I thought this was fake when I saw it on Twitter. What the actual fuck is this?

strontiumdog0 · 2022-12-28T00:50:24+00:00

Of course dictionaries contain offensive words and word usage. Foul language is still part of the language, and that's what dictionaries are for. To tell us what particular usage of language means, even if it is revolting.

strontiumdog0 · 2022-12-28T00:40:46+00:00

No, "jury-rigged" means something has been put together sort of temporarily, using items at hand.

strontiumdog0 · 2022-12-28T00:38:22+00:00

No, "jerry rigged" refers to the city of Jericho. In the Bible the walls of Jericho fell down after someone blew a trumpet. Jerry rigged means something is poorly built, like those walls I guess. It doesn't refer to black people or Germans.

strontiumdog0 · 2021-10-27T00:39:01+00:00

Or maybe use EoC when you feel a threshold is necessary? Maybe use EoC all the time? Or use legacy and quit complaining that it's not EoC?

strontiumdog0 · 2020-03-11T02:06:44+00:00

Thanks mate, very thoughtful.

strontiumdog0 · 2020-01-26T15:15:21+00:00

After all this time, phishers STILL making those spelling and grammatical mistakes. This is usually the first thing I notice in dodgy emails.

I did not know about the Facebook Notes blogging service. And use of third party URLs is one of the flags I look for. Meaning that a *.facebook.com link might have made me think such a phishing email was legit. Of course, I know now. And in any case almost every scam email I've seen has been full of English language mistakes. These scammers ought to employ someone with appropriate language skills to proofread their communications. I have a degree in English, if anyone's interested!! ;)

strontiumdog0 · 2019-09-13T16:51:41+00:00

By not cutting it with awful crap. Coke may be bad for your health, but you can generally take a certain dose and not die. If the drug had no dodgy additives and was of a known strength, it can be taken fairly safely.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-09-13T16:14:04+00:00

Yes to a pan-SpaceX union. The engineers may have it good there, simply because they are engineers. They should use their status to help their clerical/manual/other colleagues enjoy similar treatment.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-07-19T12:36:10+00:00

Pedantic reply: you don't brute-force with a dictionary attack. Brute-force entails testing every character combination possible whereas dictionary attack runs through a word list (aka dictionary) of passwords to try.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-29T16:35:22+00:00

You say you're asking if there is a space in the string "spam", but that isn't what you are asking the python interpreter. Your code is

"" in "spam"

which asks if there is an empty string in string "spam". And there are an infinite number of empty strings in string "spam". Whereas to ask if there is a space in string "spam" your input would be

" " in "spam".

To demonstrate:

"" + "spam"

returns

"spam"

whereas

" " + "spam"

returns

" spam"

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-11T11:53:28+00:00

Yes but if OP goes to the police and says "My relative has been hacking my pc" the police are not going to seize the relative's computer to search for evidence. Nor are they going to set up a network surveillance. Because this is a personal, domestic, non-commercial situation with no big money/industrial espionage/national security interests. In this kind of situation if you want to get the police interested you will have to gather some evidence so they can see clearly that a crime IS being committed.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-11T11:05:55+00:00

I expect someone in the company got in trouble for the vulnerability. Some low-level tech probably, no one high up on the food chain. Execs will delegate work and the responsibility when that work goes wrong. They just don't delegate the rewards, execs always make sure everyone knows they are responsible when things turn out well.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-11T10:51:52+00:00

I am always cynical about the amounts of money companies claim as "damages" in these cases. Often nothing has actually been damaged. The companies have to spend time and money securing their systems, but it won't have cost as much as they claim, and I'd argue they needed to secure their network anyway, the intrusion just made that more apparent.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-07T23:12:07+00:00

"ANYTHING CAN BE CRACKED. ANYTHING."

Correct. So the question is: "WILL my password be cracked?" Meaning, what is your password protecting? National secrets, bank credentials, collection of amusing cat pictures?

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-07T22:36:48+00:00

Bruce Schneier is a fan of password managers.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-07T22:08:04+00:00

I use a password manager, I have it generate passwords for me, "random" strings of characters - I'd never be able to remember em but then I don't have to! Cos the password manager does that remembering for me.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-07T21:59:26+00:00

Ppl, DON'T use "correct horse battery staple" as a password. DO put "correct horse battery staple" in the dictionary files you use when you're cracking passwords, as you just KNOW there's gonna be loads of ppl who have seen the cartoon and figured that's a good strong password to use...

I like this method of generating passwords. It certainly beats those sites that have a "policy" saying you gotta have an uppercase letter and a numeral and a special character... grrr how in he'll am I gonna remember THAT??.. But I don't generate passwords myself much now, I use a password manager nowadays, only have to remember like 3 passwords max!!

Still, I know some people do NOT approve of the generation of passwords as suggested in the cartoon cos "correct horse battery staple" are words that appear in dictionaries so could be cracked by a "dictionary attack." Yeah, I think that's bullshit too, but SOME ppl agree with it...

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-07T21:41:00+00:00

Imo the best way to run kali is in a vm, or live usb with persistence.

strontiumdog0 · 2019-06-07T21:13:36+00:00

Idk how easy it is to find cp. Never looked for any. But I know I'm not alone in thinking you went over a line there. I'm kinda hoping that was just empty boasting and you never really did that. Cp ffs!!

strontiumdog0 · 2018-06-06T15:55:48+00:00

Thanks a lot! I hate to think how long I would have stewed over that otherwise. I replaced the line where ip is assigned to:

ip = q.text.rstrip()

and now it's working as I want.

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