No, that part counts as a pretty standard practice. The rest of your procedure, however:
in a safe that requires 2+ people to open
Congratulations, no two-out-of-three of you can now go on vacation at the same time, even though it might only take one of you to "keep the lights on" on a day-to-day basis. In fact, you shouldn't even ever ride in the same car together.
What you describe makes a great low-tech way to split a secret into X parts such that it takes at least Y<X participants to access it; but when X=3 and you all work together... Not really practical.
While nice in theory, what you describe counts as massive overkill unless you have PCI/HIPAA/similar data protection requirements for your systems.
In the real world, a few people all have the root/sa/admin/whatever passwords, and if one of those people leaves, the rest simply change the passwords.
I will agree that TFA makes for a really shitty test case for whether or not shared passwords violate the CFAA; but not every random data warehouse needs its DBAs to swear a blood-oath and split the holy crystal of access into four parts, scattering them to the four corners of the Earth.
Do people actually still answer unknown phone numbers?
Hell, I have my phone set to not even ring for anyone not in my contacts list. Everyone else can leave a message, and I'll add them as a contact if I actually want to speak with them in the future.
Giving up in the face of adversity does mean they do worse.
Some projects get ugly near the end. Some projects outright fail. Sometimes you don't get your way in defining a sane final spec. You need to suck it up and do the work anyway. Giving up prematurely is unambiguously "doing" worse.
More importantly, this has deeper implications for the myth that some mean ol' Boys' Club has actively worked to keep women down - You can't blame the patriarchy for under-representation of a group that doesn't want the job enough to fight for it.
More like: delete from watchlist where SOUNDEX(name)=SOUNDEX(@name)
Wouldn't want to accidentally allow Granny on the plane just because some minimum wage data entry clerk misspelled her last name - Now drop that cane and spread 'em, bitch!
Aside from your intended joke, I kinda wondered about what you bring up - Some of us old-timers (even the ones like me that loathe modern "social media") have literally hundreds of online presences.
Form "CBP Form I-94W" better have a looot of extra pages at the end...
Now compare that to "Oh shit, 340BCE already! Only four more turns to massively reinforce my borders or those Macedonian bastards will roll right over me!"
Why? What does the NSA actually do that makes the least difference to you on a daily basis... Other than waste your taxpayer dollars to strip you of any pretense of privacy, of course?
He can't abolish the IRS, but he most certainly can abolish the NSA and the Departments of Ed, HUD, and Commerce. All of those operate under the authority of the executive branch, and as long as the president doesn't want to spend more money, he can effectively do whatever the hell he wants within his own domain.
Reinstalling Windows doesn't really count as a "tool" for removing crap/ad/malware - More like burning the house down to get rid of mice.
Perhaps more importantly, Windows comes with quite a bit of stock crapware; I have to suspect that Microsoft would reinstall all of that, meaning that after using this "tool", you'd need to spend a couple hours disabling all the various telemetry hooks (not to mention the time it takes to install all your non-MS apps again).
Instead, people would do far better to just run something like Deep Freeze, where every time you boot you revert to a known good state of your own choosing.
This. I have zero interest in watching a five minute video just to get the same content I could read in thirty seconds.
On top of that, usually when I want to check the news, I do so from work; kinda rude to my coworkers to have some random whiny news anchor blathering on in the background (when it even works, since they block most major video hosts to save bandwidth).
And FWIW, this applies to a million other gratuitous uses of video as well, from tech tips to video game walkthroughs to DIY/HowTo guides. It has gotten so bad that I wish I could just have "-youtube" included by default in all my Google searches, since I need to add it half the time anyway.
I consider myself a borderline-tinfoil-hat privacy advocate, and I really see this as a non-issue.
If you voluntarily install a tracking application on your phone, and give it permission to access your GPS - That doesn't "violate" anything (except "common sense").
Yes, I would consider anyone allowing this a complete idiot; but in no way does this affect anyone that doesn't want it to track them.
