Vern McCandlish

Geeky dad jokes related to dfir, malware, osint, infosec, iiot, incident response, law enforcement, empty nest, marriage, and gaming. (he/him)

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2026-07-17 18:13:25 UTC

Hot take: Getting rid of daylight savings time isn't enough, we should all move to UTC.

2026-06-04 16:13:01 UTC

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My meme was based on some historians discussing whether events in the year 1400 were part of the 14th or 15th century?
And another discussion of them where they are always having to take into account the 1752 Conversion.

2026-06-04 16:05:14 UTC

#DFIR
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2025-05-08 16:30:56 UTC

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2025-02-20 23:39:26 UTC

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I am used to hearing "That code is by the person that retired two years ago, nobody here now really understands it"
I guess now I may have to get used to "that code is from $AIEngine that was refreshed last week, so it doesn't even understand the code now and no one here ever understood it in the first place."

2025-01-17 14:45:59 UTC

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2025-01-17 14:41:41 UTC

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2024-11-14 16:50:05 UTC

Holy crap, we were digging through the back of a closet and I found something I didn't even know I had. Commodore C64 with external drive, in the original packaging, from 1985 and moving box full of old games. I might be having a retro weekend.
That computer is older than most of my co-workers.

2024-10-20 23:54:14 UTC

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This risk is so much greater for Open Source Code.

2024-10-16 19:35:33 UTC

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I hated when that happened, but also revelled in their moment too.

2024-10-16 19:33:18 UTC

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Just to be clear, I was replying to the post saying big crimes had gone up.
There is a chance that was snark in his part for reference to "bigly" but I was checking that claim.

2024-10-16 16:35:43 UTC

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citation needed

2024-09-17 19:41:43 UTC

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I am just glad all the election experts turned pandemic experts turned legal experts turned sniper experts can now also demonstrate they are in fact pager experts too.