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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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Post by bartread »

airhead969 wrote: post #2

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/

Here's the thing: sometimes the lock screen on Windows 10 doesn't work and you can get back to the desktop simply by swiping up even when you think you should have to re-enter your password or PIN.

Note that I have face ID disabled because I got really fed up of my computer unlocking itself just because I'd gone back to my desk to pick up something I'd forgotten when I locked it and walked away. This always seemed incredibly insecure to me, not to mention very annoying.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by znpy »

airhead969 wrote: post #17
ziddoap wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

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

Uh, back in high school a schoolmate found a huuge genitalia as desktop background on their laptop since they left it unattended and unlocked.

I can tell you, that person never left that thing unlocked ever again.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by xiphias2 »

vlovich123 wrote: post #32
xiphias2 wrote: post #8

Since a long time ago it's clear that social media (and bank) accounts need multi signature and 2FA support to allow advanced workflows. Of course it can only be achieved securely with an open standard that allows any combination of these deployed on all platforms (I'm OK with making it payed-only enterprise feature as long as the US military and presindent and maybe Elon Musk has enough money to pay for the feature)…

How does any of that solve the “child types jibberish on an unlocked laptop”? A better feature would be for laptop cameras to auto logout the user when they step away and let them log back in without authentication within 15 min. I think that better solves the unattended laptop problem than anything else. You can kind of get there with BLE keys but face authentication would work much better for presence detection (ma…

Important accounts shouldn't be handled by 1 person, there should always be another one who can approve it.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by mcguire »

astura wrote: post #34
airhead969 wrote: post #2

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/

At work, yes, always, because it's company policy and I can be officially reprimanded for leaving the computer unlocked and people actively look for this violation. At home, never, ever. This person was working from home. Though, I admit, if I'm working late and I'm the only one left in the building then I don't lock the computer. I'd imagine many computer uses don't know how to lock their computers if they weren't t…

Once upon a time, there were manuals and stuff that might have taught this sort of thing. Now, it's assumed to be intuitively obvious.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by riffic »

joosters wrote: post #48
riffic wrote: post #41

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?)

Twitter is a walled garden service and is hostile to both their users and to people in the developer ecosystem. It does not even pretend to interoperate.

While this doesn't address the number one issue (the kid on the keyboard) it does provide a certain amount of accountability and transparency into how a public sector agency pushes their communications out into the world / digital commons.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by mcguire »

airhead969 wrote: post #35
HenryBemis wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(only because I was watching it again last night - and you are getting downvoted) Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room!

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

Note: These are references to the classic movie Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. As is my own,

Animals vill BE BRED UND SCHLAUTERED!

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by mcguire »

raunak wrote: post #45
malwarebytess wrote: post #44

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.

Every day is probably a journey of adventure and discovery.
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