@twitter It's all these dev boys in si.valley with their gigabit connections who don't understand why anyone would have a problem loading lots of resources.

The year is 2017, and people are STILL using telnet to configure their network infrastructure.

It's a cloud-based SIEM.

Wanna know why I'm -immediately- pissed off? https://mastodon.hasameli.com/media/GvzXpqYh8GrPkQcfkCc

@maiyannah That is absolutely correct, and it's what drives me up the wall about so many of these people who, e.g., disable paste into password fields [thus defeating password managers] - they're encouraging the worse risk to 'defeat' a trivial, unlikely one.

As extortion campaigns go, that would be a very low cost one - and very low risk to the operators. Even if only 0.01% of targets paid up, the typical demand payment for ransomware would more than cover the costs of such a campaign, and there'd be no need at all for actually deploying the ransomware.

Alrighty. So xpost birbsite - https://twitter.com/InfoSecHotSpot/status/869618038429167618

Folks claimed to have exfilled Disney's new pirate movie and were demanding payment to keep from releasing it - which in this case was denied.

Thing is, though - smaller businesses could well be targeted for "we have installed stealth ransomware and will encrypt if you don't pay" type situations - how many of them would pay up?

I turned on the radio news today for the first time in a while and encountered a story that deeply confused me, having turned it on in the middle of the story.

Apparently someone had named a -horse- "Cloud Computing" and it won a race.

@sten0_SE

I get upset with blatant incompetence. If I'm going to have a hideous, corrupt government, I want it to at least be somewhere -close- to competent.

You know...it occurs to me that the Ghostbusters being a private agency is probably not a viable solution.

The service they provide is more of a public safety and infrastructure issue; having to get paid by clients is not a very effective way of supporting such an endeavour - it'd be rather like how firefighting was done in Colonial America, before the institution of public firefighters.

@clacke @eqdw @tim @sim I disagree - I think that federated web front ends are going to end up being the most accessible means of access for the vast majority of users; comparatively few will be able to effectively use P2P type networks given the nature of most consumer-facing ISPs and the comparatively higher expertise required to use them.