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jimfenton

@jimfenton@mastodon.social

Husband and Dad; networking guy, focusing on security and identity. Ham radio operator (K1JH), bicyclist. Based in Silicon Valley.

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J12t, to random
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Tried to send a message to the IETF's mailing list with some feedback from @feditest. Tried three different sender e-mail addresses. None of them went through. Not sure what else to try.

jimfenton,
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@J12t First try sending a message to webfinger-join@ietf.org to subscribe and then try sending to the list. IETF just changed its list management tools so maybe it forgot you.

jimfenton,
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@J12t One of the area directors recently posted that she plans to close the webfinger list in a few weeks due to inactivity. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/webfinger/

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@J12t It might also help to create an account at https://datatracker.ietf.org. Let me know if you continue to have problems and I’ll escalate it to the tools team.

nixCraft, to random
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What is a 10x engineer? Wrong answers only.

jimfenton,
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@nixCraft Still uses the Tenex operating system

J12t, to random
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Status: "broadband" connection is smoking.

I put "broadband" in quotes because in the middle of this technology desert called Silicon Valley, I have a choice of exactly two broadband providers, and the one that has the less-horrible privacy policy has date rates that were last acceptable maybe last century.

jimfenton,
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@J12t @jamesmarshall Currently waiting for Sonic fiber to arrive on my street. A couple months, supposedly.

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@jamesmarshall @J12t They can’t pull fiber through the conduit?

jimfenton,
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@J12t @jamesmarshall Service to our house is underground and there’s a string they can use to pull additional cables. I imagine they do the same elsewhere.

lauren, to random
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Apple telling employees in San Diego that the only way they could keep their jobs was to move to Austin was tantamount to firing most of them, and disgusting beyond measure, especially for female employees for whom moving to Austin could potentially be a death sentence in a complicated pregnancy under horrific Texas laws.

jimfenton,
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@lauren Requiring employees to transfer to some other city used to be routine: remember when IBM was called "Ive Been Moved"? But the situation in Texas is horrific. Short-sided of Apple to build an expansive campus there, except maybe that decision was made well before current political situation.

PogoWasRight, to random

Seriously: who decides what "best practice(s)" is/are for incident response? And how is that determination made?

A law professor reportedly informed a student news outlet it was “best practice” to limit information about a breach claimed by threat actors until there was information on the full scope of the breach and the network was secure.

“Institutions do not want to get into a drip situation where they notify people of a breach, then later learn the breach was worse than understood, and then have to give more and more notices,” he wrote.

So "best practice" is defined as what is most convenient or in the entity's best interests instead of in the best interests of those whose data were stolen? I can understand the wanting to secure the network part, but it is not acceptable in the World According to Dissent to delay disclosure of a breach until you know the full scope if data are already being leaked on the internet or appear to be at plausible risk of imminent misuse.

Calling delays like this "best practices" seems to confer some legitimacy on delays that I don't think are all legitimate reasons.

(Wanders off in search of coffee..)

@brett @douglevin @funnymonkey @campuscodi @amvinfe

jimfenton,
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@campuscodi @amvinfe @brett @douglevin @PogoWasRight @funnymonkey Calling something a “best practice” is often just a way to assert something without having to justify it. “Why do I have to change my password every 3 months? A: It’s a ‘best practice.’”

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    jimfenton,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Does this mean she will be disbarred? Or has that happened already?

    timbray, to random
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    Reading the latest from @erictopol: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/when-the-breakthrough-g-agonists

    Quote: “The G-agonists are moving to become the most successful drugs in medical history”

    Getting the feeling that in a decade or so, everybody over 50 who isn’t anomalously skinny/healthy is going be taking these drugs routinely.

    jimfenton,
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    @erictopol @timbray Wonder what the impact on the food service industry will be.

