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Luther Lowry reposted thisLuther Lowry reposted thisCybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency just made the patch race official. It's still unwinnable. BOD 26-04 dropped last month and threw out flat patch deadlines. Now every vulnerability gets scored on four questions. Is the asset publicly exposed? Is it a known exploited flaw? Can the exploit be automated? Does it hand an attacker control? Hit all four and you have 3 days to fix it. Calendar days, not business days. Why the change? CISA says it directly. AI is collapsing the time between a flaw going public and getting weaponized, and human triage can't keep up. Here's the uncomfortable part. All four of those variables describe the same thing. Software. You can prioritize smarter, patch faster, and staff a 24/7 war room, and still lose to a clock that only speeds up. Q-Net takes a different path. Security in silicon, not software. No OS, no agents, nothing for AI to find and weaponize. No software attack surface means no 3-day clock and no forensic triage. You don't prioritize the attack surface. You remove it. If BOD 26-04 just landed on your desk, let us help with a simple, secure enterprise drop-in solution. (Link in comments.) #BOD2604 #Cybersecurity #PostQuantum #CriticalInfrastructure #PublicSector #AI #AIDefense #CISA
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Luther Lowry reposted thisLuther Lowry reposted thisYour substations are controlled by HQ. Who else can control them? ⚡🔒 Every remote substation, every field truck, every crew laptop is passing critical information across leased fiber, LTE, and increasingly satellite circuits you don't fully control. Each one is an opening. EPRI said it plainly on their own April 2026 briefing on quantum threats to energy infrastructure: the grid's decades-long asset lifecycles mean utilities are locking in cryptographic decisions today that have to survive a threat landscape that hasn't fully arrived yet. Harvest-now-decrypt-later isn't theoretical anymore — it's a planning assumption. QNet closes it. Our quantum and AI resistant rugged hardware encryptors (QBox) sit at the grid edge and wrap that traffic in a QBox‑to‑QBox encrypted tunnel. From the substation RTU or the truck in the field, all the way back to your control center. One tunnel, riding over any transport. The protection travels with the data. Why utility and OT teams are paying attention: 🛰️ Transport‑agnostic: secure remote substation comms, mobile fleets, and field equipment over whatever link is available, including satellite for the sites where nothing else reaches. 💵 Low cost: hardware-based security without the recurring licensing tax or the price tag of a rip‑and‑replace program. 🔧 Low maintenance: set it, forget it. No agents, no key‑management headaches, no truck rolls to babysit it. 🔐 Endpoint Agnostic: built simply and securely. Position in front of any endpoint you either can't patch or install agents on. Completely made in the USA: designed and manufactured here, for the operators and energy markets who can't afford questions about their supply chain. Built for NERC CIP environments and the realities of the field, not the lab. The grid's edge is expanding faster than most security models can keep up. QNet secures the last mile, over any circuit, without adding to your operational load. Let's talk about what's protecting your remote sites today. 👇 #GridSecurity #OTSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #NERCCIP #QuantumSafe #Utilities #MadeInUSA #Cybersecurity #EPRI
