Quantified Failure
Data Driven Intelligence When planning regime change it is useful to know a bit about the target country’s population. How will they feel about the invasion...
June 14, 2022
During WW2 enemy beaches had to be surveyed and mapped. There was a top secret group of elite cartographers and surveyors who were up to the task! To carry...
June 13, 2022
Calum E. Douglas @CalumDouglas1Without actually understanding applied mathematics to a good level you cant win a world war. This is one of the most important...
June 12, 2022
Another reminder of how difficult it is to maintain good OPSEC for long periods of time. Mistakes are fatal, and inevitable. The better way to run a secret...
June 11, 2022
Great article on ancient warfare. I know you all subscribe for the history, so you’ll love this. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/no-...
June 10, 2022
[Ed: the end of RSAC week. The internets are out of cybers. They just need a glass of milk and a nap, and they'll be ready to go…] Farida Rustamova...
Userland Rootkits are Lame
Many people may not know this, but fifteen…twenty years ago I knew a thing or two about rootkit development. I wrote detection software for a few years as...
June 9, 2022
A userland rootkit is pretty weak. There are some easy ways to detect it. The simplest is to just use a staticky linked binary, like busybox, rather than the...
June 8, 2022
On June 5 Russians took over a streaming TV service in Ukraine and for ten minutes replaced the England v Wales football match with Russian propaganda. Cyber...
June 7, 2022
Probably the big article of the day, this one on CIA hacking. The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge | The New Yorker A hot-headed coder is accused of...
June 6, 2022
Wow Runa Sandvik @runasandAnne-Elisabeth Hagen, wife of Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen, disappeared without a trace from her home near Oslo on 31 October...
June 5, 2022
JF Bastien @jfbastienI often think about this (now deleted) @johnregehr tweet: C is awesome because it defers problems to runtime, at which point people...
June 4, 2022
Amazing read. Dmitri 🇺🇦 @mdmitri91The Russian 35th army, transferred from Far East and stationed in Izyum, is successfully destroyed by its own army command...
June 3, 2022
The Folina 0day was used to attack Russia and Belarus, based on the location where the ITW samples were uploaded. It is interesting that a clearly...
June 2, 2022
Huge but very confusing news. This raises more questions than it answers. What did they do? When? Where? Who else knew about it? Very very interesting but...
Foghorn: Signals Through the Fog of War
Ukraine Survives and Thrives Russia’s first wave of destructive cyber effects operations against Ukraine were effective. They targeted and disabled Ukrainian...
June 1, 2022
James Vincent @jjvincentI’m sorry but I couldn’t resist: since I’ve just written a whole book on the subject, I want to talk about the history of anti-metric...
May 31, 2022
If you read nothing else, read this. It is epic, brutal, and amazing. Hard Drive Apologizes to Elon Musk for Dunking on Him Too Hard Hard Drive would like to...
May 30, 2022
Polish LARPers play contemporary Americans. ✨𝖇𝖊𝖓✨ @PenBercifieldIn Poland, there is a LARP group that roleplays as contemporary Americans. Here they are...
May 29, 2022
Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraesThere are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-...