    PogoWasRight, to random

    I managed to escape having during the , but get it NOW? Ugh. And no, it's not a light case, but hopefully the Paxlovid will help. News updates on the site will resume when I can function normally.

    jimfenton,
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    @PogoWasRight Hope the Paxlovid helps! It seemed to help me.

    danyork, to random
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    This is brilliant! Going to high school in the 1980s, I learned to type on an IBM Selectric. Fun to see it turned into a Linux terminal!

    (And WOW, I had no idea how much was inside a typewriter!

    From: @jpmens
    https://mastodon.social/@jpmens/110774786381000942

    jimfenton,
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    @danyork @jpmens Sounds like an IBM 2741 terminal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741

    jimfenton, to random
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    When you’re staying at some bed-and-breakfast, how do you explain that IPv6 internet is working but IPv4 isn’t? “The internet works to some places but not others.”

    spacerog, to bluesky
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    And people are asking me to do this thing? Yeah, no thanks.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4034584-ex-twitter-leader-jack-dorsey-endorses-rfk-jr-for-president/

    jimfenton,
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    @spacerog I don’t suppose there is a way to give up my place in the waitlist, is there?

    m8urnett, to random

    r/passwords isn't shutting down yet, but the fediverse version is now at https://infosec.pub/c/passwords

    jimfenton,
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    @m8urnett Nice! But the method of subscribing by pasting something in the search field of my instance isn't working for me it seems.

    mathowie, to random
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    The most confident statement from the Apple Event I heard that won't come true was "AirPlay for Hotels". Imagine every hotel chain you stay in soon will let you play your music and video on their TVs, effectively helping their PPV revenue go to zero.

    I'm sure hotels are clamoring for that!

    (Google pushed for "Cast to a TV" support a few years ago that maybe I got to work once or twice ever, but now doesn't seem to exist in any Marriott or Hilton places I stay)

    jimfenton,
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    @mathowie I can HDMI connect to the TVs at most hotels, so they aren’t getting any revenue from me anyway. The bigger question is how much more internet bandwidth they’d need if more guests were doing this or AirPlay.

    eric_capuano, to random

    Just got a phishing email that is DKIM signed from notification.intuit.com

    It even had a tracking pixel that referred back to an actual Intuit server.

    Very interesting. Anyone know someone on the security team at Intuit? They might want to know about this one.

    jimfenton,
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    @eric_capuano I noticed this last September. Doesn’t sound like they have resolved that, even 8 months later. https://twitter.com/jimfenton/status/1575894030969233415

    davew, to random
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    I am working with @johnspurlock on RSS 2.0 feeds for Bluesky.

    An example, here's the feed of my Bluesky posts.

    https://rss.firesky.tv/?filter=from%3Ascripting.com

    You should be able to subscribe to that in any feed reader that understands RSS, even if you don't have a Bluesky account.

    jimfenton,
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    @davew @johnspurlock I am not that anxious to see what the cool kids are saying on Bluesky.

    J12t, to random
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    Looking for a prediction market for federal default in a few weeks, can't find any. Where have all the prediction markets gone?

    jimfenton,
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    @J12t Who needs a prediction market when you can just buy foreign securities?

    J12t, to random
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    What a totally fascinating graph! Spot the difference!

    Seems to me there is little immunity over time, but certainly a great reduction of symptoms! Except when Omicron hit.

    jimfenton,
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    @J12t I interpret it as a reduction in the ability to report cases. Most cases are going unreported this year.

    J12t, to random
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    Lots of noisy supersonic planes in the air in the bay area. That is very unusual. What is going on?
    If you wanted to train your pilots, wouldn't you find some regions with few people on them, and California has plenty of those. So I wonder...

    jimfenton,
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    @J12t Not supersonic but I heard/saw at least one very loud fighter plane near Moffett today. Traffic was a bit unusual, yes.

    J12t, to random
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    Imagine if Tucker Carlson ran for president. Now that he's jobless and we know he hates Trump, what else is there to do? (Can you imagine a TV debate between them plus DeSantis?)

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    @J12t Someone should ask ChatGPT to write a fictional debate between them.

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