ianmf

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by ianmf 2mo ago
Thanks for taking one for the team. I was about to do the same.
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by ianmf 2y ago
I owned several versions of Little Snitch too. It started to be annoying when you had to approve each request, especially when running command-line scripts. Then I moved to run in silent-approval mode. At that point, there was no reason to
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by ianmf 2y ago
I used their software when I was a Windows user. Simple GUI, and functional. This is similar but for Mac. https://objective-see.org/tools.html
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by ianmf 2y ago
It's the same company that keeps getting breached over and over. Do this really surprises you?
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by ianmf 3y ago
I share the same feeling with smitty1e. But I have to admit, my military experience, GI Bill, and security clearance opened many doors for me. As you put it, it gave me a major leg up in life. I would make the same choice again unless I had
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by ianmf 4y ago
You could print them and store them in a safe, or in your parents' collections of old embarrassing photos of you. Just an idea.
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by ianmf 4y ago
These devices are funded by government/school systems. When you receive them, you have to sign a TOS or User agreement, where highly likely contains a verbage similar to "This device is subject to monitoring". This is the mag
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by ianmf 4y ago
They probably cut market research funding to obtain that $300M.
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by ianmf 5y ago
IIRC from my military time, the first generations of the patriot missiles (PAC-1, PAC-2) were designed to explode when in vicinity of the target. The PAC-3 missile was the first to introduce kinetic damage before the payload would explode.
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by ianmf 5y ago
It depends on how you define top-tier hackers. State sponsored attackers (hackers with ties to governments, regime, etc.) have a lot more capital at their disposal. Sometimes they work inside government funded facilities. They could use mat
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by ianmf 5y ago
I have not received an email from Google about the changes. It lead me to think that it is for accounts that have more than 1 active user. I have a G Suite Legacy with 1 account only. The change make sense to block companies from abusing th
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by ianmf 5y ago
I don't miss the physical media. I am happy purchasing digital content. It makes management and organization very easy. What I do miss is owning the content. If you purchased a Music CD or a Movie DVD, it was yours. You could watch it
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by ianmf 5y ago
If the attacker opens the document on a computer connected to the internet, it will. IIRC, the way it works: the document contains external resources with a unique identifier attached to the campaign, which the document viewer will attempt
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by ianmf 5y ago
You could use a Canary / beacon. I have used this before to detect/confirm insider threats in organizations. You could create a PDF with instruction on how to view the data inside the SD. When the attacker opens the document, it w
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by ianmf 5y ago
> I was once looking for a solution to some technical problem, clicked on a promising web result, and found myself at my blog. I had posted a solution several years earlier but had forgotten about it. That is funny. Once I recognized tha
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by ianmf 5y ago
> I don't have anything interesting to say I don't agree with this part. I use my blog to keep a journal on technical issues that were hard to fix, or was hard to find web sources about the subject. One of my top post is about
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by ianmf 5y ago
I got hired via LinkedIn, but it wasn't necessary to have an account to get the job. The position I got hired for had a job announcement on the corporate website. LinkedIn was just another source of job listings. LinkedIN was a great t
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by ianmf 5y ago
When Google Chrome came out, it was fast, reliable, secure, and it was not Internet Explorer. Chrome was what everyone needed back then. The competition was Firefox, which performance was getting slower (before Quantum). The problem was tha
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by ianmf 5y ago
As long as it is work related, it is not unethical to educate yourself in something new. For example, a new tech stack, similar discipline, or business administration. Employers and employees benefit when the employee keeps learning and bri
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by ianmf 5y ago
Hopefully, this fixes the pay cap on the current positions. Government contractors would receive compensation of 25%-50% more than federal employees for the same work. It is hard to retain federal employees when private sector are poaching
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by ianmf 5y ago
Almost all government agencies use USAJOBS for job postings. For DHS/CISA: https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?a=HSCA NSA, FBI, and CIA have their own internal job application website (or used to).
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by ianmf 5y ago
I am tired of dealing with cellphone services providers. I treat them as such, a service company. I buy my phones from directly from apple, never from ATT. I simply pay my monthly bill and when I upgrade, I hustle to have the "activati
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by ianmf 5y ago
If you are interested in shodan.io, every year the hold a one-day offer for a lifetime subscription for cheap.
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by ianmf 5y ago
These devices typically callback to the server and stay connected. Since the client is initiating the connection, there is no incoming NAT necessary.
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by ianmf 6y ago
> 3. These banners are required on all government IT systems. The sole purpose of these banners is to prevent criminals from saying they were not aware of what they were doing, mistakenly accessed the site, etc. It is a legality.
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by ianmf 6y ago
Fios had the most service outages than the other five ISPs I have used. However, their customer service has always been very good and getting a hold of a human customer representative is very easy. Currently I have Comcast and their custome
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by ianmf 6y ago
Not a programmer, but I divide my day in something like: First hour: Morning greetings, follow up from previous workday, getting my area organized for whatever I have for the day, check HN and news. Next 3-4 hours before lunch: Tackle the m
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by ianmf 6y ago
I have been using Google Voice since around 2014. I can make and receive calls and SMS for no cost to me. Bringing into consideration the recent changes to Google products regarding monetizing them, I expect some changes to Google Voice to
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by ianmf 6y ago
Are they using to Spy on their users or to keep the 'image' that Apple devices are more secure than the rest? I think the binary execution protection can do more good than harm. Sometimes shit happens like it did on Big Sur releas
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by ianmf 6y ago
For me, it depends on what the note is for. I store all my personal notes in Apple Notes. When I am at work and I need to store personal notes, I use my Google Keep that I will move to Apple Notes when I get home (Apple iCloud is blocked at

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