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Post by btrettel »

tptacek wrote: post #40
solotronics wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have always been curious.. is there a better way of accomplishing this?

Start by not relying on Full Disk Encryption, which you should absolutely have enabled but should probably, from an OPSEC perspective, pretend does not exist. On modern operating systems you can generally mount and unmount virtual encrypted volumes that are open (ideally) only when you're actually using them to do work with their contents. There used to be a great macOS tool, called Knox, that did this graphically.

I run Linux and use full disk encryption, but I also have a few encrypted directories using EncFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS

Right now it's just for sensitive documents (i.e., anything that could be used to steal my identity). I used to also store my passwords in an encrypted directory, but now I've migrated to a password manager (which of course has an encrypted database).

If someone steals my computer while it's on and the drive is decrypted, they won't be able to obtain the most sensitive information the vast majority of the time.

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Post by war1025 »

momokoko wrote: post #123
war1025 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Then go home? Otherwise you are just lying to your employer and perpetuating a false pretense that their employees are being productive for a full day. I am remote half the time. I'm not lying to anyone about anything. The measure of what I accomplish is our ticketing / planning system and the pull requests I put up to complete the various work tickets. There is no reason to go home when I have a ten minute task I n…

The tool this thread is about is designed with the expressed goal of changing your screen when your boss walks in.

It's a tool designed to run a command when it detects motion from its sensor. It's a clever little doodad and I'd guess most of the positive attention it's getting has nothing to do with "lying to your employer". My personal opinion is that you've taken something far too literally about the text on the landing page and missed the point of it all.

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Post by jpindar »

momokoko wrote: post #42

It still amazes me, to this day, that people have jobs where they have the time to screw around on their computer all day. How do these jobs continue to exist?

>How do these jobs continue to exist?

Some businesses turn a profit. They don't need to rush to keep changing everything because they're already bringing in more money (from customers, not investors) than they spend.

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Post by jedberg »

allenu wrote: post #129
martin-adams wrote: post #37

This reminds me of the old boss key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

Exactly what I was thinking. I remember being so confused by it as a kid when I saw it in games. Like, why do you need a key that displays a fake DOS prompt?

It was useful when my parents walked by and thought I was doing homework. Being in the DOS prompt was at least slightly more legit than playing a game.

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Post by DuskStar »

smacktoward wrote: post #28
the_watcher wrote: post #10

A version of this that's somehow aware of whether or not I'm at my desk, then puts the machine to sleep anytime anyone else touches a key would be kind of cool. Maybe some kind of proximity sensor that you could stick to a badge or in your wallet? It would need to still allow you to login and perhaps offer a password to disable in case you forgot your sensor, but seems vaguely plausible? EDIT: Read more of the usage…

USBKill ( https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill ) lists one approach to solving that problem in its README: - Set USBKill to watch the status of a particular USB port - Attach a lanyard to a USB key - Wear the lanyard on your wrist - Plug the USB key you're wearing into the port USBKill is watching Then anytime you step away from the machine, USBKill would notice the removal of the key and shut it down.

That is a rather different USBKill than I expected. https://usbkill.com/ sells something that you should REALLY never plug in to a computer you want to keep.

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Post by foxhop »

I forgot what it feels like to have to hide my screwing around. I've been working from home for the last 6 years.

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Post by TylerE »

mellosouls wrote: post #91
spacedog11 wrote: post #50

The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he w…

See also: converting your current Kindle read to plain text and pasting it into your ide or email editor... We need more "plain sight slacking" tips to be on the lookout for, so we can stay vigilant.

I remember back in the day surfing the web in links (and later w3m) over an ssh connection in putty

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Post by steelframe »

spacedog11 wrote: post #50

The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he w…

> Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he was just practicing his programming skills

People sometimes challenge Google's interviewing process as being unnecessarily stringent. What I can say about it is that you won't find BS like this happening at Google.

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Post by IggleSniggle »

beatgammit wrote: post #108

Couldn't you do the same thing with a sonic range finder? That wouldn't require a receiver, so you could put everything onto the one USB device.

The idea is to put the tripwire on the path to your approach. That’s the reason a send and receive is needed.
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