Omg! Read this article! @pluralistic, I've been hypothesizing with my son about why soft serve machines are often broken. Now we know why and more. DMCA is a massive cluster f. Thanks for writing this. #infosec #cybersecurity
Attack Surface
by Cory Doctorow
Another book by the amazing Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic), and one I enjoyed 1000% more than the pirate book that preceded it. I wasn't aware at the time of reading that this is the third in his Little Brother series, but I didn't find that this affected my enjoyment in any way. I suspect the series is a set of thematically-linked standalone novels, and will confirm this when I read numbers 1 and 2!
The book starts with Masha Maximow working in a not-real but very realistic former Eastern Bloc country for a cybersecurity firm with a back-of-the-alphabet-consonant-heavy name. She's dumped because her morals aren't aligning well with their interests, and she's spending too much time schooling activists in operational security, so she returns to her hometown of San Francisco... where she finds herself schooling activists in op-sec.
The book is very well and tightly plotted, flipping between the now and then, showing us present-day Masha threading the needle between duelling MIC juggernauts and the little people trying not to be squished by them, and past-tense Masha's rise from precocious hacker to cyber-warrior for the powers-that-be. There's the typical passages of Doctorow edutainment, where we learn all about cyberwar and self-defence as vastly knowledgeable people agree and disagree and counter-disagree on a wide variety of techy subjects.
I really enjoyed it, which isn't surprising, as 2024 is shaping up to be "The Year I Read Mostly Books From Cory Doctorow". It's a theme that will continue in Book 15 of my list!
(Oh, and you can get a copy at https://craphound.com/shop/)
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First, the 9 sec pause: https://pausetake9.org
Craig's Mpost: https://mastodon.social/@craignewmark/113164201962763557
Thoughts, @pluralistic ?
A big part will be a PSA campaign - online and in old-fashioned ways. We all got a role to play, like everyone did in WW2, including my Dad and Mom.
I鈥檒l start by putting my money where my mouth is. Folks can check it out here: pausetake9.org.
If you're a member of the information security and/or cybersecurity profession, and you have clicked on a phish in the last, say, five years, share this post. If you have not, star this post.
Someone's trying to say that you can punish people out of clicking on scam links and I say that not only can you NOT prevent phishing by punishing people, but the most skilled #infosec and #cybersecurity people in the world can and do get phished as well.
