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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      Accenture downplays ransomware attack as LockBit gang leaks corporate data

      Fortune 500 company Accenture has fell victim to a ransomware attack but said today the incident did not impact its operations and has already restored affected systems from backups.
      News of the attack became public earlier this morning when the company’s name was listed on the dark web blog of the LockBit ransomware cartel. The LockBit gang claimed it gained access to the company’s network and was preparing to leak files stolen from Accenture’s servers at 17:30:00 GMT. In an emailed statement, Accenture not only confirmed the attack but also greatly played down its impact.

      https://giphy.com/gifs/fight-Tim0q7zolF3fa

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    • RE: NG AV / Endpoint Protection in 2021

      @notverypunny said in NG AV / Endpoint Protection in 2021:

      Any vendors people want to recommend or warn off with regards to endpoint and server protection? We're shopping options to replace our current NG solution. Currently on a call and it's kinda meh.... I'm not a fan of sales in any context and this seems to be lots of sizzle and not a lot of steak (or bacon... substitute your delicious protein of choice)

      Crowdstrike has worked well in a few large places I've seen. It's great cross platform.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: New hire, make him SET-UP his own pc?

      @mr-jones said in New hire, make him build his own pc?:

      We have an HP Z440 workstation sitting on the shelf, that I was about to configure for him, but I had the idea of "why don't I just make him figure it out"

      Because when someone starts a new job, they should have a functional system and work area waiting for them.

      If you feel a need to train him in putting together a workstation, I'm sure you can do that too, but why have him start a new job without a functional system?

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    • RE: Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play

      Bought Diablo II Resurrected

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Inexpensive laptop recommendations

      @scottalanmiller said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

      @dashrender said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

      @scottalanmiller said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

      @adamf said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

      @scottalanmiller Yeah, It is interesting to see how organizations are going back to the thin client model where it makes sense.

      No one ever left it, really.

      Thin clients cost is so high, it's barely worth it unless the security side it that important.

      Custom built thin clients are crazy expensive. But using regular computers as thin clients is super cheap.

      You can use anything for this. But Raspberry Pis have become very popular for it.

      I couldn't imagine someone asking for a simple Windows laptop they are used to using to connect to their Windows computer, but then getting a some kind of Raspberry Pi concoction instead.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Framework | Modularity hits laptops?

      @dashrender said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

      @pete-s said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

      @dashrender said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

      @pete-s said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

      That company is not going to be around in five years. Good luck finding any upgrades then.
      The whole idea is flawed in too many ways to list.

      If you want to have your laptop for a number of years, just get one that can actually be opened and have components replaced. A lot of them can - almost everyone I'd say with exceptions such as apple. For example:

      I tend to agree with you. My old Lenovo, you know the one I got the same time Dominica won one from SpiceWorld - it was easy to upgrade the SSD or RAM, really the main components one would upgrade.

      Yeah, a lot of them are easy because laptops are made out of components anyway.

      Here are videos of hundreds of laptops and how to open them and how to do upgrades:
      https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpYZc4lOys6gtJj8-dr4pY1-m0yo_NYqn

      The biggest waste is things like the monitor - they can generally last 8-12 years, so short of needing an upgrade there, there is nothing wrong with it, yet we are tossing it aside because we want a new processor.

      Hmm... Can you still get newer or upgraded VGA monitors?

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    • RE: Inexpensive laptop recommendations

      @gjacobse said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

      @adamf
      What is the limiting factor for running Windows?

      Likely the user. But who cares. He asked for Windows laptop, which some people prefer to use.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Inexpensive laptop recommendations

      @adamf said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

      I have a user who just needs to RDP to his powerful desktop machine at the office. He will be offsite a lot and I am looking to get a laptop so he can connect to it from anywhere. I just need something inexpensive that runs Windows. Any recommendations? I was looking at Asus , Dell, etc. Any recommendations on makes/models?

      https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/For-Home/ZenBook/ZenBook-14-UM425-UA/

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Relaxing and bullshitting in my buddy’s shop

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      Nice, just enough room on there for a beer.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Apple plans to scan your images for child porn

      @scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

      The issue is that they are scanning without the upload, and can based on that be forced to report on you.

      It seems like this whole thing is only put into action via a trigger, which is the uploading of the image to your iCloud account. Before then, there's no way for any reporting. The reporting is done via iCloud servers based on the image voucher that's with your image in iCloud.

