Mark Cohen

Temporary Earthbound - endlessly amused by human behaviour

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

@Banque_TD site been down for weeks (possibly longer). Banks are making record profits, yet cant even manage a minimum of customer service 👎. #CustomerServiceFail #CustomerSatisfaction

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

Hats off to the @BSidesVI team for an epic 2023 con👏! Twas time well spent hearing from fantastic speakers, and meeting and chatting with so many fine folk! I'm bringing back invaluable learnings, and am hearing exciting things about next year ✊! Well done @BSidesVI🤩!

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

On the "walls of bias all around us" - @foundjem re "How #LLMs and #deeplearning models can prevent toxicity such as unconscious biases" @OpenInfraSummit #Vancouver

#ai #aibias #ArtificialIntelligence #generativeai

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

Full house for @nicksandru's talk on "Learning OpenStack by building it at home" @OpenInfraSummit #Vancouver!

#opensource #openinfra #community #openstack

[OpenInfra Summit @OpenInfraSummit]

"We started with 150 community members from 3 countries and 2 organizations and that’s now 110,000 members from 182 countries and 700+ organizations." #OpenInfraSummit

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

Validations re why contributing to #opensource 💪makes for such a rewarding career path @OpenInfraSummit #Vancouver:
"you get to work with alot of different technologies."
"the delta is way less when contributing upstream."
"upstream teams are like an extension of your own work"

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

Re the importance of #transparency, @aevavoom on #sbom @OpenInfraSummit #Vancouver;
"...lack of transparency keeps consumers from acting in their own interests." You wouldnt eat a 🥧without knowing the ingredients, yet vendors sell their "pies" without a list of ingredients.

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

"In the future, machines will write more code than humans." @sparkycollier @OpenInfraSummit #Vancouver

#ai #community #opensource #OpenInfraSummit #openinfra

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

@helena_spease @OpenInfraSummit @linuxfoundation @helena_spease - it appears Im unable to send you a DM 🤷.

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

Just heard about the @OpenInfraSummit happening this week (June 13-15 2023) here in #Vancouver! Looks to be an epic #oss focused #infrastructure + #Security con 👏!
(love to attend, but having recently attended the @linuxfoundation #Oss summit, conference piggy bank is empty)🤞

[BSides Vancouver Island @BSidesVI]

We are excited to announce that BSides Vancouver Island will be held on Friday October 13th, 2023 at a downtown location! #bsides #bsidesvi23 #FridayThe13th

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

@BSidesVancouver @fourth_planet Woohoohoo! Great to hear #BsidesVancouver2021! 😍#alwaysepic #cybergoodness #Vancouver

[BSides Vancouver @BSidesVancouver]

We're back! @fourth_planet is excited to announce #BSidesVancouver is coming this spring May 9-14, 2021!!! 🎉 Our #CFP is now open, so if you've got a talk, workshop, or village to bring to the #infosec #community, submit it here! https://t.co/GigGA1VZz9 #cyber #dfir #privacy 💪

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

@fourth_planet @NCCsecurityUS Highly recommended! Deep is Xavier's knowledge 🧙‍♂️, and his ability to articulate how to shed light on the many dark corners of #ContainerSecurity is unparalleled 💪.

[MARS @fourth_planet]

Following up our #cloudsecurity workshop, Xavier Garceau-Aranda of @NCCsecurityUS takes us deeper into the specifics of #ContainerSecurity 🔐 Oct 3rd!
Join us! https://t.co/xcO3XIwpza (workshops are exclusively for our #community members 😉) #containers #Microservices #cloud ☁️

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

Wrapping up a Saturday well spent with @BSidesSATX 🤗! From #attacking to #defending to #leadership and more - twas a day filled with amazing talks 🤯, workshops, & community convos!
Thanks to the #bsidessatx team 👏👍💪!
https://t.co/QR8bl2cT3k #cybersecurity #community #bsides

[MARS @fourth_planet]

We're excited 'bout our upcoming ☁️ #ContainerSecurity workshop with Xavier Garceau-Aranda🦉of @NCCsecurityUS ! Our training workshops are available exclusively to our @fourth_planet #community members, join us here: https://t.co/xcO3XIwpza #cyber #hacking #RedTeam #BlueTeam 🚢

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

@fourth_planet @NCCsecurityUS Xavier Garceau-Aranda is amazing, and registration is limited, so get on it peeps!

[MARS @fourth_planet]

We're very excited to offer our #community a #Cloud #Security workshop with 🦉Xavier Garceau-Aranda 💪 of @NCCsecurityUS ! Thank you Xavier 🙏!
The workshop is available exclusively to @fourth_planet #community members 🧑‍🎓, join us here: https://t.co/iFxhl0XkJM #infosec #cyber

[Mark Cohen @_markcohen]

On the age old conundrum re security vs. usability (or "how I learned to shut off CAP_NET_RAW & still be able to ping"),
@justincormack drills down on why "CAP_NET_RAW" remains enabled (by default) in #Docker, & how to turn it off @DockerCon #DockerCon #unprivileged #selfisolate