Notices by Greg Slepak 🐢 (taoeffect@mastodon.social), page 2

If you're developing a super-human intelligent #AI, please consider postponing your work for a bit to help improve the state of #infosec instead.

Unleashing such a creation onto the Internet right now would likely lead to problems that are best left for Hollywood movie scripts.

If you’re a developer and you don’t know #infosec, it’s time you learned.

Programming without #infosec is like drinking and driving, it’s hugely irresponsible.

Tech users, meanwhile, should work hard at becoming more paranoid and reducing attack surfaces as much as possible.

Ironically this is easier to do for non-technical users than technical users (who need laptops).

If you’re already a non-nerd, avoiding desktop and laptop computers for anything important is a good idea.

Tech people don’t have that luxury.

I recommend being a luddite for the next 3 years or so. Computers are really bad right now. Well, they’ve been really bad for a while, but we didn’t realize the magnitude of the badness, and now that the cat’s out of the bag…

RT https://twitter.com/roryisconfused/status/950801123807547392

John McAfee's life is something else, I can not tell you what it is, but it something else entirely. https://mastodon.social/media/XipIxQK7lVBgW1tsL6g

RT https://twitter.com/chubbyemu/status/950458621695070208

NEW VIDEO: A Man Drank 2 Liters Moonshine In 2 Hours. This Is What Happened To His Eyes. -RT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQUrg0Yhu4&list=PL26HeTCO57qcMQB6CrU6QRzEi9tt9l1FI&index=8 https://mastodon.social/media/lziaOx8-eLYWIToOExE

I have a zero-tolerance policy for people who call drug users “criminals”.

RT https://twitter.com/taoeffect/status/950820653040455680

That's a shame. I really like your tweets Neeraj, but perpetuating #DrugWar propaganda? That gets a 1 month block.

RT https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/950811919178383360

if you're interested in the actual impact of Apple's #Meltdown patches, this is the blog to read! 🍎👾

https://twitter.com/osxreverser/status/950807944836284416

RT https://twitter.com/Ethan_Heilman/status/950771968307089409

“Three things all wisemen fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and Linus supporting a security improvement with performance tradeoffs.”

https://twitter.com/0xMatt/status/950235858430382080

@markasoftware look it up

Intel and AMD processors are not just a threat to national security, they’re a threat to planetary security.

RT https://twitter.com/nbougalis/status/950501031133134848

This insanity, with processors to “manage” (read “subvert”) the processor must stop.

It is incumbent on us to make it clear that we don’t want these features and will not purchase CPUs that have them.

2 $BTC to whoever launches class action suits against AMD and Intel for PSP and ME/AMT.

RT https://twitter.com/taoeffect/status/950485644836392960

My CPU shouldn't have an unmodifiable TCP stack + web server on it listening for commands from the Internet.

Where are the lawsuits? I'll even chip in if someone is willing to launch one. Would sue them myself if I had the time.

RT https://twitter.com/taoeffect/status/950485644836392960

My CPU shouldn't have an unmodifiable TCP stack + web server on it listening for commands from the Internet.

Where are the lawsuits? I'll even chip in if someone is willing to launch one. Would sue them myself if I had the time.

I would think long and hard about this, if I were @gavofyork.

What am I working on? What am I working for? What am I working to be?

What would Wall Street do? How do I *not* do that? How do I avoid becoming like them?

Do the people writing the software never take responsibility for their actions?

Is it always "no HF" when someone outside of the core dev group makes a mistake, and "HF" when people inside the core dev group make a mistake?

Selective enforcement like this leads to corruption.