Today the ERNW Team participated in the Mudiator mud race in Mannheim. This mud run features 25 obstacles over 8 km, you can do either one or two rounds. Participating for the first time, the ERNW team went for one round (the Legionnaire distance as opposed to the two round Hercules distance):
Following our idea of open access to knowledge (both about vulnerabilities and sports 😉 ), here are some hints/lessons learned:
Continue readingYesterday I took a long run (actually I did the full distance here) and usually such exercises are good opportunities to “reflect on the world in general and the infosec dimension of it in particular”… at least as long as your blood sugar is still on a level to support somewhat reasonable brain activity 😉
Anyhow, one of the outcomes of the number of strange mental stages I went through was the idea of a series of blogposts on architectural or technological approaches that are widely regarded as “good security practice” but may – when looked at with a bit more of scrutiny – turn out to be based on what I’d call “outdated threat models”.
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