Early in my tech career...

Good morning! It's a beautiful day in Seattle.

Civics 101.

Think about the state of humanoid robotics today. Now, think about C3PO.
Uh-huh.
The Star Wars franchise is laughably inaccurate when it comes to anticipating future technology.

"I'm going to keep my Twitter account because at some point Elon Musk will tell a face-saving lie to explain why he's selling it without admitting his abject failure, and it'll once again become a cool platform."

Weekend entertainment: tell us about a time you used social engineering to gain access to a building, server room, or area where you won’t supposed to be. I’ll go first…
(LinkedIn post)

#cybersecurity #socialengineering #physicalaccess

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fifonetworks_cybersecurity-socialengineering-physicalaccess-activity-7197785820781580289-iOt6

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU'RE DOING OKAY.

1) Count the number of times you fell down.

2) Count the number of times you got back up.

3) Add the numbers together. If the answer is an even number, you're doing fine.

You have passed through and out of two vaginas. First, your maternal grandmother's, then your mother's. You first came into existence four or five months before your mother's official birthdate.

Bob’s First Law of Passkeys
(sub-titled, “How to crack Putin’s Microsoft account”)
“A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link,” and a passkey is only as strong as its weakest backup authentication method.

[LinkedIn post]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fifonetworks_callmeifyouneedme-fifonetworks-cybersecurity-activity-7195838040378912768-bzP0

They won't find it here because it's secret.

So-called "VPN services" aren't like legitimate business VPNs at all. Are they worth your money?
[LinkedIn article]
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vpns-dont-hide-your-location-bob-young-ureoc

#callmeifyouneedme #fifonetworks
#cybersecurity #vpn #marketing #ethics #privacy

King County Superior Court (in the State of Washington) sent a Jury Duty Notice to someone who used to live in our apartment. I mailed the Jury Summons back to King County Superior Court with this letter.

A Facebook memory came up today, from seven years ago.

Carrying client data around with you on a USB drive? Then you need a flash drive with password protection and encryption. I received my new Kanguru encrypted USB drive last week. I’m not getting paid for this, I’m just sharing a tool that I like. I've been using Kanguru drives since 2012.
[LinkedIn post]
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fifonetworks_callmeifyouneedme-fifonetworks-cybersecurity-activity-7191128710148710400-LqyU

Challenge accepted! The UPS Virtual Assistant popped up unbidden when I was tracking a package. It said, “Let me know how I can help.”

That got me to thinking – to what extent can the UPS Virtual Assistant be helpful? Is it configured to only answer questions relevant to customer assistance on the UPS website, or is it allowed to range freely over the length and breadth of the Internet?

[LinkedIn article]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fifonetworks_cybersecurity-ai-llm-activity-7189401712695095296-l7Ds

Cyber liability insurance requirements are all over the map.

[LinkedIn post]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fifonetworks_callmeifyouneedme-fifonetworks-cybersecurity-activity-7188316315521056768-TG7i

"What did you do today, Bob?"
"I dissected a dead mouse."
And yes, I had fun.

I took this screenshot back in 2018 and just stumbled across it again today. I thought you might find it to be an interesting lesson in the English language.

I thought I had this genius idea to register "Rogue_AI" on the Xitter site, so I did a search to see if someone else had already claimed it. Yup. They beat me to it. And I don't know what they did with it, but it seems sort of roguish to me, since they already got it suspended.

LinkedIn - no, no, NO!
WTH are you thinking???

Image description: screenshot of a portion of LinkedIn home page with the block to start a new post containing the prompt, "Start a post, try writing with AI."