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AT&T is best avoided for multiple reasons. That they keep running what was called the Hemisphere program, where they happily hand over logs to law enforcement with no warrant or due process, is bad enough on its own. But I also worked for them briefly though a third party doing telephone customer support and their internal systems were the dumbest poo poo I've run into. To find information they used an internal wiki, which in and of itself is whatever. But they had it set up so instead of pages getting updated they just created new pages, so you couldn't bookmark a page for future reference because it could be out of date but you had no way of knowing that without doing a fresh search every single time you needed to reference something. Bonus was that the search function was unreliable and using the same search terms wasn't guaranteed to actually find the necessary information so not being able to rely on bookmarks for common pages was even more frustrating.
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:I worked at a security camera software company, and until I ran Wireshark for some other QA test, I found that logins were sent plaintext, labeled: Does that mean anyone getting your username/password could then log in and see your camera footage. Because ouch. A lot of people get their first emails from their ISP and then reuse that for all their most important stuff like Apple and Amazon. Which is why I was so angry that AT&T was being sloppy with their user email security. If someone hacked their att.net email, they could get access to EVERYTHING. I encourage people to create dedicated email addresses for stuff like Apple and then only use those emails with those accounts. That way some random hack on a small retailer site doesn't cascade into you losing access to your digital life. CaptainSarcastic posted:AT&T is best avoided for multiple reasons. That they keep running what was called the Hemisphere program, where they happily hand over logs to law enforcement with no warrant or due process, is bad enough on its own. But I also worked for them briefly though a third party doing telephone customer support and their internal systems were the dumbest poo poo I've run into. To find information they used an internal wiki, which in and of itself is whatever. But they had it set up so instead of pages getting updated they just created new pages, so you couldn't bookmark a page for future reference because it could be out of date but you had no way of knowing that without doing a fresh search every single time you needed to reference something. Bonus was that the search function was unreliable and using the same search terms wasn't guaranteed to actually find the necessary information so not being able to rely on bookmarks for common pages was even more frustrating. After AT&T outsourced its portal page to Yahoo, I worked in their small biz web hosting. This was essentially a value added service, so corporate mostly ignored us. Suddenly we had a huge influx of new users and management ran out and hired new contractors and bought lots of new Apache servers. And then we started getting angry phone calls from business customers who had never signed up for web hosting. Turns out AT&T had also outsourced its sales and an office in Miami was adding web hosting to everyone's account. I did a bunch of research to figure out exactly who was doing this and management just shrugged. That company is and was a loving poo poo show.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Does that mean anyone getting your username/password could then log in and see your camera footage. Because ouch. See footage, delete footage, add a scheduled offline period, disable motion tracking, quietly turn off or re-route the recording location, and, depending on the camera, adjust the viewing angle, etc. The software interfaced with just about every common camera model, and was used by lots of actual large companies, schools, etc.
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the best password truncating is when its difference truncating on the login page, the password reset page, or the password change page.
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PhazonLink posted:the best password truncating is when its difference truncating on the login page, the password reset page, or the password change page. Absolute shitshow. Biggest isp in this country, millions of customers.
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"you have to use special characters, no we're not going to tell you which ones are allowed and which arent and its not just the "easy" shift+ ones."
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Nov 7, 2025 22:37
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I also don't know how any of that is necessary or can happen if you're not basically loving plaintexting the password.
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House cat owner here that's had more than three escape and get outside to tell everyone that, most of the time, the cat will come home or at least stay very close by.
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BiggerBoat posted:House cat owner here that's had more than three escape and get outside to tell everyone that, most of the time, the cat will come home or at least stay very close by. Okay, but what if the cat knows your passwords? You know those little bastards are storing them in plain text.
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PhazonLink posted:"you have to use special characters, no we're not going to tell you which ones are allowed and which arent and its not just the "easy" shift+ ones."
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They wouldn't be special characters if we told you what they are!
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PhazonLink posted:the best password truncating is when its difference truncating on the login page, the password reset page, or the password change page.
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Discendo Vox posted:They wouldn't be special characters if we told you what they are! Good job, dipshits 
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