Ian Venner

Views all my own.
"Unsubstantiated opinions, speeches, rhetoric and a bogus historical parallel are not substitutes for facts."

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@irishelt looks less like a "safety" issue and more like a "patch broke the thing" issue.

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@IBallantyn @OnthisdayRN The Royal Oak affair.... worth a google!

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Calgary 🇨🇦 stopped fluoridating its water in 2011.

By 2018/19, tooth decay in chidren went up.

Removing had no health benefits

Calgary has now put it back.

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@PaulDub20 @Clearpreso Still tho, it's a rail ticket not a steak .

[Weekday Jokes @weekdayjokes]

Genie: I'll grant you three wishes. What is your first wish?
Me: I want to be rich
Genie: What is your second wish, Rich?

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@Clearpreso Well I'd be worried if Irish Rail or the Gardaí had helped them in their nefarious antics...

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

You can’t park there mate.

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@Clearpreso Part of the theatre ! The visuals themselves are a deterrent

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@Clearpreso Imagine what it is doing to some of the more contemporary minds...

[Lazy IT Guy @lazy_IT_guy]

I got a Roomba added to our cybersecurity asset inventory.

This happened because Facilities bought one for the executive floor.

It was one of the expensive models with cameras, mapping, Wi-Fi, cloud connectivity, and enough sensors to perform a small military recon mission.

They connected it to the corporate network.

I noticed it during a device scan.

Unknown Linux endpoint.

A camera, microphone, constant outbound traffic.

I asked Facilities what it was.

They said:

“The vacuum.”

Security did not like this answer.

The CISO asked whether the device could map executive offices.

Yes.

Could it store images?

Probably.

Could the vendor remotely access it?

Technically.

Within an hour, the Roomba had been unplugged and placed in a conference room like a detained suspect.

Legal asked for the privacy policy.

Procurement asked for the vendor contract.

Security asked whether we could inspect the firmware.

Facilities just wanted the floor cleaned.

After two weeks of review, we approved it for use on an isolated IoT network with restricted outbound traffic.

It now has an asset tag, a quarterly access review, and a documented decommissioning procedure.

Last month it got stuck under the CFO's credenza and went offline.

Our monitoring platform opened an alert.

The ticket was assigned to me.

Severity:

Medium.

I walked upstairs and rescued it.

This is what digital transformation looks like.

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@joehas Where is this building of Georges Pompidou? @DoubleZCreative

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@joehas Haha...

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@mr__daly @nwl88444048 It also looks amazingly like it has done for the past 30 years or so, give or take.

[Keith @khynesoz]

@Bill_Linnane The Finehans

[EY Ireland @EY_Ireland]

As the energy transition accelerates, regulators and regulated utilities need flexible ways to balance investment, oversight & delivery.

Our latest article explores how innovative mechanisms can help evolving challenges & opportunities.

Read here - https://t.co/dG2vEyPF5T

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@Clearpreso That. Or like actual bowls and cups and stuff that can be washed.

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@ntsbfh @mattyglesias Where in that article does it say out of fuel is an emergency? Where does it even say emergency in Art 98?

[Ian Venner @ipvenner]

@ntsbfh @mattyglesias Nope. Art 98:
(a) to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of
being lost;
(b) to proceed with all possible speed to the rescue of persons in
distress, if informed of their need of assistance, in so far as such
action may reasonably be expected of him;