Okay, wow, my post about an empty file has generated a lot of feedback, mostly for the throwaway line at the bottom about an empty file being the smallest version of /bin/true possible.

Cyberkriminelle haben sich an den Systemen der Hochschule Hannover vergriffen. Die Reparaturarbeiten dauern an, Lehrveranstaltungen finden planmäßig statt.

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Die Angreifer haben – typisch für Ransomware-Gangs – Daten der Hochschule verschlüsselt; ob sie zudem Dateien kopiert haben, untersuchen externe Fachleute zusammen mit den IT-Fachkräften der HsH.

age calls itself a “simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composeability”. I’m quite fond of the concept and the utility and use a pair of Yubikeys on which I keep some of its identities (secret keys).

All tech news and especially social media posts are about hyperbole. Everything has to be the fastest, biggest, most growing and most disruptive. And when you don’t know about it or are not part of it, you are falling behind. And if that happens you will be irrelevant as a voice or outdated for the market. I’m sick of it and I am done with it.

Size isn’t everything. In fact, fast growth and inflated salaries are both red flags.