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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by omeletdufromage »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #319
WaitWaitWha wrote: post #123

Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering. Some cyber companies explicitly prohibit stickers on company laptops.

>Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering. How?

Not the OP, but I have heard something similar from a sec conf before. Gist being if a laptop has stickers like this, then the chances of the owner being an engineer is significantly higher, so pentest teams / malicious actors can better focus their efforts on those individuals, and have a higher chance of gaining access to internal systems than if they targeted random folks in public.

Doesn't help as well that arguably the kind of stickers a laptop displays tends to hint at who's a sysadmin or not, etc.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by lIl-IIIl »

tectonic wrote: post #233

My laptop has stickers, one of which is a photo of my previous laptop and its stickers. One of those is a photo of the laptop before that…

That's how git commits work.

Current laptop stickers: current state.

Photo of the previous laptop: reference to previous commit.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Tade0 »

nucleardog wrote: post #288
Lammy wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One time when I left a job and had some really rare stickers I bought an identical ThinkPad and swapped the entire upper half of the machines with each other.

I basically never applied a sticker to any laptop I owned until I got a Framework. Just hoarded them like a dragon sitting on his pile of sticker-gold. Finally figured hey, I might have this laptop more than a single upgrade cycle... it's worth burning a weird sticker or two. I still try and buck the trend a little--instead of advertising technologies or something, my general goal is that, at first glance, nobody wou…

Framework is the only laptop regarding which I've had someone ask "what brand is this?".

There's genuine interest (well, at least until they hear about the price) and I guess people intuitively understand that laptops don't really have to be replaced every now and then, it's just that mainstream offerings are built this way.

The other day I wrote a lengthy essay about all the pros and cons of the device from my perspective for one 18yo son of a friend, who insisted this would be his college laptop, because he's seen some YouTuber present it. I think he's decided already, so I focused on managing expectations.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by anal_reactor »

komali2 wrote: post #308
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Some people like naziism. Those people were wrong. In your individual opinion. In mine, too, and hopefully everyone else’s here. But the OP was clearly talking about what views are presented as “morally right” by normative social forces, and those clearly differ across time and place, often as political power waxes and wanes.

No but that's my point, the nazis had to march entire classes of people to death camps at gun point to be considered "normative," and even then there was a resistance movement not only in every occupied country but also Germany itself. The reality is a minority of people were willing to use extraordinary violence and propaganda to present their viewpoint as "normal," but I don't agree that that made it "normal" even…

> The reality is a minority of people were willing to use extraordinary violence and propaganda to present their viewpoint as "normal," but I don't agree that that made it "normal" even for the times.

Before modernity, extraordinary violence and propaganda were, well, ordinary. Hitler just made that work on industrial scale, but the underlying moral ideas weren't anything new. During antiquity, people didn't mind slaughtering entire cities. Even more modern history is full shit like that, look up Mongol invasions.

BTW don't you think that it's a little awkward that in modern times "pirates", which were people that'd literally kill seamen for profit, are considered a fun Halloween theme for children? I can imagine that in 500 years Nazi costumes will be similarly normalized.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by alex_duf »

I used to put stickers on my work laptop. Then one day I upgraded my laptop, which meant handing over my old one with stickers.

Which meant scrubbing it (there's no reason I'll let whoever receives it to scrub it for me)

Which was an absolute pain.

I don't put stickers on my laptops anymore.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by chickensong »

flir wrote: post #182
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #179

I think it's cool, but I could never see myself doing it, because I used to go through a new laptop every couple of years. In any case, the point is moot, now. I switched to using a desktop, in my last upgrade since retiring.

Implies that the stickers are more precious than the hardware, which is an attitude I love.

This is definitely the case!

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by FinnKuhn »

alex_duf wrote: post #346

I used to put stickers on my work laptop. Then one day I upgraded my laptop, which meant handing over my old one with stickers. Which meant scrubbing it (there's no reason I'll let whoever receives it to scrub it for me) Which was an absolute pain. I don't put stickers on my laptops anymore.

For me it was having to replace my MacBook's screen and loosing all the stickers in the process that made me realize I would loose any sticker used on a Laptop eventually.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by jrockway »

alex_duf wrote: post #346

I used to put stickers on my work laptop. Then one day I upgraded my laptop, which meant handing over my old one with stickers. Which meant scrubbing it (there's no reason I'll let whoever receives it to scrub it for me) Which was an absolute pain. I don't put stickers on my laptops anymore.

I sandwich them between my phone and a clear case now. Don't even have to take the stickum protector part off, so when you get a new phone, you can take your favorite stickers easily. Disadvantage: you get like 2 stickers total.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by PetitPrince »

cubefox wrote: post #51
joshdavham wrote: post #17

This was super fun to browse! I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their bumper stickers?

I believe bumper stickers are only really a thing in the US.

I think the only stickers I saw on cars in France and Switzerland are the "baby one board" and "".
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