Gawker needs to take advantage of what little time they have left to send a message to asshat billionaires who think they can control the Streisand Effect. They have nothing left to lose - ie, time to basically turn into "WikiLeaks for things that piss off Peter Thiel". Billionaire Paparazzi. Make it so he can't take a shit in a public restroom without someone reporting on the time, duration, and characterization of the smell.
Alexa teaches kids rudeness? Bullshit. Lazy parents who expect TV and computers (and now Alexa) to absolve them of the basic responsibilities that come with sticking your dick in another human (or vice-versa) lead to obnoxious self-entitled brats that turn into obnoxious self-entitled adults. Really as simple as that.
Alexa has nothing to do with it. Quit blaming other people for your problems, folks. Amazon doesn't make you a shitty parent, you make you a shitty parent.
That by the time a species overcomes the various forms of slavery imposed on them, the propaganda that is used to combat science and control them, it's too late and thier world starts killing them as they are finally subjected to an decline in birth rates because they were too stuipid to understand that no engineering can survive long enough to contain the radionuclides that will eventually destroy their own genome.
I can't tell whether I agree or disagree with you, but at least in what I quoted, you have two questionable premises.
First, "slavery" exists as a purely social issue, and has no connection to the long-term viability of a species. You could even go so far as to say that humans still practice slavery, we've just managed to dial it down over time from "because I can" through "conquered" to "tribal" then "racist", and now we've gotten to the point where we (mostly) "only" base our slavery on speciesist boundaries.
And second - The universe has a hell of a lot more radiation than the pittance we've managed to accidentally release into the environment through disasters like Chernobyl or Fukushima, or even through atmospheric nuclear testing. Any biosphere that can't handle a few mSv over baseline every now and again won't survive nature, never mind their own technological disasters.
but his original recommended fix of actually verifying the legitimacy of any updates to security software is actually a BETTER policy than just depending on the fix to KeePass itself.
As a geek, I would agree with you. As a human - The solution people actually use will always beat the "best" one they don't.
Not only don't most people check signatures, but when an automated system explicitly warns that the signature doesn't match, most people just swear at the vendor for their buggy crap and click "do it anyway".
I would give you a bit more credit in that regard than the average user.
For Joe User, a password "hint" often means either the password itself, or something so trivial as to make it as good as cracked (like "wife's birthday") with publicly available information.
By that reasoning, shouldn't one of its private competitors, not similarly burdened by mean ol' congress, have rendered the USPS totally irrelevant through sheer capitalistic efficiency by now?
Hey, I'll admit carrying all those eggs in the same basket looks a lot more convenient than carrying them one by one. But some of us would rather only risk dropping them one at a time, than all 200 at once.
If you're just going to makeup values, why not just makeup the donations in the first place?
Who said anything about making up values? The amount for which you (or rather, GoodWill) could sell a used item effectively defines its value as a charitable donation.
No, you can't claim that old pair of jeans as having a thousand dollars in "sentimental" value; but if used-printer-X routinely sells for $50 on eBay, you can safely claim it on your taxes for $50.
Agreed - We only have one even remotely competent candidate running.
Unfortunately, I disagree with just about every aspect of her platform, and even where I do agree with her, I don't trust her to do a damned thing other than use the office to line her own pockets.
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Buying a $100 safe is massive overkill?
No, that part counts as a pretty standard practice. The rest of your procedure, however:
in a safe that requires 2+ people to open
Congratulations, no two-out-of-three of you can now go on vacation at the same time, even though it might only take one of you to "keep the lights on" on a day-to-day basis. In fact, you shouldn't even ever ride in the same car together.
What you describe makes a great low-tech way to split a secret into X parts such that it takes at least Y<X participants to access it; but when X=3 and you all work together... Not really practical.
While nice in theory, what you describe counts as massive overkill unless you have PCI/HIPAA/similar data protection requirements for your systems.
In the real world, a few people all have the root/sa/admin/whatever passwords, and if one of those people leaves, the rest simply change the passwords.
I will agree that TFA makes for a really shitty test case for whether or not shared passwords violate the CFAA; but not every random data warehouse needs its DBAs to swear a blood-oath and split the holy crystal of access into four parts, scattering them to the four corners of the Earth.
Do people actually still answer unknown phone numbers?
