SwiftOnSecurity

Hell yeah and I'll do it again

Don't worry baby I keep it wrapped

Yes those are hard drives with shock condoms on them

My at one time suite of company laptop models I kept for reference and support purposes

I do not sorry, that tech stack is completely outside of my circle of people

First real spring weather Friday of the year, so I took a four hour road trip in my convertible with the top down.

Buffeting waves of caress in warm night air and the sound of open road.

And I didn't see a single other person doing this. I'd say they're all asleep, but they don't even dream.

Map of the US interstate highway system

God invented communists so Dwight D. Eisenhower could build this, a biblically-accurate drawing of an angel.

God created the universe and omnisciently tweaked its initial conditions, all towards enshrining a state and its people so it may build him a temple – the American highway system.

USB is a stack of protocols which is over complicated. Many USB implementations are riddled with bugs and people are used to just "disconnect and reconnect" when it crashes. See Raspberry Pl and how USB is a pile of shit, drivers are crashing and since they went with ethernet over usb, even ethernet is unreliable. Implementing a working USB host support is über-complicated and basically require your device to have a full blown operating system (Linux) This might sound "not a big problem" but it raises costs and development efforts a lot when all you want to produce is, eg, a audio speaker. Compare this with just having a raw audio signal, and also think of when the dock connector was introduced (2002), when there was no Android in sight, USB support in Linux kernel was causing kernel panics when you plugged a USB pendrive, etc. Even though it might be easier to deploy USB today, it's still a complicated and unreliable bus, with many broken implementations and broken drivers. It's a total no-go in the industry world where things are supposed to be plugged in and then work 24/7 for months or years without crashing or without people having to disconnect and reconnect. I work in the industrial embedded field, I have worked in at least 3-4 projects where USB caused total failure and eventually forced a redesign to drop it. In the others, USB is avoided

One of the reasons every device is basically an entire fully capable computer now

A bit dark but which Taylor swift song would you have playing at your funeral?

If you ever become a homeowner and regret not having kids to spend money on, let me introduce you to the other thing you will spend obligatory money on or the city puts you in jail: Trees.

As a child I read Flatland, written in the Victorian era, in which women are triangles with lethal points. They were prepared for this future.

Imagine telling a small victorian child that in 150 years there will be a pentagon that flies around the world and kills people

HOLY SHIT

America owns the octagon too!

Oh damn

America is so powerful we own the concept of a shape

You know what you never hear about other countries with buildings known on the entire planet just based on their number of angles.

America mogging everyone

staying actively engaged and working with me and our team even as it increasingly became clear this was not attributed to the correct area. I could leave the call to deal with personal stuff knowing it was in good hands. I appreciate his ownership of this - and by displaying a confident, competent face about helped move my coworkers in the right

Using your position as a senior employee or customer to recognize people, maybe helping them improve their own position, is its own reward. That is far, far more power to wield than any complaint.

During Covid our security department was asked to give input on employee screen monitoring software.

We said absolutely the hell not, hackers are just going to compromise it and dump it.

That was the end of that conversation.

As security leader, my best friends in corporate America have always been legal counsel. Of course, it doesn't make you any friends outside of legal counsel. They all hate both of us. All we do is prevent them from enshittifying faster.

Okay hear me put: We admit Puerto Rico as a state, and then just lie to Ohio about which star they are on the flag.

That's what my friend told me, who is a super obscure kind of furry

Being a super obscure kind of furry gives you immense credibility about cybersecurity to the public

There's a moment sometimes where you have to stifle your instinct to leap out of your chair and shake the guy who signs everyone's paychecks and instead just politely interrupt and say something like "I would recommend that we not do it exactly that way" as bloddlessly as possible.

❤️❤️❤️

I read this post to my husband, a retired Assistant GC at a federal agency, and he burst out laughing. Well done, Tay.

I mean it's definitely funny

I was a Chief Legal Officer for 16 years. Absolutely true, except in 2026 fewer cigarettes.

Funny enough, my most positive professional experiences as a class are with General Counsel.

Seems like the kinda job you just smoke a cigarette and rub your eyes saying "oh my God not this shit again" and "please repeat what you said they did," all day – forever.

Every answer to "okay, you were there, what actually happened" is a sigh and wistful gaze out the window as you ponder how many hours of your life this person is getting