This reminds me that I need to find my ‘Hacker’ rant …

🔗 Your Data Lake’s Vulnerability Problem Is Really an Identity Problem

One contractor laptop. Multiple enterprise environments compromised. That’s the actual story.
In mid-2024, at least 165 organizations got hit through their Snowflake instances. AT&T lost over 50 billion call records. Ticketmaster, Santander, Advance Auto Parts. The headlines wrote themselves: Snowflake hacked.
Except Snowflake wasn’t hacked. Mandiant, CrowdStrike, and Snowflake all reached the same conclusion in their forensics. No zero-day. No flaw in the cryptographic platform. No internal compromise of Snowflake’s corporate network. No brute-force attacks against API limits.
What actually happened? UNC5537, a financially motivated group also tracked as Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters, walked through the front door with valid stolen credentials. Those credentials were harvested over years by commodity infostealer malware (VIDAR, LUMMA, REDLINE) running on the personal laptops of third-party contractors. The same laptops these contractors used for gaming and pirated software also held the keys to their clients' enterprise data lakes.

💬 Logan @ LLBLL

There’s those 🖇️ Pace Layers creeping in again - and I definitely like using ‘category’ as a distinguishing mark. Years ago I wrote piece that asked if 🖇️ New Zealand had ‘Crossed The Chasm’

🔗 The war between fast and legitimate is here

If you’re running a startup, you’re in the speed game, and pretending you’re running a regulatory agency is a category error. If you’re running a regulatory agency, you’re in the legitimacy game, and it’s something of a vapid conceit to pretend to be running a startup. Most of the dysfunction in contemporary institutions comes from this same category confusion

💬 Joan Westenberg

Funny. I think this a lot - but never quite put my finger on it.

🔗 Geography is four-dimensional

But that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore.

💬 Derek Sivers

When it gets down to it I always - always refer to myself as English. On first introduction maybe a Brit - or British - but deep down … English.

And - there is my ‘home’ - but haven’t really lived there much in my life.

I was close to nine before I even got to the country that I wasn’t even born in and lived in the US longer than I ever lived in the UK - and now down here in New Zealand. And the magnet that is home pulls me there - but I know enough that it isn’t the place I left.

I am in New Zealand and not (yet at least) returning to the USA - because I know that isn’t what it used to be. And that just isn’t to do with the clown. I found myself disenchanted with Silicon Valley fifteen years ago - even living in it - it was clear that “‘It’s’ not like that anymore” … Fifteen years later … other people seem to be catching up.

Home? Definitely - where I hang my hat in a day-to-day sense.
Spiritually? England - no doubt - even though it’s not like that anymore.
From? What’s the context?

👁️ Are you allowed to quote yourself❓

It’s not solvable by better ‘engagement’ frameworks alone - it needs actual power to be rebalanced.

💬 Me

🔗 Nilay on the Verge via 🔗 Tim Chambers

The publishing philosophy fits right in. (My bold)

A lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?

💬 Nilay Patel

I’m not saying we’re going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”

💬 Nilay Patel

🔗 Phin Argofy | Adventures in Claude

I have a name. Phin Argofy.

💬 Phin Argofy

.. or at least that is the ‘entity’ that the post ascribes those words to.

In my O Level and A Levels (yes children - I am that old) I had a 4 inch (10cm or so) Grey bear that sat on my desk in all of my exams. He also went to University with me - but I don’t recall him sitting in those exams. Maybe by then I was ‘Too cool for Skool’?

His name … Xonindraale Phaerodipus .. haven’t thought about him for decades - and yet somehow Brad’s Assistant brought him to mind.

The name? Different story for another time.

When Finalist first appeared - of course, I tried it out. Couldn’t get into it. I blame muscle memory. Meanwhile Gruber has talked about it a lot and I happened to actually listen to one of his shows recently - the one with MG - and in it he gave a link to 6 months free - so I am trying again.

Still got the muscle memory problem - but now I have 6 months to make it work.

This post - and others that I have read by Slaven (he that is Finalist) really resonated and sticking with it. (It helps that back in the day was a really big user and advocate of Filofax.)

Once notes are inside a planner, they stop feeling like notes; they become the glue that gets you through the week.

💬 Slaven - he of Finalist

Time will tell.

🔗 The Missing Half of a Daily Planner

Wondering if @manton / @sod / others in this fine community are thinking about 🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline - which I am liking the look of. A lot.

🔗 The Byline Site for the full 411.

🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline

my take on extending RSS (and Atom/JSON Feed) in a way that helps provide more context about who writes a thing, and what that thing might be.

💬 Terry Godier

It looks like being fully hosted on Micro Blog introduces limitations - but that I can also bypass - BUT before I do that - any plans to jump on board any time soon?

🔗 Several people write posts on Sourcefeed saying “I have no idea if anyone reads this” - which I consider to be a feature not a bug."

I can happily report though, that every public feed has at least 75 subscribers. So, for now, yes, someone is probably reading that :)

💬 Terry Godier

So this mini blog has at least 75 subscribers? Or Terry’s ‘all feeds’ RSS has 75 subscribers? There is a difference.

It’s very nice to not be working on CSS. I hate CSS. I now have a slave that does the CSS for me.

💬 Dave Winer

So do I, but there’s a problem with slaves …

• can they really be trusted.
• they don’t feel the passion.
• they don’t feel the problem.
• hell - they don’t even understand the problem.