Artwork by Eduarda Mariz.

Artwork by Eduarda Mariz.

First off, my email provider told me that I misconfigured sonya@exolymph.news, so if you contacted me within the last week or so and didn’t get a response, I may not have received your email. It’s fixed now, so hit me up again.

Secondly, I’m going backpacking in Desolation Wilderness this week, so Exolymph is on hold. Instead of sending you the usual dispatches, I’ll send you article suggestions.

Today’s recommended reading is “Cyber Security Motivations Guessing Game” by The Grugq, an infamous infosec researcher and exploit broker. (Well, at least he’s infamous on Twitter.)

“If you’re from the ‘killing bugs makes the internet inherently safer’ camp, then Chinese companies are clearly doing more to secure the Internet than any European company. [However, it might be] a strategic cyber operation to deny Chinese adversaries access to critical resources. For example, if your cyber program doesn’t need unpatched vulnerabilities as a critical component but your adversary’s does, you may invest in disclosing vulnerabilities.”

Enjoy!