issue number 38 thought for the week - packet pushers · 2019-07-10 · experimenting, and...
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Another week of being a Human in IT Infrastructure Are you still alive to talkabout it
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Table of Contents (aka The Project Plan)
1 When Have You ReallyMade It As A NetworkEngineerCome to the SD-WAN MixerWith Packet Pushers andCloudGenix2 When Will We Get BetterSecurity When People StartTo DieInternets Of Interest PacketPushersnet - The LastFiveWatch ThisQuick Survey Home Lab Costs
Issue Number 38
08182016
The asking when issue
Thought For The WeekThe only time Im the smartestperson in the room is when Im
alone
1 When Have You Really MadeIt As A Network Engineerby Ethan BanksI was inspired by this tweet from my friend Phil Gervasi who you should followfor network nerdery (and occasional grammar pedantry)
Success isnrsquot always easy to define as it means different things to differentpeople at different times in their lives From a certain point of view I believe salary is one measure of success Iworked hard ran strong on the certification treadmill and changed jobs asoften as better compensation came along Eventually I was earning six figuresSuccess Another measure of success is the certifications I can list on a resume I couldpoint to the certs as proof that Irsquod achieved technical competency Eventuallythat included the CCIE certification Success But in the spirit of Philrsquos tweet letrsquos look at other definitions I believe a technologist never ldquomakes itrdquo because the speed at which ITchanges means it impossible to arrive In these days of uncertain topologies
and shifting reference models the best one can hope for is to become reallygood at a couple of things and competent at most of the rest ldquoAlways learningand never restingrdquo must be the mantra And the constant need to learn isnt a recent development Twenty years agowhen I was banging on a longshythrow keyboard making Netware and WindowsNT do useful things I was in a constant state of researching readingexperimenting and documenting Oh and calling tech support when all elsefailed This is the business of technology There is no arriving There is no comfortlevel There is no cool confidence where you can relax because you know whatthere is to know Therefore success as a technologist becomes something other than technicalknowledge or earning ability What then To me the successful technologist is one who has let go of ego The very best technologists have a wellshydeveloped sense of what they donrsquotknowand they are okay with that When someone asks them a question theyhave no answer for they say ldquoI donrsquot know but Irsquoll find outrdquo Therersquos no blusteror shame in not knowing The ego has been left aside The best technologists are also willing to share what they know They arentworried about giving away secret knowledge that might help someone elseget ahead They take pleasure in sharing and teaching not hoarding andaccumulating for their own gain To me making it means you can learn from others willingly share yourknowledge gladly and truly become a part of an integrated team
Come to the SD-WAN MixerWith Packet Pushers andCloudGenix Monday August 29th at VMworld This year at VMworld SDshyWAN thought leaders Greg Ferro and Ethan Banksof Packet Pushers along with the folks from CloudGenix invite you out for afun night of complimentary cocktails and cuttingshyedge technology Join us at the MGM Grand Centrifuge Lounge where wersquoll be showingattendees what a real SDshyWAN application defined branch looks like Reserve your spot now for free food and drinks as well as tshyshirts andgiveaways CloudGenix | Packet Pushers SDWAN Mixer at VMworld Monday August 29th 6 ndash 8 PM MGM Grand Centrifuge Lounge
2 When Will We Get BetterSecurity When People StartTo Dieby Drew Conry-Murray
A new organization that advocates for secure software debuted earlier thismonth at the Black Hat security conference The Cyber Independent TestingLaboratory (CITL) is a nonshyprofit that bills itself as a sort of Consumer Reportsfor the security of software The goal of the organization which was founded by wellshyknown researchersPeiter and Sarah Zatko is to develop and share ldquoan independent comparativemeasure of the risk of ownership of computer software and systemsrdquo The company will research and test the security of business and consumerproducts and provide a rating system to help identify more and less securesoftware I think the CITL is a great idea an independent consumershyfocusedorganization that can rank and rate products based on risk gives buyers veryuseful information And itrsquos possible that poor rankings might compel productdevelopers to do better Unfortunately I donrsquot think CITL will have a pronounced effect on securityHeres why First security (or more accurately risk management) is complicated We like totalk about security as if itrsquos binary (secure or unsecure) but itrsquos actually fluid Anorganizationrsquos degree of risk rises and falls based on any number of interlinkedvariables software quality device configurations system connections ITbudgets asset values user behaviors etc etc etc While CITL tackles one important aspect of managing risk there are athousand other ways for things to go wrong This isnrsquot a criticism of CITL itrsquosjust the nature of complex systems Second most people just donrsquot give a shit This doesnrsquot mean people arenecessarily lazy or ignorant or malicious It just means they want to get stuffdone with as little friction and cost as possible That goes for productdevelopers (ahem IoT) just as much as consumers
