Ocelot
@Ocelot@lemmies.world
- Comment on ipads were just updated to 16.6.1 to fix a security issue that allowed pegasus to be installed onto an apple device. will iphone 7 running 15.7.8 get an update to fix the same issue? 9 months ago:
Does anyone know if ios 15 is even vulnerable? or was this an exploit introduced in 16? Given the lack of response on 15 I would assume its not.
- Comment on How do email scammers spoof my email? 9 months ago:
This isn’t really going to be accurate all the time. It is a totally reasonable configuration to use a mailserver not in the MX records. Lots of companies that send automated emails use a service like mailgun or sendgrid as a relay, which isn’t their MX server. It doesn’t come from their company’s mailserver. The only way to validate that is by adding mailgun/sendgrid as an include in the SPF record.
You’ll often miss things like “Your credit card expired” or “please change your password” or even “Here’s your monthly bill from the power company” emails.
- Comment on How do email scammers spoof my email? 9 months ago:
If you’re running your own domain and mail server with everything validated via SPF and DKIM etc then this layer of spam filtering won’t do anything. Other spam filters like AI-based ones that look at the contents of message for spammy stuff need to take over after that point.
Fighting spam is constant cat-and-mouse battle and you’ll never truly get rid of all of it.
- Comment on How do email scammers spoof my email? 9 months ago:
When you send an email to a mail server, you can set the “FROM” address to literally anything. The mail server does not care and forwards stuff on. Anyone can run their own mail server anywhere that will dutifully just relay emails, which is what spammers often do. There are entries in DNS called SPF records (Sender Policy Framework) which mailservers use to validate that the FROM address coming from the mail server matches with a list of allowed mail servers IP address(es). If it doesn’t match it gets sent to spam.
- Comment on How does one resist getting into protracted arguments while still staying informed? 9 months ago:
The internet has made it way too easy for morons to band together and validate their beliefs. for all the same reasons that makes the internet great. Whenever I see blatant misinformation and fear around a topic I happen to know a lot about I feel an overwhelming responsibility to say something. It always just turns into a flame war because these kinds of people just can’t stand facts. It gets nowhere.
I seriously want to just let it go and let them be insufferable but I’m worried what would happen if the truth made no attempt to fight back. So many riots and misguided movements keep happening because of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Always look for the most downvoted comment for the most well thought out answer. Im not saying their right but I’m at least open to the thought of another point of view, especially one that an entire half of the country has.
- Comment on Is it possible to have privacy in a modern car? 9 months ago:
? why wouldn’t it be? did you have specific concerns?
- Comment on Is Windows 11 decent yet? 10 months ago:
lol when a windows game wont launch on windows but works on linux. what a time to be alive.
My main gaming rig is 100% linux now. It gets better performance in most games than windows.
- Comment on 10 months ago:
a seizure
- Comment on looking forward to the comments 11 months ago:
Ah, yes “Jrafic interchange format”
- Comment on How to create a Lemmy Instance using AWS or some kind of cloud service? 11 months ago:
Theres already docker images and ECS/fargate. Im debating on putting together a whole terraformed kubernetes stack for other instances to use, it would be for larger instances though as the while stack might be close to $100/mo with costs going up automatically with scale. Every time someone runs an instance and it runs on a single box with no scaling or redundancy it makes me cringe a bit.