I regularly recommend configurations to peers that are arguably impossible for normal humans. (Not on purpose! Sorry Dave!)

I love to run stuff on Raspberry Pi, and I fear no gcc compile flag. (Ok. That’s a bold faced lie, even I fear a couple of them.) So I frequently forget the bullshit I had to do to get something weird running on a random Pi.

I’ll let you know… If it finishes.

I appreciate what BeeHaw brings to the wider community, and particularly appreciate the reminder of the values that power that.

Thank you.

They don’t have as much background software recording everything and phoning home.

Give it time, and they may get there.

Source: I’m just bullshitting. I don’t know jack shit about what runs on a new car. I don’t buy new cars.

But my DeGoogled phone boots really fast, so I might still be right, unfortunately.

Yeah. My journey was similar. I appreciate the philosophy behind Slackware, but I don’t feel like I have the kind of spare time I feel like I would need to run my systems that way.

The real data point here is that Skackware users are happy.

I suspect it’s because they’ve mastered the art of not giving a fuck.

Yeah. And even the corporations aren’t benefiting. The best Pirates crack that stuff quickly, and the rest of us (not me, obviously, I’m no pirate) just leach off the best Pirates. People trying to give them money are hurt.

Oh. Yep. That says “Archive”. I gotta stop reading here when I’m tired.

how can people in the US live with something like that?

We’ve had a number of deeply corrupt individuals in charge of our federal department meant to police this sort of thing.

And how does this not massively hurt her chances?!

Even odds are that it’s meant to.

Oh, I missed that in the gutter of the message.

This is a common attack tactic, then, called MFA Fatigue. It also means they probably have Ops password already. Or Ops service provider is doing something dumb. (MFA requests shouldn’t be sent out without the other factor being known.)

Edit: There’s no approve link there. Just ignore these. If you got a lot of these, do setup MFA.

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Yes. Yes it does.

Look for job listings that require command line Linux skill.

The candidate pool who can get around on a Linux command prompt is growing, but it’s still pretty small. It gives you some advantage toward networking, Cybersecurity, systems administration, and cloud deployment.

Let’s see how he union negotiations go.

They have plenty of leverage. WoW runs on centralized servers which cannot maintain themselves, and are likely still under constant forms of Cyberattack, waiting for a serious vulnerability.

The work of these innovative new AIs is Coming Soon! to a VHS $3.00 bin near you!

Yeah. The demand for red team skills is complicated.

There’s plenty of work to do. But there’s a lot of anxiety, and in some cases laws, that make hiring managers cautious.

When a team member is going to sometimes physically break into a data center, things are much simpler if they have an unimpeachable reputation.

And that, itself, is unfair, since everyone’s definition of “unimpeachable reputation” is going to be a bit different. I’m inclined to factor in motives, but not everyone can.

So it’s not the end of the world for a young hacker with a conviction, but they definitely have a more difficult time.

They have a good point though. Pen testing is a vanishingly small corner of our field, and I haven’t seen anyone with a past conviction get hired for those roles, in a long time. (Edit: Of course, I work with privacy respecting folks, so there could be, and their conviction just isn’t famous.)

I’ve seen too many hacker kids think their hacker reputation is going to get them out of trouble, and it didn’t.

doubt the furries will care much about being outed as furries, but cybercrime is a big no-no when it comes to actual employment

Absolutely.

I would prefer our gay furry hackers keep things fully legal, for their own sakes.

That said, Mike needs help from folks like me to catch these kids, and as long as they’re sticking to ethical hacking, I’m not motivated.

Also, I don’t like Mike.

His claim that he actually has my kind of help, actually on his side, is… overconfident, I think.

I can’t guarantee that, though, so I’m glad to hear our ethical hackers have decided to lay low.

In any case, everyone has a slightly different perspective on what counts as ethical, so I hope they’ll stick to legal as much as their conscience will allow, from here out.

Lol. The gay furry Cybersecurity activist’s reputations are already established.

We like them.

I appreciate what they’re doing, and hope they keep a strong eye on where their ethical boundaries are, and keep out of anything too hot for their opsec to handle.

But Mike Howell needs to watch Ocean’s 13.

“I know all the guys you would send after me. They like me more than they like you!”

but was unable to reproduce those images in my testing

I bet they worked hard at this…