https://sebsec.io/blog/Recent content in Blog on Sebastian Whiting | Security EngineerHugoen-USThu, 11 Apr 2024 18:05:41 -0500https://sebsec.io/blog/liars-and-outliers/Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:05:41 -0500https://sebsec.io/blog/liars-and-outliers/<p>I recently finished reading <a href="https://amzn.to/4aLRts8" title="Amazon Affiliate Link">Liars and Outliers</a> by <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/about/" title="About Bruce Schneier">Bruce Schneier</a> and it was not what I expected and in a lot of ways that is a good thing. <em>(Disclosure: the book link above is an Amazon affiliate link — I may earn a small commission if you buy through it.)</em> It is so easy to get focused on the technology and forget that at the end of the day, people are at the core of what we do. In his book, Schneier does an excellent job of abstracting the concept of security to a point where we can understand contracts and societal pressures as forms of security in addition to cryptography and EDR tools. This allows him to draw an accurate picture of the relationship between trust and security.</p>https://sebsec.io/blog/nixos/Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:02:08 -0400https://sebsec.io/blog/nixos/<p>My personal website was due for an overhaul (and in many ways a simplification) and I&rsquo;ve been working around Nix long enough that I decided to build out my new site on it. Well, this is it!</p> <p>At a high level, these are the tools I used:</p> <ul> <li><strong>DigitalOcean</strong> for hosting the server (configured with Terraform)</li> </ul> <ul> <li> <p><strong>A custom NixOS image</strong> which I found directions for <a href="https://notes.abhinavsarkar.net/2022/DO-nixos-image" title="Digital Ocean NixOS Image">here</a>.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Flakes</strong> for configuration.</p>