Every since the OPM hack of 2015, I've been apparent to me that my former field of IT administration has lost the plot. Nobody knows what a data diode is, or why you would use one. Systems that should clearly be air-gapped aren't.
While it's easy to lay this at the feet of AI getting better at hacking. I see it as an primarily an IT issue. We've collectively ignored the lessons of history, and made do with patch jobs over poorly chosen operating systems instead.
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We need air gaps, data diodes, and capability based operating systems. Now that I'm retired, when I have the energy, I'm working on the data diode part.
This weeks lesson for me, personally, as I try to build an open source data diode, is that the Waveshare RP2350-ETH is a horrible choice for a proxy/data source/sink, as the CH9120 ethernet interface can't do promiscuous mode. It might still be sufficient to build a data diode that can mirror a website, with << $50 component cost. Time will tell.
In the last few years I’ve seen multiple startups describe normal systems running on AWS as “air-gapped” because there is a firewall. LARPers have diluted several terms that had specific meaning in a system isolation and security context to the point that I can no longer trust when people describe their systems using them.
There are far too many unserious people representing our industry.
Add in the suite of novel attachments of the prefix "cyber" to further muddy the water. The cyberfence will deter the cybertheives from accessing the cybercloud cybersuite we have just cybersold you (down the river on).
Competence isn't widely valued, obedience and sales figures are. Which wouldn't be so problematic if evolution could run its course and eliminate incompetence naturally, but that's now hard to see coming to pass when we have towering circular supply chains that feed on it.
mikewarot · · focus · HN ↗
While it's easy to lay this at the feet of AI getting better at hacking. I see it as an primarily an IT issue. We've collectively ignored the lessons of history, and made do with patch jobs over poorly chosen operating systems instead.
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We need air gaps, data diodes, and capability based operating systems. Now that I'm retired, when I have the energy, I'm working on the data diode part.
This weeks lesson for me, personally, as I try to build an open source data diode, is that the Waveshare RP2350-ETH is a horrible choice for a proxy/data source/sink, as the CH9120 ethernet interface can't do promiscuous mode. It might still be sufficient to build a data diode that can mirror a website, with << $50 component cost. Time will tell.
jandrewrogers · · focus · HN ↗
There are far too many unserious people representing our industry.
andwur · · focus · HN ↗
Competence isn't widely valued, obedience and sales figures are. Which wouldn't be so problematic if evolution could run its course and eliminate incompetence naturally, but that's now hard to see coming to pass when we have towering circular supply chains that feed on it.