Richard Bejtlich

@taosecurity.bsky.social

Former USAF intel officer. Early info war practitioner. Created GE-CIRT. Mandiant's first CISO. #NetworkSecurityMonitoring for @corelight-inc. Author. Latest books #ad amzn.to/3B2AcMc

"Those two words which the writer set together have produced an effect which will never die, as long as [people] can read with understanding." - Shelby Foote, The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy

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“Will the future be more secure? It'll be just as insecure as it possibly can, while still continuing to function. Just like it is today.” -Marcus Ranum, 2007, as cited by TaoSecurity Blog, 2007, and repeated in The Best of TaoSecurity Blog Volume 3, 2020.

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The 3323 km long border between India and Pakistan is visible at night from space, due to the 150,000 flood lights installed by India. Source: Hydaspes 326 BC: The Limit of Alexander the Great’s Conquests, Nic Fields, Marco Capparoni, Osprey, 2023.

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Happy birthday Ulysses S Grant, born this day in 1822 as Hiram Ulysses Grant. He adopted the name US Grant because his Congressional rep provided incorrect info to West Point. His classmates saw US on his paperwork and nicknamed him Sam, from Uncle Sam.

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How about that? 1111 straight days reading in the Kindle, which is a little more than 3 years. I’d have over 6 years if not for some Kindle snafu 1111 days ago that caused me to have to start my streak again. 😆

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Congrats to the Internet Protocol Journal on 25 yrs of outstanding, free networking info. I sub'd in 1998 when I was a captain in the AFCERT trying to learn TCP/IP. I haven't been disappointed. I recommend Geoff Huston's 25-year retrospective on the Internet in the June issue. protocoljournal.org

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