Death and Taxes But Mostly DeathSo what will make a difference Dead people Once computing becomesconnected enough to the physical world that insecure software leads to deathswersquoll start to see real progress If a thief breaks into Targetrsquos credit card transaction system and steals my creditcard a bank eats the fraudulent transactions and issues me a new card AndIrsquom back to shopping at Target next week But if a hacker screws up the software in a selfshydriving Ford and I see a familyof four consumed in fiery wreck on the nightly news the next time Irsquom shoppingfor a car itrsquos not gonna be a Ford
I realize death is extreme but look at all the other security tools andrequirements wersquove got in place HIPAA and breach notification legislationindustry compliance initiatives like PCI bug bounties vulnerability databasesand a multishybillion dollar security industry And yet here we are with the latest round of breaches including giant hotelchains and the NSA
Until we are in literal fear of our lives and thus refuse to purchase the item thatfrightens us the pressures and incentives to improve risk management acrossall the interdependent variables just wonrsquot be there
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fast-paced style
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Drew Conry-Murray
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited and
published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
1 When Have You Really MadeIt As A Network Engineerby Ethan BanksI was inspired by this tweet from my friend Phil Gervasi who you should followfor network nerdery (and occasional grammar pedantry)
Success isnrsquot always easy to define as it means different things to differentpeople at different times in their lives From a certain point of view I believe salary is one measure of success Iworked hard ran strong on the certification treadmill and changed jobs asoften as better compensation came along Eventually I was earning six figuresSuccess Another measure of success is the certifications I can list on a resume I couldpoint to the certs as proof that Irsquod achieved technical competency Eventuallythat included the CCIE certification Success But in the spirit of Philrsquos tweet letrsquos look at other definitions I believe a technologist never ldquomakes itrdquo because the speed at which ITchanges means it impossible to arrive In these days of uncertain topologies
and shifting reference models the best one can hope for is to become reallygood at a couple of things and competent at most of the rest ldquoAlways learningand never restingrdquo must be the mantra And the constant need to learn isnt a recent development Twenty years agowhen I was banging on a longshythrow keyboard making Netware and WindowsNT do useful things I was in a constant state of researching readingexperimenting and documenting Oh and calling tech support when all elsefailed This is the business of technology There is no arriving There is no comfortlevel There is no cool confidence where you can relax because you know whatthere is to know Therefore success as a technologist becomes something other than technicalknowledge or earning ability What then To me the successful technologist is one who has let go of ego The very best technologists have a wellshydeveloped sense of what they donrsquotknowand they are okay with that When someone asks them a question theyhave no answer for they say ldquoI donrsquot know but Irsquoll find outrdquo Therersquos no blusteror shame in not knowing The ego has been left aside The best technologists are also willing to share what they know They arentworried about giving away secret knowledge that might help someone elseget ahead They take pleasure in sharing and teaching not hoarding andaccumulating for their own gain To me making it means you can learn from others willingly share yourknowledge gladly and truly become a part of an integrated team
Come to the SD-WAN MixerWith Packet Pushers andCloudGenix Monday August 29th at VMworld This year at VMworld SDshyWAN thought leaders Greg Ferro and Ethan Banksof Packet Pushers along with the folks from CloudGenix invite you out for afun night of complimentary cocktails and cuttingshyedge technology Join us at the MGM Grand Centrifuge Lounge where wersquoll be showingattendees what a real SDshyWAN application defined branch looks like Reserve your spot now for free food and drinks as well as tshyshirts andgiveaways CloudGenix | Packet Pushers SDWAN Mixer at VMworld Monday August 29th 6 ndash 8 PM MGM Grand Centrifuge Lounge
2 When Will We Get BetterSecurity When People StartTo Dieby Drew Conry-Murray
