Bytes and Borscht

Bytes and Borscht

Bytes and Borscht

https://bytesandborscht.com

It's cyberwar-o-clock .. or something like that.

As was the case at the beginning of the war in Ukraine a year and a half ago, reports about the possible role of cyberattacks in this conflict emerged relatively quickly shortly after the events that shook Israel on October 7, 2023.

I care about security, hence I don't care.

I’d love to see information security actually improve in a meaningful way. Not caring about anything but the bare security facts is a way of achieving that. Probably the only way.

Cyber is effective. Explosions are effective-er.

The publication of documents that allegedly describe the work of a Russian IT company on behalf of Russian intelligence services caused quite a stir in various journalistic publications at the end of March this year.

All metal, no manpower

It occurred to me that there are uncomfortable similarities between some major issues the armed forces of the Russian Federation suffer from and the issues a lot of Blue Teams have to deal with. This is an attempt to come up with a comparison that doesn’t sound entirely insane.

On the perceived foolishness of self-hosting e-mail

There has been some activity within the Fediverse about how running your own mailserver is or isn’t foolish, and how “we” lost the fight against big corporate. This is my take on it.