Picture of John Luke Picard from Star Trek. The meme caption says: Damage Report. How it feels to wake up every morning in 2025

A picture of the AI search bar from meta embedded in WhatsApp.

As if my 2025 wasn’t going bad enough.

Sounds about right. If someone threatens to use bacon instead of guanciale to make carbonara, I would feel obligated to call Carabinieri.

I also didn’t get it.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I’ll use cryptography." Now they have two problems.

Interesting overview of password security over the last two decades.
blog.apnic.net/2023/08/02/b...

I particularly liked, and agree, with the consideration about security no longer being a primarily technical problem. But still, we cannot help ourself and the industry keeps pushing new shiny tools.

Very nice reading by Luca Viganò. "Explaining Cybersecurity
with Films and the Arts."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01730.pdf

I guess we can already elect the buzzword of the year 2023: 🥁🥁🥁🥁 .... Supply Chain! 🎉🎉

Yes, I've posted this also on Mastodon.

Boy you would hate Italy. Here people who have chaired anything, be it their own made-up association, are called “president” for a lifetime. And anyone with a BSc gets called “doctor” (to the point that in Rome “doctor” is literally routinely used in place of “mister”).

Hello world!