I am retiring this social media account. Find me as @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange

Orlando, FL
Joined November 2008
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Watching our daughter navigate the college admissions process in her Senior year. My heart hurts for how much pressure these kids put on themselves.
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Replying to @wimremes
5) There is a shortage of competent IT people and most of them are concentrated in a few narrow industries. Chances are the IT people you deal with are unqualified and scared people will find them out.
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And yet “Earth Girls are Easy” is rarely mentioned in the acting resumes for either Jeff Goldblum or Geena Davis. Go figure…
I feel like the relevant metric values should also be highlighted, just to make this even more grotesque
To my non-USA followers that this is how we do volume.
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Wow, was I? That seems pretty radical for me at that age, but maybe.
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The last in-person event on my Fall calendar just went virtual because of COVID concerns. Miss hugging you all.
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Replying to @0xMatt
I heard that system lasted long after I left—crazy!
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Certifications that don’t reflect knowledge by the holder— just a CYA for the hiring manager
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Replying to @tliston
Seems like only yesterday to me too
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Replying to @kentonsmith
Seems likely — sigh
Apparently I've been "authorized" by one of my clients for billable hours over the holiday weekend. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop. #DFIRLife
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But now the world has changed, and I'm migrating to an environment that is much more aligned with my current customer base. But if any IAAS providers out there ever need some heavy lifting on email and DNS, feel free to call. I've been in that game since 1986!
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And from that day until today I never stopped running email and DNS (and web) services. It was a fair amount of work, but I always learned a lot.
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Eventually I started my own consulting firm in 1997 and I did a lot of consulting around email in DNS in those heady dot-com years. And of course I ran my own email and DNS services for my business and personal stuff, as well as for friends and family.
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Anyway, I became the tech contact for qms.com and at the time I was HP3 in WHOIS, right behind hp.com and their netblock allocation. That's a pretty cool vanity flex from the end of the early Internet era.
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This was mid-1993 and probably the last time a reasonably valuable domain name was transferred for free because it was the right thing to do.
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I talked to their network admin and he said "Oh sure! We just got done transitioning off that domain. Here let me transfer it to you." I got the transfer authorization in my mailbox in seconds. He didn't even want the free laser printer I was prepared to offer.
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"QMS" was was Quantum Medical Systems of Issaquah, WA. I figured I'd call and see if they still needed the domain. When I dialed their main number, the receptionist answered, "HP Medical Imaging" and I knew this was going to work!
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After NASA I went to work for QMS (they made laser printers) at the old Imagen facility-- it was my first solo Sys Admin gig. Our site had the Internet feed for the whole company but we were using the domain "AQM" (stock ticker) because "QMS" was taken.
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