ShakataGaNai

@ShakataGaNai@infosec.exchange

Life long technologist who has nothing quippy for the bio. Started in IT, moved through DevOps into Security.

#CISO of Oomnitza
#hamradio @ KJ6FNQ

Other interests & hobbies: 🇺🇸 #photographer #nikon #garden #blogger #gamer #otters #dogs #motorcycle #sousvide

#TootsAreMyOwn #infosec #technology

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ShakataGaNai, to random

Oh man, the ending of season 4 was fantastic. Great season overall. Season 5 will start in 2012 it looks like. One more season after that and we'll be at present day! Should be interesting.

ShakataGaNai, to passkeys

23andMe Breach – Who’s to blame?

This one isn't cut and dry and if you want the TLDR: Please help push everywhere you can! That's the only thing that will stop these terrible situations.

ShakataGaNai, to random

Hey @Bre77 Thanks for the Tessie integration on Home Assistant. I've been trying to learn enough about HASS Plugins to build one myself but it's not been terribly successful so far. Was super excited to see todays release included the new integration - works great!

Edent, to wordpress
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

I love the fact that my blog is on the Fediverse.

When someone replies to a post from the @blog account, their reply is automagically sent as a comment to my site.

Brilliant! Thanks @pfefferle and gang 🙂

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/this-blog-is-now-on-the-fediverse/

ShakataGaNai,

@Edent Agreed. It is a very very useful feature. It makes the entire process of blog->social so very seamless. Granted I can't get my wordpress to run it properly, but that's probably my fault.

brion, to random

IHOP is playing "Band on the Run" by Paul McCartney and Wings

This tells you their target demographic is my parents generation ;)

ShakataGaNai,

@brion Imagine what it feels like when they start playing U2, Linkin Park and Nickleback

ShakataGaNai, to blackfriday

Happy Shopping Day! Remember to check normal retail prices before you believe any “massive” sales, especially on Amazon.

ShakataGaNai, to random

Does anyone have an tool equivalent to (or even remotely close to)? I'd like to run detailed SSL/TLS tests against a lot of hosts and don't want to abuse a free service.

ShakataGaNai,

@merospit Awesome. Thank you very much!

ShakataGaNai, to Blog

Blog: Simple Personal Security tips for 2023 - https://obviate.io/2023/10/19/simple-personal-security-tips-for-2023/

In case you're living under a rock, there is a hack or breach in the news seemingly every other week. Not to scare you, but if you're in the world of information security, the reality is that there is a breach in the news ...

ftp_alun, to random

I dislike phishing tests, as I don't think they're really useful in enhancing security, and simply serve to give smug security staff the ability to sneer once again at "those dumb users".
Now I'm starting to wonder about what companies feel about their trademarks being used, in legal business ventures, by legal businesses. Do they give permission to phish testing companies to reuse their valuable trademarks? Is it appropriate for them to do so? How would my company's lawyers feel if the phish testers used my company's trademarks?

ShakataGaNai,

@ftp_alun No one loves them, but they can be used to help educate users. Just a quick reminder of "Hey, please don't click things without thinking". It's not a punishment, we don't need to look down our noses at the users, just a helpful exercise that takes all of about 15 seconds out their day at worst.

Also for all the logo/trademark usage, I'd say that probably falls under "fair use".

ShakataGaNai,

@ftp_alun "In general, there are ". The "in general" is the key on that page. There are generally accepted use cases for educational use (ex https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/copyrightinfo/fairuse.html & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content ). Most fair use is based on interpretations of the law, rather than directly set in stone. It's also very country dependent, the US being more accepting of Fair use than others.

Anyways, using of logos and trademarks for phishing would be strongly in the case of education. And as a security person, I'd be ok with people using my company's logo for their training. If fake emails from my company are a threat to yours, you should train your staff on as real of content as you can. If you make a poor quality facsimile of our logo (to work around trademark laws), it's going to be obvious to the users.

ShakataGaNai,

@ftp_alun So by that logic you should not learn the results of any testing. No score, no right, no wrong. Because learning if you did something right or wrong has no value.

I'm not TRYING to deceive you. I'm TRYING to show you, the user, what the bad people do. Unfortunately, the bad people do want to deceive you. It is my hope and dream that I can educate you into what to look for so you nothing bad happens to you. Be in at work, or in your personal life.

