Ian Nickles
inickles.bsky.social
Ian Nickles
@inickles.bsky.social
science, infosec, snowboarding.
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come work with me! @oxide.computer is currently hiring for a whole bunch of different engineering roles, up and down the stack — from distributed systems to electrical engineering!
You're not seeing double! New engineering positions are posted for the second week in a row. Come join the team! oxide.computer/careers
April 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Pete Hegseth: "We are currently clean on OPSEC"
March 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:

www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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C IS LEGAL AGAIN
January 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
New version of Product Security Bad Practices from CISA just dropped.

www.cisa.gov/resources-to...
Product Security Bad Practices | CISA
This voluntary guidance provides an overview of product security bad practices that are deemed exceptionally risky, particularly for software manufacturers who produce software used in service of crit...
www.cisa.gov
January 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
After the holidays I am ready for my vacation next week where I return to work.
January 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Lately, every BSides seems to have a talk on reframing security teams as a “Department of Yes”

We don’t hear nearly as much about the value of a well-considered, strategically deployed “No”

I've pulled together guidance on giving a better, more constructive No:
ramimac.me/saying-no
How to Say “No” Well
Security’s pivot from ‘Department of No’ to ‘Department of Yes’ misses the real lesson - how to say ‘No’ the right way.
ramimac.me
December 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I've never felt so seen and attacked at the same time.

youtu.be/4gygGeLsU7A
When You Get Your Password Wrong
YouTube video by Fairbairn Films
youtu.be
December 20, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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The new oxide.computer is live 🚀
Oxide Computer Company
Servers as they should be. Hardware, with the software baked in, for running infrastructure at scale.
oxide.computer
December 17, 2024 at 8:32 PM
FAIL
December 14, 2024 at 10:22 PM
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 is a grind.
December 13, 2024 at 10:59 PM
hack the planet
December 5, 2024 at 6:43 PM
First time in DC. Got to see the Apollo 11 command module at the Smithsonian National Air and Space museum.
December 5, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Public Oxide security advisories are live!

docs.oxide.computer/security
Docs / Oxide
docs.oxide.computer
November 27, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Great article on our work with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and how they'll use their new Cloud Computer
Oxides rackscale compute platform lands at LNLL
System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing
buff.ly
November 21, 2024 at 7:53 PM