A new organization that advocates for secure software debuted earlier thismonth at the Black Hat security conference The Cyber Independent TestingLaboratory (CITL) is a nonshyprofit that bills itself as a sort of Consumer Reportsfor the security of software The goal of the organization which was founded by wellshyknown researchersPeiter and Sarah Zatko is to develop and share ldquoan independent comparativemeasure of the risk of ownership of computer software and systemsrdquo The company will research and test the security of business and consumerproducts and provide a rating system to help identify more and less securesoftware I think the CITL is a great idea an independent consumershyfocusedorganization that can rank and rate products based on risk gives buyers veryuseful information And itrsquos possible that poor rankings might compel productdevelopers to do better Unfortunately I donrsquot think CITL will have a pronounced effect on securityHeres why First security (or more accurately risk management) is complicated We like totalk about security as if itrsquos binary (secure or unsecure) but itrsquos actually fluid Anorganizationrsquos degree of risk rises and falls based on any number of interlinkedvariables software quality device configurations system connections ITbudgets asset values user behaviors etc etc etc While CITL tackles one important aspect of managing risk there are athousand other ways for things to go wrong This isnrsquot a criticism of CITL itrsquosjust the nature of complex systems Second most people just donrsquot give a shit This doesnrsquot mean people arenecessarily lazy or ignorant or malicious It just means they want to get stuffdone with as little friction and cost as possible That goes for productdevelopers (ahem IoT) just as much as consumers
Death and Taxes But Mostly DeathSo what will make a difference Dead people Once computing becomesconnected enough to the physical world that insecure software leads to deathswersquoll start to see real progress If a thief breaks into Targetrsquos credit card transaction system and steals my creditcard a bank eats the fraudulent transactions and issues me a new card AndIrsquom back to shopping at Target next week But if a hacker screws up the software in a selfshydriving Ford and I see a familyof four consumed in fiery wreck on the nightly news the next time Irsquom shoppingfor a car itrsquos not gonna be a Ford
I realize death is extreme but look at all the other security tools andrequirements wersquove got in place HIPAA and breach notification legislationindustry compliance initiatives like PCI bug bounties vulnerability databasesand a multishybillion dollar security industry And yet here we are with the latest round of breaches including giant hotelchains and the NSA
Until we are in literal fear of our lives and thus refuse to purchase the item thatfrightens us the pressures and incentives to improve risk management acrossall the interdependent variables just wonrsquot be there
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fast-paced style
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Drew Conry-Murray
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited and
published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
and shifting reference models the best one can hope for is to become reallygood at a couple of things and competent at most of the rest ldquoAlways learningand never restingrdquo must be the mantra And the constant need to learn isnt a recent development Twenty years agowhen I was banging on a longshythrow keyboard making Netware and WindowsNT do useful things I was in a constant state of researching readingexperimenting and documenting Oh and calling tech support when all elsefailed This is the business of technology There is no arriving There is no comfortlevel There is no cool confidence where you can relax because you know whatthere is to know Therefore success as a technologist becomes something other than technicalknowledge or earning ability What then To me the successful technologist is one who has let go of ego The very best technologists have a wellshydeveloped sense of what they donrsquotknowand they are okay with that When someone asks them a question theyhave no answer for they say ldquoI donrsquot know but Irsquoll find outrdquo Therersquos no blusteror shame in not knowing The ego has been left aside The best technologists are also willing to share what they know They arentworried about giving away secret knowledge that might help someone elseget ahead They take pleasure in sharing and teaching not hoarding andaccumulating for their own gain To me making it means you can learn from others willingly share yourknowledge gladly and truly become a part of an integrated team
Come to the SD-WAN MixerWith Packet Pushers andCloudGenix Monday August 29th at VMworld This year at VMworld SDshyWAN thought leaders Greg Ferro and Ethan Banksof Packet Pushers along with the folks from CloudGenix invite you out for afun night of complimentary cocktails and cuttingshyedge technology Join us at the MGM Grand Centrifuge Lounge where wersquoll be showingattendees what a real SDshyWAN application defined branch looks like Reserve your spot now for free food and drinks as well as tshyshirts andgiveaways CloudGenix | Packet Pushers SDWAN Mixer at VMworld Monday August 29th 6 ndash 8 PM MGM Grand Centrifuge Lounge
2 When Will We Get BetterSecurity When People StartTo Dieby Drew Conry-Murray
A new organization that advocates for secure software debuted earlier thismonth at the Black Hat security conference The Cyber Independent TestingLaboratory (CITL) is a nonshyprofit that bills itself as a sort of Consumer Reportsfor the security of software The goal of the organization which was founded by wellshyknown researchersPeiter and Sarah Zatko is to develop and share ldquoan independent comparativemeasure of the risk of ownership of computer software and systemsrdquo The company will research and test the security of business and consumerproducts and provide a rating system to help identify more and less securesoftware I think the CITL is a great idea an independent consumershyfocusedorganization that can rank and rate products based on risk gives buyers veryuseful information And itrsquos possible that poor rankings might compel productdevelopers to do better Unfortunately I donrsquot think CITL will have a pronounced effect on securityHeres