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- Comment on Spain is blocking unrelated internet addresses because of soccer 5 days ago:
Cloudflare works perfectly fine with VPN.
But browser plugins to fuck with the fingerprint don’t.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 1 week ago:
Yeah they can fuck right off with that.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 1 week ago:
Paywalled, anyone got an archived link?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Now we’re talking! 😁
I also quite like the Andechser Monk brew.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’ll take Erdinger Dunkel over Augustiner every day, but else I fully agree.
- Comment on Flipper Zero 'DarkWeb' Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security on Major Vehicle Brands 2 weeks ago:
I’m not going to deal with insurance if I can prevent a theft in the first place.
- Comment on Real estate agents say new seller disclosure laws are 'bottlenecking' Queensland's property market 3 weeks ago:
In other words, the law works as intended.
- Comment on Flipper Zero 'DarkWeb' Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security on Major Vehicle Brands 3 weeks ago:
And people wonder why I use my key toget into the car.
- Comment on No Passports, No Study Abroad: China Limits Public Employees’ Travel 3 weeks ago:
Nothing new. My wife was a teacher in China, and when they came for her passport just after covid, we left the country instead.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 5 weeks ago:
It’s a UK law, you either comply or get banned. Obviously everybody now has a VPN subscription.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I quite like it.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Never heard of it, probably never will once I forget about this post.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 month ago:
Not sure if this applies before birth.
Please demonstrate the prenatal eye contact, I dare you.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 month ago:
Heavy metal, obviously.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Have bow and arrows ready, and they just might.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They have been contacted and responded with aggression, so they are obviously aware that they are not alone, but want to be left alone. Free will is free will.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 1 month ago:
You need it to remap some of the buttons on the side. I have the same garbage just for this purpose.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Doesn’t matter, you need the report as proof for the chargeback.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I hope you did report the matter to the police regardless?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Nah that was Windows XP, where the hard drive was not encrypted by default, and the password was stored in a hashed file on the computer itself, freely accessible via any boot stick. Actually cracking it still took some time (below 7 characters a few minutes, 7 about 1h, 8 chars up to 24h, longer… LONG). But if it was a common word, then a dictionary attack with a long enough word list (most word lists have like 400k words or so) would get it in seconds either.
The funny thing with Windows XP was that since none of the data was encrypted, you could simply delete the password hash and set a flag in the registry and you would boot right into Windows with no password at all, and were then prompted to set a new password. That didn’t work since Windows 7 anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You can buy a hardware keystroke recorder for a few bucks. Just plug it between keyboard and computer and it logs all inputs. Once they have the boot password (and maybe a bunch of others), installing malware and exfiltrating data is pretty straightforward. Doesn’t require a lick of IT knowledge either.
Bit more challenging on a laptop without external keyboard, but there are hardware solutions as well, though they’d require tinkering with your device.
Phones are harder to gain access to. Honestly if I wanted to get into your phone, I’d probably try to set up hidden cameras in spots where you are likely to enter your PIN (bed, toilet) somewhere under the ceiling and angled straight down. I’d probably try to switch the phone off as well any chance I got (long press the start button) so that you’d be forced to boot up and enter the PIN at any given opportunity to max my chances.
Actually hacking secure boot / accessing data from encrypted drives is beyond casual hackers, unless you don’t regularly update your devices and there are some active exploits published.
But seriously, low effort password sniffing is still the biggest vulnerability out there.
- Comment on Even in android Microsoft is still trying to get you to use edge 2 months ago:
I’ve been using it for 12+ years, and still do to this day. The only thing that changed is that you have to use the Microsoft authenticator app to log on.
- Comment on Even in android Microsoft is still trying to get you to use edge 2 months ago:
Fuck outlook, the app is trash.
Nine works great for exchange servers, if you can’t escape the Microsoft infrastructure altogether.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Could be beneficial for your career, but your colleagues might hate you, really depends on the company dynamics (and maybe size). If you actually like hanging out with him, don’t kiss ass and expect any kind of reward and just be yourself, personally I don’t see any harm.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 months ago:
There’s one near my house, and it has no mute button whatsoever. No buttons at all, in fact. You tap your card to the reader, then lift the pump of whichever variety you need, and that moment the ads start. With sound on full blast as well.
I’ve left a negative google review and make sure to update it monthly so that it stays on top, and drive to another station quite a bit further off just to avoid this crapshoot.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They are adults, let them figure it our for themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Age is just a number. Who cares.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 3 months ago:
If I don’t want something, I give nothing. Most fundraisers are pure extortion, and I can’t be bothered to check if something is legit or lining someone’s pocket. “No” is a full sentence.
- Comment on Fallout TV Show Could Run for Six Seasons Says Aaron Moten 3 months ago:
I didn’t really like the first season. There was some good action, decent characters etc, but the story just didn’t excite me.
Now I haven’t played the games, but neither did I play The Last of Us, and that series was excellent.