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An Amazon Fire Kids tablet was allegedly used to stalk a security pro
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoWhat's a security expert doing with a bunch of Amazon devices networked into his home? If I were a CISO, my home office would have a wooden rolltop writing-desk with an inkpot and quill. And I'd probably live in a shack in the forest.
- userbinator 3y agoThere's experts, and then there's "experts". One will have the sort of innate distrust for everything not entirely under their control which you're alluding to, while the other is an "expert" due to having received memorisation-based certification and basically does nothing more than parrot industry propaganda---or as they like to call it "best practices". It shouldn't be a surprise that far more of the latter exist.
- ghusbands 3y agoThat's oddly reductionist. People have a wide range of risk profiles and amount of time they are able to dedicate to different things. One can be an expert in something and still not have time to implement all the security they'd like, or could mainly implement mitigations against impersonal/dragnet attacks rather than well-funded (in time or money) directed attacks.
- rcme 3y agoWould you communicate with your team via post? Isn’t that 100 times easier to spy on / MITM than the asymmetric encryption used to secure most internet communication?
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- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago> Would you communicate with your team via post? RFC 1149 compliant.
- jstarfish 3y agoYou neglect to mention that you'd have to be alone in those woods, at which point physical threats become a more-pressing domain of concern. People are a liability. No wife, no kids, no problem! You could be the world's foremost security expert; it's no protection against them or their friends bringing this crap into the network.
- kotaKat 3y agoHow did the tablet change hands without proper data sanitization that let it still have access to the account? Was it stolen?
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoYes, I thought that was a bizarre lacuna in the narrative. This guy has two Kids tablets and all of a sudden it's in the hands of an adversary. Well, of course if someone absconds with one of your personal devices and gets full access, you'll be pwned. They left out the most intriguing part of the story.
- jstarfish 3y agoDid he lose physical access? I didn't see that. I assumed it was some malicious app one or both of the kids installed. Kids will install anything and never remove it, and everything is malware (or sells out to malware companies) these days.
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