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shortridge

@shortridge@hachyderm.io

Senior Director @Fastly | author of Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software & Systems (O'Reilly)

resilience + complex systems | bringing software security out of the dark ages

&void; | daedric prince of chaos | previously @swagitda_

โ€œIn the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought."

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shortridge, to Cybersecurity
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my new post covers how to get started with chaos experiments without having to larp as sysadmin, disrupt your users, or piss off your execs โœจ https://www.fastly.com/blog/chaotic-good-resilience-stress-tests-at-the-edge

it includes a js code example that verifies super basic #cybersecurity assumptions about your orgโ€™s website, like:

๐Ÿช my site requires cookies or auth headers
โš”๏ธ my site does not allow cross-origin requests

so, itโ€™s a great starter experiment to get familiar with the practice โ€” and it clones requests to avoid fucking with prod โœจ

wingo, to random

graphviz is a tool to convert graphs to unintelligible spaghetti

shortridge,
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@wingo literally why @rpetrich and I created Deciduous https://github.com/rpetrich/deciduous

I will never get all those hours of dot wrangling back, but we hope we can spare others of a similar fate (at least in the decision tree context)

shortridge, to random
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a confession: Iโ€™ve battled mourning doves for months, ever since I bought a bird feeder for my garden and they kept draining it in less than a day.

they are allegedly stupid creatures, but thatโ€™s just what they want us to think.

I am plausibly an expert in cyber defense, having written a book and academic papers, lectured at federal agencies and F500s alike โ€” yet the doves thwart my every mitigation.

I planned to write a blog post once I won, but my hope for victory further desiccates dailyโ€ฆ

shortridge,
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@mikeloukides that might work when there is actual ground, but I, living in NYC, have only a humble rooftop that Iโ€™d rather not be smeared in dove shit.

So, the doves hanging around all day is still a non-starter.

But, the focus of my battle is a Bird Buddy. I did buy a squirrel buster feeder which indeed prohibits them from feeding, but I am extremely stubborn so wanted to thwart their ambitions to feed from the Bird Buddy; that way, the finches, cardinals, and sparrows could finally feed.

shortridge, to random
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tired: too many browser tabs

wired: the system is struggling to absorb and regenerate from anthropogenic stresses

shortridge,
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@th how does it feel to possess such power

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