They saved others, but they couldn’t save themselves.[1]
Important to remember that security practitioners and vendors are actually on the same team when it comes to criminal behavior, and maybe it’s better to treat others with grace.
This is a really cool tool! I wanted to ask - you mention HAR files - how do you ensure tokens and secrets don’t end up in them / stored on your end or anywhere else they may end up?
The Genius Bar also takes forever to get appointments at now compared to how it was. I think they maintained close to the same number of retail locations as their customer base exploded, which probably works out better economically but is far less convenient.
Place I used to work at in Australia 15+ years ago used SUSE. Novell owned it and they positioned it as their replacement for NetWare, and a lot of ex-NetWare sites ending up running it (at least for a while). But even that place, we had more Oracle Linux than SUSE. Everything that ran on Solaris got migrated to Oracle Linux (e.g. Oracle RDBMS); everything that ran on NetWare (GroupWise, eDirectory) got migrated to OES (SUSE plus extra ex-NetWare bits). But then I think most of the SUSE went away when GroupWise/eDir were replaced by Exchange/AD on Windows. Whereas they are probably still using Oracle Linux today. Actually, originally we were going to use RHEL, but found Red Hat’s sales team too difficult to deal with, whereas we already were an Oracle customer.
SUSE is a fascinating company. They’ve been in the game since the 90s. They have over 2300 employees. Revenue is ~650 MM USD. But I rarely hear of anyone using their distro.
Was anything verified online prior 2015? as I recall in the early days of the internet it was just trust nothing, what do you remember about validating online information prior to 2015?
hm.. What information would you use without a web of trust to validate information online? I think before 2015 we just said never trust anything online and everyone you're talking to is probably a 40 year old man trying to scam you. What is "thinking for yourself" in this case, using your confirmation bias to find the information online that validates your priors?
What information do fact checkers, journalists, and other so-called authorities use to validate information? Why do you believe they are the arbiters of truth?
How would your rationale fair during the Copernican Revolution? In 1615, just a few hundred years ago, the arbiters of truth concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted the prevailing thought of the time.
If you really spend the time to think through the question, I think you'll conclude there is no reason for these fools to be gate keeping, especially when they consistently get most things wrong most of the time.
Ironically, before Twitter validated people, people relied _more_ on "these fools" because no one trusted anything outside of university and media websites
And in the copernican revolution I probably wouldn’t have believed in heliocentrism and lost almost nothing in life, but it wasn’t casual observers who changed that world either, it was people who dedicated their life to it, akin to the “ checkers, journalists, and other so-called authorities” you mention.
Important to remember that security practitioners and vendors are actually on the same team when it comes to criminal behavior, and maybe it’s better to treat others with grace.
1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-mitigated-yet-ano...