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Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by c0nsumer »

bombcar wrote: post #78
c0nsumer wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look into Windows Hello for Business. It's very nice in the enterprise for all of this. Native facial recognition or fingerprint, and various other factors can be added.

Causes all sorts of hell with Remote Desktop, however. But it’s the right direction. For those with a Mac and an Apple Watch you can make the watch automatically lock and unlock based on Bluetooth distance.

How so? In my experience you are prompted to use it, and you can click and use standard credentials if desired.

I deployed WHfB at our $LARGE_ENTERPRISE and opted against using BT RSSI as a trusted signal because it's just too unpredictable. Probably because the Windows space is much more varied, but an RSSI that'd work for one device at ~8' away would fail to lock another when two cube rows away. Meaning, we knew users would start to depend on it, but it wouldn't work as they thought.

Thus, still policies of locking machines, it's now just easier to unlock. (And arguably more secure because now less password typing means far fewer chances for keyloggers to get network-usable credentials.)

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by kube-system »

echelon wrote: post #63
unclemase wrote: post #3

I love Canada now more than ever. https://ibb.co/TWnNdGJ

What a wholesome response! For most companies and organizations, this is absolutely understandable. WFH is challenging, and balancing childcare even more so. In this case, though, it begs the question - why does US Strategic Command even have a Twitter account? Are they going to post fun and engaging tweets about the nuclear football? Twitter seems like something this agency should not be doing.

I think the culture of being engaged with the public is more of a good thing than a bad thing, regardless of how 'useful' it is.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by freebuju »

kube-system wrote: post #87
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).

Should they self-host TV stations, newspapers, and radio stations? Why should internet media be any different?

Simple. They can control TV stations & newspapers. Facebook & Twitter, not so much. At least, not yet.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by BalinKing »

airhead969 wrote: post #37
amenod wrote: post #27

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Tux + L then. :)

Oh nice. Or Ctrl-Command-Q on my last mac, a mini from 2012. (It does have an upgraded fast SSD, big HDD, and 16 GiB.)

Ctrl-Cmd-Q works on my (relatively recent) MBP as well—I always used the Touch Bar instead... TIL!

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by apetresc »

xiphias2 wrote: post #53
vlovich123 wrote: post #32

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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.

Do you consider the Twitter account an "important account" that needs multi-party approval?

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by Arrath »

echelon wrote: post #63
unclemase wrote: post #3

I love Canada now more than ever. https://ibb.co/TWnNdGJ

What a wholesome response! For most companies and organizations, this is absolutely understandable. WFH is challenging, and balancing childcare even more so. In this case, though, it begs the question - why does US Strategic Command even have a Twitter account? Are they going to post fun and engaging tweets about the nuclear football? Twitter seems like something this agency should not be doing.

I can see orgs like this making social media accounts just to claim the space/username and prevent squatters or false messaging.

As for why would e.g. US Strategic Command ever need to actually post something? I'm at a loss to be honest.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by saghm »

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.

I installed this app on my roommate's laptop in college one time when he left it unlocked and would run it every time he left it unlocked after that: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26793/ipanic

It took several months for him to catch on; for a while I had him convinced that his hardware must have an issue where the laptop being left idle for too long caused it to mess up somehow.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by InitialLastName »

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.

   alias ls=echo "Segmentation Fault"

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by maxnoe »

echelon wrote: post #63
unclemase wrote: post #3

I love Canada now more than ever. https://ibb.co/TWnNdGJ

What a wholesome response! For most companies and organizations, this is absolutely understandable. WFH is challenging, and balancing childcare even more so. In this case, though, it begs the question - why does US Strategic Command even have a Twitter account? Are they going to post fun and engaging tweets about the nuclear football? Twitter seems like something this agency should not be doing.

Relevant xkcd (from the what if book)

https://i.imgur.com/WIoNgYS.jpg

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Post by encryptluks2 »

unclemase wrote: post #3

I love Canada now more than ever. https://ibb.co/TWnNdGJ

Leave US Strategic Command Twitter account open for child to tweet from:

"Canada: Totally okay, these things happen."

Leave US Strategic Command Launch Portal open for child to launch missiles against Ontario, Canada:

"United States: Totally okay, these things happen."

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