I feel very lucky that my county has public fiber.

There are instances (such as mine) which have downvoting disabled, which helps somewhat.

I honestly kind of doubt what you say in your first paragraph. Their country is getting glassed, why would they hold back? Do you think that they’re thinking the US government will stop if they breach a mid sized company? Besides, it’s not a great “warning shot” when most of the general public has no idea what the company is (this is America we’re talking about).

What I think is more likely is that it was found on Shodan (or similar), researched, and since it’s a sizable US company with clear attack vectors, they took action. I don’t think they specifically sought out this company.

Targets like the US government, banks, and tech companies generally have the money to defend against such exploits, to a point. To be clear, I’m not saying that these large organizations do not have exploitable infrastructure (especially the US govt these days). I’m saying that they have the money, employees, and capacity to reduce their attack surfaces, and also have alarming for when something abnormal is detected. It’s a similar strategy for homes and businesses with prominent security cameras in plain view. The security cameras can’t physically stop a burglary, but they do make the location less of an easy target and cause most criminals to find somewhere without them instead.

For a little bit of context and without doxxing myself, I’ve worked for several large fortune 50 companies on the tech side of things, and many of these attacks were caught and dealt with internally without the need to notify anyone in the public. There have been a ton of non-publicly disclosed attacks from state level actors in these organizations, and they’ve only been increasing, even before this illegal war.

Again, not to say that Iran doesn’t have some tricks up their sleeves in regard cyberattacks. I do think that they will eventually breach and damage some huge companies in the near future, I just don’t think that this was any type of warning shot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Canadian one is even more broad. There’s nothing in it that seems to say that the relatives need to be alive, nor is there anything saying how many generations you can go back.

Edit:

“There’s no limit on how many generations you can go back, as long as you can prove it,” Fultz said.

So, if this goes back all the way to the colonies, then I probably can apply, since my great-great-great grandfather was born in Quebec. So long has his birth record still counts (it was logged in a church’s record book)

In college, on the first day of orientation, someone in my class bragged that they wrote 50,000 lines of code for a game that was similar to tic tac toe, emphasizing that he “wrote a lot of code”. A TA told him that it wasn’t a sign that his program was decent and that it really didn’t seem like it should take 50k lines of code to make something as simple as his game.

He dropped out after the first week of intro to programming.

Pretty much, yeah. Except a lot of places put pickles or at least pickle juice and still call it fry sauce. I think thousand island can be more complex, however it’s not too different and it’s semantics. In my mind, fry sauce is always smooth (and may or may not include pickle juice). Anything else isn’t fry sauce. In other words, yes.

It’s a crime to say this in Utah. Better not answer the next time some missionaries come to your door.

Yeah, they’re just a prick who can’t understand that people are trapped here. They cannot understand that the billionaire class intentionally trapped the lower (and much of the middle) class, and think that everyone here is perfectly content with what’s happening. So much for class solidarity, funny that they call themselves a leftist.

They’d rather see the lower class either get murdered one by one in the streets (because unless there’s millions of us at once, that’s what will happen). They haven’t thought very far ahead, and for some reason they think that if the government cracks down on us that it’ll cause the collapse of the US. I don’t think that’s true, and in fact, I think it would only give the feds a tighter grip and allow them to fight additional illegal wars.

It’s interesting to see them be happy that their supposed fellow leftists are losing their right to vote. Not just happy, in fact… they want left leaning voters to fear voting. Just like Trump and the GOP. Funny how that works.

Agreed, but I think most of the Americans here on the fediverse aren’t the ones that need to hear that.

I have never had an issue with banking apps so long as exploit compatibility mode is enabled for them.

My flight tomorrow should be interesting…

They just replied:

What gave you the idea that this was a full rewrite? I moved things around with AI and added postgres support for the queries. Nobody has ever reviewed and tested anything more thoroughly than I did with this branch.

You are twisting what it actually is. You are assuming something that is not true.

This makes me think that they didn’t review or test it at all, lmao

I don’t expect to retire.

Not by choice, if that wasn’t clear.

Today, a package of a dozen “child online safety” bills is moving forward in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. The laws, framed as a way to crack down on harmful content and make the internet safer, would force social media companies to enact invasive identity verification measures in order to keep children from accessing online spaces.

Yeah. Usually videos like this also make no mention of security implications and how to best secure your setup. It’s part of why shodan has so many vulnerable, public facing endpoints owned by individuals.

But the Americans sent to fight an illegal war were fine?

us-east, classic

It gives Assistant (to the) Regional Manager vibes

Probably caused by slop generators again I’m guessing

I would love to leave tech. Desperately. But I feel that I have no other real skills, and I have a mortgage that I need to pay and a house to maintain. I do have savings, but it would probably only last a year at best.

I would love to do something outdoors. Like, maybe for WA state’s park services. But I’ve heard that’s super competitive and next to impossible to get into without first volunteering for years.