Mike Andrews (@ma) / X

Mike Andrews

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Mike Andrews

@ma

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Seattle, WA

Joined June 2009

Mike Andrews
@ma
Sep 29, 2018
I was working at a theatre really late one night, and as I was leaving town a girl just got into my car. She thought I was a taxi, but she was *incredibly* drunk. It was *way* out of my way, but I drove her home, make sure she made it in, and left. There are good guys out there.
Mike Andrews
@ma
Mar 3, 2019
Replying to @haramgirlfriend
This documentary was great. I also like the last experiment they were running that didn’t work how they though it should either. The last words being “raise the torch up” :D Scientist: results don’t fit hypothesis; change the hypothesis. Flat earther: must be the equipment
Mike Andrews
@ma
Dec 14, 2020
Replying to @DrCamRx @DrSepah and @aaaaathena
It’s not the undergrad degrees - it’s the research. Many SV companies sprung out of research projects, or ideas from researchers (postgrad or staff) that wouldn’t have in other environments.
Mike Andrews
@ma
Dec 19, 2020
Replying to @karanortman
That snippet is the key part of why this is so different. Sure there are interesting things about the malware itself but it being delivered via trusted systems management/monitoring software and practically undetectable (unless know what to look for) broke people’s threat models
Mike Andrews
@ma
Nov 22, 2022
Replying to @altluu
Losing institutional knowledge is somewhat like not having (enough) monitoring - it doesn’t by itself stop incidents from happening, nor fixes them, but without it makes seeing and tracking down the problem a lot longer.
Mike Andrews
@ma
Dec 14, 2020
Microsoft has some of the best detection and threat hunters in the biz - it’s what happens when you are at the scale and as much of a target as MSFT has been for decades.
Mike Andrews
@ma
Mar 6, 2023
I didn’t know anything about electric self-driving cars, so thought Elon was a genius. Likewise, I didn’t know squat about reusable rockets, so thought Elon was a genius. I know about software, and this man is a moron.
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Mike Andrews
@ma
Nov 28, 2020
Replying to @lizardbill and @ctrlshifti
Which, to be fair, can hide certain classes of bugs (Heisenbug - like memory or race conditions), but that’s a reach. Throwing tools out your toolbox that increase execution speed by reduces cognitive speed is really smart, because we know CPUs are the long-pole in development ;)
Mike Andrews
@ma
Sep 4, 2022
Replying to @jumpeduptelex and @RAF_Luton
I sympathize - it’s hard to recognize the F4 because with the energy crisis they can only run it at gas mark F3, so it doesn’t have that “wooooosh” sound, but more “raaaw”, which at a distance sounds quite like a Canberra, especially during mating season.
Mike Andrews
@ma
Aug 8, 2018
Heading to @defcon and will be spending the weekend teaching kids to hack at @r00tzasylum. A big thanks to all the volunteers, goons, and people that run villages - you guys spend time and $$$ make the con for everyone else to enjoy. Attendees, say thanks if you get a chance.
Mike Andrews
@ma
Jun 27, 2019
I’m 100% sure that most Trump voters could not pass the same citizen test that newly-minted citizens have to.
Mike Andrews
@ma
Mar 1, 2019
Replying to @mattjay and @manicode
And during the project...
Mike Andrews
@ma
Jul 15, 2019
Replying to @ma and @DavidAFrench
Am I grateful to be here. Absolutely - I have a better quality of that even the 1st-world country (UK) that I came from. But I’ve worked damn hard to be here, and trudged though the (dysfunctional/antiquated) immigration system. The US us better for having immigrants, not worse.
Mike Andrews
@ma
Apr 12, 2021
Replying to @pennjillette @MrTeller and 2 others
I am SO disappointed that you and @MrTeller are doing this. Propping up this scam is the last thing I thought you’d be involved with. Plenty of other ways to share or buy any art, etc, that you’d create and a loyal following that would buy it though other means.