Hello everyone.
First of all, an invitation. Post something about yourself if you have an account which you can post with. If not, use the freeby code, and then: Post a post introducing yourself. Where you're from (just country, only if you're comfy sharing), what your favorite dish is (include the recipe for... research purposes...) and why life is worth living.
That being said...!
I know engagement in this community is not yet very high. I am hopeful since I see a diverse crowd starting to get active and it makes me exited :)
Welcome to all the new members! I just noticed we hit 80 people and not to sound cliche but that's a lot. THANKS YOU ALL FOR JOINING. It's more followers than my totally outdated soundcloud has (link here: https://soundcloud.com/txi-cab )
I realized I have not translated the Security 102 guest lecture yet. This is mainly because I got busy with other things, and security news is going a whole other way right now. My guest lecture is hopelessly outdated (about hacking pacemakers, and digital nation-state sabotage), since nowadays pacemaker hacks and updates are sort of an accepted risk (for some reason). And people talking digital nation-state sabotage think it is about elections.
It's really not. Russia is the one country that had a good go at real sabotage and it was against Ukraine. The other attempt, Stuxnet, did not involve any tanks going across the border around the same time...
But I digress. Welcome one and all. We're all diverse people, and I try to provide diverse content. I am trying to get Alcruid back for another good, deep, weird podcast. And I am working on that cooking video too.
I might drop off of the radar for a while later this year (could be a month from now, could be many months from now) because I am looking to buy a house... And apparently there is a lot of stuff involved with that.
Either way. Tuesday another (controversial-ish) Theology Tuesday. Saturday a Security Saturday. It's a busy time to be alive.
Stay safe out there.
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 ...