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Luther Lowry reposted thisLuther Lowry reposted thisQuantum computers will break RSA. They won't break AES-256. Here's why that distinction matters. 🧵👇 There's a lot of quantum FUD out there, so let's be precise: 🔴 Shor's algorithm shreds public-key crypto — RSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman. That's the real "harvest now, decrypt later" risk. 🔵 Grover's algorithm is the only quantum play against AES — and it merely halves effective key strength. AES-256 → 128-bit effective security. That's still 2¹²⁸ operations. Still billions of years. NSA's CNSA 2.0 keeps AES-256 for exactly this reason. So the quantum problem isn't the cipher. It's the keys! Specifically, how they're exchanged and how long they live. That's where Q-Net's patented just-in-time keying changes the math: the Q-Box rotates AES-256-GCM keys in silicon, as often as every single packet (configurable, 1–255). Even if an adversary somehow cracked one key, they'd decrypt at most 255 packets before it's dead. No long-lived session keys. No software to patch. 💬 Honest question for the network and security folks: when you hear "post-quantum readiness," is your org focused on swapping ciphers, or on fixing key lifetime and exchange? #PostQuantum #Cybersecurity #Encryption #OTSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #NetworkSecurity
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Luther Lowry reposted thisLuther Lowry reposted thisWe've refreshed our website! Q-Net Security's site has a new look and a sharper story: how silicon-based, quantum-resistant encryption protects point-to-point communication without ripping out your existing infrastructure. #CyberSecurity #QuantumSafe #OTSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #NetworkSecurity
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Luther Lowry reposted thisLuther Lowry reposted thisChertoff Group’s Transportation and Infrastructure lead Lee Kair discussed pressures on airport operations of checkpoints on CNN today – which can result in long wait times for passengers with luggage. Q-Net is proud to serve as the cybersecurity partner of Gigaplex, which seeks to alleviate these pressures by reducing the cost and time of luggage screening. ▶️ Watch the interview here: https://lnkd.in/eZn6zbCR #AviationSecurity #AirportSecurity #TransportationSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #Cybersecurity Gigaplex The Chertoff Group Leidos Parsons Corporation Thales World Wide Technology Lee Kair Seth Abrams Seth Reinhart Paul Decker Nicholas Franklin William Crowell William McGann, Ph.D. Justin Holmes Bob Rowe Becca Avery Deborah L. Wince-Smith Christopher Day Charles Khalid Rico, MIB, MCTSCNN The Story Is With Elex Michaelson - Stressed TSA Workers Struggle Amid Government ShutdownCNN The Story Is With Elex Michaelson - Stressed TSA Workers Struggle Amid Government Shutdown
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Luther Lowry shared thisI've been texting myself links for years. Articles I wanted to read later, ideas that might be useful someday, things I definitely planned to organize "when I had time." Spoiler: I never had time. A few months ago, I tried something different - I gave an AI full access to my notes. All 600+ files of them. Project ideas, web captures, and even journals going back to 2001. It's been one of the most useful things I've done with AI, and it has nothing to do with coding. Wrote about it here if you're curious: https://lnkd.in/grMchVVt
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Luther Lowry reposted thisLuther Lowry reposted thisHonored to serve on the “Enhancing Cybersecurity Systems for Future Energy Systems” panel at EEI’s Global Electrification Forum. https://lnkd.in/eHYBNc9N Thank you to my fellow panelist Sean Cleverly, our moderator Jim Laurito, and to Jeanne Vold for making it possible! #EEI2024 #EEI #GlobalElectrificationForum #Utilities #EnergyInnovation #GridSecurity #CleanEnergyTransition #EnergyResilience #Cybersecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #PostQuantum #OTSecurity #ZeroTrust @NorthWestern Energy
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Luther Lowry posted thisI've been using VueJS for a few years now, and I do absolutely enjoy using it. I've considered pivoting over to ReactJS only because it feels that it's a more marketable skill for the future. I've also been looking more and more into Svelte/SvelteKit, and I'm really liking some of the things I'm seeing over in that camp. So, I've been trying to figure out if I should stick with VueJS, or potentially pivot to ReactJS or Svelte? Thoughts?
