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Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox HTML code DID exist!!!!
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If you’re walking into public spaces without a mask on, you’re non-consensually imposing your risk model onto other people, and it isn’t a cool or community-minded attitude to hold.
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With two rounds of tix sales done, this is a good time to remind everyone with tickets to make your hotel reservations. The room block is open until Dec. 23rd.
shmoocon.org/venue/
Don’t forget, last round of tix sales is this Saturday, Dec. 17th!
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We need more art that reflects these traditional values
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Many of the people lamenting ChatGPT are the same ones who've fed student papers to Turnitin for years... helping to build the pile of data used to train AI in essay writing!
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ChatGPT is a Big Bad in higher ed right now and I just think it's so funny because this particular application is the point to which so many trends in education discourse have been leading.
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The is white space and white noise without members. We are asking supporters to stand with us on the digital picket line today. Read local news. Support public radio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak. More here:
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The photo of the U.S. Air Force's new stealth aircraft is on the left, taken at night, with stars in the background.
We can use them to find the exact location of the jet
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Unveiled today, the B-21 Raider will be a dual-capable, penetrating-strike stealth bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. The B-21 will form the backbone of the future Air Force bomber force consisting of B-21s and B-52s.(U.S. Air Force photo)
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My mSD card was stuck in its slot so I tried removing it with a nail clippers and uh
I’m not a very smart animal
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Parents — the holidays are almost upon us, and kids will soon have more free time on their hands than usual. Here’s how to prevent them from interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried
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An old snarky joke of mine is that we don’t need artificial intelligence so much as prosthetic intelligence. This is an amazing way to give someone tools. I also worry about it going wonky. Still, this is great as a start.
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I mentor a young lad with poor literacy skills who is starting a landscaping business. He struggles to communicate with clients in a professional manner.
I created a GPT3-powered Gmail account to which he sends a message. It responds with the text to send to the client.
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This goes out to all the tweeps. Thanks, peeps.
And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
You got it, you got it...
Don't leave me stranded here
I can't get used to this lifestyle
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As good old Oscar said, There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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I’m always out of it and in left field. Lots of people are working hard to save their tweets before this place shuts down, and I’m tuning my settings to delete them faster.
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Telling GitHub copilot to write an authentication subsystem “in the style of Dennis Ritchie.”
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How's this as a start?
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Hello @EFF can you please make a t-shirt that says (something like) "member of the cult of privacy"? twitter.com/EFF/status/156…
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Believe the people who tell you a place is toxic. Believe them when they tell you about the hair-curling crapola. Believe them about the no-win hand of cards they picked up. Above all, raise a glass in sympathy to the next year's Corn King. 32/32
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If I'd been dazzled by the thought of being the CISO of a Fortune 2^n-1 company, I might have sunk my teeth in it. When I hear the tale of someone who wasn't lucky the way I was lucky, I believe them. There but for the grace of God, y'know. 31/32
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I lucked out. I smelled machine oil when I saw the piece of cheese, and a gracious, wonderful person put their job on the line to tell me I wasn't imagining it. I didn't get caught in the trap. 30/32
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When there's an opening, the last person's "incompetence" is sugar coating to get the next CISO in. Oh, hey, the last CISO here was a forking idiot, but you? You can be different. The mousetrap won't snap. The football won't be pulled away. And the check is in the mail. 29/32
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Some CISOs document, document, document that the company isn't really serious, and can either find an ally in Finance to get them enough resources to turn the failure into success, or judo-move the scapegoating. They're also good at failing up, but it's not a fun job. 28/32
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In many places (not yours, you work for a good company), the CISO takes the fall for the asininity in the company. It's their job! Some can manage to deflect to someone else -- subcontracting the scapegoating to someone like a Sisyphus who just can't learn to do rocks. 27/32
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Lather, rinse, repeat. 26/32
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Heck, think about it. When the inevitable crack-up happens, the CISO didn't stop it and IT WAS THEIR JOB TO STOP IT. So they're horrible, sack them, get another person. Take a few Sisyphuses out too, as it was THEIR JOB to push those rocks up the hill. THEY FAILED. 25/32
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Now -- think about the poor person they got. They're the scapegoat. Cassandra. Above all a Corn King, who will hire a team of people each to cosplay Sisyphus in their own style. They'll be ritually sacrificed when they have a security problem. Decimated -- 10% layoffs. 24/32
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After laundering my backchannel, I told the recruiters that I was withdrawing from consideration 'cause I didn't believe there was proper management support for the role (I made something up); thanks guys, let me know the next time you have something I might be good for. 23/32
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The more I talked the more I could tell more I could tell this was a set-up. They could have a united front until I asked a pointed question. Whoever took that job was going to have an awkward post-honeymoon. 22/32
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So I did three more interviews. I was a bit acid at times, prodded more. No one else cracked, but since I essentially got to read forward to the conclusion of the book, I could provoke awkward silences and hear the slightly-too-sincere flailing on their end. Uh-huh. 21/32
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That's why I'm not giving more details. This person put their career on the line for telling me this, and I owed them. I had to protect them. 20/32
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I was stunned. I didn't expect my in-your-face, "this is a sham, isn't it?" prodding to get an answer of "yup, it's a sham. Shhhhh." 19/32
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The person asked me please, please, please don't tell anyone that they read me in. The hiring committee had all been told not to scare off the candidates that the job is a fig leaf over zero-knowledge security. You know -- they have zero knowledge of what security even is. 18/32
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I'd precisely be coming into a role that is overhead. No one wants it, it's a box that got checked. Yup, we got a CISO, therefore we're secure, QED. Get outa my hair, kid. 17/32
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Then, someone replied in a one-on-one interview (yeah, it was many rounds) that I was right. Management didn't want security. Notable execs were openly hostile to it. Speed bump on the road to progress. There's the people making stuff, people selling stuff, and overhead. 16/32
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I started asking directly about executive commitment. When they asked, "how do you convince people..." I started my answer with, "Is this a problem you have? Do people not want security?" and then went on with how I deal with recalcitrant groups, building consensus, &c. 15/32
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