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Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

PS - I am aware of the malware in the past. This is unrelated.

:thunk:

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Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
And here I am about to start a lovely fake-degree program the local community college offers in infosec.

What a wonderful time to be alive.

E: whoops, the masters program that wasn’t supposed to accept me did. I guess I get to do that?

Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jan 29, 2019

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
poo poo, experience (also poo poo experience) is all I do have. That and a worthless-rear end BA in Economics.

:smith:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Sheep posted:

If you like your infosec mixed with corn and cortana fanfics then sure.

No kinkshame, plz.

:colbert:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

apropos man posted:

He needs to now share the password in question. This is important for Sunday hilarity reasons. The guy has obviously changed it. Please.

:emptyquote:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

:aaaaa:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Garrand posted:

I don't know the whole backstory but probably related to this

https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1121451458497351681

Want to know more about this internet drama!

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

EVIL Gibson posted:

Yep. Its amazing how many features it can do compared to IDA Pro to make ~$1000 look odd for a Pro license.

Plus it does a lot more such as a better struct inference, decompile to actual pseudo c, support many more architectures, but the best thing it lets you do.

It lets you Undo.

That might seem small, but there are times IDA will just gently caress up everything to an unrecoverable mess if you do something like messing up a return, make a typo on an array size; too many things to list.

IDA Pro never really had competition so it has been interesting to see discussion.

How long have you been piping your posts through IDA?

:ohdear:

E: legitimately though, thanks for this. I’ve been meaning to gently caress around with it and never got around to it. :tipshat:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Lain Iwakura posted:

Who wants my opinions on how all anti-virus engines are hot garbage? :laugh:

:suspense:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Lain Iwakura posted:

These days my rants are more limited to how log collection is hot garbage that is necessary and loving awful.

I likewise wish to hear this rant as well!

:ohdear:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
I mean, Fortinet is p.trash?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

evil_bunnY posted:

Joke's on you for using any app that dares steal focus. TBH it should be an OS level permission defaulting to "gently caress you"

Literally: does this exist in W10 and if so where?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

cr0y posted:

So was that equifax "was my info stolen in the hack?" Website hacked yet?

Was that the one run by Equifax where you had to waive rights in order to check? And that also had a bad cert IIRC?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Powered Descent posted:

Yes.


I would argue that it's vastly better to teach users to have some common-sense awareness of what they're doing than to have them rely on half-measures like a password manager that refuses to do its thing when it isn't satisfied.

I mean "Use a condom" and "Don't gently caress people with visually suppurating genitals" aren't mutually exclusive?

:iiaca:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
I would strongly advise consulting with a neurologist (or at least your primary care physician) if viewing text on a screen gives you seizures!

:ohdear:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Are there any opinions on IT/Infosec degrees from WGU (Western Governors University)?

There aren’t any good programs that are local to me, so they seem like the best option for taking my education down this path.

DePaul has an online MS in InfoSec (one of the tracks is almost all governance stuff, another is sort of hybrid networking/governance, a third is mostly application security) and one in Network Engineering/Security but they're probably complete trash*.

*: I'm complete garbage but they accepted me and let me enroll without (so far) revealing it was actually all an elaborate "candid camera" prank so :shrug:.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Why on earth not

Capitalism's actual winners have convinced him that's he's also one (he almost certainly is not).

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
In which case she's even less likely to be one of capitalism's winners (as women constitute +/- 50% of the population but hold somewhere between a 1/3 and 2/5 of all wealth)?

"Narratives of effort-based-success are a hell of a drug" (as the kids say these days).

:shrug:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
Password managers have too many similar names. The ones other than 1Pass should be forced to rename themselves "The one you shouldn't use" and "The other one you shouldn't use", IMO?

E: Wait, 1Pass is the good one right? :ohdear:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

xtal posted:

The Code Book is insanely good and my first edition copy from 1999 is one of my most prized possessions

Is the 2016 one a reprint or an update or is it a lovely cash-in on a well-known title (MLMP)?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
If all you want is to avoid in-line ads you can just build a couple of Pis Hole and point whatever your DHCP server is at them.