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      This whole thing is all about the iCloud Photos account accumulating enough CSAM matching vouchers. Without your photos being uploaded to your iCloud Photos account, this whole thing is moot.

      For reference: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf

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    • RE: Apple plans to scan your images for child porn

      To me it's clear from the white paper that if you don't upload images to icloud, then this doesn't work. However, since I'm not an iPhone user, I don't know if you have any control over whether or not the photos stored on your phone are uploaded to your icloud account.

      Basically, when images are uploaded to your icloud account, by your doing or automatically, your phone first does this hashing magic with csam results and then packages it along with your photo that is stored in your icloud account. At that point, the icloud scanners simply read the results that are packaged with your photo. I think of it like the photo having an attached health certificate that icloud scanner can pick up.

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    • RE: What Are You Watching Now

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

      Youtube Video

      I have the Hero 9. Very tempted to add the Go 2 to my lineup when I'm back in the States in a few weeks.

      The Go 2 looks pretty sweet.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Apple plans to scan your images for child porn

      @jasgot said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

      @obsolesce said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

      @marcinozga said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

      I bet 100% of parents have pictures of their naked children.

      Definitely not. Including your child's genitals in a photo is a conscious decision you don't need to do.

      We have photos of our children playing in the bathtub for example, but also made the conscious effort to not include their genitals in the photo. There's no reason to include that in the photo regardless of intentions.

      Genitalia are not a requirement to classify a picture as child pornography.

      New Jersey State Statute Subsection 😄 N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2C:24-4(b)(1).
      Says:
      "to otherwise depict a child for the purpose of sexual stimulation or gratification of any person who may view the depiction where the depiction does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."

      Subsection (c) defines child pornography, not in terms of whether it depicts some sort of sexual activity, but rather in terms of the reaction the image is meant to evoke. The statute is thus remarkably broad, and the prohibition is based entirely on subjective (rather than objective) criteria.

      An example may help: source
      Imagine an individual who is sexually attracted to children, and who finds photographs of children bundled up in winter coats to be sexually stimulating. If that individual takes a picture of a child walking down the street who is wearing a winter coat, then the New Jersey statute would classify that picture as child pornography. All that matters is whether the image ‘‘depict[s] a child,’’ whether the individual who created the image had ‘‘the purpose of sexual stimulation,’’ and whether the resulting image had no ‘‘serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.’’ All three of those factors are met by the example.

      Yes, context plays a big part of it and definitely understandable.

      But I wasn't saying what was and was not condisered child pornography. I was disagreeing with what I quoted specifically.

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Sure, but so what?

      It also means that if you want a job, a better job, or a higher paying job, you can do that easily.

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.

      Yeah, in the US right now there are the same amount of job openings as there are unemployed. That's was as of a few months ago.

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    • RE: Apple plans to scan your images for child porn

      @marcinozga said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

      I bet 100% of parents have pictures of their naked children.

      Definitely not. Including your child's genitals in a photo is a conscious decision you don't need to do.

      We have photos of our children playing in the bathtub for example, but also made the conscious effort to not include their genitals in the photo. There's no reason to include that in the photo regardless of intentions.

      posted in News
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    • RE: Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation

      @scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:

      But that means that you can run the lighter 32bit OS version that is faster AND it is already overclocked and includes a massive passive heatsink.

      But the web browser plus whatever else is running in addition to the OS will still eat up what's left of the RAM pretty easily I would think. My phone uses more than 4g of ram easily.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      Trusted platform module security defeated in 30 minutes, no soldering required

      Sometimes, locking down a laptop with the latest defenses isn't enough.
      Let’s say you’re a large company that has just shipped an employee a brand-new replacement laptop. And let’s say it comes preconfigured to use all the latest best security practices, including full-disk encryption using a trusted platform module, password-protected BIOS settings, UEFI SecureBoot, and virtually all other recommendations from the National Security Agency and NIST for locking down federal computer systems. And let’s say an attacker manages to intercept the machine. Can the attacker use it to hack your network?

      tl:dr = SPI bus communicates in clear text. Use a BitLocker PIN/Password.

      Hopefully this being in the media will change that.

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    • RE: Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play

      Really enjoying Diablo 3 season 24 with the Ethereal items. Lots of fun with those!

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Just installed the Sims 4 for someone on Ubuntu.

      Wow up to number 4 now?

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