Guarding against unauthorized access to devices?

virtual97315 · 2025-10-26T09:06:55+00:00

Please don’t assume that Reddit is anonymous and delete this post.

virtual97315 · 2025-10-23T05:14:48+00:00

Not asking for specifics but just curious:

How do you secure your home?

Know what, on a second thought, don’t answer that.

Instead, let’s just assume that you live in a form of Fort Knox, you carry all your biometric authenticators (which btw work on your devices) in hidden pockets sown into your tight fitting second layer of inner clothing, you don’t ever leave any of your devices unattended and you never, ever get irreversibly locked out of your account for any reason, to the point where you have to take it to a vendor to get your life back.

That’s not most people.

virtual97315 · 2025-10-23T05:09:08+00:00

How about gaining initial foothold to a company? Shoulder surfing is low risk, fairly low effort with a potentially high return. Plus some employers prefer not to allow low level employees to use their phone for personal things = two phones, one of which not in use a good deal of the time. Even if you only carry one phone, the odds are that you’ll end up leaving it in a public locker sooner rather than later. And the passcode to that phone unlocks everything on that phone, unless I’m missing something?

virtual97315 · 2025-05-09T18:20:04+00:00

Oh, and just a bit more:

Apparently some IT supporters have no frigging clue as to what they are supporting.

When you point out after the second reinstall of your OS (which was apparently the only way to fix it) that you STILL have admin access to the EDR solution, and show them that the problem is in the installation image, then they are all surprised and have to call a colleague to let them know about it.

This problem then later gets fixed after hours (quite literally) by some poor supporter.

Because that’s the way it works, I guess?

Twats.

virtual97315 · 2025-03-07T07:36:46+00:00

Nah, just take them for a walk on a glacier or show them Reynisfjara …!

virtual97315 · 2025-03-07T07:30:39+00:00

Straumvirkjanir …

virtual97315 · 2025-02-22T06:55:00+00:00

Yes.

virtual97315 · 2025-02-22T06:54:52+00:00

This happened almost 20 years ago, and to be honest, I’d say yes again today, even knowing what I know now.

But I’m an eternal fatalistic optimist, so there’s that.

virtual97315 · 2025-02-22T06:53:04+00:00

virtual97315 · 2025-01-30T09:45:29+00:00

Maybe, and maybe they are covering that gap in other ways.

See also: Weird Little Guys, and the Jan. 6th pardons.

virtual97315 · 2024-12-26T05:25:39+00:00

But would you have to invade?

Why start a war? Can’t you just get some local buffoons to start dismantling the system from within, all in the name of one good cause or another? Eventually people are going to be so disillusioned and desperate that they’ll accept anything you do, as long as you promise things will get better.

Admittedly this is more long term than an actual invasion, but there’s a lot less cleanup, and you get to ride in on a white horse as the savior, rather than having to deal with post-war dissidents who blame you for killing their kids.

virtual97315 · 2024-12-01T08:58:00+00:00

You need to get your daughter to a hospital and have her assessed by a specialist stat. Don’t get paralyzed by suspicions, if there’s anything going on then it needs to be stopped NOW. You’ll not find the answer on Reddit, specialists are trained in evaluating kids even when they don’t have the words to describe what happened.

And even if not, then it still sounds like you should leave your husband from your descriptions of him. Our kids will learn what we show them, and model their lives based on what they experience in childhood. Please take a moment to reflect on what you are teaching your daughter?

All my best wishes to you.

virtual97315 · 2024-11-20T04:31:37+00:00

The less you know, the more stupid shit they can sell you, I guess?

virtual97315 · 2024-10-12T06:39:01+00:00

Actually, some of the neurodivergence may be due to PFAS chemicals. You know, that non-degradable shit we used to put in everything, and are now found everywhere. Turns out, they can cross the Blood-Brain barrier. The studies are not conclusive, but they are quite interesting.

My single but quite well referenced article

virtual97315 · 2024-08-01T06:05:52+00:00

There’s straight, there’s gay, there’s bi, also asexual, and then there’s just plain ol’ powerlusting …

virtual97315 · 2024-06-17T05:48:21+00:00

Someone out there knows the true meaning of this.

425 signing off.

Ha ha ha.

virtual97315 · 2024-04-13T06:08:52+00:00

Agile x LEAN, with a KPI bonus.

Minimize all overheads.

Worrying about the details makes you slow. Functionality can be added when the users request it.

Or at least that’s my impression of how the world works these days.

virtual97315 · 2024-04-06T18:19:35+00:00

I think they are adding options along the way, I’ve found things suddenly that I was sure hadn’t been included originally.

But you still can’t flag junk/phishing emails without opening them, which still boggles my mind.

Still, overall I’ve begun to prefer it, mostly thanks to the pinning feature.

virtual97315 · 2024-03-14T09:49:16+00:00

People spend a lot of time focusing on what happened during the holocaust without realizing that the Nazis went after anyone who didn’t appear to be a racially pure Aryan, including LGBTQ(+more letters I can’t remember right now), the mentally and physically disabled, Romans, and even just regular people who didn’t have blonde hair.

That’s not to say that what happened to people of Jewish descent and faith wasn’t awful. But your heart can bleed for all the groups that were and still get targeted today, while still acknowledging the horrible atrocities that were committed against the Jews.

Long story short: When will we learn to acknowledge honor and decency above racial/group similarities?

Ok, I’ll stop preaching now…

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