Benjamin S @_dlgeek_
Software Engineer building crypto/security products in the cloud. Now @[email protected] Joined January 2019-
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No more dark afternoons in the winter. No more losing an hour of sleep every spring. RT if you agree that we should end the painfully inconvenient ritual of changing our clocks twice a year and make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
I am now infosec.exchange/@dlgeek. I may also sign up on a few more Mastodon communities, TBD.
Reminder to Silicon Valley: there’s an even chance that many governments in the world will be run by authoritarian movements in the future. Your window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out.
Well, that's a new one. Someone is using the "Suggest a job" function on the @Microsoft careers site to send me spam.
Hey @Centurylinkhelp how come your customer service line is still down? You're a phone company, isn't that what you do?
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Only thing @googlefi support was able to confirm was "yup, it's not a problem on your end, no clue where the problem is and we can't escalate or report it to anyone who might have a clue" So that's great.
Thoughts on how to build a verifiably secure x86-based Linux appliance - mjg59.dreamwidth.org/57199.html
From @dakami’s niece - You may remember her from Dan’s 2008 video “Sarah on DNS” - RT @sarahbrie: Rest In Peace, Dan Kaminsky. Our world will never be the same. (please RT)
This. I am a senior engineer who has written significant chunks of the API of a major cloud service. I still refer to the public documentation of the thing that I literally wrote myself to make sure I get things right.
This. I am a senior engineer who has written significant chunks of the API of a major cloud service. I still refer to the public documentation of the thing that I literally wrote myself to make sure I get things right.
Thanks @NWSSeattle. Now I have to pull out my calculator...
A few weeks ago, there was a big story about a lot of nuclear particles being detected around the Baltic Sea, suggesting some sort of nuclear accident or test. Then...no follow up, no nothing. Did anyone ever see any sort of explanation?

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