We have decades of experience with how we give an EA access to an executive’s life. And the entertainment industry is rife with stories of managers taking advantage of celebs by gaining access to their bank accounts and other aspects of their lives. All of this has made me realize that:
GenAI Threat management is just Insider Threat management, but faster and at scale.
In order to profit effectively from a ransomware attack, a threat actor needs to have something to offer in return for payment. This blog post outlines a process to encrypt AWS resources and then revoke access to the secret material until the ransom is paid.
Apparently, this post caused some consternation at AWS, and perhaps this technique is too effective to publish here. So, the original post has been revised to remove the actual scripts, include some mitigations, and provide commentary on how both Public Cloud (AWS Included) and Generative AI are dangerous tools in the hands of the general public and need more regulation.
Kid’s Mac’s TimeMachine backups were broken.
“Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.”
Rather than starting from scratch, I found this: Fix Time Machine Sparsebundle NAS Based Backup Errors
If you’re reading this, you know I rarely visit my blogs. That presents a problem, as I never get the nag from WordPress that my version is so out of date, my site has been taken over by Russian Yakuza using it to spy against the Chinese on behalf of Syria or something. Below is a simple little script that can be thrown in cron and will bug you when WordPress releases a new version and you’ve not updated.
Seems Pretty Straight Forward:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install netatalk sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon Add:
/huge/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" options:tm to
/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default
Create /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service with contents:
<service-group><br /> <name replace-wildcards=”yes”>%h</name><br /> <service><br /> <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type><br /> <port>548</port><br /> </service><br /> <service><br /> <type>_device-info._tcp</type><br /> <port>0</port><br /> <txt-record>model=Xserve</txt-record><br /> </service><br /> </service-group> Restart everything:
sudo service netatalk restart && sudo service avahi-daemon restart
Encrypt files for safety | Utilities | Macworld.
Useful for your macbook pro.
So Read-it-later is a webs service that allows you to book mark articles to read later. The did an interesting analysis of what people read when and on what devices. Their results compare pretty much to my usage profile for the iPhone and iPad.
The iPad is a couch consumption device. I use it for reading email, quick email replies, reading facebook, surfing the web, and as an e-reader. I don’t find it good for creating content out side of the most basic snark-attacks on someone’s wall.
“Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you’ll get ten different answers, but there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us. It’ll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…[and] all of this…all of this…was for nothing.
Useful guide to Mac troubleshooting. I wasn’t sure what the difference between the gray apple screen and the grey apple screen with the spinning gear.
Mac 101: Whats happening when your Mac is starting up?.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
I’m going to add this site to my blogroll. The author is one of VMWare’s R&D honchos.
Interesting tid-bit on how to DOS Google if you’re so inclined.
Some of the search queries can cause huge IO. One example Jeff gave is “circle of life” as one phase enclosed in double quotation marks. It could incur 30GB I/O before. As I just searched on Google, the phrase is now a song name.
I’ll admit, we use Netflix streaming and Netflix a lot. I just don’t see the NetFlix catalog as being big enough to encompass 20% of consumer bandwidth.
Netflix streaming consumes 20pct of download throughput during weekday primetime hours
via How Google TV Could Hand Netflix The Entire Streaming Universe | paidContent.
