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Comment Re: It's probably not from the state (Score 1) 34

Iâ(TM)ve worked for a few government entities. Just about all of them farm out their IT work to private industries. That includes application development and data storage. Usually security is a total joke. I showed up to a meeting for an LA City department and gave a presentation on an application I developed. The IT managers were worried about all the data I had in the application and stated it was a threat to critical infrastructure. I proceeded to show them the publicly available files I scrapped all the data from. They honestly scratched their heads and we moved on to the next subject. That departments idea of security was to use complex passwords that need to be change every 90 days

Comment Re: Damned if they do, damned if they don't (Score 1) 183

People will believe what they want to believe. The internet will never change that. Pull videos and dialog in an attempt to change that belief and you create paranoia. Objective reporting and decent well thought out rebuttals would seem to be the right path in my dumb brain opinion.

Comment Re: Yes (Score 1) 143

Never understood why brute force and dictionary attacks are still a thing. 5 - 10 attempts and the account is locked and an email reset is triggered. After that, from my experience it doesnâ(TM)t matter if you use D0gg!es or Swamm!3Sa7ami335289qwerty, once you or the database becomes a target, the password strength is the least of your worries. Think SQL injection, DNS hacks, packet sniffers, phishing, root kits, unsalted and unencrypted passwords in DB, moles, zombies, etc

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