Category: Gripes
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YouTube: I Don’t Think You Understand Your Userbase
It’s pretty rare that I use YouTube on a television, typically only if in the mood for specific music. Even then it tends to be a handful of videos as my ‘go to’. Earlier this month I was in the mood for such a concert and loaded it. I am authenticated as my Google account,…
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Windows 10 Fails
[This was originally started on 2021-03-07, adding notes from months before that. Given the time that has passed, I will not finish this but wanted to post my notes, as is.] windows is X years old, and despite the bloating and bugs, they still haven’t figured out some pretty basic UI/UX things. these are the…
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Artificial Humanity; That’s The Term You Are Looking For
[This was originally published as a guest blog on the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML) AI Lab blog.] Last week, colleagues shared a blog titled “The Week AI Stopped Asking Permission” by Peter H. Diamandis on his “Megatrends” blog. That publication carries a bold claim with it, “to help you discover metatrends 10+ years…
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CenturyLink, Cancellation, and Headache
A few years ago I moved into the mountains outside of Denver. Given the potential for serious adverse weather and the potential not to have service to my cell phone, I thought it prudent to get POTS; plain old telephone service. That’s right, a land line! I know, how retro of me. Almost three years…
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It’s 2024 and Netscout Doesn’t Understand CVE
[Quick update! This was titled ‘2026’, but Josh Bressers pointed out I missed that Netscout’s blog is from 2024. It came up a few days on a Google Alert so I mistakenly assumed it was a new blog. I have updated the title, but the URL slug will still say 2026. Either way, I think…
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Support Charity or Shatter Dreams
A few days ago, a friend linked me to a contest that her daughter’s art was entered in, where voting is done online. I’m sure we’ve seen this for a wide variety of things in our lives these days, so it is easy to miss some of the little details that render the competitions unfair.…
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Leave AI Slop out of CVE; Humans Make Mistakes Just Fine
I was recently asked, again, if so-called AI could help CVE. My reply was quick and direct; no. At least, not right now, and to me not for the immediate foreseeable future. Anyone that knows me is probably aware of my disdain for so-called AI. The fact that I preface it with “so-called” should be…
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ChatGPT Exploited by Threat Actors, Doom and Gloom! Or not.
After years of chasing down typos in CVE IDs, now we all have to contend with poorly researched headlines and apparent to me ambulance chasing over mistaken product names. If you missed the news, threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in ChatGPT! This is obviously a huge warning and we should all be afraid because…
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APT Naming Woes Redux (Bonus ‘DOJ’ Oops!)
One aspect of vulnerability intelligence is also doing a best-faith effort to track the threat actors that are using the vulnerabilities. While that information often isn’t published, when it is we should include it. For example, less than 1% of data breaches publish the vulnerability associated with the initial compromise, and that is often the…
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Squirrel With a Gun … and Crashes
As many know, I have eagerly been awaiting the game Squirrel With a Gun for quite a while. I even have the SWaG plushie! So imagine my disappointment when I try to play and run into… needing to install Microsoft Visual C++ (which requires a reboot… in 2024). None of the other steam games require…