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alexandriao posted:A lot of people here don't seem to understand security is only secure if it actually protects you. This analogy is spot on. Like owning a PPK in the bedside table for self defense. Some folks want you to keep it in a gun safe with a trigger lock/magazine lock with ammo stored somewhere else. Kinda defeats the whole point. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Rooted Vegetable posted:We're spiraling towards "Dicewear passwords would be more secure if you use ten d20 dice on word lists in a language you alone can speak. Literally a new fully functional language no other soul knows." This has already happened Agee years ago. Some private server for Trek site (so probably child pornography) was compromised in a hack. The hacker got in and simply guessed the pwd because it was a relatively “common” phrase in Klingon. Used to wait to see a GoT site about E. Clarke’s boobs get hacked in High Valyrian. Much less chances to name/protect your stuff in Or’zet (the fictional ork/troll language in the fictional future in Shadowrun that has been alluded to but never fleshed out).
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RFC2324 posted:well, none of these examples actually took the step of "a completely new language no one else knows" so are obviously not strong enough Agreed. Or’zet is only a “named” alt language right now, though. I’m sure someone could make up an alphabet for it and slowly build words and grammar rules based on that. Then share with Trolls and Orks—-like the Army did with Navajo.
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RFC2324 posted:I generally "trust" our government at the bureaucracy level, but by its very nature its going to be bad at that sort of thing. can you imagine getting locked out of your identity because some paper pusher spilled his coffee and didn't want to admit it? My adult son didn’t get his first stimulus check because it fell out inside a truck and nobody cared enough to pick it up. He got it almost the same day of his $600 stimulus check was direct deposited. 🙄
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c0burn posted:Back up anything important, nuke the whole thing and reinstall. I’m not second guessing your advice, but wouldn’t backing up after a suspected infection also possibly save the malware, too? Or is Defender capable of stopping that now? I don’t have any auto-backups because my environment only really changes when the default Win10 photo app gets new photos from a wired-only connection to my phone, and my “backup” solution is a full backup every 3-4 days to two separate 2TB thumb drives on a manual basis, then disconnected and stored offline. I figured if I got infected (especially ransomware, which even works if drives are encrypted and/or compressed), it would infect always-connected backups as well. I have 10s of thousands of photos from the early 90s to now, plus some old Napster and movies/programs/”warez” that isn’t available anywhere on Geocities anymore and figured it wasn’t safe to keep access to the internet facing system these days. Is there a safer way I’m not keeping up with? If a family member wants something I usually connect the right flash drive, copy/paste the photos or whatever to a throwaway SD card or even email/text to them. It’s kept stuff safe and uncorrupted for decades, and I don’t keep up with “incremental” anything but my novels & journals and other original materials via Git (even though none is “code” or “scripting” at all…it works great!). Edit: I flatten and restore occasionally anyway, but I always figured connected autobackup solutions are easily as “vulnerable” as the computer they backup for in the first place! I want to learn better practices for a valuable ton of files kept safe, though. DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Nov 26, 2021 |
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Every time I read that I can't help but think of that one Seinfeld episode... Is "Mulvad" just "Mulva"+ "d?" Like "systemd," only scarier? This is an OS thread, after all... My 22y/o and his gal binge-watched like 30 episodes of Seinfeld last night...they'd always heard about it, but never watched it. They are starting to realize how "American" that show was, and why old fogies in my TV generation still quote lines from it without even realizing where we do it!
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F4rt5 posted:Mullvad is swedish for mole And that, my friends, is why I post in the same forum for 20 years. SA's "reach" is still worldwide (even if smaller than it used to be!).
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:whoever is giving you other opinions please share so we can bemuse ourselves at them Yes, but… Sleng Teng posted:Is the reset my pc option (all files gone) comparable to the traditional flatten and reinstall method? I agree with the opinion, but actually would like to see this answered real quick, too!
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DoctorTristan posted:Please tell me you at least installed updates at some point during those 10 years. Lol at the thought… Obi Wan: He’s more malware now than man; twisted and evil.
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Mustache Ride posted:They're not being targeted, it's just drive by bullshit that they're not smart enough to not click. This sums up a lot of this thread it seems 
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