Training

Back to doing my C25K again and definitely slower. Strava flagged this run as the slowest I’ve done on the route since linking Fitbit to Strava :(

Depressing, but as they say, “When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up”

[9News.com.au] Donating Blood For 60 Years… O_O

Twitter’s Security Screwup and New Privacy Concerns

There is a new story doing the round about how Twitter found that it had stored user’s password in the clear in an internal log. Whilst reading it, I got this email from Twitter:

While this isn’t the first time a big company has done this (Github for one also did this), it seems unbelievable that a big company like Twitter would get itself caught out by this basic, common sense security practice. Pretty much every YouTube video and article about correctly handling passwords will tell you not to store them in the clear and only store them as hashes (with salts, preferably). Hashing algorithms are meant to be really difficult or impossible to reverse, meaning you can’t (easily) use the hashes to determine the original passwords.

Some examples from a quick YouTube search — Tom Scott’s video’s really good btw :), although is comment about “using login using Twitter and let them store your password for you” is a bit ironic :P

The fact that Twitter has our unencrypted passwords on disk… does this mean Twitter has been saving our original passwords before hashing them?

More to the point – whilst Twitter are quick to point out that no-one at the company can see the masked password, they don’t mention who has (or had) access to the unmasked passwords in the internal log. Or for how long…

Twitter users who had their accounts on private may not have been as private as they initially thought….

 

Smell of Gas turns out to be… Durian. [Mashable]

Durian has had a reputation of being a stinky fruit and it’s a well-deserved reputation. This fruit has a smell that can carry over a mile. Literally, on a visit of Malaysia, you could tell when there was a roadside stall selling Durian coming up by the smell.

However, in my opinion, the smell of Durian and the smell of gas are not alike at all…

And here’s what a Durian looks like if you’ve never seen one before…

Source: https://mashable.com/2018/04/30/durian-fruit-evacuation/

 

Introduction to Kubernetes on Rancher 2.0

The Rancher guys have put out an intro training video of Kubernetes on Rancher 2.0 — give it a check if you have time. :)

Training

It’s been a while since I did any decent runs, and today being a good sunny day I decided to go for it.

And shocked by how bad I was :(

 

I was following Fitbit’s workout which was 2x 12 minute jogs separated by a 90 min rest, then a 3 minute run at the end with a cooldown at the end of the workout. I stopped several times during the runs which annoyed me.

Got the two 12 minute runs down but didn’t do the three minute run at the end.