…both ways – whether you have it or not. The concept has finally fully migrated to the high tech domain. Solarwinds was a wake-up call to alot of people, myself included. Many in the cyber spook community would recoil at the carelessly audacious displays of my networking doo-doo here, but they might be overlooking something too obvious. It’s the same thing that sunk Solarwinds. It was true on day one and stands true today: The worst security vulnerability is the one you don’t know about.
One person can only do so much. This blog site is simple as they get and as close to the proverbial computer sealed in a vault at the bottom of the ocean as can be – except it’s connected to a network. Trying to do too much with too little is always a fool’s errand. Whether or not Timothy Brown actually did anything wrong at Solarwinds remains to be seen. Can’t wait to see what they have to show for it.
The actual mistake exposing the supply chain to exploit was a simple oversight by one or two individuals in the development department. But it’s all connected in some form or fashion. The cyber-security issues floating around in everything encompassed in the crypto/banking industry, social media, AI, propagandized political hate, miscellaneous web fuckery and the systems supporting them are way bigger than any one person or company.
