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Geoff Mulligan

@geoffcmulligan

Chairman of LoRa Alliance, Board of Directors IPSO Alliance, Former Presidential Innovation Fellow, Consultant Proto6, Public Speaker IoT

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If you happen to be using HPE servers you should check this announcement. If you do not update your firmware your SSDs WILL FAIL 3 years and 9 months after first use (32768 hours - for the techies a 16 bit signed integer - ugh) support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/publi…

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Just watched The Late Late Show with James Corden and realized why James Corden is leaving. There is no more space for celeb pics and signatures #nomorespace. Really sorry to see him go. I live for his news - #newssogood reggie watts and ian karmel ain't bad. Sorry I won't get to see the show live #bye

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Ugh. I'm not doing well in the mens bracket!!! I took it out on the mosaic! Ha Ha. fanpost.art/marchmadness #marchmadness #fanpost

Ugh.  I'm not doing well in the mens bracket!!!
I took it out on the mosaic! Ha Ha.
fanpost.art/marchmadness
#marchmadness #fanpost
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Years ago, my home network was under a denial-of-service attack. The source? A major university. The cause? A typo. I fixed it by… breaking time.

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Thousands of their machines were accidentally pointed at my network for NTP (time sync). My bandwidth? Gone. Completely saturated.

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Since I was working for SunMicrosystems and had the source code... I modified my NTP server. First attempt: return completely random time. Didn’t work.

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Root cause? One mistyped IP address. Thousands of systems. One character. Most failures aren’t complex—they’re simple mistakes at scale. Full story (free): 👉 medium.com/@geoffmulligan…