Yep... exploiting loopholes... nothing more Mercan than that!

I have been saying this for years and I almost believe it myself now.
 
The fact is, I have biases and these biases shift over time.
 
I always tell myself that I am giving people the best advice I can, but upon self analysis, I hardly ever recommend MACs to people because I just sort of don't like Apple because of encounters I have had over the years with zealot fanboys. I sort of have the same feelings toward Cisco.... every Cisco tech I have ever met looked down their nose at me... for that reason I normally deploy Adtran, HP or SonicWALL.
 
I guess my point is that we all like to think that we are being unbiased and use the tools that work best, but my feeling is that most people just end up using the tools they are most comfortable with and carry stories that help justify their decisions.

Or.... you know... once a (day|week|month|year) download the pictures...

Agreed! I will sometimes go to another floor if my "regular" stall is not available...

100% correct. I would mod you up except I already posted in this thread.

I really don't think that it is drugs that "turn a large majority of their users into slobbering idiots", this attitude is part of the problem.
 
I think that drugs are a side effect of a larger more fundamental issue in those people's lives. I mean, who doesn't like feeling good? Drugs can make you feel really, really good.
 
I think it is just that most people don't know how to talk about drugs because they can't, we don't let them. What they are going through is outside the experience of non-drug users and furthermore we are taught to demonize them because "drugs are bad, mmmmmkay?.
 
Drug users have to hide their use from everyone except the people that are doing it with them.
 
You get an echo chamber effect and bad decisions are cascaded because there is no voice of reason any more, just voices of contempt and disgust coming from the communities outside.

My understanding is that this exploit simply requires you to have outbound SMB ports open.
 
In my experience, most firewall setups (especially those in companies who don't have dedicated IT staff) allow unrestricted outbound communications.

Do you need some sort of auto-run action upon insertion of the USB stick in order for this to work?
 
Seems crazy that you would have a policy to automatically execute anything.

A man must be gay to kiss another man?

Are people really going to end up owning cars in the end (far future)?
 
I think it will be an uber style model eventually were nobody owns a car but everyone has equal access to one.
 
In this situation, the company owner would be the one with the license and liability to operate it.

I mean, you could choose from phantom fears or some celestial voice...

Yeah, I was a field tech for a number of years and would often have to clean up the mess left by other "techs".
 
It would always make me wonder how these people got employed in the first place....
 
...Until I learned about technical recruiters... then it all made sense.

I agree, I don't even have any kids, but this made me cry.
 
I think that this is probably the best trait any human can have: compassion.

I think we should throw a waterproof GPS down that hole and track where the exit is...

This may have been true at one time, but I don't think it is the case any longer. I think that the ubiquity of cheap components and the falling price of Windows for OEMs, the profit margins have been steadily increasing over the years.
 
I think it is just that OEMs have become dependent on the revenue stream they get from app developers who want their software included in the base image.