Randall Hunt

Dad, Husband, and CTO at @CaylentInc. We're hiring! Formerly @pytorch, @awscloud, @SpaceX, @MongoDB. Opinions are my own.

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

@mikejulian > The real job isn’t deciding what to do. It’s deciding what to ignore.

This one I think is true when it's your first company and the opposite when it's your 4th. Sometimes serial founders close themselves off too much.

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

@chamath The hyperscalers will be fine because they're the only ones that will actually deliver on the compute for the highest bidders. The neoclouds are oversold.

There are only so many seats in first class.

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

The worst part is when my chronically online direct reports like this tweet. Dammit.

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

The best part of muse, dots, duet, instinct, etc. is that I don't ever have to actually type anything to these humans ever again. My indefatigable clankers just do all the meat bag talk for me.

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

@brooke_jamieson Hey, don't threaten me with a good time

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

@RichJanson I want it... even if they don't. Why can't a 3rd party solve this for me lol

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

Why isn't there an in n out delivery service?

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

@elonmusk @ShirazAkmal @zerohedge Beta male answer

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

@Austen I see it constantly.

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

@chrismunns "Feel the burn"

[Vic 📠 @VicVijayakumar]

1995: PHP is dead, learn ColdFusion
2002: PHP is dead, learn ASP​.net
2003: PHP is dead, learn Django
2004: PHP is dead, learn Ruby on Rails
2010: PHP is dead, learn Flask
2011: PHP is dead, learn AngularJS
2016: PHP is dead, learn Next.js
2022: PHP is dead, learn Solidity
2026: The NSA is advising that you turn off PHP

[kori rogers @korigero]

Scott Wu vs. the models

[Sebastian Wolff @SebastianWolff]

emudhra is at the four-front of security

[⁵⁄₉ @fiveoutofnine]

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and https://t.co/QlOXb3COq3 went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

@swyx Do 1337 and then 1009 and 1999

[Charles Booker @Booker4KY]

I was 2 weeks old when Mitch McConnell was elected to the United States Senate.

In 2 weeks, I’ll be replacing him.

[lauren @poteto]

every security engineer this week

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

The delta flight tracker and windows download timers use the same random number generator.

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Security researchers and operators from the 90s suiting back up ...