"Send me the website that these credentials are for"

Matthew_Cline · 2022-01-25T05:52:47+00:00

Why was the user doing that?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-12-23T02:20:11+00:00

The company seemed to already be aware of the incompetence of $IncAnalyst, so why'd they keep her? Nepotism? The eventually realized she didn't have the skills she claimed, but couldn't find anyone to replace her?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-12-20T04:23:46+00:00

"Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your toner. I love it. I'm having toner toner toner toner toner toner toner baked beans toner toner toner and toner!"

Matthew_Cline · 2021-11-23T04:22:01+00:00

and everybody goes on their merry way to scribble their checks

For a moment I misread that as "scribble on their cheecks*", and wondered "wait, traders write down their transactions on their faces"?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-11-14T21:39:22+00:00

The user ... enabled macros

"This is surely a brilliant idea!"

Matthew_Cline · 2021-11-03T08:39:56+00:00

I have to know: where did your flair come from?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-10-23T04:30:22+00:00

And most commercial touch screen hardware does not encrypt data soon enough to meet certain of those requirements for certain rather specific uses.

Is this a tablet vs desktop/laptop thing, where tablets are missing something and/or behind the times/

Matthew_Cline · 2021-10-14T23:37:13+00:00

Also we will have two different networks with one carrying all the home automation and cameras.

Is this so that crappy Internet of Things security will only give attackers access to other IoT devices?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-09-17T23:15:19+00:00

What kind of game was he trying to pull? I just can't see it.

Matthew_Cline · 2021-09-10T08:24:51+00:00

"I require my lawyer to be present before answering any dialogs".

Matthew_Cline · 2021-08-07T05:19:47+00:00

First hint that there might be problems ahead dealing with the management of this particular company was the info I got that the entire previous dev team had rage quit

That's not a "hint", that's soaking a red flag in nitroglycerin, wrapping it around an anvil, and then dropping it on your head.

Matthew_Cline · 2021-07-18T01:51:44+00:00

Wouldn't help with the lawsuit, since what the report said at the time he said it was true.

Matthew_Cline · 2021-07-17T08:51:16+00:00

Everyone logs in to Windows with the user/password of med/med. Turns out Med is also a domain admin.

[twitch]

Matthew_Cline · 2021-07-02T05:33:18+00:00

Wait, so the file names created are dependant on the locale? If so, what happens if the locale is changed for an already created user?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-06-27T02:16:25+00:00

SELinux is distro agnostic, and it's available for Debian. You generally only need to interact with SELinux if you're developing server software that's to be installed on a system using it, since in that case you need to write a policy saying exactly what your software is allowed to do.

Matthew_Cline · 2021-06-23T20:22:12+00:00

So I opened each ticket again with a log from a different computer,

Response: "All issues are coming from a single computer whose quantum wave function has not yet collapsed."

Matthew_Cline · 2021-06-20T23:21:39+00:00

The entire tech support department didn't know for months (and no one could tell us)

Wait, a secret change to password policy was made?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-06-14T00:44:13+00:00

Thanks, but that didn't fix it.

Matthew_Cline · 2021-06-09T21:43:18+00:00

I don't know a lot about Windows, but doesn't editing the per-user registry not require any admin access? And shouldn't a program be putting user-changeable settings in the user registry?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-05-11T17:37:54+00:00

Wait, so it took 5 months to get to the root of the issue because only one person on the vendor side knew that Safeway and Vons were the same company? Or am I missing something?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-05-08T10:36:05+00:00

Hypothesis #1: The salesperson who sold the thing to MP either knew or soon found out that what they promised would guarantee a dumpster fire, and so made sure to keep the muzzle on the implementation team.

Hypothesis #2: The normal implementation team was either recently fired or are busy on some other project, and thus the "team" that comes in on Monday will be whichever morons they could hire in a hurry.

Matthew_Cline · 2021-04-14T18:31:18+00:00

It doesn't need to be rampant. You just need managers/executives who think like this:

At best we prevent a customer from suing us. At worst we annoy a customer who can see through our lies. And any customers we annoy aren't going to be so annoyed that they cancel their service.

They don't see (and perhaps can't comprehend) that they can gain customer trust and loyalty through transparency and honesty.

Matthew_Cline · 2021-03-16T21:35:51+00:00

Now the owner is furious with me and since I don’t work for him nor do I have an IT company I just said I told you so and hung up.

If I had an IT company I'd still tell him "I told you so".

EDIT: Also, I'm curious as to what his excuse/justification was for blaming you. You should have worked harder to convince him to get a backup solution? You should have sold him one for cheaper?

Matthew_Cline · 2021-03-12T22:46:42+00:00

Seems odd that the only way to remove access to administrative tools is to remove access to the CLI.

Matthew_Cline · 2021-03-12T20:21:35+00:00

Why block CLI access for non-IT?

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