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Phishing Your Own Employees with Covid-19 Lures Is Evil(blog.kolide.com)
1 points by terracatta 6y ago|0 comments
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by terracatta 6y ago
I write a lot of B2B apps that have tabular data views. For all of its quirks, DataTables ( https://datatables.net ) does a great job and with the right plugins offers all the features my customers expect (re-ordering/resizin
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by terracatta 6y ago
> It doesn't really change the point, though, because this isn't a bypass or flaw in the encryption system But it does. If what you stated earlier was actually the truth, then FileVault would be enabled on far more devices and
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by terracatta 6y ago
> It sounds like there was a regression at some point You are continually asserting incorrect information about this topic. The behavior I describe where skipping iCloud setup causes FileVault setup screen to not be shown as always been
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by terracatta 6y ago
I just wiped a new M1 device and set it up from scratch using the latest version of Big Sur. If you skip iCloud setup you are never asked to turn on FileVault. When you skip iCloud you are never told this will result in FileVault being disa
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by terracatta 6y ago
The problem is the FileVault is not enabled by default in certain situations (like if you skip iCloud setup when you first turn on a new Mac). Even though FileVault is off, popular tools like osquery will report them as "encrypted&quot
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by terracatta 6y ago
FileVault is not offered to a user setting up their Mac to the first time if they skip iCloud. People in a work setting will often skip this step because they aren't sure... A) If they are allowed to connect their personal Apple ID to
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by terracatta 6y ago
See my reply to the parent, FileVault will not be offered if you skip the iCloud setup, which many folks not wanting to mix their personal-life with their work laptop will skip.
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by terracatta 6y ago
If you skip Apple ID (which is an extremely common situation in a privacy conscious employee) you are not offered FileVault. In my experience, it's extremely common to see FileVault disabled on unmanaged workplace Macs.
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M1 Macs SSD “Encryption” trivially bypassed unless FileVault is enabled(blog.kolide.com)
40 points by terracatta 6y ago|26 comments
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by terracatta 6y ago
This is beyond the pale, way worse than the scenarios I've seen in the while when I wrote https://honest.security We HAVE to as an industry disavow & replace this behavior with techniques to build trust between the secu
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by terracatta 6y ago
Are there things that have gotten worse? Yes Are things way more complicated? Yes But net overall? I believe it's better than 2005 and even 2010. Meaning, I would not want to revert back to 2010 and start building back up from there. T
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by terracatta 6y ago
I think Safari is going to have the market cornered on technology pessimism (aka privacy features) and browser performance per watt on macOS and iOS. Google is rapidly locking down enterprise by building in tight integrations with Google Wo
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by terracatta 6y ago
The Witness (by the same person who developed Braid) felt very Myst-like to me as well. Highly recommended, the puzzles are incredibly clever and a lot of fun to solve with a partner.
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by terracatta 6y ago
The only clue this domain might be newer is he mentions the 16inch MacBook Pro which first came out in 2019.
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Honest Security(honest.security)
2 points by terracatta 6y ago|0 comments
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by terracatta 6y ago
One time a friend and I built an app for a weekend hackathon competition called Rails Rumble. At the time (2010), link shortening services were all the rage, but they were being used to obfuscate malware links. To fight this, we wanted to c
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by terracatta 6y ago
I understand where you are coming from but it's more like, "standby while I share something my team and I have been working really hard on that is relevant to the news and who are interested in MDM".
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by terracatta 6y ago
CEO of Kolide here. This announcement couldn't have come at a crazier time...today I planned on announcing our intentions to enter the MDM product space. Our MDM is meant to be a new fresh take on device management that puts end-users
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Electron and How Cross-Platform Apps Will Save the Mac(medium.com)
2 points by terracatta 6y ago|0 comments
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by terracatta 6y ago
Source? I believe you, but I am interested in learning more and I'm not finding anything. Would love to read if you have a link handy.
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by terracatta 6y ago
> The same is done by restaurants for things like Uber Eat/Postmate: they have their prices on their menu, and a marked-up price on these platforms I do not believe Apple's tax for IAP applies for physical goods or services. On
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by terracatta 6y ago
This letter is actually astonishing. In this letter Apple: * Chastises them for making free apps in the past * Reminds them they've had to distribute their apps for free (almost as if they should be grateful and now give them some mone
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by terracatta 6y ago
Yeah it's definitely part of a pattern of behavior that started with the ouster of Immelt. Basically the start of their downfall was Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 billion of GE stock in 2015 with the express goal of
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by terracatta 6y ago
GE is literally selling the metaphor for innovation and ideas for $250 million. It's also the last Edison original business. Curious what others think, but I think they undervalue the brand value they are eroding by divesting from all
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Touch ID made iPhones more likely to withstand law enforcement scrutiny (2016)(medium.com)
1 points by terracatta 6y ago|0 comments
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by terracatta 7y ago
Another similar idea I saw recently https://colorthisthing.com/
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by terracatta 7y ago
See also https://noclip.website/
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by terracatta 7y ago
> At no point in the ipod's history was it particularly innovative with its hardware in comparison to competing devices When the iPod came out I remember the main competitor was the Creative Nomad Jukebox. It was bulky (it was the a
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Are your employees Slack Messages leaking while their screen is locked?(blog.kolide.com)
5 points by terracatta 7y ago|0 comments

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