From Brian.

It is what it is, I suppose.

I nuke my Twitter account.

August 16, 2018

I’ve deleted my tweets. I’m deleting my favs. I’ve reset my profile. The only thing that makes me not delete my entire account is the single sign-on I have for a few websites, required access to the developer APIs, and the few friends I am contact with now and then via their direct messages. Why? Because Twitter stopped being fun. 8 years and now 65,000 deleted Tweets later I decided to call it quits. All because it stopped being fun. My timeline was overrun with inappropriate ads, news that the…

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Free compute with unsecured Docker APIs.

October 31, 2017

The other day I was casually browsing the internet and was reading about how thousands of MongoDB databases were exposed to the internet. Unauthenticated for the world to use. Bandits encrypted databases and held them for randsom. A randsom payable in your favorite crypto currency. This all happened a few months ago, and surely we’ve all learnt not to expose our services for the entire world to use? Right? … right? Well, if you’d assume that people never learn you’re right on the money, my frien…

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