So I don't want to speak ill of the dead but I'm currently thinking about King Theoden of Rohan hiring a guy named Wormtongue as senior advisor and for real the Tolkien world needs better security awareness training.
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So I don't want to speak ill of the dead but I'm currently thinking about King Theoden of Rohan hiring a guy named Wormtongue as senior advisor and for real the Tolkien world needs better security awareness training.
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preparing my slide deck, "Galloping Towards Better Security: Rohirrim, Insider Threats, and You"
and despite the appearance of Grima Wormtongue and Sauron, it'll still be less evil than most employee monitoring schemes.
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i mean clearly the palantir were actually persistent access mechanisms to a popular VPN service in Middle-Earth, highlighting one of the major problems with security monoculture we continue to see repeated.
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The Palantíri were the worst sort of VPN: one only accessible to extremely senior people in a corporate culture where management seniority often meant a lack of day-to-day technical skills. Every hacker in Middle Earth would have been trying to crack or socially-engineer their way into that network and it's inevitable that, given the lax information security practises of senior executives, one would eventually succeed.
"Didst thou think the eyes of the White Tower were blind?" No, dude, I think someone found your private feed and pipelined selected information directly at you to compromise your decision making. Denethor wouldn't have been the first.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I mean, who would even try to hack a palantir, a hobbit? cmon.
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Certainly not a nation-state actor who've already compromised one of the other nodes! I can't see them doing it at all.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm not a white hat, I'm a many colored hat motherfucker
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@[email protected] @[email protected] more like Gandalf the GAY lmao gotem