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Lain Iwakura posted:For what it is worth, there isn't really a good option for KeePass on iOS but I have been using the shared clipboard option when I am at home--I have no idea about its risk of use here. Ive been using Kypass for several years and am pretty happy with it. Ive yet to find a good linus (ubunto) client.
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So I managed to watch bootleg attack on titan for a fees hours without switching ublock on and now I'm getting input lag at random intervals. Its been going about 2 weeks without any real change. I've run the bleeping computer favorites - rkill, mbam, adwcleaner, ccleaner (new clean ver. Lol) hitmanpro and eset etc. as well as windows defender of course. Really had no joy except a PUM RogueKiller caught in beta mode which I removed. That got rid of the lag for a couple hours this morning but now its back. I would just wipe and reinstall win 10 but I have no key for it. Is there anything I can actually do besides that? General opinion is nope, nuke it but wanted to check.
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# ? Sep 8, 2018 15:58 |
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Just nuke it, Windows 10 is functional without a key. The only limitations are an overlay popping up after a few hours and not being able to change the wallpaper.
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# ? Sep 8, 2018 16:17 |
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Kassad posted:Just nuke it, Windows 10 is functional without a key. The only limitations are an overlay popping up after a few hours and not being able to change the wallpaper. Fair enough. I can't wipe the drives as you can't create an iso to reinstall from keylessley but I'll use the built in feature and cross me fingers. Cheers
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# ? Sep 8, 2018 16:25 |
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Unless you're a very unique snowflake, your license is verified against the hardware and it'll activate fine. You can help this along by logging in from a microsoft account on the PC first and linking them. Just use the reset option, or if you want to reinstall from a clean disk just skip the license key and activate once you're booted. Input lag like that is often because someone is mining buttcoin on your PC and cpu or GPU is at 100%.
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# ? Sep 8, 2018 16:34 |
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Wondered if it was mining but %s are normal at all times. I don't know, I'll just get on and get rid
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# ? Sep 8, 2018 17:14 |
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Surprise Giraffe posted:Fair enough. I can't wipe the drives as you can't create an iso to reinstall from keylessley but I'll use the built in feature and cross me fingers. Cheers I'm like 90% sure you don't need a key to download the win10 ISO from Microsoft. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
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# ? Sep 8, 2018 17:15 |
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Let's not forget that Windows 10 ships with a "nuke everything and reinstall windows from scratch" button
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# ? Sep 8, 2018 18:29 |
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uPen posted:I'm like 90% sure you don't need a key to download the win10 ISO from Microsoft. I'm like 100% sure that I used my android phone to download an actual ISO instead of the media creation tool without a key from that site.
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# ? Sep 8, 2018 20:02 |
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I looked up Refresh my PC and it apparently has a "Reset my PC" counterpart which is identical to if you choose to delete all your files. So I did that with a full drive format and then restored my files from my backups with File History. Pretty painless.
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# ? Sep 10, 2018 23:07 |
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I keep hearing stuff about Gmail being insecure and that advertisers can skim words off your messages to sell things or whatever. Is any of that remotely true, and is there any case where the average end user should move to something with more privacy, like Tutanota or something?
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 05:36 |
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buglord posted:I keep hearing stuff about Gmail being insecure and that advertisers can skim words off your messages to sell things or whatever. Is any of that remotely true, and is there any case where the average end user should move to something with more privacy, like Tutanota or something?
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 06:25 |
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buglord posted:I keep hearing stuff about Gmail being insecure and that advertisers can skim words off your messages to sell things or whatever. Is any of that remotely true, and is there any case where the average end user should move to something with more privacy, like Tutanota or something? ProtonMail is another secure one.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 06:44 |
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buglord posted:I keep hearing stuff about Gmail being insecure and that advertisers can skim words off your messages to sell things or whatever. Is any of that remotely true, and is there any case where the average end user should move to something with more privacy, like Tutanota or something? And they claim they don't use email contents for ad targeting anymore. Still an ad company though.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 07:36 |
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Dylan16807 posted:As far as storing things on a server goes, google is pretty secure. This is only true for paid GSuite accounts. if you think they're not targeting ads on their free platform(s) by default.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 09:40 |
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https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8475 "A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows does not properly handle specially crafted image files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute arbitrary code. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a user to download an image file." That's a vague description - does anyone have any specific info on how this one actually works? The CVE database entry doesn't have anything public yet.
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 03:10 |
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If details are still embargoed, anyone who knows for sure probably isn't going to drop all the deets here. But usually this sort of thing is "the component used to generate thumbnails (e.g. for the file explorer) fails in an exploitable way if the file is malformed". Jabor fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Sep 12, 2018 |
# ? Sep 12, 2018 03:19 |
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I'm sort of hoping that it is something exciting like "any image loaded in any application, including any web browser, triggers this RCE".
