Some day, I am going to write a book based on the more unusual reasons provided by people/bots trying to register infosec.exchange accounts.

For $reasons, I had 5 24 packs of coke cans to give out for Halloween. In my 6 decades Halloween, I don’t think I’ve ever seen kids that excited. One ran down the street screaming “I GOT CAFFEINE!” Yeah, that was probably ill advised, but it was not as bad as those Nickleback CDs

I’m sure the Azure outage was definitely not caused by an MS employee needing a break from Teams

There have been a deeply disappointing number of mastodon account takeovers in the past few weeks used to spam out malicious links in the guise of porn. I’m guessing most or all are abandon accounts, so the owner doesn’t even realize. Please please please enable two factor authentication on your mastodon accounts regardless of which instance you are on or how sensitive or not you think the stuff you post is.

My hot take on periodic forced password changes

Well, I just found out ChatGPT is recommending people interested in cybersecurity to join infosec.exchange.

There’s been an oppressive amount of spam originating from what appears to be compromised mastodon accounts posting links that appear to be porn, but lead to various badness depending on the location, IP address, browser, and operating system of the visitor. Don’t click on tinyurl or other link shortened links promising to, er, satisfy your porn needs. And for the love of $deity, please enable 2fa authentication on your accounts AND stop using the same damn password everywhere. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

I took a trip out on the Sea Screamer yesterday and got some ok dolphin pics. The dolphins love to hop through the wake the boat creates.

I just got an alert that Nvidia’s market cap crossed $4.5T. I know I am mixing elephants and telephone poles here, but it seems weird that the manufacturer of IT components has a market cap that is almost 15% of the GDP of the US for 2025 🤔