Posts by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #AsUAgk7JNlkZE4e1rc by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-03-27T16:15:53Z
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Just saw a job posting that said (emphasis mine):B.S or higher in either Electrical Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering or Computer Sciences earned within the last 20 yearsThinly disguised ageism -- surprised they can get away with this.
(DIR) Post #AvTVsQUFMRrjCdOoLo by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-06-24T14:12:36Z
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Poll: Assuming you have no plans to leave the house that day ... at what percentage of battery level on your primary mobile device do you start to get uncomfortable, and think you should charge it?Assume you will not have access to a charger or external power pack while away (If you do end up having to leave).(If your number is somewhere in between, choose the next lower number) (Please RT to improve sample size.)
(DIR) Post #AvjczjkFSBGGvm1zwe by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2024-08-21T05:51:34Z
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Did you know that there's a thing called the "Automatic Billing Update" program (ABU), that enables merchants to get notified of your replacement payment card number before it even shows up in your mailbox?https://globalnews.ca/news/9763295/little-known-credit-card-program-companies-information/Yep, you can guess what the bad guys are doing. They're registering as a merchant and then involuntarily signing people up for nonexistent "subscriptions" ... that their support path mysteriously refuses to let you unsubscribe from:https://malwaretips.com/blogs/vigor-vita-cbd-gummies/But if you naively report these to your issuer as simply 'fraud', they will just ... issue you a new card. And then the "subscription" will be charged again.Many issuer support teams seem be totally unaware of this fraud type. You have to explicitly tell them it's a subscription scam, and ask them block that merchant from using ABU to get your new card number. (That card is lost, but at least the evil merchant won't get the next one).(I found this out the hard way, helping some elderly friends, whose cards kept getting mysteriously "compromised". When I realized that an unexpected charge happened before they had even received the new card ... I knew it wasn't just ordinary skimming or phishing.)tl;dr When you detect unauthorized charges, ask your issuer to check for ABU and block the entire merchant. Otherwise, you'll be caught in an unending cycle of useless reissuance!#ABU #fraud
(DIR) Post #AwlTJ4lbQFMa8wbjSC by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-08-02T16:23:54Z
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@foone GNU Parallel, hands down. Its lightweight distributed-work syntax is pretty absorbable.
(DIR) Post #Awp4gWFLhNsHoDRVtw by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-08-01T02:49:01Z
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/me backs away slowly
(DIR) Post #AwppghmrUFyvRli0Aa by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-08-04T18:54:01Z
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@grickle Being less attractive than the other targets is a valid migration strategy ... but at what cost? 😅😉
(DIR) Post #Ax5qEuWBlh8fJ4ZyfQ by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-08-11T21:59:17Z
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Infosec community: Why are we getting so many ../ vulns?Teens entering CS programs: What's a directory?The cloud "pulls up the ladder". It robs future generations of the ability to understand what was made.
(DIR) Post #Ax5qExCRnY87ciMkoS by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-08-12T12:13:02Z
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@david_chisnall That's a remarkably cogent way to summarize the technical nature of the problem, and the analogy is apt. Thanks for this!
(DIR) Post #AyHk1TB4wPccjjzycK by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-09-17T00:37:54Z
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Dudes will install Debian on a 13yo MacBook Air instead of going to therapy.It's me. I'm dudes.(XFCE is pretty snappy!)
(DIR) Post #AylzMO5kGjpKj8ADVw by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-10-01T17:30:52Z
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@scottjenson Before, searchability was all or nothing. With this option, you can select which posts have which level of searchability. For example, you might generally want to have your posts searchable, but you may reply to something using a couple of keywords that you know are likely to attract a swarm of trolls, so you opt out just for that post.It lets you decide, post by post, in a way that wasn't possible before.
(DIR) Post #AylzMP5QZPAPoR1Teq by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-10-01T17:35:47Z
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@scottjenson And specifically in the replying use case, it lets everyone who saw the original post organically also see your reply. The "followers only" option would only be visible to your followers, when you want to reply to be seen by all of the followers of the person you're replying to.
(DIR) Post #AyvXGP5IoIFavtujwm by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-10-06T06:00:54Z
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TUR (the Termux User Repository) now has hashcat 7.1.2!#hashcat
(DIR) Post #Az1PB10xF1yg9EYlfc by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-10-09T04:11:10Z
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@feld Interesting - I've never done that kind of lateral shift. Is it tricky?
(DIR) Post #AzulHtYYLjgkrNuX7w by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-11-04T21:20:43Z
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@feld Oof. Does the mechanism provide a way for the defederating server to say why it happened? Or is it just totally opaque?
(DIR) Post #B05eczw7cQirXTBeme by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-11-07T06:55:47Z
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OH: "You're in his DMs. I'm in his VMs. We're not the same."
(DIR) Post #B0MDzmLp3gvZEN8qUy by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-11-13T06:38:29Z
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An unexpected survivor
(DIR) Post #B0MEEqmMsR7zJAkEXw by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2024-01-02T19:14:18Z
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The hardest part about refuting Y2K disinfo is how many problems were fixed quietly, in part to mitigate risk of ligitation (negligence, etc.). People have stories they can't tell.At this point, I think enough years have passed that a formal amnesty - to encourage companies to disclose just how bad some of the problems were - would be in our historical best interest.
(DIR) Post #B1HkLU6JQENmJ43XTk by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2025-12-15T15:54:49Z
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"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?
(DIR) Post #B2Ji0xx6Q9OcXNLJZI by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2026-01-15T17:56:23Z
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Due to an influx of spam evading Gmail's anti-spam measures, I have had to create a filter that routes all messages containing "MILF" straight to the Trash folder. I apologize in advance to any legitimate MILFs attempting to contact me.
(DIR) Post #B2csWMcFBXn3HvzAXI by tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
2026-01-24T20:27:16Z
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"Wow, I got a TOTP code of 000000! What are the odds of that?!""Uh ... one in a million?""I know, right?"🤣