Sunday, May 10, 2026

Cloud Mythos - If You Dare Open the Pandora's Box


Whether you view it as genuine caution or very clever marketing (the model gets enormous attention precisely because you can’t have it), the outcome is the same: a handful of major tech and cybersecurity companies now have exclusive access to something that can locate software vulnerabilities faster than any human or team. --Davey McGlade

Guess the Zuckerberg will be shelling out more billions for defectors from Anthropic. Coz, guess what? Facebook (META) has been DENIED!

One way of saying, you can't have it, but you can buy us for $2T

The 27 year old OpenBSD bug we all happily missed - including Eric Schmidt (an integer overflow condition that allows a remote attacker to crash any OpenBSD host responding over TCP - allowing denial of service.)



Monday, May 04, 2026

Hero Ben Brundage - Are Tiny Networked Devices in Your Home Part of a BotNet?

WSJ resource : https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/residential-proxy-network-cybersecurity-botnets-03856c7f

https://spur.us/context/me (from the podcast show notes)

If he hadn't taken time off studying for his finals, the internet might have died - so says the WSJ :)


Bigger than Stuxnet, but KimWolf was no match for Benjamin Brundage of Seattle

Back to the point : if you're making money off your network, but sharing bandwidth, be warned. Who does that anyway? Are ghetto people that smart? Maybe word gets around