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- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 1 day ago:
Jesus was middle eastern. Don’t need to look further than that to find the hypocrisy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days 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 days 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 [deleted] 4 days 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 Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 week ago:
Bought back by the one person who already had prior access, and bought by her own research non-profit. As far as privacy concerns go, that’s the best case scenario.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Yeah Linux is great, no doubt. I’ve been using Xubuntu since forever, never really touched Arch, but fundamentally if you know your way around one system, you’ll manage another.
Still, there are a bunch of applications that I must run under Windows, so it’s good to have the no frills version available for that.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 week ago:
Lol, did whoever set to the shop configure it in Australian dollars? 100 AUD are just about 65 USD. Given the currency fluctuation, that could just about work out.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Install the IoT version, that comes without any of the bloat and works just fine. Not even the Microsoft store is bundled in.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 1 week ago:
Pointless, unless you leave the roomba running outdoors. Indoors you don’t have GPS coverage, and your phone is logged onto the same cell tower anyway. Might just leave it stationary at home, same outcome.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 1 week ago:
Same. I’ve come to terms using it in browser mode on Edge, same for Outlook. The desktop applications are so horrific, I uninstalled both. Half the time they wouldn’t work or force log me out.
Now I literally have a standalone screen that’s showing nothing but Edge with those two tabs on, and all my productive environment is on a nice large screen where I don’t have to see the crap.
- Comment on France Moves to Classify X as an Adult Site Amid Digital ID Crackdown 1 week ago:
Liberals are genocide apologists?!
- Comment on Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
The developers of Lemmy also run lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml, the former being a hardcore communist anti-everything delusional conspiracy crapshoot of a platform, the latter a tiny bit more relaxed, but moderated/administered by a bunch of dicks that are essentially also tankies (= hardcore leftists) and Russia fans/apologists.
They (the devs) recently asked for funding to support their work, and in doing so, disclosed that part of the funding would be used to run those two instances, thus giving users no alternative to support without cross-financing extremism.
Piefed is developed independently and has none of those links to moronic ideologies.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 weeks ago:
Oh so it’s ok to selectively shoot journalists if you don’t agree with their ideology? I bet the other cop didn’t agree with that that journalist’s. Case closed, following your logic.
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 2 weeks ago:
Right, thanks!
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 2 weeks ago:
Never heard of that thing, but apparently it was Apple exclusives? Deserved death then.
I’m hoping ladybug will be operational for mainstream use, before the enshittification of Firefox progresses too far.
- Comment on YSK about the GI Rights Hotline 2 weeks ago:
Define “loosely”. You really think there’s more than maybe 3 or 4 states that’d have a chance to sustain themselves on their own? And if a bunch of states would stick together against the others, you’ve got civil war reloaded. With drones, nukes, and blackhawks. Fun times.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
This article is a thinly veiled ad paired with fearmongering to get gullible users to buy the shit phones they sell (or not, some people have been on “waitlists” for 5+ years after providing a full payment).
Granted, their phones are fully open, but have next to no apps.
Personally I’ll stick with Android 12, rooted, and see what the future brings.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
Youtube has ads? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
Only works on Pixels, and I’d rather not give Google any money.
- Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
In Germany it was pretty unusual to eat in school at all, you had breakfast at home (7AM-ish), school starts at 8 and finished at 2PM latest, usually 1.15PM. We all went home for lunch afterwards, and that was that.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
At that point I’d just get a dumb phone for calls and a tablet with data only SIM for the rest.
- Comment on AskMenOver30 - a place for supportive and friendly conversations among adults over 30 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for that! Yeah we tried promoting the community, but it never really got traction. With lemm.ee shutting down, it was either let it die or start over elsewhere, so I don’t mind having someone else try :-)
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 weeks ago:
Is there a single instance that allows using apps, other than the api test instance? PieFed is a good idea for desktop, but the mobile website is cumbersome to use.
I signed up with piefed.au several months ago now, but every time I try, I’m getting error 400 “alpha api not enabled”.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
infosec.pub
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
No need, they’ll do it for you in a few weeks…
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
infosec.pub
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
I love it on infosec.pub, doesn’t defederate from most instances unless they are particularly hostile, doesn’t censor in itself, and hosts mostly tech/nerd communities.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 3 weeks ago:
Xubuntu is stable, lightweight, easy to install, and requires no tinkering. No idea about gaming, but I’d choose it over Debian and PopOS at any given time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They are adults, let them figure it our for themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Age is just a number. Who cares.