Taggart Tech

I've been fighting the initial compromise technique known as "ClickFix" for a few months now, and its success has been shocking to see.

I've been following the development of Deno for some time. It kind of pushes all my buttons: a Rust-based Node alternative with an active web developer community?? Yes please.

This is a story about how a liberal arts education prepares you for the end of society.

It's just possible that you, a sentient being with active sensory input, have cause for concern about the security of data hosted both in the United States and by Microsoft. GitHub has been ubiquitous and indispensable for technologists. But maybe it's time to reconsider that status.

Before we get going, let's restate the thesis of this two-part essay so it's fresh: Mozilla is pursuing its primary objective, which is the survival of Mozilla. Its mission statement is more than broad enough to accommodate that, and Firefox is not a real priority. The community should accept that and stop waiting for Mozilla to be the hero they deserve.

Mozilla's had quite the week. Well, quite the year. Well, quite the, uh, I dunno. It ain't what it used to be, that's for sure. Or is it?

I keep running up against this argument about LLMs and generative AI:

Data centers. The "cloud." If you haven't yet recognized it for the threat it is, now's the time. In this era, entrusting your sensitive data to third parties is not the safest bargain, and may be downright dangerous, depending on your situation.

What a year huh? I thought about doing a broad review of the year in cyber news. Over a year of running the TTI Intel Feed has given me a front-row seat to the weirdest show on earth. Problem is, there's just too much. 0-days, ransomware, nation state activity, cybercrime—any one area would take more time than I have to write, certainly more time than you have to read.

But as I read through article after article, one thought kept popping into my head:

"Boy, Microsoft sure ate a lot of shit this year."

If you're here, I likely don't need to rehash the entire melodrama that WordPress has entered since Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg declared "war" on WPEngine. But the most recent events (as of this writing) involve some rather drastic moves by Mullenweg that signal disengagement with the WordPress project.

That's a scary situation, if you're a WordPress user.