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Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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IIRC, the trick is practical jokes! Change desktop backgrounds, move icons around, leave goofy/giant text Word documents, etc.

Or Slack everyone with "I'm a noob!"...

Muhaha.

I can think of other broadcast communications that would get people fired.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter, Enter) if they leave for any reason? Edit: that was a great Chaos Monkey to reiterate security hygiene. Or was it a Mini Chaos Monkey? https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

I do that "in the office" but at home I usually leave my PC unlocked if I'm stepping away and trust my family not to mess around with my computer. It'll lock in a few minutes by itself anyways. While I probably would be more careful with younger children around I could easily see this happening for someone working from home. Also - in the office if you leave your computer unlocked you may find that you have emailed t…

I guess it's like outlet protections for little ones who don't know any better, or mischievous little devils.

Hahah, nice! That's an awesome office. :D

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Qanon people thinks it was a message from the military, lol. Because of this which provides a solution as "Q ACQUITTED": ;l;;gmlxzssaw http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/cryptogram-solver.php

That is honestly quite funny. I just can't imagine being that delusional in real life. What a Q believer's day-to-day life must look like is a wonder to me.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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>Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation Having attempted to encourage this as a habit for my users for about a year, and not a single one doing it, I've had to come up with other solutions that takes it out of their hands. (It's not business-critical for us, however we try to encourage good security habits all around). So no, I don't think it is an automatic reaction f…

> I've had to come up with other solutions that takes it out of their hands. I guess this means setting the timer really low, so that it auto locks after a very short time?

>I guess this means setting the timer really low, so that it auto locks after a very short time?

The IT department at my former employer tried this out company-wide and it almost led to them getting attacked physically. When every simple distraction leads to you getting locked out of the desktop (phonecall, boss or coworker having a question) it builds frustration quickly. Pair this with frequently changing (company-mandated) complex passwords and permanent lockut after a few mistypes and you have a recipe for disaster: Even some of my technologically less-inclined co-workers researched how to bypass Windows security with hacking tools.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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It'd be nice if government agencies moved to self-hosting their own official social media systems by way of interoperable web standards (ActivityPub for example).

Does this stop their kids from typing on their keyboard?

(And anyway, surely viewing a web page counts as an interoperable web standard already?)

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter, Enter) if they leave for any reason? Edit: that was a great Chaos Monkey to reiterate security hygiene. Or was it a Mini Chaos Monkey? https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

Wasn’t it Windows+L?

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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> I've had to come up with other solutions that takes it out of their hands. I guess this means setting the timer really low, so that it auto locks after a very short time?

>I guess this means setting the timer really low, so that it auto locks after a very short time? The IT department at my former employer tried this out company-wide and it almost led to them getting attacked physically. When every simple distraction leads to you getting locked out of the desktop (phonecall, boss or coworker having a question) it builds frustration quickly. Pair this with frequently changing (company-…

I think the problem there is the password policies more than the screen-locking policy. The locking policy is just shining a spotlight on the password policy issues.
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