Nick Chow wohckcin

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

Dark version

wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized/master/dircolors.ansi-dark
mv dircolors.ansi-dark .dircolors
eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors`

git clone https://github.com/sigurdga/gnome-terminal-colors-solarized.git
cd gnome-terminal-colors-solarized
./set_dark.sh

Install

Grab a copy of Docker for your platform here: https://www.docker.com/community-edition#/download Follow the installation guide and tune the docker system to run with as much memory and CPU as you're willing to feed to it.

Docker Containers I find useful for general security tasks:

Local Debian instance: debian:latest

Metasploit: remnux/metasploit

	//
	// FMInfoPanelViewController.h
	// Created by Florian Mielke (@FlorianMielke) on 06.12.11.
	//

	#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
	#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

	@interface FMInfoPanelViewController : UIViewController <UIScrollViewDelegate>

	# alias to edit commit messages without using rebase interactive
	# example: git reword commithash message
	reword = "!f() {\n GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=\"sed -i 1s/^pick/reword/\" GIT_EDITOR=\"printf \\\"%s\\n\\\" \\\"$2\\\" >\" git rebase -i \"$1^\";\n git push -f;\n}; f"

	# aliases to change a git repo from private to public, and public to private using gh-cli
	alias gitpublic="gh repo edit --accept-visibility-change-consequences --visibility public"
	alias gitprivate="gh repo edit --accept-visibility-change-consequences --visibility private"

	# delete all your repos using gh-cli (please do not run this unless you want to delete all your repos)
	gh repo list --limit 300 --json url -q '.[].url' \| xargs -n1 gh repo delete --yes

	nginx/
	!nginx/.gitkeep
	!nginx/logs/.gitkeep

	src/

	tmp/

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	####################################################################################
	# Slack Bash console script for sending messages.
	####################################################################################
	# Installation
	# $ curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/andkirby/67a774513215d7ba06384186dd441d9e/raw --output /usr/bin/slack
	# $ chmod +x /usr/bin/slack
	####################################################################################
	# USAGE
	# Send message to slack channel/user

	[WinEventLog://Security]
	disabled = 0
	start_from = oldest
	current_only = 0
	evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1
	checkpointInterval = 5
	blacklist1 = EventCode="4662" Message="Object Type:(?!\s*groupPolicyContainer)"
	blacklist2 = EventCode="566" Message="Object Type:(?!\s*groupPolicyContainer)"
	blacklist3 = EventCode="4688" Message="New Process Name:\s*(?i)(?:[C-F]:\\Program Files\\Splunk(?:UniversalForwarder)?\\bin\\(?:btool\|splunkd\|splunk\|splunk\-(?:MonitorNoHandle\|admon\|netmon\|perfmon\|powershell\|regmon\|winevtlog\|winhostinfo\|winprintmon\|wmi\|optimize))\.exe)"
	blacklist4 = EventCode="4689" Message="Process Name:\s*(?i)(?:[C-F]:\\Program Files\\Splunk(?:UniversalForwarder)?\\bin\\(?:btool\|splunkd\|splunk\|splunk\-(?:MonitorNoHandle\|admon\|netmon\|perfmon\|powershell\|regmon\|winevtlog\|winhostinfo\|winprintmon\|wmi\|optimize))\.exe)"

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	read -r -d '' usage << EOM
	Usage:

	gh-deploy-clone user/repo [ENVIRONMENT]
	EOM

	[ -z "$1" ] && echo && echo "$usage" && echo && exit 1