Snorre Fagerland

Looks like Elon had to admit it, finally.

#ukeslutt #nrk Det er ikke snuttifisering. Det er dagbladifisering. Lettbeint klikkbaiting i stedet for folkeopplysning. Og det er grunnen til at NRK ikke lenger er en seriøs aktør i mine øyne.

Er det noen fra Norsk Data/SINTRAN - perioden som noensinne så ondsinnet kode av noe slag, eller var alt bare business?

Tyrkerne som driver pizzaen borti her er pinadø mer nordlendinger enn gjennomsnittet av oss. Jeg bestiller pizza. "Tar det lang tid?" - "Ca. to timer." Deadpan. Jeg flirer. Han flirer.

Anyone around that witnessed Greg Benford's FORTRAN virus in 1969? Would love to hear if anyone remember it. "I envisioned and wrote the first computer virus in 1969 but failed to see that viruses would become widespread." cacm.acm.org/opinion/futu... #virushistory #benford

Fint at Bergen er på Oxford-lista. En av dem. Hvis du plukker ut livskvalitet. På overall-lista er de nr 40. Det er en drøss med slike lister. Global Liveability Index har dem ikke på lista. Ikke World's Best Cities heller. Ikke Monocle heller. Jug med statistikk. #ukeslutt #nrk

@spaf.me As a computer security legend, you have seen a LOT of interesting incidents. I try to preserve data on malware and incidents from pre-2000 at github.com/SnorreFagerl... You would not happen to have retained any data that could benefit from preservation? Source, samples, notes, writeups?

Ser at Steinar Suvatne betaler seg for NRK. Trekker inn den verste søpla i norsk mediebilde, antakeligvis for "engasjement". Nei, melder meg ut av den kanalen. Det er ikke mye nytt der lenger; dagbladifiseringen er nesten fullført.

Someone is interested in prawns. #caturday

<rant>Herreh, så lei jeg er av Norges tøffeste, dummeste, mesterste liste med b-kjendiser. Tragisk at disse hjernedøde realitykonseptene får fribillett til å gjentas sesong på sesong. 🤮 </rant>

You know its a wet summer when snails feast on the cat kibble.

I dug into obscure Japanese viruses so you did not have to. How about a virus as priority boot device? No, not booting the infected disk. Booting the virus. www.linkedin.com/pulse/unforg...

@spaf.me Sent you an email to you job addy. There's no rush, so I won't say it is, but its not spam either. Happy sabbatical. PS: I never thought about using those words as part of my vocabulary, but now I have an urge to. argh.

Another malware type dug out from the *almost* forgotten past. www.linkedin.com/pulse/unforg...

Har det skjedd noe på Gibostad? Brann eller noe?

NASA FIRMS is not bad at spotting heat. In fact, some of the feeds seem to be better at spotting industrial heat sources than wildfires - here, it sees the ferromanganese smelter at Sauda, Norway. The circle shows the margin of error from a previous plot.

Litt ironisk FP eller kreativt ansettelsestriks: E-tjenestens jobbannonse blokkeres av Telenor. Annonsen ender opp hos webcruiter, så den SER jo legit ut - men ring, for sikkerhets skyld.

April is fun. It's like nature wants to make sure you cannot be entirely sure the winter is over. Here; have some snow <flwomp>.

I *think* I've known only one Hungarian person - my old doctor. Pointed at me and said "bit fat, yeah?". Showed me a huge handful of biscuits; "you need to stay away from these"; before he wolfed them down. Liked him straight away.

Thank you. Godspeed. #artemisii

People complain about Facebook and Twitter as being full of disinfo and crap. But lordy, LinkedIn is giving them a run for their money.

I know we live in an era of realpolitik, but I wish people would just say the truth straight up, and damn the torpedoes.

Running hashcat over Newfoundland like a totally normal person

Jeg tror jeg må være den eneste på planeten som synes at Ryan Gosling ikke er noen stor karakterskuespiller.

I've started dumping Quantickle graphs on this repo. First out Sidewinder. There'll be more to come. github.com/RSAC-Labs/Qu...

Anyone left out there who used to work with the old Symantec Antivirus for Macintosh series of products? Love to chat.

If you are a veteran of infosec/malware scene in the 70-90'ies you may receive a cold mail/message from me asking if you have historical material. Sorry about being such a pest. Just pipe to dev\null if not interested. There will be only one ping, hopefully it should be manageable.

Almost every operating system has malware of some kind. Heard about MenuetOS? Small hobbyist OS project. Yet, there's at least two viruses for it (by the same person)

In 1987, a year before the Morris worm, the CHRISTMAS EXEC worm spread over email on EARN, BITNET and VNET. It's well documented. Did you know that several copycats followed on BITNET - at least 10 variants? Three of them - FACES, RAMA and ZT are uploaded to VHP. Below: RAMA aka Happy Ramadan.

I just received a fantastic donation of historical material for the Virus History Project. It will take some time to catalogue, but there's stuff in here that I have never seen - like three CHRISTMA EXEC-like worms for VM/CMS.

This is going to be unpopular, but I think it's the truth. Just poked around at one of the AI-music generation services. The kids are taking to this as fish to water, generating, sampling, remixing. The quality of much of this is *really high*, any genre. Not slop. These are the new playlists.

One WANK worm is likely lost, but I have to try: From the Dreyfus book: "Underground" ... but the Easynet version ... was ... distinct. It had a strange line of code in it, *a line missing from any other versions*....no circumstances was it to attack computers inside DEC's area 48. Anyone seen it?

I'm interested in getting in touch with anyone who was involved in the WANK/OILZ worm outbreak at NASA/CERN/DoE in 1989. I've talked to a few folks, but there are still blanks in this story - if you were part of that please ping me.

I hate the Word spell checker the most out of all modern application features. This condescending, unimaginative, language-averaging automat has caused more damage to writing than anything else up to the AI era.

@fuzzface.epsilon-ix.masto.host.ap.brid.gy btw: As I understand it you were integral in the WANK cleanup. Did you ever see the successor - OILZ?