I wrote an article forever ago for 2600 on passwords, and they ended up publishing it finally. Once we get into like October or November (Whenever the last 2600 of the year comes out, I guess) I’ll post the article here as a PDF, shamelessly scanned from my copy, as 2600 has indicated the article is mine to do with as I wish, and I figure giving them the better part of a year before I make it more widely available is a nice thing to do....

The folks at IDPro were kind enough to let me write an article for their newsletter. I won’t spoil what the article is about, but I will link it here. Have fun.

These past few months have been very, very busy. A good busy, I guess. I ended up helping write a white paper that is out on a vendor website about DDIL environments. Say what you will about vendor white papers, but the effort is mostly neutral and fairly easy to read (If I do say so myself, and I do say so myself). You may be asking yourself “Modus, what in the world is a DDIL enviornment?...

I’ve been hit hard by burnout lately. This is probably the first time I’ve actually ever felt what people describe as burnout, which is wild given how hard I’ve gone at things and how long I’ve been going at it. I tried telling telling myself for a month or two that I wasn’t burned out, that I simply had too much on my plate. Of course, you can only placate yourself so long before reality comes home and kicks you square in the nose....

So, Twitter’s gotten weird hasn’t it? Musk bought the company, people from all sorts of walks of life are leaving the platform due to the frankly wild decisions he’s making, and the platform is just hemmoraging advertisers. Whatever happens to Twitter, we as users of the platform will end up losing as Musk attempts to remake it in its image. Not a fun time. My social media consumption strategy, particularly Twitter, is one of passive collection- I follow smart people doing awesome things, I watch and learn, and attempt to become a magpie in spirit....