why First security (or more accurately risk management) is complicated We like totalk about security as if itrsquos binary (secure or unsecure) but itrsquos actually fluid Anorganizationrsquos degree of risk rises and falls based on any number of interlinkedvariables software quality device configurations system connections ITbudgets asset values user behaviors etc etc etc While CITL tackles one important aspect of managing risk there are athousand other ways for things to go wrong This isnrsquot a criticism of CITL itrsquosjust the nature of complex systems Second most people just donrsquot give a shit This doesnrsquot mean people arenecessarily lazy or ignorant or malicious It just means they want to get stuffdone with as little friction and cost as possible That goes for productdevelopers (ahem IoT) just as much as consumers
Death and Taxes But Mostly DeathSo what will make a difference Dead people Once computing becomesconnected enough to the physical world that insecure software leads to deathswersquoll start to see real progress If a thief breaks into Targetrsquos credit card transaction system and steals my creditcard a bank eats the fraudulent transactions and issues me a new card AndIrsquom back to shopping at Target next week But if a hacker screws up the software in a selfshydriving Ford and I see a familyof four consumed in fiery wreck on the nightly news the next time Irsquom shoppingfor a car itrsquos not gonna be a Ford
I realize death is extreme but look at all the other security tools andrequirements wersquove got in place HIPAA and breach notification legislationindustry compliance initiatives like PCI bug bounties vulnerability databasesand a multishybillion dollar security industry And yet here we are with the latest round of breaches including giant hotelchains and the NSA
Until we are in literal fear of our lives and thus refuse to purchase the item thatfrightens us the pressures and incentives to improve risk management acrossall the interdependent variables just wonrsquot be there
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fast-paced style
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Drew Conry-Murray
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited and
published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
Come to the SD-WAN MixerWith Packet Pushers andCloudGenix Monday August 29th at VMworld This year at VMworld SDshyWAN thought leaders Greg Ferro and Ethan Banksof Packet Pushers along with the folks from CloudGenix invite you out for afun night of complimentary cocktails and cuttingshyedge technology Join us at the MGM Grand Centrifuge Lounge where wersquoll be showingattendees what a real SDshyWAN application defined branch looks like Reserve your spot now for free food and drinks as well as tshyshirts andgiveaways CloudGenix | Packet Pushers SDWAN Mixer at VMworld Monday August 29th 6 ndash 8 PM MGM Grand Centrifuge Lounge
2 When Will We Get BetterSecurity When People StartTo Dieby Drew Conry-Murray
A new organization that advocates for secure software debuted earlier thismonth at the Black Hat security conference The Cyber Independent TestingLaboratory (CITL) is a nonshyprofit that bills itself as a sort of Consumer Reportsfor the security of software The goal of the organization which was founded by wellshyknown researchersPeiter and Sarah Zatko is to develop and share ldquoan independent comparativemeasure of the risk of ownership of computer software and systemsrdquo The company will research and test the security of business and consumerproducts and provide a rating system to help identify more and less securesoftware I think the CITL is a great idea an independent consumershyfocusedorganization that can rank and rate products based on risk gives buyers veryuseful information And itrsquos possible that poor rankings might compel productdevelopers to do better Unfortunately I donrsquot think CITL will have a pronounced effect on securityHeres why First security (or more accurately risk management) is complicated We like totalk about security as if itrsquos binary (secure or unsecure) but itrsquos actually fluid Anorganizationrsquos degree of risk rises and falls based on any number of interlinkedvariables software quality device configurations system connections ITbudgets asset values user behaviors etc etc etc While CITL tackles one important aspect of managing risk there are athousand other ways for things to go wrong This isnrsquot a criticism of CITL itrsquosjust the nature of complex systems Second most people just donrsquot give a shit This doesnrsquot mean people arenecessarily lazy or ignorant or malicious It just means they want to get stuffdone with as little friction and cost as possible That goes for productdevelopers (ahem IoT) just as much as consumers
Death and Taxes But Mostly DeathSo what will make a difference Dead people Once computing becomesconnected enough to the physical world that insecure software leads to deathswersquoll start to see real progress If a thief breaks into Targetrsquos credit card transaction system and steals my creditcard a bank eats the fraudulent transactions and issues me a new card AndIrsquom back to shopping at Target next week But if a hacker screws up the software in a selfshydriving Ford and I see a familyof four consumed in fiery wreck on the nightly news the next time Irsquom shoppingfor a car itrsquos not gonna be a Ford