Hell, I have my phone set to not even ring for anyone not in my contacts list. Everyone else can leave a message, and I'll add them as a contact if I actually want to speak with them in the future.
Giving up in the face of adversity does mean they do worse.
Some projects get ugly near the end. Some projects outright fail. Sometimes you don't get your way in defining a sane final spec. You need to suck it up and do the work anyway. Giving up prematurely is unambiguously "doing" worse.
More importantly, this has deeper implications for the myth that some mean ol' Boys' Club has actively worked to keep women down - You can't blame the patriarchy for under-representation of a group that doesn't want the job enough to fight for it.
Selling something that doesn't do what it says is fraud.
Quite right - You should demand your money back, immediately!
Oh, wait...
More like:
delete from watchlist where SOUNDEX(name)=SOUNDEX(@name)
Wouldn't want to accidentally allow Granny on the plane just because some minimum wage data entry clerk misspelled her last name - Now drop that cane and spread 'em, bitch!
So... Wouldn't you want an update that addresses the buggyness you bemoan?
"This sucks! Fix it!"
"Okay, here's your fix."
"Why would I want that? This still sucks!"
"Umm... What? Oh, fuck it." *forces the update silently*"
Aside from your intended joke, I kinda wondered about what you bring up - Some of us old-timers (even the ones like me that loathe modern "social media") have literally hundreds of online presences.
Form "CBP Form I-94W" better have a looot of extra pages at the end...
In fairness, at least we can consider porn a bit of mild exercise...
If kids don't want to learn, blinking lights and synthetic music won't change that. Computers just give another way to avoid actually learning.
...Blah blah frickin' blah.
Absolutely true, since the dawn of civilization to its end.
But for the ones who do want to learn, why should we force them to grind through page after page of painfully dry and largely useless factoids when they could learn it experientially and enjoy it via a game? The Indian campaign of Alexander the Great began in 326 BC. After conquering the Achaemenid Empire of Persia, the Macedonian king (and now the great king of the Persian Empire) Alexander launched a campaign into India. The Battle of the Jhelum river against a regional Indian King, Porus is considered by many historians...
Now compare that to "Oh shit, 340BCE already! Only four more turns to massively reinforce my borders or those Macedonian bastards will roll right over me!"
abolishing everything = idiotic
Why? What does the NSA actually do that makes the least difference to you on a daily basis... Other than waste your taxpayer dollars to strip you of any pretense of privacy, of course?
Even the Department of Education - Don't mistake them for having anything to do with actual "education": the Department does not: establish schools and colleges; develop curricula; set requirements for enrollment and graduation; determine state education standards; or develop or implement testing to measure whether states are meeting their education standards. They do little more than enforce discriminatory racial quotas by deciding who to throw our tax dollars at.
He can't abolish the IRS, but he most certainly can abolish the NSA and the Departments of Ed, HUD, and Commerce. All of those operate under the authority of the executive branch, and as long as the president doesn't want to spend more money, he can effectively do whatever the hell he wants within his own domain.
Reinstalling Windows doesn't really count as a "tool" for removing crap/ad/malware - More like burning the house down to get rid of mice.
Perhaps more importantly, Windows comes with quite a bit of stock crapware; I have to suspect that Microsoft would reinstall all of that, meaning that after using this "tool", you'd need to spend a couple hours disabling all the various telemetry hooks (not to mention the time it takes to install all your non-MS apps again).
Instead, people would do far better to just run something like Deep Freeze, where every time you boot you revert to a known good state of your own choosing.
This. I have zero interest in watching a five minute video just to get the same content I could read in thirty seconds.
On top of that, usually when I want to check the news, I do so from work; kinda rude to my coworkers to have some random whiny news anchor blathering on in the background (when it even works, since they block most major video hosts to save bandwidth).
And FWIW, this applies to a million other gratuitous uses of video as well, from tech tips to video game walkthroughs to DIY/HowTo guides. It has gotten so bad that I wish I could just have "-youtube" included by default in all my Google searches, since I need to add it half the time anyway.
I consider myself a borderline-tinfoil-hat privacy advocate, and I really see this as a non-issue.
