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Let me please introduce myself... This is my blog/website as an instance on the Fediverse. A lot of experimenting going on here, but my ultimate goal is and always has been: My data. My website. And it gets sent out from here. I create. I design. I organize. I brainstorm. I motivate. I rant. I rave. I rock. I roll. I live. I love.
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The Russian Hackers Call Themselves “Fancy Bear”? Um, No

The DNC hired CrowdStrike, who are claiming that the Russians hacked the DNC. Fancy Bear, while it may sound all Russian and everything, is not a name that said supposed Russian hackers call themselves. Consider this, taken from an article in Esquire:

As it happened, “Fancy Bear” and “Cozy Bear” were part of a coding system (CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri) Alperovitch had created. Animals signified the hackers’ country of origin: Russians were bears, Chinese were pandas, Iranians were kittens, and North Koreans were named for the chollima, a mythical winged horse. By company tradition, the analyst who discovers a new hacker gets to choose the first part of the nickname. Cozy Bear got its nickname because the letters coz appeared in its malware code. Fancy Bear, meanwhile, used malware that included the word Sofacy, which reminded the analyst who found it of the Iggy Azalea song “Fancy.”

 

By |2017-01-08T19:47:28-08:00January 8th, 2017|Categories: The Real Deal|Comments Off on The Russian Hackers Call Themselves “Fancy Bear”? Um, No

Trying to teach the Dane how to roll the egg-sjaped ball with his paw so treats come out the ends is like trying to teach a dog to use a mouse. I’m DYIN’

Trying to teach the Dane how to roll the egg-sjaped ball with his paw so treats come out the ends is like trying to teach a dog to use a mouse. I'm DYIN'

By |2017-01-07T17:36:22-08:00January 1st, 2017|Categories: The Dane|Comments Off on Trying to teach the Dane how to roll the egg-sjaped ball with his paw so treats come out the ends is like trying to teach a dog to use a mouse. I’m DYIN’

OMG WANT

OMG #WANT Found these at the costume store in Redmond. Fit like a glove. Heh. See what I did there?

By |2017-03-18T21:18:47-07:00December 30th, 2016|Categories: Coolness|Tags: |Comments Off on OMG WANT