Keith Lawson

QOTD: Computer scientists love that computer scientists love recursion.

Enshittification: the DRM-free audiobook "Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (an audiobook Amazon won't sell!)

I just backed Enshittification: the DRM-free audiobook on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/doc...

I have seen many failed attempts at trying to secure SMTP over my career and there's always a flaw. Better tools exist today. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3993713/secure-email-a-losing-battle-cisos-must-give-up.html

Nearly 30 years in IT and I still can't fix a printer.

Why it costs 30% more to operate ChatGPT in Canada. That number jumps to 50% more if you account for apology prompts: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sam-altman-reveals-why-saying-please-thank-you-chatgpt-costs-millions-dollars-1732942

In 1998 it was a bandwidth constraint, today it’s a compute constraint. Sure feels cyclical to me.

Am I the only one reminded of downloading images on a 9600 baud connection when I'm watching ChatGPT generate an image?

I can't wait until this is available in Canada 'ssh terminal.shop'

Confirmation on the Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) breach. FBI investigating. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/fbi-investigating-cyberattack-at-oracle-bloomberg-news-reports/ar-AA1BScjW

If my brain were a git repo it would keep accidentally deleting main and I'd be stuck on with only the new feature branch apparently.

So after getting distracted creating this crossposter I completely forget what I wanted to post to both accounts. Sigh.

Testing a URL https://duckduckgo.com

Tests are from a little cross posting script https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter. I'm curious how others are dealing with multiple accounts these days?

Crosspost test bsky

It's so funny because it's so true.

Oracle Cloud denies claims of server intrusion : Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale

"The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data." - This first sentence could be 100% true if they "only" got access to customer LDAP objects stored in Oracle Cloud, I guess.

www.theregister.com/2025/03/23/o...

I think of the evolution of robotics in automotive assembly plants that have had decades to automate. Is there a single fully autonomous assembly plant in existence?

I think the prediction about humans cleaning up AI code is spot on but I suspect that AI code will be higher quality than humans who are new to writing code. 100% of code being generated by AI though? C'mon.

I'm astounded Oracle's default stance is deny. I thought we were beyond vendors pretending breaches weren't real.

The Biggest Supply Chain Hack Of 2025: 6M Records For Sale Exfiltrated from Oracle Cloud Affecting over 140k Tenants | CloudSEK CloudSEK uncovers a major breach targeting Oracle Cloud, with 6 million records exfiltrated via a suspected undisclosed vulnerability. Over 140,000 tenants are impacted, as the attacker demands ransom...

Thought maybe this was a publicity stunt not knowing the org but unfortunately it is not.

www.cloudsek.com/blog/the-big...

/agree

Would be happy to.

We’re not small business but I do work with some. What time/number?

You want people to ask questions here you’ll answer during the podcast or call in live during the podcast?

Pretend HTTP return codes that use the F word a lot

Happy Friday!

I'm really curious on peoples thoughts on making payments illegal. I'm finding it harder and harder to see the perspective of not making it illegal.

I adapted this post from a masters paper I wrote on Lockbit in 2024. Added my thoughts on making ransomware payments illegal. #ransomware #lockbit

keithlawson.me/Lockbit.html

Well this doesn't look right...

Elon Musk’s claim the X DDoS is from “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” is missing a key fact - it was actually IPs from worldwide, not just Ukraine.

It’s a Mirai variant botnet, made of compromised cameras. They specifically targeted a Twitter ASN which had origin servers not behind CF

Oh and to be clear I mean Oracle handing you and AWS report, not one for OCI.