{"id":3124,"date":"2020-08-05T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2020-08-05T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T19:37:58","slug":"five-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/05\/five-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Five"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Going to free-write today, but I did dig up something from the archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What i picked up on with the explosion in Beirut yesterday was definitely the big story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ended up having a bit of a conversation on Twitter about it;  you can click and read&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yep, wheat dust probably ignited by the fertilizer&#8230; first fire and explosions were the latter, the former was the big boom I&#39;m guessing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hjGkudwHjf\">https:\/\/t.co\/hjGkudwHjf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Am\u00e9lie E. Koran (@webjedi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/webjedi\/status\/1290738291806003205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other stuff?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, typical things with work.  I hate that I make mistakes sometimes.  I did catch it, however, and figured out how to deal with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I&#8217;m dealing with, however, is actually newish stuff to my coworkers.  It used to be a case of check-things-once-and-forget-it-for-years.  A bit of the Ronco method;  &#8220;set it, and forget it!&#8221;  No, tech doesn&#8217;t work that way.  You have to be constantly vigilant about things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not seeing that I wrote about it in my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?cat=27\" target=\"_blank\">Shmoocon<\/a> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the presentations this year or last was about how hardware with flashable firmware <em>actually get less secure the more that you patch them<\/em>.  Why?  Feature creep in newer revisions, and attempts to work around the applied patches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s counterintuitive, sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that realization has really influenced my thinking about having old shit out on the network.  You apply a laundry list of things to a system to address bugs, but you end up introducing new bugs as part of the fix, and leave undiscovered, unpatched things festering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, that creaky old server you&#8217;ve had for fifteen years is probably susceptible as hell to being haxxed, and patching it actually might make it more likely to be hacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a ton of things you can do, however, to mitigate vulnerabilities that don&#8217;t involve applying AcmeCo&#8217;s latest patch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even so, maybe it&#8217;s a better idea to <strong>not leave ancient shit on your network for years<\/strong>.  Document what it does.  Have the data in a transferrable format, build something new, and restore data to the new secure system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bubuhbut we&#8217;ll have to retrain the users!!1!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cry me a river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s flashback is probably on-point.  I don&#8217;t know what in particular set me off writing this, but I would imagine it was something similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do things this way.  This is the only way that we do things, so you should just work with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than two years later, not adhering to that attitude, combined with my health issues would find me in a job for which I was incredibly overqualified.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation sucked.  But at least the guy responsible is in Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass prison for a while longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8\/5\/2011 &#8211; 8\/5\/2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tffftbt. I don&#8217;t like having to drag people kicking and screming into the new realities of their business. It&#8217;s frustrating. What&#8217;s more frustrating is that many of the people on my level are intentionally ignoring the new realities. They&#8217;ve been working one way for so long; that must mean that one way is the best and only way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>sigh<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I can recharge this weekend. Next week is going to be hell, though I do get to go to lala land Wednesday. Unfortunately, it requires an hour inside an electromagnet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I delayed my medication refill until after my tests. Notsomuch because I want to switch meds, but I don&#8217;t want three months&#8217; supply around if the doctor decides to switch me to something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So little to do, so much time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to free-write today, but I did dig up something from the archive. What i picked up on with the explosion in Beirut yesterday was definitely the big story. Ended up having a bit of a conversation on Twitter about it; you can click and read&#8230;. Other stuff? Well, typical things with work. 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