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Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by nitrogen »

michaelmrose wrote: post #32
StanislavPetrov wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If people are to be judged by the assertions of their jilted former lovers then we are all in for a very bad time. Any time there is a headline with a very serious and inflammatory claim, like the one above, you would do well to scroll down past the hyperbole and look for the evidence offered (if any) for such a serious charge. The only evidence cited by this article in this accusation of a series of treasonous felon…

You mean except for the fact that her participation in the invasion of our capital, attempted overthrow of our government, and theft of intelligence was live streamed for literally the entire nation to see. The only assertion we are relying on from the ex for is the fact that after committing multiple felonies on camera she was planning to commit one more. Furthermore although she is entitled to assumption of innocen…

Furthermore although she is entitled to assumption of innocence in a court of law we are required to provide nothing of the sort.

Must disagree with this statement in the strongest possible terms. Twitter mob justice is just as undesirable as any previous form of mob justice.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

jrockway wrote: post #39
tenebrisalietum wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's absolutely no reason that Windows installs and Linux distros should offer unencrypted storage as anything but a hidden option for experts. People unfortunately have been coddled by consumerism, or are coddled by job titles like "director" and "officer", and expect to be able to get passwords reset and access recovered by someone if they forget. The correct way to do disk encryption is to not store the passw…

I don't really know how the "enterprise" solutions work, but I imagine they get the disk decryption key from AD or something, and thus the IT support team can "reset" disk encryption. There are a variety of threat models, and whether or not this is acceptable depends on the worry that you have. If you are concerned that the IT department is going to decrypt executives' laptops and leak confidential information, then…

> I don't really know how the "enterprise" solutions work, but I imagine they get the disk decryption key from AD or something, and thus the IT support team can "reset" disk encryption.

They don't get it from AD so much as Group Policy can be configured to have the device store the key in AD, but otherwise yes that's how it works.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by pokepim »

saladgnu054 wrote: post #60

Can we say "the Russian government" or "the Russian secret services" or something similar? Why always this tone with the Russians, the Russians are wonderful people, like everyone else trying to live their lives with the hand they were dealt. Am I the only one that sees how offensive this trope is to about 150 million people?

The same appiles to "the Chinese". Heck, just look what happened to Asian Americans here at the beginning of the pandemic, when all we knew was that the virus started in China. "Kung Flu" and stuff, some people are just plain retarded.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by supergirl »

i have the impression that most people that rioted just got carried away. it’s easy to do crazy things if you join a mob. however the 3 letter agencies will make sure they all get heavy jail time. it’s one thing to hate on the president but now it’s serious.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by naikrovek »

saladgnu054 wrote: post #60

Can we say "the Russian government" or "the Russian secret services" or something similar? Why always this tone with the Russians, the Russians are wonderful people, like everyone else trying to live their lives with the hand they were dealt. Am I the only one that sees how offensive this trope is to about 150 million people?

I'm pretty sure we all know that the ultimate consumer of something like this is not a Russian neighborhood bread store owner, but the Russian government. I don't think it needs to be said to be understood.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by duskwuff »

garyrichardson wrote: post #34
Johnie wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’d be very easy for a foreign agent to sneak in with the crowd. In one of the latter videos on that thread, it looked like she was directing/encouraging people to push forward.

Twitter tells me: "This is not available to you." Anyone know why? Was it deleted? Suspended? Region locked (I'm in Canada).

So, this is going to sound really weird, but:

Open the web inspector, switch to the Application tab, click "Service Workers" in the left sidebar, and unregister everything that shows up.

My understanding is that this behavior is caused by an old version of their service worker which they've had a hard time getting rid of.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

bobthepanda wrote: post #37
tenebrisalietum wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's absolutely no reason that Windows installs and Linux distros should offer unencrypted storage as anything but a hidden option for experts. People unfortunately have been coddled by consumerism, or are coddled by job titles like "director" and "officer", and expect to be able to get passwords reset and access recovered by someone if they forget. The correct way to do disk encryption is to not store the passw…

You can still have your password reset with an encrypted disk, if you're using some networked active directory thing to manage access, no?

The disk encryption password is separate from the user login. It has to be, if you consider that the device may have more than one user [0].

[0] which is rare bordering on "never happens", but since contemporary desktop OSs are all derived from multi-user server OSs that's what we got.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

saladgnu054 wrote: post #60

Can we say "the Russian government" or "the Russian secret services" or something similar? Why always this tone with the Russians, the Russians are wonderful people, like everyone else trying to live their lives with the hand they were dealt. Am I the only one that sees how offensive this trope is to about 150 million people?

While I agree with your general sentiment, in this specific case the person appeared motivated to literally just sell the laptop to some Russian people, with the expectation that they had the ability to resell the laptop to the Russian government.

The people who broke into the Capitol and stole things are not the smartest or most well-connected people.

More details are available in some of the court docs that are floating around the internet. The entire situation is stunningly disconnected from reality.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by slezyr »

saladgnu054 wrote: post #60

Can we say "the Russian government" or "the Russian secret services" or something similar? Why always this tone with the Russians, the Russians are wonderful people, like everyone else trying to live their lives with the hand they were dealt. Am I the only one that sees how offensive this trope is to about 150 million people?

Well, can you prove that it was a Russian goverment/secret service and not some random guy from Russia?
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