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frupert52 | 3 years ago | on: Widespread ethernet issues reported on new M2 Pro Mac mini

It would be helpful if someone would be willing to perform a packet capture while experiencing and testing this problem. I’d be more than happy to analyse further.

We should see the right number of valid ICMP packets put on the wire and whatever response we get back will be telling

frupert52 | 3 years ago | on: Vxlan over WireGuard (On OpenBSD)

Wow, I can’t believe the HN audience is so accepting of stretched layer 2 as a solution. It’s almost as though we’ve been invaded by middle management.

Stretched layer 2 is almost always a mistake.

frupert52 | 3 years ago | on: FTX and How to Lose Money

I believe CEX is Centralised EXchange as opposed to DEX the Decentralised equivalent. This is just my best guess based on what I’ve learned from following this scandal so could be wrong. TLDR: FTX is not the only centralised exchange behaving in the manner being discussed (according to parent)

Edited for clarity

frupert52 | 3 years ago | on: SBF posting 1 letter tweets to evade delete detection bots?

I would caution everyone to be extremely wary of anyone who actively promulgates the idea that they themselves are virtuous, selfless or altruistic. I cannot think of any genuinely good reason someone would want do this.

Instead, when it comes to these kinds of traits they should only be considered as possibilities after observing what a person does rather than what they say. Actions rather than words.

If they are using words good chance they are forgoing the actions. Otherwise why would they need to be telling you what they are?

frupert52 | 3 years ago | on: Twitter sources say company reached out to fired people asking them to come back

Obviously the strategy for the first few weeks or months would have been formed months ago. Whilst DD for example is not performed for strategic reasons it remains critical to validating any strategic planning and decision making as those things are largely informed by what the information you have tells you about the business and it’s trajectory right now vs where you want it to be. So transition and short-term planning in all likelihood would have been finalised shortly after DD

frupert52 | 3 years ago | on: 9M Australians affected by Optus data breach

I wouldn’t normally get angry about something like this but when the CEO talked about how upset she was that there were people out there who would do such harm I almost blew my stack. The level of wilful ignorance to your responsibilities required to feel that statement could be appropriate is astounding.

But most of all, if you’ve worked anywhere even remotely resembling a professional organisation in the last 10 years then it should be obvious just how bad things are inside Optus for this to have even happened. Something is deeply wrong there. This kind of breach should have thousands of things standing in the way of it being possible

frupert52 | 3 years ago | on: 9M Australians affected by Optus data breach

The problem isn’t that the passwords are small, it’s that they aren’t being hashed. I wonder what level of data they are storing in plain text then?

Also if they aren’t able to accept other characters, I wonder what happens when you try?

I’ve worked “across” core payments(not banking) systems with the card schemes, westpac, St George etc. So I would say I’ve seen how bad things can get but your bank sounds like something next level.

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