malwaretech

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange

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malwaretech, to random

I actually still can't get over how amazing LA is. The average winter temperature here is close to the average summer temperature where I'm from. It's January and I'm spending most days at the beach surfing the big winter swells, whereas in England I'd have had to decide if it's worth struggling to put on a 3ft thick wetsuit to survive the 8c/45f sea temperature.

malwaretech,

@ourdumbfuture I didn't get a choice, I was basically just dropped in LA

mttaggart, to random

When the Director of CSIS calls for kinetic responses to cyberattacks, we should all sit up and take note. We should also all be very concerned. The proposed rules of engagement in this article include:

The United States can and will use all elements of state power to effectively defend the homeland against any threat, in any domain. The Department of Defense stated a version of this policy in the context of integrated deterrence, but it is worth a high-level official saying it again. The official should point out that U.S. policy refuses to target civilian critical infrastructure, so a proportional response to a cyberattack on our critical infrastructure would be serious and likely include economic or military measures.

The article directly calls out the challenges of attribution and understanding of intent, but defaults to a retaliatory stance for reasons that are, in my opinion, deeply hypothetical—especially the hand-wavy claim that "AI" is going to make these threats more dangerous. There is absolutely no evidence for that claim.

The cyberwar might be here, but every day the intelligence community and military make de-escalatory choices about how to respond to these attacks. I contend we're better off for them doing so.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-united-states-needs-a-new-way-to-think-about-cyber

malwaretech,

@mttaggart As far as I'm aware there has never been any policy that cyber attacks are treated as fundamentally different to kinetic ones. A lot of the public have this idea in their head that cyber should only be responded to with cyber, but that has never been the case. There is absolutely no difference between a cyber attack on, say, a power grid, and blowing up substations. Both the intent and effect is the same, the means by which the attack is orchestrated literally does not matter at all.

The entire idea of "cyber war" is logically incoherent nonsense imo.

malwaretech,

@mttaggart I'm honestly extremely confused by the article. The author has credentials, but then repeatedly conflates intrusions with attacks and implies some Iranian scriptkiddie group going after Israeli PLC hardware is a significant attack by Iran on the US. To have the discussion about kinetic response, we can't be conflating intrusions and attacks. China shutting off a US power grid = fine, response however you please. China infiltrating a US power grid and doing nothing = an intrusion, and responding with force would be literally insane.

malwaretech,

@mttaggart But yeah, basically what I was trying to say is that all these agencies coming out and stating they can/will responded to cyber attacks kinetically, has basically always been the case, they're just clarifying it.

If there was a significant attack that caused loss of life, or other major harm, they'd respond kinetically if that was most convenient. But then the general public (and this article author for some reason) has been tying themselves in knots by calling cyber-intrusions cyberattacks then convincing themselves the US is gonna like Nuke Russia over SolarWinds or something.

malwaretech, to random

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    malwaretech,

    @Trevorgoodchild it’s boring though, I want to go fast

    malwaretech, to random

    I’m a little ashamed that 90% of my music playlist comes from TikTok memes. I’ve listened to this one so much that YouTube has started giving me ads in Chinese 😆
    https://youtu.be/IBaWc3C00kU?si=BXUvgLnIWvZ5P1_E

    malwaretech,

    @grumpasaurus I like it, but I prefer Nawukere’s rap. It just sounds angrier 😁

    malwaretech,

    @KyanHexagon It definitely fills the Eminem shaped hole in my heart

    malwaretech, to random

    Here's to hoping my computer skills get me drafted into the cyber army, or my lack of any other skills get me disqualified for the regular one. I wasn't build for fighting, I need wifi and pizza delivery

    malwaretech, to random

    I just got the most dystopian YouTube ad. It's made using an AI to sound like Donald Trump warning everyone that America is about to be attacked and the food supply will be destroyed. The link just goes to some weird website selling meal rations 🥴​

    video/mp4

    malwaretech, to random

    Something about my apartment has led to all my plants becoming extremely confused and flowering in winter instead of late spring 😆​

    malwaretech, to random

    After a year off Twitter, I'm surprised that I don't have even a single regret about leaving. The more I think about it, the more I realize it wasn't the takeover that did it. Sure, there was a massive and harmful political shift, but there's just always been something about the platform that attracts extremely unhealed people regardless of political leaning.

    You can make a post like "I just got a coffee and the milk was sour" then someone on the right will be like "Biden's border crisis is the reason we can't get good milk anymore" and then someone on the left will be like "do you think starving children in Africa would complain about sour milk?". Eventually, you just realize the platform is designed for people who's only form of therapy is logging on to the internet and being annoying as fuck.

    malwaretech,

    @paninid I'm so over it. The social in social media is a real big misnomer.

    malwaretech,

    @ferrix accurate 🤣​

    malwaretech,

    @dogfox carefully engineered dopamine farm designed to create high engagement numbers to impress advertisers

    malwaretech, to random

    We haven't done any layoffs, we just happened to relocate our office to the worst state in the US, resulting in many of our employees leaving.

    malwaretech, (edited ) to random

    I really like the Amazon Prime Video feature where it blocks 1/4 of the screen with an unclosable ‘watch next episode’ popup that opens 15 minutes before the current episode has finished.

    malwaretech, to random

    Am I the only one who feels like still using employment rate as a metric for a healthy economy is basically just gaslighting at this point?

    Employment used to mean you had a good chance of affording a home, maybe two kids, and potentially even on just a single income. Now you can have a full time job and still need food stamps or a side job just to pay bills.

    Then of course, because salaries are so low relative to the cost of living, it makes employment numbers look even better because people who wouldn't have been forced to work now are. You have households where both parents have full time jobs, people with disabilities forced to work because they can't cover bills, students dropping out of college because it's now unaffordable.

    Then some goober economist comes on TV and goes "well, unemployment is at record lows so obviously everything is fine"

    malwaretech,

    @erc_bk I don't read articles from Noah, saw enough clown posts from him while I was on Twitter to not value his opinion at the paper it's written on

    malwaretech,

    @AllFallDown That's unsurprising, low interest rates usually do that

    malwaretech,

    @AllFallDown i know :)

    rayredacted, to random

    Hey @malwaretech https://x.com/rayredacted/status/1746252073245519940?s=46

    malwaretech,

    @rayredacted what was it? I’m not there

    malwaretech,

    @nivek1385 @rayredacted lol >_<

    malwaretech, to random

    I wonder if Tesla shareholders are upset because Elon is preoccupied with Twitter instead of fixing Tesla, or happy because he's busy killing Twitter instead of turning more of his finger paintings into unsellable cars

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