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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
first of forth

and also swearing up and down i won't drag politics in here




that's for the opsec thread

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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Rooney McNibnug posted:

keep rear end variant supporting YubiKey challenge-response now: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2017-06-26-2.2.0-released/

keep rear end is winning

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Migishu posted:

dont stop im almost there

*puts on trucker hat and nestles clipboard behind corporate logo polo*


gonna social hack you in the lobby and then in the parking lot

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
and OP, apologies for the stuxnet parking lot reference, it's very political but also one of the biggest secfucks we've seen so it balances out

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
a classic since we don't have much currently emergent

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/apr/18/trident-nuclear-submarine-secrets-leak

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

schranz kafka posted:

my body looks like guy pearce in memento because that's how i manage my passwords

i am currently looking at cypher in the matrix and he has an angry face about how good guy pearce was looking in memento

evan @ nioj

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

RISCy Business posted:

i saw that the thread was locked and instantly said "oh no who touched the poop :ohdear:"

the thread has really matured

only poop touched at this point is fossilized

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Lain Iwakura posted:

ayyy lmao

but yeah. i came out in april and sort of disappeared for a while because of it. will be kicking rear end soon enough!

safe to say we're all glad of it

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

geonetix posted:

Is this the first time the secfuck thread has been restarted because of princessery instead of poop touching?

there have been so many restarts to this thread that even :nsa: can't piece it together

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

A Pinball Wizard posted:

transitioning is great and all but are we all just going to ignore that she transitioned into a anime

i'm worried anime may have been a pre-existing condition :ohdear:

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

cis autodrag posted:

the intersection of IT, anime, and trans women is an extremely busy intersection indeed. hard to give a gently caress if people judge you for anime, lol.

plus lain is good. one of the few animes i actually own on dvd.

things i like about anime include everything kurosawa has to say on the subject and little else

and cb, and gits and well the old stuff

but they are bad and i should feel bad

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

cis autodrag posted:

i like evangelion and the trigun comic book and cowboy bebop

i was raised anime christian so trigun holds a special gun and cross shaped place in my heart

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

JewKiller 3000 posted:

3do didn't have anything worth stealing either, though

unless you really like fmv


they also had possibly one of the worst fighting games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Ya4mSkDMI

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

terror from the deep theoretically exists but i can't find a shred of evidence

the pc game?

*tosses grenade waterly*

eat my speargun!

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

cinci zoo sniper posted:

you go there to have a runin with exceptionally smelly mcaffee?

seeing other goons irl is funny but gently caress las vegas sideways

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Thanks Ants posted:

we're taking this one up to 420 to make up for it

we can do it!


i attempted to re-open infernal machine's opsec thread to vent political nonsense here

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3825132

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

well, there was an attempt

pretty sure i can manage to not ever drag politics in here though, still

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

cinci zoo sniper posted:

*nods in russian as 10 men flush toilet at once*

lol how do you nod in russian?

slav squat and a curious gesture of the eyes?

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

JewKiller 3000 posted:

libraries would be a lot more cool and good if we taught kids how to use them as they exist now, rather than teaching them the research methods of 25 years ago

have you looked up a degree in library science lately?

there's a myriad of things there beyond hitting the homeless with those old sticks they'd put newspapers on

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
all that being said i'm to this thread what the slow guy volunteering at your local library is

waving around a piece of wood

yarr stealing air-conditioning!

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

gonadic io posted:

I'm British and say zero day :shrug:

zed's dead baby

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
let's just call it zero tolerance day and be done with this terrible derail

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
And in related news the People's Republic of China is seeking damages from Microsoft (MSFT) for appropriating their flag's color scheme for the "hot dog stand" theme.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Computer Serf posted:

something about america's contingency of government plan entails the shadow back up government always being stored underground since the cold war and only a few of the above ground normie government bureaucrats are given special let me into the bunker clearance cards that they're never supposed to talk about because most of their coworkers arent cool enough to save in the event of the apocalypse

you can tell the "cool" government bureaucrats because they get actual smart cards instead of the ones with the printed on icc

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

i have a hint because of a tiny wiggling fear of "what if some terrible mishap occurs and leaves me with partial memory loss and i just needed this one hint to jog my brain to remember"

i have changed several of my logins to 4 digit keys because basically if anyone had physical access to my home computers, welp

not pro but honestly i don't even lock my phone because it goes on the nightstand or in my pocket




i don't have anyone who cares enough about me to try to read my correspondence :cry:

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
i still use the randall munroe method of song lyrics for my bank account though

i know it's not rainbow table blah blah safe but it's a lot of drat characters

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

cinci zoo sniper posted:

you can still lock it so your mailbox fills up with cerberus selfies of your sleepy face

install prey

wait for your server host to go down temporarily

get 100 images of yourself and your coords emailed to you

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

cinci zoo sniper posted:

never heard of it but that sounds pretty good lol

it doesn't rely on anything but where you host a file

delete file, start getting pics and coords of whoever jacked your laptop

if server go down, lol look @ your ugly mug looking dopey

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

cinci zoo sniper posted:

does it work with some kind of cloud storage too?

i haven't tested that but i know it pings the file you're hosting fairly regularly so a free dropbox/google drive/onedrive might balk at it

i don't use it anymore but it was funny when my hosting went down and i got a look at how i look working/browsing

https://www.preyproject.com/

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Mr SuperAwesome posted:

guns are p dumb

amen to that

i went to thurston high which got shot up by some kid named kip kinkel

also went to high school with the guy who did the colorado springs shooting spree to suicide by cop

his mom was a good friend of my mom, and on the wagon before that

she fell off for a bit

gently caress guns

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
that being said, love you j290

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

fishmech posted:

nice meltdown, guy who is literally too dumb to know google's primary business is ads

lol if you don't

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

power botton posted:

oh no think of the poor companies. the evil lawmakers are fuckingw ith the free market again

well i mean, we are now living in the cyber-funk future

nothing you say is guaranteed private

corporations rule our governments

it's basically william gibson style now but i can't camp out up on the sfgate bridge (yet)

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
i've been scouting around for places to put my plywood/cardboard shack up but so far, no luck

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
maybe i'll get in on the oakland bay bridge

or just the portland steel bridge

but it's all hosed up

idk

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Arcsech posted:

people may, corporations do not, because corporations are not people

in some places they are legally people, because those places have braindead laws

corporate personhood is one of the worst things we've had from SCOTUS

i mean we've had a lot of bad stuff coming out of the GOP appointed ones but that one nearly takes the cake

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
apologies for making GBS threads in the good secfuck thread

i think we lost the aleph-lite opsec one

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

i tried to get one going

sorry for making GBS threads politics in here (again)

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

fisting by many posted:

reason this exists: users putting a symbol on their 108-key computer keyboard in their password and then being unable to find it on their cell phone

workaround: just use a 33 character password without symbols, it's good enough :shrug: you're already well into won't be brute forced until the machine uprising territory anyway, what does it matter if an arbitrary requirement stops you from adding a few more orders of magnittude

didn't the xkcd guy espouse this theory?

ah well, the first line of defense in computer security is denying physical access anyway

e: because why did my phone autocorrect "security" into "theory" :iiam:

syscall girl fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Aug 20, 2017

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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
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ate all the Oreos posted:

i'm sure someone's done the math and they lose less money just letting people get hacked than they'd lose from people forgetting their password and consuming way more customer service time

see, the free market works!

that's basically it

cost benefit analysis means the consumer loses every time

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