blacktraffic

@blacktraffic@infosec.exchange

Just another hacker. He/him.

I only picked this handle because I'm semi-obsessed with Skunk Anansie.

My Erdős number is 4.

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blacktraffic, to random

Once again, there was a 19 year old kid on the sub. Fuck’s sake.

mttaggart, to random

Nooooo ittttt caaaaaan't.

LLMs cannot "detect" anything. They do not reason. They do not perform informed analysis beyond language tokenization. Please stop mistaking the magic 8-ball for a prophet.

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/06/22/chatgpt-detect-phishing-sites/

blacktraffic,

@mttaggart @rmceoin something that doesn’t matter if it’s true, like marketing.

emilygorcenski, to random

It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate

blacktraffic,

@emilygorcenski we only call it “software engineering” to prove we have a sense of humour.

neirbowj, to random
@neirbowj@mastodon.online avatar

It is hard to overlook this coincidence.

2023-04-24: Google Authenticator makes IT pros anxious about security and messes with the UI/UX for our users/clients. https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator-now-supports.html

2023-05-03: Google launches support for passkeys.
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-password/

blacktraffic,

@neirbowj i migrated everything over to “OTP auth” a few years ago, after a phone crash, and very happy with it.

blacktraffic, to random

I am only held together by inertia, caffeine and duct tape.

marasawr, to random

moving house is turning me absolutely feral

everything I’ve worn in the past five days is gym wear, sleeping pyjamas, or dirt pyjamas*

__

  • «coveralls» to you normies
blacktraffic,

@marasawr aka “summer”

blacktraffic, to random

there's a 19 year old kid on the sub, so can you just shut the fuck up with your ghoulish opinions please.

blacktraffic, to random

just a normal day in late-stage capitalism

"WH Smith, Marks & Spencer and Argos among more than 200 firms that failed to pay workers legal minimum wage"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/21/uks-best-known-retailers-top-list-of-firms-fined-7m-over-pay-breaches

mjg59, to random
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer avatar

Oh come on Chrome, what format is this timestamp?

{"params":{"reason":"Network changed"},"phase":0,"source":{"id":3431991,"start_time":"722958226","type":7},"time":"723098223","type":107},

blacktraffic,

@mjg59 looks like a UK mobile number to me. Tried calling it?

threatresearch, to random

Moderately important professional news - I will be speaking at #Defcon31

blacktraffic,

@threatresearch good thing George Clooney wasn’t on the review panel I guess :)

Congratulations !

robpike, to random
@robpike@hachyderm.io avatar

Does anyone have any technology that works? I am becoming despondent over the state of things. So much technological progress and yet everything seems to be broken (or must be updated, which amounts to the same thing in user experience) all the time.

Sorry.

blacktraffic,

@robpike it’s one of those things like Murphy’s or Parkinson’s Law - everything is mostly kind of working because it’s too expensive to do it really properly, and there’s always something else to do when X reaches “acceptably buggy”. (I’m blaming economics and human nature)

blacktraffic,

@gma having worked in IT for 25 years, I'm not concerned about everything becoming too perfect :|

hollie, to random
@hollie@social.coop avatar

If you're having a difficult day with body image and you're larger than average (or you're average, which is still described as Too Much), Sarah Millican's hilarious description of loving her belly and fuck off to body judgment might be just the thing.

(If you like her style, Google "Sarah Millican email from my bully" for the time her high school bully wrote her and pretended all was fine - it's a gem)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdtKf_JDLdQ

#comedy #StandUp #SarahMillican #BodyImage

blacktraffic,

@hollie Sarah Millican is a national treasure.

blacktraffic, to random

I taught myself red teaming and I seem to have done a reasonable job.

blacktraffic,

(Though in fact, a good half of it is because I used to be a sysadmin for some weird and wonderful networks. Can’t subvert something until you can vert it.)

blacktraffic, to random

The Home Office has done fuck all, slowly as possible and now wants to wash it hands of the whole fuck up.

