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stiennon.substack.com 1y ago

Show HN: AI Assistant for cybersecurity product research

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brothke.medium.com 2y ago

Information Security Books of 2023

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stiennon.substack.com 3y ago

Cybersecurity Industry Downturn

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stiennon.substack.com 3y ago

Chatbots for 3,377 cybersecurity vendors

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stiennon.substack.com 3y ago

Vendor Exhibitors at RSAC up 20%

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stiennon.substack.com 3y ago

Future Shock Redux. Embrace Change

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stiennon.substack.com 3y ago

Disintermediating literary agents with GPT-4

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stiennon.substack.com 3y ago

How GPT-4 Is Going to Change Publishing

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eyes.nasa.gov 5y ago

Deep Space Network Status

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www.forbes.com 6y ago

Collapse Left for Writers

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medium.com 6y ago

A US Bill from 1974 shares so much DNA with the GDPR, it could be its ancestor

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medium.com 11y ago

The annotated OPM Hack

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www.technologyreview.com 11y ago

Asimov on cerebration

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thruglassxfer.com 11y ago

Through Glass Tranfer breaks all data leak prevention

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www.securitycurrent.com 12y ago

Is there another NSA Leaker?

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www.securitycurrent.com 12y ago

Sandbox vendors ignore Microsoft Licensing

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iopscience.iop.org 12y ago

Evidence for solar wind modulation of lightning

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www.securitycurrent.com 12y ago

The [Character] Asassination of Edward Snowden

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www.wired.com 12y ago

Worth re-reading this Wired article from 1997 on cryptocurrencies

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Interesting fact: University of Southhampton developed 5D disks for dense data storage. The capability was acquired by the Arch Foundation which seeks to preserve data longterm. They donated one of the first 5D disks to Elon Musk who placed it in the red Tesla that he sent into Solar orbit on the first Falcon Heavy booster. The disk contains the Foundation Trilogy by Arthur C. Clarke.

All of my business comes from Linkedin. I get inbound leads from content I post to Substack. I then promote it with a pithy summary on Linkedin. I don't encounter any of the stuff in this article. I typically get 5-30K views of my posts and have 38K followers. I was in the first cohort of the LinkedIn Creator Accelerator program which was held the three months before I launched my SaaS. The secret to hacking the algorithm is no secret. Post original content four times a week. Because my SaaS is a data platform on cybersecurity and 95% of my followers are in cybersecurity I get tremendous engagement. I remember all the hacking community deriding Twitter when it launched. Back then the cool kids were on Digg. Now they are on Twitter deriding LinkedIn where they cannot pose as something they are not.

Monkey Management 2 years ago

I was introduced to monkey management principles at my first job out of school. This was 1982. My boss taught it to me. Has helped me ever after.

Now combine this approach with concepts of no-code, which takes the task of writing lines of code out of the path from concept to production. An AI could easily create instructions that could be fed to bubble to create an app. Either bubble is already working on this or someone else is and bubble will miss the boat.

When are we going to stop calculating BTC total value by multiplying number of BTC times what is, let's face it, a spot price. There is no way you could sell 2 billion euros worth of BTC. You can't convert them into real property.

What Was ISDN? 3 years ago

I launched RustNet in 1992 as "the first ISDN ISP in Michigan." We offered a blindingly fast internet speed of 125k! At the time Silicon Graphics had added an ISDN port to its latest workstation, which I had for the engineering design work we did. The launch of our ISP occurred at an industrial expo at Cobo Hall in Detroit. We were not set up yet so I talked to the product manager of the ISDN feature at SGI and he was kind enough to let me dial into his desktop workstation in his office. All I needed was to get Ameritech to drop an ISDN line into Cobo Hall. One trick we learned: if a regular dial-up customer complained about speeds we would call Ameritech to schedule that customer for ISDN. The phone company would remove something from the line (filter? impedance?) to prepare it for ISDN. Then we would cancel the order and the customer would get the full 56k from their modem.

I feel this. I write non-fiction in the tech industry. I start every project estimating the potential number of readers. My second book is the only one written for a particular profession. I calculated there were at least 20,000 people in the profession. Over 13 years it has sold about 2,000 copies. I have also written the only history of the IT security industry. I update it every year. It too only sells 2,000 copies per edition. Definitely not a way to make a living.

All I know is that I was quoted $50K from a Ukraine team to build an MVP, as long as I could provide detailed specs down to every function. I hired an intern who used bubble/airtable to build our product in two months and had ten paying customers in 6 months. After almost two years have yet to find a reason to move to a traditional stack. We have had 6 hours of down time in those two years thanks to bubble issues. I can live with that.