I realize death is extreme but look at all the other security tools andrequirements wersquove got in place HIPAA and breach notification legislationindustry compliance initiatives like PCI bug bounties vulnerability databasesand a multishybillion dollar security industry And yet here we are with the latest round of breaches including giant hotelchains and the NSA
Until we are in literal fear of our lives and thus refuse to purchase the item thatfrightens us the pressures and incentives to improve risk management acrossall the interdependent variables just wonrsquot be there
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fast-paced style
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Drew Conry-Murray
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
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Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
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A new organization that advocates for secure software debuted earlier thismonth at the Black Hat security conference The Cyber Independent TestingLaboratory (CITL) is a nonshyprofit that bills itself as a sort of Consumer Reportsfor the security of software The goal of the organization which was founded by wellshyknown researchersPeiter and Sarah Zatko is to develop and share ldquoan independent comparativemeasure of the risk of ownership of computer software and systemsrdquo The company will research and test the security of business and consumerproducts and provide a rating system to help identify more and less securesoftware I think the CITL is a great idea an independent consumershyfocusedorganization that can rank and rate products based on risk gives buyers veryuseful information And itrsquos possible that poor rankings might compel productdevelopers to do better Unfortunately I donrsquot think CITL will have a pronounced effect on securityHeres why First security (or more accurately risk management) is complicated We like totalk about security as if itrsquos binary (secure or unsecure) but itrsquos actually fluid Anorganizationrsquos degree of risk rises and falls based on any number of interlinkedvariables software quality device configurations system connections ITbudgets asset values user behaviors etc etc etc While CITL tackles one important aspect of managing risk there are athousand other ways for things to go wrong This isnrsquot a criticism of CITL itrsquosjust the nature of complex systems Second most people just donrsquot give a shit This doesnrsquot mean people arenecessarily lazy or ignorant or malicious It just means they want to get stuffdone with as little friction and cost as possible That goes for productdevelopers (ahem IoT) just as much as consumers
Death and Taxes But Mostly DeathSo what will make a difference Dead people Once computing becomesconnected enough to the physical world that insecure software leads to deathswersquoll start to see real progress If a thief breaks into Targetrsquos credit card transaction system and steals my creditcard a bank eats the fraudulent transactions and issues me a new card AndIrsquom back to shopping at Target next week But if a hacker screws up the software in a selfshydriving Ford and I see a familyof four consumed in fiery wreck on the nightly news the next time Irsquom shoppingfor a car itrsquos not gonna be a Ford
I realize death is extreme but look at all the other security tools andrequirements wersquove got in place HIPAA and breach notification legislationindustry compliance initiatives like PCI bug bounties vulnerability databasesand a multishybillion dollar security industry And yet here we are with the latest round of breaches including giant hotelchains and the NSA
Until we are in literal fear of our lives and thus refuse to purchase the item thatfrightens us the pressures and incentives to improve risk management acrossall the interdependent variables just wonrsquot be there
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fast-paced style
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Drew Conry-Murray
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited and
published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
Death and Taxes But Mostly DeathSo what will make a difference Dead people Once computing becomesconnected enough to the physical world that insecure software leads to deathswersquoll start to see real progress If a thief breaks into Targetrsquos credit card transaction system and steals my creditcard a bank eats the fraudulent transactions and issues me a new card AndIrsquom back to shopping at Target next week But if a hacker screws up the software in a selfshydriving Ford and I see a familyof four consumed in fiery wreck on the nightly news the next time Irsquom shoppingfor a car itrsquos not gonna be a Ford
I realize death is extreme but look at all the other security tools andrequirements wersquove got in place HIPAA and breach notification legislationindustry compliance initiatives like PCI bug bounties vulnerability databasesand a multishybillion dollar security industry And yet here we are with the latest round of breaches including giant hotelchains and the NSA
Until we are in literal fear of our lives and thus refuse to purchase the item thatfrightens us the pressures and incentives to improve risk management acrossall the interdependent variables just wonrsquot be there
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fast-paced style
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Drew Conry-Murray
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited and
published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