ShakataGaNai, to fediverse

The new "Threads" app by Insta Meta Face Gram, is live. Wanted to see what it was about, it's stuck at the "Join Threads" button, so the launch is going well.

I'm curious as to what they think interacting with Mastodon & the Fediverse means for real. Or if they are just using some hype train words.

ShakataGaNai, to random

Nap time

ShakataGaNai,

@ShakataGaNai Reply test!

ShakataGaNai, to random

If anyone needs a great example about the realities of / - See today's weather.

Yesterday it was a high of 72F, today a high of 95F. A +23F jump in a single 24 hour period. Also also, the overnight low this morning was 55F.

geravitywave, to random
@geravitywave@sfba.social avatar

Cool, clean Pacific air will help regulate highs on the coast, but that marine shield loses its influence the further inland you go. 🥶➡️🥵

Find your neighborhood and catch some insights into the why behind the first heat event of the summer: https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather-forecast/article/heat-wave-air-quality-18175004.php

ShakataGaNai,

@geravitywave Can confirm that here in Walnut Creek, the "cool weather" is very over. 22F warmer today vs yesterday at this time.

tas50, to random

It's time for a bigger antenna

ShakataGaNai,

@tas50 Yea. I moved my planePi from my office to the garage. Same setup, just higher up (still inside) and it jumped quite a bit.

Went I went from the garage to outside my max range jumped from barely 100NM to 250NM.

Screenshots: April 10th the PlanePi was still in the garage. April 17th it was on the roof.

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ShakataGaNai, to random

Well Reddit Corporate has decided to go full draconian on moderators participating in the and .

There is a clear and obvious threat presented here, for a subreddit of 270 members....

ShakataGaNai,

@RandomDamage No, clearly they wont ban the mods. They are the best slave labor... I mean most active users on the site. They'll just de-mod them.

Many subs have found a workaround, r/pics r/gifs and r/aww now only allow pictures of John Oliver. r/interestingasfuck/ basically has no requirements as long as YOU find it interesting, so it's all porn.

ShakataGaNai,

@JessTheUnstill @RandomDamage Yes. Reddit is a useful resource when googling for something. But what brings the most eyeballs in is the CONSTANT stream of new content to consume. People want to scroll and scroll and scroll.

If there is no new content, the average user is way less interested in visiting. They can scroll TikTok or YouTube or Instagram instead.

ShakataGaNai,

@RandomDamage The average SaaS service is about 10% of their total costs in "hosting". And a majority of that is bandwidth and compute. Storage costs are so laughably small in comparison to every other expense a company of that size has that it's not even worth mentioning.

ShakataGaNai,

@nopersonalspace There's an easy solution. Open the subs, remove all rules, allow porn, and don't take a heavy hand to moderation. That's what r/interestingasfuck did.

Adman, to apple

Does anyone understand how Family really works?

We have a family Apple One Premier plan. My wife’s account is the Owner and our kids are Child accounts.

I’ve added myself to this Family and storage and backup etc all seems to be cutover. I did get a prompt that my News+ subscription will get a refund.

Now, Music. I am lost. Indod have a Music subscription, what happens there? It shows I’m part of the plan for region, but am I supposed to do something to be part of the Apple One subscription?

It’s so confusing and nothing online seems to clearly indicate “what happens when you join a family plan with existing individual services”

ShakataGaNai,

@Adman the documentation might not be the best but apple does have actually humans the answer the phone when you call support. And they tend to be well trained. So you could always ask.

ShakataGaNai, to 3DPrinting

Made my first "artistic" 3D Model, and of course, I made an Otter . I really wanted to compete in the Printables "Quick Flexi" challenge. If you like 3D Printing... or Otters, check it out!

https://www.printables.com/model/505947-flexi-otter

ShakataGaNai,

@andypiper Woo! I look forward to seeing the results, hopefully it comes out great!

ShakataGaNai, to reddit

Hey / peeps,

Once again Louis Rossman knocks it out of the park with his summary of the situation. In short, u/Spez thinks "You are noise". Nothing but noise, of no value. Lets keep up the strike and show him he's so so terribly wrong.

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

ShakataGaNai,

@Cubeytheawesome That seems a bit ... sociopathic.

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