listen on principle, and I walk a thin line there sometimes. But do not worry, I have a wide taste otherwise so feel free to share almost anything :)
Either way, here is the music corner!
Many times when we talk about security, we mean to say "Digital security". In essence we mean to say that our hardware and software that we use stays safe no matter what we do. And even though the ISO27001 standard (and by extension, for example, the NEN7510 standard) make it abundantly clear that security is a people-domain problem, we usually take that as a process-like truth. Meaning, we think that being secure is a matter of regulating people.
The truth is very different. For example, while writing this I am pretty shot. I slept five hours and I an under influence of a bunch of painkillers and some alcohol. Before you ask what I was thinking, let me mention that I have a genetic defect in my spine that I am dealing with right now by taking measured doses of all three (and yes, to get the Bible into this conversation, there is even a biblical ground for the inebriation with alcohol - see proverbs and the letters to Timothy - , although I did not use red wine. But hey, I am still on top of ...