I realize death is extreme but look at all the other security tools andrequirements wersquove got in place HIPAA and breach notification legislationindustry compliance initiatives like PCI bug bounties vulnerability databasesand a multishybillion dollar security industry And yet here we are with the latest round of breaches including giant hotelchains and the NSA
Until we are in literal fear of our lives and thus refuse to purchase the item thatfrightens us the pressures and incentives to improve risk management acrossall the interdependent variables just wonrsquot be there
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fast-paced style
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Drew Conry-Murray
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited and
published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
Until we are in literal fear of our lives and thus refuse to purchase the item thatfrightens us the pressures and incentives to improve risk management acrossall the interdependent variables just wonrsquot be there
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fast-paced style
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Drew Conry-Murray
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited and
published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
Why private clouds will suffer a long slow death Bernard Golden advances some interesting arguments for why private cloudswill become more and more irrelevant as public cloud offerings advance Heemphasizes three key advantages for public clouds the ability to provideinnovative new services on top of existing resources the ability to scale andthe network effect in which improvements for one public cloud customerbecome available to everyone As for the big problem he sees with private clouds heres the money quote
The core problem for private cloud is that the providers are focusedon delivering what solves their problem mdash pushing more hardwareThis blinds them to the importance of top of stack services andcauses them to spend endless energy on tweaking the infrastructuresoftware to incorporate their latest switch Or server Or storagearray This is textbook Clayton Christensen material mdash and we allknow how that story turns out
Greg Ferro has strong feelings about public vs private cloud so I expect wellget into this debate in an upcoming Network Break
Exploring The Lost Grandeur Of New York CitysVerizon Building The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from inside the Verizon Building inManhattan that houses fiber optic cables for digital voice and data as well as adiminishing amount of copper wiring for plainshyold telephone service Im alwaysintrigued by visual reminders of the complex and palpable infrastructure thatmakes our seemingly ephemeral communications possibleshyshyand just how farweve come from the telephone age
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited and
published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
We dont understand AI because we dontunderstand intelligence Depending on which prognosticator you believe artificial intelligence is eithergoing to usher in a new age of prosperity and peace or lead to ourenslavement or destruction by smart machines (once they get around to askingthemselves why theyre working for us) But a thoughtful article at Engadget takes a step back to question what weactually mean by intelligence
I agree that technology will continue to advance in unprecedentedaccelerated ways were seeing this happen right now and theresno reason to believe we are anywhere near a computationalplateau However it is a huge leap from advanced technology to theartificial creation of consciousness Essentially the most extremepromises of AI are based on a flawed premise that we understandhuman intelligence and consciousness
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cutting-edgeresearch projects
Recent ArticlesThe last five articles published on EtherealMind and Packet Pushers
EtherealMindcom LatestLogical Razors Can Take on Corporate Babble Canned Response to BGP Networking Questions ndash Reddit IETF RFC 8374 BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of SupportingDiscussions Net Neutrality Hasnrsquot Ended We Donrsquot Know When Next Market Transition Cheaper Buying Less Selling
PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
Watch ThisWhere we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
A cat takes a very strange adventure among creepy puppets with the musicalaccompaniment of Mastodon
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easy
way to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Home LabCosts How much of your own money have you spent on home lab equipment andsoftware A Between $1 and $500 B Between $500 and $1000 C Between $1000 and $2000 D Between $2000 and $3000 E More than $3000 F I dont have a home lab
Did We Miss Something Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
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published by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2016 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
The Weekly Show channel is ourone-hour deep dive on networkingtechnology
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PacketPushersnet - The Last FiveNetwork Break 182 BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist Juniper BigSwitch Unveil New Products Show 387 AWS Networking ndash A View From The Inside PQ 147 Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) Datanauts 131 Masters And Mentorship Network Break 181 Russia Accused Of Infrastructure Attacks US Targets ZTE
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