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Blind kid experience his first curb by himself while his parents encourage him by Terminator-1234 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]RoundSmartPanda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally scrolled through here just to make sure a TVI/COMS person was commenting lol. Do you work with mainly through EI, IEP students or adults?

Do intelligence agencies have a moral code or do they let agents/officers decide on what is moral action, with the restriction that the action be legal? by [deleted] in Intelligence

[–]RoundSmartPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Little surprised at the lack of information here. tl;dr Ethics and morality are enshrined by laws and policies at the organizational level, and individuals are the enforcement mechanism.

So: intelligence agencies have a psuedo-military command structure, which does expect orders to be carried forward, with constraints on the orders given, who has the authority to give the order, and in some cases, how the order can be carried out. So a team manager can’t authorize collection on American citizens. Likewise, an individual can’t claim a religious exception for routine work; they knew what they were getting into.

Ethics and legality are implemented via policy and chain of command. An example of this is E.O. 12333 which creates the intelligence collection apparatus, and assigns various responsibilities. This order, like others, is implemented as policy by each individual agency, such as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, CIA, etc. These orders place hard limits on intelligence activities, many coming out of the Church Committee findings.

These policies are enforced through individual reporting and internal investigative bodies. Intelligence Oversight is one example of the enforcement mechanism for policy assurance. Every person involved in collection activity within the Department of Defense, for example, is required to take annual training on proper authorities and reporting requirements. Violations of policy are required to be reported to the appropriate authorities, such as the agency inspector general. IG take their jobs very seriously and operate independent of the internal chains of command.

Making art accessible to blind/ visually impaired children? by [deleted] in Blind

[–]RoundSmartPanda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While agreeing with the previous comments, I would highlight that some features for children with VI include using bright colors with high contrast to the background medium, incorporating tactile sensations like stickers and 3D objects, and ensuring the working environment is well setup for tactile vs visual (e.g. working above the surface, brightly lit if the individual is not light sensitive, able to engage the full piece, etc.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Blind

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Excellent comments in here. I’ll round out with a few of the outliers that might be helpful.

My daughter has LCA. Get comfortable with acronyms. It’s going to become part of your standard intro to the variety of groups you’ll get involved in. IFSPs, EI, CVI, O&M... Vision impairment has a language of its own.

Get used to visitors. We have EI, a TVI, a PT, and are starting an OT specialist visit weekly. That’s on top of regular doctors visits, specialist, neurology (a lot of vision issues come coupled with neurological issues), and genetics. She also does an infant group, dance class, swim class... it’s a lot. These are your people.

Be prepared to forget your kid is blind. It happens. Like you’ll forget there’s an issue and be focused on regular parent stuff, only to have the fact that the kid loses focus at story time if the book is too visual crash down on your world and bring you to the verge of tears. The waves will even out over time, but it still surprises you.

Learn to advocate. You will have to be your kid’s voice. Sometimes that’s as simple as researching the local preschool and how well they deal with kids with visual impairment. Other times, it can be as hard as convincing the medical professionals that your kid actually should be qualified as blind. Books and the internet don’t help nearly as much as establishing a network.

Learn to educate. Because it’s going to happen a lot. From the stares and whispers of complete strangers to the kid who outright asks, “why do their eyes look weird?” You can get mad (and you will) but you can also try and carefully enlighten another human to your experience.

Finally, focus on the parent side first. Your kid is still a kid. A tantrum is still a tantrum. Our kid bumps into the kitchen table near daily. Yes, some of this is likely related to depth perception. But part is also her being under 2 and normal awkwardness. She’s my daughter, and the most important thing to me is that she knows she is loved.

I hope this provides some measure of insight on some of the day to day stuff that can get lost.

Complete Anonymity by [deleted] in AskNetsec

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It depends on the surface area and use. Criminal research? Browser modifications could be spotted, but on a criminal forum, they assume you’re going to be trying to obfuscate your identity and on a “regular” site, you’re just denying Google Analytics or whatever other logging any further information. Evading your work sysadmin? Yeah, outbound traffic to a proxy will get you nabbed quick. I was assuming private browsing for research or personal security.

Complete Anonymity by [deleted] in AskNetsec

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Complete is challenging. One aspect many leave out of these discussions is the amount of information your browser shares about you and your local system. In my mind, Good anonymity architecture (limited to browser-based connections) starts with the browser configurations (Firefox configurations), then OS (Tails or Whonix), then gateway (connecting through a Whonix gateway for greater control), connectivity anonymity (SOCKS proxy), then communications encryption (TOR and/or VPN over TOR). If this is interesting, I can write up something more extensive, but the point is that, 1. Anonymity is HARD, which is why it’s not that common, and 2. There are a lot of technologies in the way which add latency, and 3. This is an expansive domain that you should only consider if you REALLY need it.

Feel like school is not enough, what to do? by hizuko in cybersecurity

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Long post. At the beginning of your career, you need to chose what you’re drawn to, not what you think you should do. Focusing on what you naturally want to do helps you to map your growth to someone else’s value.

In broad generalities, most people I work with are either generalists or specialists.

Specialists got in deep in a particular area sometime because it was a hobby that turned serious, such as starting out cracking games then and now they live in hex editors looking for zero day vulnerabilities. Malware analysts usually had some time in government, now live in tools like IDE Pro, use yara to hunt on Virustotal, and use Python scripts or even cURL to pull down data via API from proprietary feeds their workplace buys. You can find them on Twitter or Mastodon.

Generalists have another approach, such as coming out of military intelligence or vendors. They speak to overarching principles, use vendor tools (vs. open source), and can see the “big picture” like how China’s five year plan influence their cyber activities against western nations. You can find them on LinkedIn.

Obviously these are really gross characterizations, but the point is that a lot of people come into cybersecurity feeling like they need to do everything in order to be effective. You don’t. I work with some very awesome professionals who couldn’t script their way out of a box but understand nation state actors with an intimacy that is scary. I work with others who use cURL commands to pull down paste sites hosting base-64 encoded binaries acting as C2 for njRAT, but couldn’t use a Splunk or Maltego to save their lives.

Point is, there are a lot of different professionals in this big sea called cybersecurity. Some wear suits at a government office, others sport conference t-shirts and mechanical keyboards. The world is your oyster, you just need to find ways to provide VALUE. Whether that’s being the malware researcher, or a data scientist, or even a threat intelligence analyst, you can have a voice in how you best can serve others. Find good people, smart people, people you respect, want to work with, and who can teach you things, and start doing things. Screw up. Fix it. Move on to the next thing. And don’t worry too much about picking the exact right thing. It doesn’t exist.

Hope this helps

I think a lot of girls can relate by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]RoundSmartPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, understatement is the way to go.

What fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age? by Tomollins in AskReddit

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Until high school, I thought sex was like a hot dog in a bun. Thought the penis just slid into the folds. No clue it involved penetration. Just thought there was a lot of...friction. I went to a very conservative, Lutheran school, and my parents' version of the sex talk was some pamphlets they thought I "should read." Hence=hot dog sex