Simon Elvery

I’d say my tweet to typo ratio is approx. 1:1.

Verifying myself: I am drzax on Keybase.io. -oaiapNzAqKfbwaWhFZIanjzdvZg4s8Dl1W7 / keybase.io/drzax/sigs/-oa…

Optus hack renews calls for better protection of customers and their personal data abc.net.au/news/2022-09-2…

@anthonyspiteri I haven't seen any suggestion social engineering was involved here.

@drzax @Asher_Wolf @DarknetDiaries But the weak link isn’t always weak until it is weakened. The Uber Hack is a good example of that. Ergo, you have no way of identifying that weak link until breaks when a breach originates through social engineering. Mitigation in that instance is limited to employee education.

What the anonymous 'senior figure' from Optus describes here doesn't really sound like 'human error' to me. Human error is a single person accidentally doing something they shouldn't out of error or naivety. abc.net.au/news/2022-09-2…

@anthonyspiteri @Asher_Wolf @DarknetDiaries Absolutely, it's possible for a single person to, as you say, 'open many doors'. What I'm saying is that it's a systemic failure if that weak link isn't identified and the associated risks mitigated. Especially when we're talking about a system of this level of sensitivity.

@drzax @Asher_Wolf Believe you are underestimating just how many doors can be opened by one weak link in the chain. You should listen to something like @DarknetDiaries to educate yourself ;)

Not too dissimilar to making recommendations that consumers do more to protect their own personal privacy in the wake of a breach which is very clearly not the fault of any individual consumer. twitter.com/drzax/status/1…

It's also worth pointing out that, sure, while 'human error' is often *part* of the cause for these sorts of breaches, blaming an individual is rarely helpful and often looks like scapegoating for PR.

It also wouldn't hurt if governments came up with some ideas for how people affected by identity theft and other scams could be better protected. Personal responsibility can only go so far when there are systemic problems that need to be addressed.

Good personal digital privacy practices are important, but this response to a major breach which is anything but the fault of individual practices is silly. How about proposing new regulation of business to reduce potential for future leaks?

You come at the king …

@arielbogle Why are they using the Mastercard logo in the title image?

I'm looking forward to being on this panel later this month and especially keen to see all the ideas that come out of the Dark Ads Hackathon: admscentre.org.au/event/dark-ads…

@Telstra has time travelled 'a few seconds' into the future to deliver this graph to me so I can budget my data usage over the next 19 days to make sure I don't run out of infinity. What a time to be alive.

The box of framed Time covers in this shot makes it art.

As if you needed another reason to read Ordinary Matter. Here’s one anyway:

Just because you can does not mean you should.

Pretty good transport ratios this week.

@cameronwilson @BenjaminMillar we will never, until you admit the truth about q