If you voluntarily install a tracking application on your phone, and give it permission to access your GPS - That doesn't "violate" anything (except "common sense").
Yes, I would consider anyone allowing this a complete idiot; but in no way does this affect anyone that doesn't want it to track them.
Thiel has already destroyed Gawker.
Gawker needs to take advantage of what little time they have left to send a message to asshat billionaires who think they can control the Streisand Effect. They have nothing left to lose - ie, time to basically turn into "WikiLeaks for things that piss off Peter Thiel". Billionaire Paparazzi. Make it so he can't take a shit in a public restroom without someone reporting on the time, duration, and characterization of the smell.
educate your children to be proper human beings.
This, a million times this.
Alexa teaches kids rudeness? Bullshit. Lazy parents who expect TV and computers (and now Alexa) to absolve them of the basic responsibilities that come with sticking your dick in another human (or vice-versa) lead to obnoxious self-entitled brats that turn into obnoxious self-entitled adults. Really as simple as that.
Alexa has nothing to do with it. Quit blaming other people for your problems, folks. Amazon doesn't make you a shitty parent, you make you a shitty parent.
That by the time a species overcomes the various forms of slavery imposed on them, the propaganda that is used to combat science and control them, it's too late and thier world starts killing them as they are finally subjected to an decline in birth rates because they were too stuipid to understand that no engineering can survive long enough to contain the radionuclides that will eventually destroy their own genome.
I can't tell whether I agree or disagree with you, but at least in what I quoted, you have two questionable premises.
First, "slavery" exists as a purely social issue, and has no connection to the long-term viability of a species. You could even go so far as to say that humans still practice slavery, we've just managed to dial it down over time from "because I can" through "conquered" to "tribal" then "racist", and now we've gotten to the point where we (mostly) "only" base our slavery on speciesist boundaries.
And second - The universe has a hell of a lot more radiation than the pittance we've managed to accidentally release into the environment through disasters like Chernobyl or Fukushima, or even through atmospheric nuclear testing. Any biosphere that can't handle a few mSv over baseline every now and again won't survive nature, never mind their own technological disasters.
but his original recommended fix of actually verifying the legitimacy of any updates to security software is actually a BETTER policy than just depending on the fix to KeePass itself.
As a geek, I would agree with you. As a human - The solution people actually use will always beat the "best" one they don't.
Not only don't most people check signatures, but when an automated system explicitly warns that the signature doesn't match, most people just swear at the vendor for their buggy crap and click "do it anyway".
I would give you a bit more credit in that regard than the average user.
For Joe User, a password "hint" often means either the password itself, or something so trivial as to make it as good as cracked (like "wife's birthday") with publicly available information.
Seems reasonable? Really? How do poor people get mail, then?
How does alternate-day snail-mail substantially and disproportionately impact the poor?
Put down the Kool-Ade. Not every "basic" service needs to operate a firehose so your mythical underserved poor can take a sip of water on occasion.
By that reasoning, shouldn't one of its private competitors, not similarly burdened by mean ol' congress, have rendered the USPS totally irrelevant through sheer capitalistic efficiency by now?
I keep track of over 200 passwords, using a password manager. Why aren't you?
You mean a password manager like KeePass, where the developer has explicitly and publicly chosen ad revenue over security?
Or just one like LastPass, that "only" suffered a plain ol' fashioned data breach?
Hey, I'll admit carrying all those eggs in the same basket looks a lot more convenient than carrying them one by one. But some of us would rather only risk dropping them one at a time, than all 200 at once.
If you're just going to makeup values, why not just makeup the donations in the first place?
Who said anything about making up values? The amount for which you (or rather, GoodWill) could sell a used item effectively defines its value as a charitable donation.
No, you can't claim that old pair of jeans as having a thousand dollars in "sentimental" value; but if used-printer-X routinely sells for $50 on eBay, you can safely claim it on your taxes for $50.
Agreed - We only have one even remotely competent candidate running.
Unfortunately, I disagree with just about every aspect of her platform, and even where I do agree with her, I don't trust her to do a damned thing other than use the office to line her own pockets.