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by agurk 7y ago
I have also been told in training for these kind of events to also tell that person to come back and tell you once they've done it. Apparently people have a tendency to wander off once they've done their task, leaving you not know
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by agurk 7y ago
I hit a very low point on Friday feeling a lack of meaning in my life. One thing that really helped was having a friend who I could phone and they would just listen. If someone's at a bridge, and phones up the number on the sign for a
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by agurk 7y ago
If anyone was wondering about if people would actually pick these up when this page first hit the front page with no comments, there were 209 domains available. Now ~12 hours later there are 74. I nearly got when when I first saw them, and
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by agurk 7y ago
From the original article which that page links to [0]: The breach centered around a hacker getting hold of a Microsoft customer support worker’s login credentials; from there, the hacker could dive into the content of any non-corporate Out
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by agurk 7y ago
With that logic just having your mail client/web mail parse a malicious mail from a nation-state level actor is enough to compromise your machine.
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by agurk 7y ago
I nearly fell for a real fishing link once recently, due to changes that have been made by our IT department. Firstly all external senders have the mail reformatted with a red bar at the top and some text, and secondly all hyperlinks are fo
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by agurk 7y ago
That is a nifty way to steal data. Luckily I was running in a completely clean environment inside a VM so wouldn't be an attack that could have occurred this time.
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by agurk 7y ago
There's was the general "don't follow links in unknown emails" but nothing about what to do if you're sure it's a bad email but terminally curious. As far as I could tell nothing bad could happen (even JS was o
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by agurk 7y ago
A few years ago I received one of these at work, before I even knew they were a thing. I would have been very annoyed if they'd taken any action against me for following the link in it. The email itself looked like a standard spam emai
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by agurk 8y ago
By router I assume you mean WiFi AP, firewall and router. I run pfSense on an Intel box I got from AliExpress (i5-6200U, 8GB ram) as my firewall and use its 6x Ethernet ports for basic routing. Despite having a decently powered spec, in ope
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by agurk 8y ago
I've read about these problems many times, and the official response always seems to be to encourage people not to flush them. I've not seen any numbers, but as these articles continue it hasn't yet fixed the problem. There a
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by agurk 8y ago
You are right in essence, but there are a couple of complications: - If the laptop is broken beyond use, I won't be able to write to the M.2 and I don't have an external M.2 enclosure (and the most likely fix here would be to swit
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by agurk 8y ago
He has got a nice setup, especially as he's able to choose all of his own software. I've been using Linux as a primary OS since the 90's but I still need to interact with Windows for work. I used to dual boot my work laptop,
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by agurk 8y ago
> The word is a portemanteau of the English “Gadget” and the German word “bahn”, which means rail or train. To nitpick bahn[0] can refer to these concepts, but actually has a wider meaning. The most well known of these is of course the A
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by agurk 8y ago
Is there any news on Wayland support? I had read here previously that Firefox 65 was when support was going to be available by default[0] but there are no references in the release notes. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by agurk 8y ago
If you went back further even more things were delivered to your front door. Coal holes[0] can still be seen in many streets, and there even used to be a 'pop' man who'd bring soft drinks around. There also used to be deposit
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by agurk 8y ago
It is probably worth noting that the author of this piece is also the author of a book about global inequality and his solutions to it [0]. While I haven't read his book, I recently completed Factfulness by Hans Rosling, which paints a
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by agurk 8y ago
After reading a lot about helicopters recently, I was reading the wikipedia page about them today, and found the description of how they are controlled if not wrong, then confusing. My first thought was to rewrite the section, but then I ha
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by agurk 8y ago
> Churchill displayed in his long career a similarly imperial insouciance toward Ireland, sending countless young Irishmen to their deaths in a catastrophic military fiasco at Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War I and unleashing brutal p
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by agurk 8y ago
Knowing this from an Opsec perspective, it would also be better to use generic SSIDs for any wifi networks you're setting up. Something with a name like 'internet' or 'wifi' would be so generic that it would be impo
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by agurk 8y ago
Both good points. I was assuming that most people are on crutches temporarily, as I've only ever known people to use them this way. I would assume this group are less likely to get a special car just for the duration or their use. A qu
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by agurk 8y ago
A minor addition to your hypothesis is that most cars in London are manual (stick shift) - even if they could find somewhere to park, pay the congestion charge, etc they might well be less able to operate the vehicle too.
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by agurk 8y ago
This is great as it doesn't just explain the basics, it also shows how they are used in MP3 and JPEG files. I always had a very vague "throws away data that's not perceived" idea of how MP3 works. With the background fro
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by agurk 8y ago
Hah, as a long-time lurker when I saw that title I thought it was interesting and made a mental note to come back when there were comments. It didn't even cross my mind to comment on it - I wonder what causes the different perspective
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by agurk 8y ago
I spoke to an older hunter in New Zealand once who said he initially started with a view like yours. He was into rifle marksmanship, and didn't see the point in shooting at a live target. He had a friend who said it was harder than he
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by agurk 8y ago
A well aimed, correctly placed shot of the right type can be exceedingly fatal but it doesn't follow that waving any gun in the general direction of something and carelessly pulling the trigger will achieve that. Firstly one has to get
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by agurk 8y ago
Whilst living in hotels a few years back, I experimented with the provided moisturiser as aftershave. I soon noticed that rubbing any excess on my face reduced the number of spots I had, and now I apply it daily and get no spots. Not applyi
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by agurk 8y ago
Looking at wikipedia [0] they also list deaths per billion journeys and per billion hours. Following on from your assumptions, these give the following: At 117 deaths per billion journeys, only 256 million would be required, which would be
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by agurk 8y ago
That's interesting, as in the UK I've always heard the term Great War for the First World War. Sometime the Second was known as The Last War, which always confused me as a child as I knew there had been wars since. It's a sha
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by agurk 8y ago
Yes, it's amazing how badly each side could be at reading the other's intention. A classic example is the Missile Gap where the fear that the US was falling behind, when they weren't, lead to massive escalation. Although othe

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