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 03:24 |
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I think we’re not still in the time of “there’s some vbscript in the exif tag let’s run it” but let’s see when the embargo is lifted
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 06:55 |
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"Someone took the TIFF spec literally again"
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# ? Sep 12, 2018 07:05 |
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buglord posted:I keep hearing stuff about Gmail being insecure and that advertisers can skim words off your messages to sell things or whatever. Advertisers can target you based on a variety of mechanisms, this is true. Google won't give that information or your details to the advertisers though. That would be against Google's interests because then advertisers could target you directly, without continuing to pay Google. You can generally trust Google to protect their income source, which thankfully means not handing out people's personal info.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 06:54 |
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yoloer420 posted:Advertisers can target you based on a variety of mechanisms, this is true. Google won't give that information or your details to the advertisers though. That would be against Google's interests because then advertisers could target you directly, without continuing to pay Google.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 08:24 |
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yoloer420 posted:Advertisers can target you based on a variety of mechanisms, this is true. Google won't give that information or your details to the advertisers though. That would be against Google's interests because then advertisers could target you directly, without continuing to pay Google. Yeah but if they ever did find a way to make more money by handing out people's personal info then they'd probably do it.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 08:52 |
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SeaborneClink posted:This is only true for paid GSuite accounts. They announced they weren't using email scans for advertising purposes anymore last year https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in-the-enterprise-g-suites-gmail-and-consumer-gmail-to-more-closely-align/ quote:G Suite’s Gmail is already not used as input for ads personalization, and Google has decided to follow suit later this year in our free consumer Gmail service. Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change.
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# ? Oct 21, 2018 14:45 |
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Is 7-zip a good way to encrypt sound files? I have my business phone set to record phone calls because they can be useful in case of disputes. The recordings are uploaded to google drive. These recordings should be saved for up to 7 years for legal reasons but I'd rather not have all my business related phone calls available to some future hacker or someone who nicks my computer or phone.
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# ? Oct 22, 2018 21:51 |
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Yes, I believe it has AES-256 (for sure AES-128). Just make sure you use a reasonably complex passphrase.
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# ? Oct 22, 2018 22:36 |
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Pyromaniac Ida posted:Is 7-zip a good way to encrypt sound files? gpg --symmetric FILE
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# ? Oct 22, 2018 23:03 |
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Storm One posted:I don't know about anything wrong with 7-zip but why not GnuPG? I'll take whichever works and is the least complicated.
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 06:13 |
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Just use 7-zip, it does have AES256 and if the source are WAV you'll end up compressing them decently as well. Generate a long key in KeePass.
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 11:12 |
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7-Zip does do key stretching (couple hundred thousand rounds of SHA256 IIRC), but it doesn't allow you to increase the number of rounds for more modern hardware. Definitely choose a nice long key as the passphrase.
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 14:27 |
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B-Nasty posted:7-Zip does do key stretching (couple hundred thousand rounds of SHA256 IIRC), but it doesn't allow you to increase the number of rounds for more modern hardware. Definitely choose a nice long key as the passphrase. Like passwordpasswordpasswordpassword?
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 22:35 |
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Pyromaniac Ida posted:Like passwordpasswordpasswordpassword? that's too obvious. i recommend "correct horse battery staple"
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# ? Oct 24, 2018 01:40 |
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Pyromaniac Ida posted:Like passwordpasswordpasswordpassword? Mushroom Mushroom e: Mushroom Mu5hr00m
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# ? Oct 24, 2018 11:29 |
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I couldn't find a relevant thread so I thought this was as good as any Recently my external hard drive has sometimes started taking a couple of tries to connect and show up when I plug it in. Should I be worried? It's a few years old. When I plug it in it always lights up, but sometimes it needs to be unplugged and then plugged in again for my computer to register it
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 14:28 |
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Paperhouse posted:I couldn't find a relevant thread so I thought this was as good as any It's 99.9% unlikely to be anything malicious.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 16:34 |
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It might be a faulty USB cable or something.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 18:44 |
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What is everyone's thoughts on Bitwarden? I currently use Dashlane as my manager but I see Bitwarden more and more
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# ? Feb 5, 2019 05:47 |
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:What is everyone's thoughts on Bitwarden? I currently use Dashlane as my manager but I see Bitwarden more and more I'm letting others test this one until it gets popped somehow or ends up being okay
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# ? Feb 5, 2019 23:29 |
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I'll have a few weeks worth of work travel coming up, hitting about a dozen cities across North America over a couple months. My lovely laptop is coming along for the ride and I'd like to keep my banking info/porn habits to myself. I also have a non-IT background but want to get better. I was thinking of imaging my hard drive to encrypted external storage before every flight and backing up any files I worked on. I'd also have file and image backups at home before leaving, so data should be safe and available even if the laptop isn't. Is this procedurally worthwhile, or are the better things I should be doing?
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# ? Feb 10, 2019 22:03 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:08 |
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Guest2553 posted:I'll have a few weeks worth of work travel coming up, hitting about a dozen cities across North America over a couple months. My lovely laptop is coming along for the ride and I'd like to keep my banking info/porn habits to myself. I also have a non-IT background but want to get better. Are you running Windows? The laptop most likely has a TPM, so just enable Bitlocker on your disk drive and you're done. Obviously, for backups, use whatever service/USB stick method you want. Bitlocker can also encrypt USB drives.
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