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Luther Lowry shared thisGreat opinion piece by Noam Chomsky in the NYT yesterday. After becoming somewhat of a fanatic over recent AI technology, I definitely see where the flaws, limitations, and outer bounds of it's capabilities are. Regardless, I'm enthralled at the possibilities of not just where we're at today, but where these technologies will be in the next decade. There's still a long way to go before we have AI that can actually think like a human, but in the meantime, I think we have some serious contenders for AI that's powerful enough to help us organize our lives, complete generalized tasks for us, and overall, just making our lives a little easier.Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT (Published 2023)Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT (Published 2023)
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Luther Lowry liked thisLuther Lowry liked thisCybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency just made the patch race official. It's still unwinnable. BOD 26-04 dropped last month and threw out flat patch deadlines. Now every vulnerability gets scored on four questions. Is the asset publicly exposed? Is it a known exploited flaw? Can the exploit be automated? Does it hand an attacker control? Hit all four and you have 3 days to fix it. Calendar days, not business days. Why the change? CISA says it directly. AI is collapsing the time between a flaw going public and getting weaponized, and human triage can't keep up. Here's the uncomfortable part. All four of those variables describe the same thing. Software. You can prioritize smarter, patch faster, and staff a 24/7 war room, and still lose to a clock that only speeds up. Q-Net takes a different path. Security in silicon, not software. No OS, no agents, nothing for AI to find and weaponize. No software attack surface means no 3-day clock and no forensic triage. You don't prioritize the attack surface. You remove it. If BOD 26-04 just landed on your desk, let us help with a simple, secure enterprise drop-in solution. (Link in comments.) #BOD2604 #Cybersecurity #PostQuantum #CriticalInfrastructure #PublicSector #AI #AIDefense #CISA
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Luther Lowry liked thisLuther Lowry liked thisYour substations are controlled by HQ. Who else can control them? ⚡🔒 Every remote substation, every field truck, every crew laptop is passing critical information across leased fiber, LTE, and increasingly satellite circuits you don't fully control. Each one is an opening. EPRI said it plainly on their own April 2026 briefing on quantum threats to energy infrastructure: the grid's decades-long asset lifecycles mean utilities are locking in cryptographic decisions today that have to survive a threat landscape that hasn't fully arrived yet. Harvest-now-decrypt-later isn't theoretical anymore — it's a planning assumption. QNet closes it. Our quantum and AI resistant rugged hardware encryptors (QBox) sit at the grid edge and wrap that traffic in a QBox‑to‑QBox encrypted tunnel. From the substation RTU or the truck in the field, all the way back to your control center. One tunnel, riding over any transport. The protection travels with the data. Why utility and OT teams are paying attention: 🛰️ Transport‑agnostic: secure remote substation comms, mobile fleets, and field equipment over whatever link is available, including satellite for the sites where nothing else reaches. 💵 Low cost: hardware-based security without the recurring licensing tax or the price tag of a rip‑and‑replace program. 🔧 Low maintenance: set it, forget it. No agents, no key‑management headaches, no truck rolls to babysit it. 🔐 Endpoint Agnostic: built simply and securely. Position in front of any endpoint you either can't patch or install agents on. Completely made in the USA: designed and manufactured here, for the operators and energy markets who can't afford questions about their supply chain. Built for NERC CIP environments and the realities of the field, not the lab. The grid's edge is expanding faster than most security models can keep up. QNet secures the last mile, over any circuit, without adding to your operational load. Let's talk about what's protecting your remote sites today. 👇 #GridSecurity #OTSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #NERCCIP #QuantumSafe #Utilities #MadeInUSA #Cybersecurity #EPRI
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Luther Lowry liked thisLuther Lowry liked thisQuantum computers will break RSA. They won't break AES-256. Here's why that distinction matters. 🧵👇 There's a lot of quantum FUD out there, so let's be precise: 🔴 Shor's algorithm shreds public-key crypto — RSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman. That's the real "harvest now, decrypt later" risk. 🔵 Grover's algorithm is the only quantum play against AES — and it merely halves effective key strength. AES-256 → 128-bit effective security. That's still 2¹²⁸ operations. Still billions of years. NSA's CNSA 2.0 keeps AES-256 for exactly this reason. So the quantum problem isn't the cipher. It's the keys! Specifically, how they're exchanged and how long they live. That's where Q-Net's patented just-in-time keying changes the math: the Q-Box rotates AES-256-GCM keys in silicon, as often as every single packet (configurable, 1–255). Even if an adversary somehow cracked one key, they'd decrypt at most 255 packets before it's dead. No long-lived session keys. No software to patch. 💬 Honest question for the network and security folks: when you hear "post-quantum readiness," is your org focused on swapping ciphers, or on fixing key lifetime and exchange? #PostQuantum #Cybersecurity #Encryption #OTSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #NetworkSecurity
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The Claude Code source isn't particularly interesting to me, but I did notice there's a "utils" directory with nearly 600 files under it. There is also a directory called "tools" with at least four files named "utilities" under it. There are at least another ten files named some variant of "utils". Is there a less meaningful name than "utils"? Is it meant to imply that all the other stuff outside that directory or file isn't useful? Does that name tell a reader anything at all about the contents or parts or what they might have in common? That you could change the name "utils" to "stuff" or a random string or "junkdrawer" and lose little or nothing suggests it's worth reconsidering. Obviously, you find this kind of naming all over the place, and everywhere it seems at best kind of thoughtless.
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