@oppen @naught101 @codinghorror Most #Infosec people...

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@oppen @naught101 @codinghorror Most #Infosec people remind me of audiophiles. They are both communities that have made great strides in one narrow area (speakers, encryption) and then tried to apply that exact same process to all the adjacent areas (cables & amps, threat models & operating systems).

What you end up with is some kind of tragic performative art that has enough kernels of truth in it to keep perpetuating.

Like 25 February at 20:18 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange

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Jeff Atwood

@tasket @oppen @naught101 It's all about having your cables properly electron tuned.

25 February at 20:20 | Open on infosec.exchange

IoT is the grey goo

@codinghorror Don't forget the tube amps. You gotta have more than just tuned electrons, you need to shoot them out of cathode guns as well.

25 February at 20:27 | Open on infosec.exchange

naught101

@tasket @codinghorror

I mean, tube amps do look cool.

Also they are good for distortion (not something you want as an audiophile, presumably)

25 February at 20:58 | Open on mastodon.social

Jeff Atwood

@naught101 @tasket Can't deny the power of looking cool 😎

25 February at 20:58 | Open on infosec.exchange

Hr. Seyner-Selbst

@naught101 @codinghorror @tasket Nobody needs a beautiful design when Class-A can heat the living room ;)

25 February at 21:23 | Open on mastodon.de

IoT is the grey goo

@codinghorror OTOH, I would welcome a return of the audiophile dominance of 25ya in exchange for the gaming-rig-overclocker subculture (which eventually fed into the cryptomining movement) becoming an obscure oddity. Audiophiles are harmless by comparison.

25 February at 21:21 | Open on infosec.exchange

Gemma 👽

@codinghorror @tasket @oppen @naught101
Pfft... If you don't have the cables isolated from the floor on wooden blocks then it doesn't matter how demagnetized and aligned electrons you have. There's no 3 second rule on the floor. If your tuned electrons are just in the near vicinity of a floor, it's all for naught.

25 February at 22:05 | Open on piipitin.fi

IoT is the grey goo

FWIW, this is not to imply that the general ideas of audio fidelity or information security are foolish; only that specific "best practices" have tended toward foolishness.

26 February at 4:22 | Open on infosec.exchange