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Resilience Against Social Engineering: Lessons from the Tao
In a world where trust is both a virtue and a vulnerability, social engineering—manipulating people to divulge sensitive information or perform actions—poses a constant threat. From phishing emails to sophisticated pretexting, these tactics exploit human nature. The Tao Te Ching, attributed to Lao Tzu, offers timeless wisdom for building resilience against such deception. Chapter 54,…
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The Pyramid of Pain Meets the Tao: A Cybersecurity Journey Through Ancient Wisdom
In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, where threats lurk like shadows in a digital forest, defenders often arm themselves with a simple yet profound tool: the Pyramid of Pain. Introduced by David J. Bianco in 2013, this framework ranks indicators of compromise (IOCs) from the trivial to the transformative, urging us to climb toward defenses…
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Reflecting on my previous post, I see the extremes in life growing ever wider. This week’s shooting—a catalyst—will send shock-waves that neither the left nor the right can fully grasp. Commentary suggests this is a crystallizing event, shattering the extremes we once knew and pushing them further apart. The left calls for punching more “Nazis”;…
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Tao, robotic sheep, and feminism
It has been almost a year, and it’s been quite a year. Mostly health issues took priority, but I’m finally starting to settle in a bit and even have some material to share, oddly enough. The first topic is the digital waifu revolution and feminism. As I’m sure you, dear reader, are aware, Grok now…
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A few days late and a fist full of dollars short…
I failed. Two weeks without a post. I could cite writers block but that’s not the case. Nor did 75 Hard get in the way really. I simply did not make the time to write. In the past weeks it has been a bit interesting. I signed up for the IC again, I have a…
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Day 5
To help ring out the year and to get a jump on the next my soon to be wife and I are doing #75 Hard. It is day 5 and I am tired, sore and loving every minute of it. I’m understanding the statement “embrace the suck” considering I was hardly working out prior to…
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