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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_

“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought."

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shortridge, to llvm
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an LLVM to Excel spreadsheet compiler, truly what dreams are made of: https://belkadan.com/blog/2023/12/CellLVM/

it also reminded me of my investment banking days when I would crash Excel with iterative calculations (“brøether clippë may I have the lööps”)

ty for this gift to the world @jrose and P.S. I want to see the CSV alignment chart 👀

shortridge, to Cybersecurity
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my reaction when reading about the Triangulation chain is basically the Gordon Ramsey meme of “finally some good fucking food.”

it’s elegant af, even down to little implications like the actor having a solid detection toolchain for conditional triggering of eg PAC bypass.

I am impressed! it’s finally an actually sophisticated attack!

context: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mass-iphone-infection-campaign-targeted-secret-hardware-feature/

shortridge, to nyc
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OH someone on the phone on the street:

“It’s not illegal! it’s New York!”

I love this town so much

shortridge,
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@ferrix you are correct to do so, it was the quintessential new yawk accent

skamille, to random
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Asked for and received a bunch of fancy clothing cleaning chemicals for Christmas

shortridge,
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@skamille oooh I’m really curious about this

shortridge, to random
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love this very sober article scrutinizing quantum hype: https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics

tl;dr the applications are much more limited than the zealots suggest; overhead is far too high; fault-tolerance remains a thorny problem

saraislet, to random

"yes, we have a gluten free alternative appetizer"

The gluten free alternative to pot stickers or spring rolls:

shortridge,
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@saraislet the betrayal 😩

shortridge, to random
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probably a hot take, but I really don’t think we need more newsletters in the world. Quality over quantity, pls

shortridge,
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@Kensan lmao, I used to have a secret one a few years ago but it stopped being fun so I quit

shortridge,
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@Kensan “Return Oriented” (aforementioned newsletter from 2017 - ~2021) was invite only and not advertised — very much an IYKYK sort of thing. still under my name, just not publicized.

I agree with you, I also felt sad when I ended it, but imo such things are also a sign of growth. I like thinking of things as being “complete” rather than “over” — serving their purpose well in a particular local context, but not needed in the new context.

shortridge,
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@hazelweakly my personal rule is always “only write if you have something meaningful to say” (which you seem to share).

It feels like a lot of newsletters are so the author can say they have a newsletter, and the content within is repackaged filler rife with confirmation bias of mediocre writing quality (at best).

I guess it’s gatekeepy, but I feel like not everyone is a good writer and resent the implicit idea that your work / expertise is only meaningful if you create content.

shortridge, to random
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blessed yule and winter solstice to those who celebrate. sending out vibes of rebirth and resilience from my own pyrofantastic ritual. 🌞✨🕯️🌲

securingdev, to random

@shortridge can you please do a follow up to this blog post with how your recommendations fit into regulatory frameworks / requirements 🙏

https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/cybersecurity-isnt-special/

shortridge,
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@ChickenPwny @securingdev so glad you got to learn new things 🥰

shortridge, (edited ) to webassembly
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Wasm3 is sadly entering a minimal maintenance phase because the maintainer’s home was destroyed by Russian forces in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

But, Volodymyr will still be reviewing and accepting PRs, so this is a great opportunity to support him, the community, and the Ukrainian community by making contributions: https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3

shortridge, to Cybersecurity
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hello fediverse, I bring you tidings of hot takes and shade

my new essay discusses why cybersecurity isn’t special (nor should it be): https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/cybersecurity-isnt-special/

I debunk the myths around having unique concerns, explain why there’s more in common with and than we think, and describe 8 opportunities for us to make our software security programs constructive vs. constrictive.

tl;dr ye merry gentlemortals, let nothing you delay

shortridge, to random
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this is definitely one of those months (quarters, really) where reality seems to be conspiring against me.

gotta pour extra effort into my winter solstice ritual to regain the favor of the gods, I guess

shortridge, to Signal
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is anyone else experiencing the problem of Signal just like… eating messages? I will send a message, then come back to the app some minutes later and the message isn’t there at all

never happened until recently

shortridge,
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@thisismissem nope

shortridge,
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@fool no auto-delete. it doesn’t eat every message, fwiw, just some. Probably bro science but it seems like it especially happens when I’m multi-tasking and switch away from the window quickly.

shortridge,
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@fool nope, I mean mobile

shortridge,
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@fool no and no :(

shortridge,
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@high_cube nope, always within the app

shortridge,
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@lucas it is definitely not enabled

codinghorror, (edited ) to random

I said this before on the bird site but it really is true; I distinctly remember reading Ayn Rand as a teenager and thinking “this is some bullshit she is trying to pull here”. As pulp it is fine, but this is not a serious philosophy for serious people.

shortridge,
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@codinghorror I will die on the hill that she’s a great romance novelist

whitequark, to random
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placing my bicycle, upside down, closer to my working desk, booting my headmate's windows desktop, plugging a small $120 black box into the bike, and running extremely sketchy software to update and configure its firmware

where did my life go so wrong

shortridge,
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@stevelord @whitequark @Rairii this is why this site needs quote tweets

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