CIRCLE WITH A DOT

The 'World Order' declares or decides they don't get nuclear weapons.Were they trying to (continuing to?) develop nuclear weapons?I don't know.Do we have the right to decide that their government should be supplanted?I don't know.If we are supposedly on the 'right' side of the 'World Order' then we have the right to decide to replace their government, right?If we are not replacing leaders on the basis or justification of righteousness then what is the actual reason we are committing these acts?I don't know.

Having a hellish time on this remote pentest so far. VLAN segmentation, good patching, complex passwords. Nothing working for me yet.Will try harder but my enthusiasm is waning today.

My rice turned out great. Was regretting using the rice cooker instead of the microwave sticky rice (2 mins vs ~50 mins) but it was worth it in the end.

The thoughts to branch out into Managed SOC have been coming round again.The best and most straight forward setup (for me) so far has been Elastic SIEM, XSOAR (even just Community Edition), MISP, and an open source ticketing tool.I would REALLY love to be able to get Wazuh and Shuffle and The Hive or DFIR IRIS working FOR ME. It's been about 9 months since I tried.Is it any better in Feb 2026?

Not waiting until next week to play this.

Trump announces 10% global tariff.

Noodles for dinner:Japanese Curry Cup Noodles for me.Kids having Shin Noodles / Chicken Koka Noodles.Might be hungry again later but this is good for now.

This pentest is interesting. Finding old systems with (so far) unexploitable vulns. VLAN segmentation making DNS poisoning more difficult.Back to it on Monday. Plenty of time left.

Feel like crap today, general anxiety/stress. Didn't sleep well last night and the kids have been on half-term break from school.It would help if we had family who were interested in doing stuff with them, taking them out or coming to see them.But no, it's just us.

Hmm rumoured HomePad device

Waiting on a pentest customer fixing VPN issues for a couple of days. Twiddling my thumbs today.