“There can be no ‘moving on’ from the Windrush scandal”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/20/there-can-be-no-moving-on-from-the-windrush-scandal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_mastodon

HalvarFlake, to random
@HalvarFlake@mastodon.social avatar

Given the speed and volume of AI reaearch, it almost seems prudent to wait & see until things calm down a bit.

blacktraffic,

@HalvarFlake I remember covering AI hype cycles in my MSc in 2001 ( referring to perceptrons and the XOR function as one example).

I’d just get on with it, if you’re interested. If you wait for the “boom” bit of the hype cycle to be over, you’ll hit the “bust” side. Haters gonna hate, hypers gonna hype.

scruss, to retrocomputing
@scruss@xoxo.zone avatar

TIL that the Apple Laserwriter Pro 810 contains an easter egg that will print a fax order form for a burrito

https://www.journaldulapin.com/2022/02/26/easter-egg-laserwriter/

#RetroComputing #Apple #PostScript #burrito

blacktraffic,

@scruss sounds like core functionality to me :)

jilleduffy, to random
@jilleduffy@mastodon.social avatar

Mad respect for Marie Kondo who had her third kid and was like, "Nope, I don't do 'organized' anymore. That phase of my life is over."

blacktraffic,

@jilleduffy @purplepadma pretty impressed she held out til third kid tbqh :)

evacide, to random
@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar

The most insidious myth that I was taught in American schools was that inequality and injustice are somehow artifacts of the past, and that America marches inexorably towards greater freedom and equality with every generation.

Not only is this take entirely unsupported by actual history, but this comforting myth absolves us of having to take action to fight inequality and injustice. Just sit back and relax and everything will just get better.

blacktraffic,

@evacide my history lessons in a UK school were: prehistory, the Tudors, World War One - conveniently omitting the embarrassing looting/pillaging/slaving bits. (Conquest of Ireland was NOT mentioned once.)

Are0h, to random

I'm still laughing about the white dude from yesterday who got mad at me because I video game as a hobby and shouldn't be asking for help.

Ha, I'm gonna be laughing about that for a while.

blacktraffic,

@Are0h “you are asking for money yet you have spent some money at some point”
****’s sake.

mttaggart, (edited ) to infosec

Hey, KeePassXC did get its own vuln!: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-35866

Basically neither the master password change dialog nor the 2FA settings dialog require the current master password to function. So to exploit this, you'd need GUI access to a machine with an unlocked KeePassXC session. It's not nearly as scary as the KeePass vuln we saw a few weeks ago, but appears to be planned to be addressed in version 2.8.0.

EDIT: This is a BOGUS CVE that was created in bad faith. None of this should be considered a "vulnerability" so much as "how password managers work." Apologies to @keepassxc, who do fantastic work and whose project I use professionally and endorse.

blacktraffic,

@mttaggart [deleted keepass because I am sure they have heard enough of people arguing over this non issue]

No it doesn’t require a password when exporting it… couldn’t you just copy and paste every single password for the same effect?

funnymonkey, to random
@funnymonkey@freeradical.zone avatar

If a corporate entity can render parts of your home useless, you don't have a "smart" home - you have a remote, inaccessible landlord.

Connected devices aren't "smart". Stop calling them that. Stop using the marketing language of the tech companies who are abusing you.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/smart-home-lock-out-amazon-b2358107.html

blacktraffic,

@funnymonkey I’ve got “smart” radiator valves here but criterion number one was “they need to keep working if the internet goes out”. ( you twiddle them as usual for manual control )

blacktraffic, to random

Wash me oh so painfully clean
Disect my words with a fist full of your dreams
Build me up and strike me down please
Sign my name, sign my name
It takes blood and guts to be this cool
But I'm still, just a cliche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDhCJqWkFJg

blacktraffic,

@IceNine fortunately I had it on CD, or I would have worn it out.

StefanThinks, to random
@StefanThinks@beige.party avatar

When a restaurant server hands you the bill and says “no rush,” what they really mean is “get out.”

blacktraffic,

@StefanThinks this is the standard meaning of “no rush” in Britain.

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