The other day while trying to view the latest trailers on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), I encountered the following error: I’d played videos on IMDB in just the recent past, and I was using the same system and browser. It’s always frustrating to not get what you want when you have a few minutes of spare time to goof-off, so at first I just tried again. Same error. I tried a different video. Same error. Videos on other websites such as YouTube or Vimeo hadn’t show any such errors before, and I use them regularly. I know that Firefox 52 ESR is capable of playing videos via HTML5. I even have Adobe Flash installed. But IMDB wasn’t trying to use it. Firefox lets you install a mind-bogging[…]

The InfoSec Warrior’s Rant

(With apologies to Jack Nicholson and whoever originally crafted this gem.  –Jedi) “Son, we live in a world that has networks and those networks need to be guarded by men with balls and smarts. Who’s gonna do it? You? You sniveling admin? I have greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You can weep for your permissions and curse security; you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that your inconvenience, while tragic to you, probably saved exploitations and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves this network. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at staff meetings you want me on that firewall, you need me on that SIM. We use[…]