You should also use them because, like: defense-in-depth only it's ads?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

CLAM DOWN posted:

uh, speak for yourself

Send Spike:ins:

E: Even smilies know that GreenPOS is BestPOS.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

wolrah posted:

There's your problem. I have a doctor (who of course has local admin on all his PCs because *reasons*) that I constantly have to clean up after because he decides he wants to install Firefox, goes to Yahoo, types in Firefox, and clicks on the first result that comes up. Inevitably the real link is the fifth or sixth one because Yahoo is horrible.

Yahoo is pretty much only used by the exact kind of computer-illiterate people these scams target.

Just put a ninite installer on his desktop (or network share, whatever). It will install an up-to-date Firefox (or update the existing install) when he clicks it.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Sickening posted:

Well pay for it first and then do it.

I have never looked at Ninite Pro before now and goddamn does their interface look like a disaster.

:yikes:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Sickening posted:

Yeah, but my point is that I am pretty sure that you can't legally use ninite installers for business purposes without paying for the licenses. I might be wrong.

The idea someone would use software without full and complete licensing in place prior to use fills me with a combination of fury and nausea.

I'm rage puking at the very thought!

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
Chronicle seems real neat.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
I'd really like to read Lain's words on Chronicle. I heard an interview they did on Risky Business but even though Patrick gives good interview and I trust his integrity it's still a sponsor interview and :capitalism:?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Lain Iwakura posted:

We aren’t considering it and I’ll only review it when our licence is up for renewal.

However, Google has a notoriously bad history of giving long term support to its products even including those for the enterprise so take that as you will.

I assume that's why they spend so much time on the "We're Alphabet not :google:" talking-point thing.

I mean, I don't necessarily think that's a distinction with much difference but they sure are maintaining that it is.

:shrug:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Rufus Ping posted:

The instances of that I've seen on Facebook have been individual Nigerians (in Nigeria, not locally) who appear to have changed the name and profile picture on their real accounts to be more western and white looking, to better fool victims. I was able to scroll down their profiles a bit and find what appear to be real conversations and pictures with their friends and family.

I assume they find events to target by searching for phrases like "sold out". I tracked the same accounts repeatedly trying to scam people in both Australia and the UK.

I have no idea how they successfully cash out, but there's obviously a very different cultural attitude at play where it's considered acceptable (even something to be proud of?) to be a blatant and unrepentant scammer.

Facebook clearly don't give a poo poo and didn't respond to any of my reports.

You could have just said you were on Facebook?

:shrug:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Potato Salad posted:

Scrolling though this, I keep thinking "holy gently caress, good riddance"

Reader was good, tho?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Yeah, I miss Reader a lot. I kept up so much better on blogs and webcomics and stuff.

Yeah, Twitter is only like a 35-40% solution. Plus the whole thing of being an ethnonationalist platform?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

*Angrily taps thread title

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Willfrey posted:

Hey guys, I am curious about VPN's. My goal isn't watching videos or downloading torrents, just looking to have my net activity a bit safer from prying eyes due to a really odd circumstance. (Maybe I am just being paranoid)

Any suggestions on a good one? Not doing anything with big files.

I was bored so I made a couple of recursive DNS servers using this: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/ . I'd say that for situations where you have a less-than-weakly-godlike nation state actor interested in your porn habits it'll probably be enough?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

CyberPingu posted:

Love when your av vendor uses terms like "expect decreased functionality"...



I mean, I don't really know what show it's a still from so he might have a point?

:shrug:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Cup Runneth Over posted:

yeah, after all, dogs can't use keyboards so you can't trust them to do infosec

On the contrary, you can trust what they say precisely because someone had to agree with what they said enough to transcribe it?

E: DragonDictate being notable for their "No Doggos" stance.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
They didn't go with "fappymae", I am dissapoint.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Bonzo posted:

what do you think RIM/blackberry employees used to do back in the day?

Drink and pronounce words Canadianish?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:

I can imagine someone in the backcountry with an emergency situation might be kind of grumpy if their lifeline is unavailable.

Probably not for very long, though?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Mustache Ride posted:

It's probably a lovely MS Access project.

There's no need to use profanity, you could just say "MS Access project"*

*: I workshopped a way to make "MS Access" into the curse but couldn't quite make the line land so this is the response you guys get. Sorry.

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Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Mustache Ride posted:

I would have done something like "You don't need to call it lovely when it's Microsoft lovely Access project"

:hmmyes:

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