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Alesandro Ortiz ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
@Alesandro Ortiz ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

Software Engineer. Security Researcher. Puerto Rican ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท. New Yorker. Bilingual. LG(B)TQ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ. He/him.

Focused on browser research. Glad to collaborate.

Website: https://AlesandroOrtiz.com
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Recent Notes

BrianKrebs · 18w
We've come to an icky time in security when the concern about using outdated, unpatched software starts to become overshadowed by the fear of downloaded some backdoored update.
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@nprofile1q... We may need a "safetime" tracker that lets us know when there were no known widely-used packages that were compromised in a repository.

Retroactive, of course, but might be interesting like uptime. e.g. npm might have 98.5% safetime this week based on known compromises.
note1pkpn3...
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@nprofile1q... Only way I'm afloat right now as self-employed security researcher/software dev. is because of husband's employer that has great union-negotiated healthcare plan.

Before that, I was spending $800+ on premiums just for myself, while paying for most things out of pocket due to high deductible.

High healthcare costs was the final push to get married after 10+ years together, so I could get on his plan.
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@nprofile1q... I use YouTube's Watch Later so aggressively that I hit the playlist max limit. The Watch Later 2 playlist I had to create is now halfway to the limit.

To be fair, I do watch some of them, but I add at a much higher rate than I watch. Mostly because I need to be in a specific mood or have specific mental context preloaded for many videos.