Minor victories on Sunday (got VPN access to my home net working again), but the rest of the week has been a slog through pig shit and concrete so far.
The Doctor
Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
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3·3 days agoThe last three or four companies I’ve worked for did. Usually a month or so in HR would want to know why I didn’t tell them about my birbsite account. They also usually asked why I didn’t update my LinkedIn page to say I was working there now.
You mean, there are places that don’t monitor their employees’ social media accounts to compare against?
2·20 days agoThey sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.
Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.
This is a thing that folks have done in the past:
- http://kacangbawang.com/encrypting-stored-email-with-postfix/
- https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email and https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email_Part_2
- https://jnphilipp.org/posts/auto-encrypt-all-incoming-email-with-postfix/
- https://www.mydreams.cz/en/hosting-wiki/9663-configuring-automatic-email-encryption-in-postfix-on-centos-7-using-gpg.html
1·23 days agoWhen I could get away with it at work, I did.
In the last… I want to say six or seven years, issuing Macbooks to sysadmins has been a common thing in the sectors I work in. Rather than put up with us going rogue and messing up license tracking by rebuilding our stuff with a distro of choice, management just throws OSX at the problem (us, we’re the problem) because operationally it’s close enough for our purposes.
It’s not my choice or preference, but the money’s green.
4·23 days agoThis is endgame. The folks on top decided that there’s no point in being surreptitious anymore and they’re acting openly, because who can do anything about it?
“About to?”
We’ve been watching journalism die in realtime over the last decade. Jeff Bezos discarding all pretense the other day was just the latest in a long line of failures.
I keep waiting for them to start sending legbreakers to seize those record. They’ve had $10kus bounties in place on people who’ve had abortions since 2021, and now trans folks, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to push it a little bit farther.
No. There are easier and more reliable ways to backdoor stuff that don’t run the risk of somebody’s fuzzer stumbling across it. Which, I hasten to add, can be installed in such a way that disabling it bricks the device (which means that nobody will bother).
4·24 days agoGee. What a surprise.
Hey - an explanation. Who’da’thunk it?
Probably because the advice in question was lengthy and technical (subtype: laws and legality), and the short form had the disclaimer "Please don’t publish the short form because it’s too much like giving legal advice.) Something similar happened back in 2012 with Project Byzantium, when we were consulting with the EFF with respect to having cryptographic libraries included in the distro.
It’ll just be delayed. They want their human sacrifice.
They’re making bank off of it. Next question.
Gee. It’s almost as if rich people don’t give a single shit about anyone else. /s
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve done anything with GnuPG, but I still have the presentation I did some years back on my website. It might help.
It was terrible in the 90’s. Since CUPS became standard around 2000 it’s significantly easier.
They genuinely do not care anymore. We lost, just like the cypherpunks lost.