Currency of Distrust

Flock might be one of the most insecure companies ever. Feels like every week, there’s another awful misconfig that exposes so much of their data.

53 Times Flock Safety Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure

A responsible disclosure documenting an organization-wide ArcGIS API key exposed across 53 public-facing assets, granting access to the mapping inf...

My 8 month old baby is obsessed with shoes. If you leave your shoes out, she will rush to them and play with them. Was cute at first. After several weeks? Not so much 😅

I’m of the opinion that the majority of the tech layoffs of the last few years are not because of AI, but because the tech industry (and tech teams at other large companies) were filled with bullshit jobs that didn’t actually produce anything. Generally, I’ve seen a ratio of roughly 2:1 of bullshit roles vs people actually producing. And I say that as someone who has been on both sides of that. In one place (massive insurance co) the ratio was closer to 10:1.

So if Wall Street firms can no longer buy residential homes, I wonder what other scarce resource they may buy 🤔