Schneier on Security

Clive Robinson • July 29, 2023 1:48 PM

@ RobertT,

“I live such a boring life that nobody would want to bother me anymore”

That was my plan as well, unfortunately my curiosity is still “bringing me to attention”.

“these days it’s so hard to remember who your friends are, and even if you remember the more important question is …do they?”

In my case I remember them almost daily, but as all but a couple have died these past few years…

Which leaves a very strange feeling, because in all honesty I’d expected to have gone first, especially as some were five or more years younger than me and in good health.

But also my enemies are now of times past but the desire to dance has gone, you turn up and throw down a sod and mumble a few words. It’s all so strange.

Due to on going health issues I was not expecting to make it out of my fifties, but I did, and even though the Government keeps moving it, it looks like I will pass the age where I have to collect the pension.

But as they say “I have family thinking about me” or is it the inheritance not sure maybe both… Which always reminds me of that other saying “You can pick your friends, but not your family”.

“So much BS and so little time and frankly no interest.”

Yes, it kind of scares me that “the indistry” is not learning from even it’s very recent living history…

So the wheel turns and in the rut that follows we see so much that could so easily need not have been there…

I must admit there are times I think “there must be a short and pithy word for this” situation, where the attackers apparently remember but the defenders do not…

Any way keep well and out of harms way and where you can have some fun 😉

Clive Robinson • August 4, 2023 4:40 PM

@ RobertT,

“I don’t get out much these days”

Not getting out much has become a bit of a habit these past three years, along with mask wearing and the like.

I went into my local shop yesterday, limping due to an infected foot[1], and the owner who I used to chat with almost daily, said it had been three weeks since I’d last poped in… Worse the chip shop next door had a notice on it saying that “due to the cost of supplies” they were closed untill the prices returned to normal…

“These days I entertain myself by playing around with analog computers and Quantum ML”

Hey everyone needs a hobby, otherwise we just end up shouting at politicians on the TV News 😉

With regards,

“I steer well clear of anything even remotely related to security”

Yes I remember one of your previous comments.

But lets be honest ICTsec as an industry has become dull dull dull. I don’t think I’ve seen anything actually new or original in quite sometime. In fact as I mention from time to time as an indistry we appear to just repeate the same old mistakes over and over. With nobody on the defending side appearing to remembered, let alone learn from security events as little as less than a couple of years ago…

But worse ICT appears to be going through a series of market bubbles designed to fleece investors in various ways. As you know my views on Crypto-Coins was both long-cons by the developers and short-cons by the supporting markets. In both cases getting pumped and dumped by Venture Capitalists. Who were starting to move onto Smart Contracts and NFTs and all things Web3.0, but that died under them so now they appear to be trying to turn AI LLM’s into the latest hype to bilk investors with.

You don’t want to take a guess at what will be the next hype bubble thus faux-market after LLMs?

Mind you apparently Nvidia has become the first Trillion Dollar chip company. But… I’m hearing rumours that they are not just unhappy with the US-China tech embargo from US politicos but are already actively side stepping the embargos in various ways. And that it’s not unrelated to the ARM issues surfacing again. So for those that might have invested in Nvidia stock it might be a sensible time to start moving investmebt quietly elsewhere… Likewise it might be time to not have interests in TSMC as things might just go kinetic down there. TSMC are apparently putting upwards of 100billion into the US, Japan, and EU to setup new plant all of a sudden, in what might be an attempt to get out of the target zone.

Hopefully you’ve found a comfortable spot to make popcorn and be a distant spectator to what could turn out to be a real bruise-fest one way or another.

But “pop-by” more often there’s very few of the “usual suspects” still commenting, though I know some are still reading along.

[1] It’s unfortunately become a recurring problem… Put simply I need my ingrowing toe nails removed and it was supposed to have happened around five years ago… But with heart probs then C19 they keep finding excuses not to do it… The latest is that “because the reinfections happen so frequently I need to be treated by a specialist…”. They then act all miffed when you say to them “If you’ld done it when you were supposed to have done it, half a decade or more ago, it would not be a receruing issue that has a habit of becoming sepsis thus life endangering”… So yeh for some reason they think my social skills are not what they could be 😉