https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

The ability to use Signal with a source without giving out your phone number was a tricky thing before this, I'm excited to see the change!

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318471-Signal-Beta#join

Too Soon? You betcha!

A seemingly significant story broke today about the capabilities of a hack for hire group out of Shanghai documenting their work for the Chinese Ministry of Public Security and other government agencies.

It involves on the fly machine translation of the trove of documents and chat logs, so we're all sitting here waiting to find out and confirm details.

Rainy Days and Mondays...

Without diving into the nature of newsrooms, and administrating them I think we can all agree that finding ourselves at cross purposes happens sometimes.

Your data, all your data, everything on that company owned device - isn't yours.

or how I build patience

Twenty five+ years ago as I filmed the video the image above came from I was already an experienced system administrator. I was around 17 years old, I had a couple of jobs, and I had had a few before that. I was blissfully unaware of the way of things, and ready to embrace the new world that tech was bringing. While stories of computer security were my gateway to the network closet lifestyle, I was way more interested in why the server backup was creating packet storms that took everything down at zero dark thirty every other night.