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Remember if your boss asks you to do something illegal it's because they think you're a sucker not because they trust you
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Cultural note: I'm currently in the endpoint privilege management space – "whitelisting/blacklisting" as a term is absolutely dead. Allowlisting is pervasive now.
This is actually clearer terminology for our global IT Security standards.
Not huge thing but just noting new normal.
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Warning: Extremely reliable Millennial test below youtu.be/-uqnKQwwcJo
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The key thing to understand about enterprise security is that it's easier to get hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new implementation project than make somebody literally anybody fix the Group Policy that could do the same thing for free.
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The right answer to "why did your friend travel out of state" is "my lawyer says I always need to go through them before talking with police please leave your business card" not a conversation where you mental Jedi trick them.
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Okay here's why every site should ideally be HTTPS:
If you can intercept network traffic, you can't edit
httpS ://weather.gov.
However, if it's http you can redirect
http ://weather.gov
to a page that says "to access you need to login" to a fake page for Google or Facebook.
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Wait are police an armed gang twitter.com/speechboy71/st…
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Haha how is Australia real twitter.com/stijnveilig/st…
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If you have 7zip deployed at your company you need to get it updated and set to apply MOTW to at least EXE+Office files. This will have a manifest improvement in security systems and Office itself correctly evaluating file risk. twitter.com/TheMM94/status…
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Breaking: Google has discovered its chat bot can pass a Google interview and has been quietly replacing its own staff with itself
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Boosting for anyone else with friends and family with difficulty affording drugs and copay's costplusdrugs.com/medications/ twitter.com/Zakk_Cash/stat…
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Still the worst phishing site I've ever seen
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You: Can you make using my computer less painful.
Me: Yeah one sec
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There's just a "<current year> European Heat Wave" Wikipedia article every year now. It's not a heat wave it's just the weather now welcome to the future dawgs.
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Unregulated securities + unregulated banking
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The artificial intelligence field has continually pushed a magical world to the public, using terminology you couch as "misunderstood" but designed to deceive. Your field's name is irresponsible and akin to god-making. Which some of your deranged participants have taken literally
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Get in loser we're installing Linux and Windows on the same drive
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Interface designers now use this amount of space to have 2 buttons twitter.com/matttbastard/s…
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IPv6 is the Flat Earth of computers. "Sure Jeff, all computers in the world including individual chips can see eachother in a cohesive namespace with no NAT or DHCP and it all just magically works."
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Basically the CIA lost its most valuable hacking tools and suffered the biggest data breach history because they hired a 10x engineer, made him a server admin on an unmanaged programmer fiefdom network, and allowed him to be a fucking psycho to coworkers
newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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For the record your work machine should absolutely not have a HDD or 4GB of RAM. Those parts shouldn't have been ordered as of even 6 years ago.
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I once saw someone with autism critique neurotypical humor as "lying to eachother for fun then shunning anyone who finds you trustworthy" and I think about that a lot.
computer security person at a place. former helpdesk. they/them/tay. Microsoft MVP, Client Security @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange