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Comment Re:Urgency? (Score 1) 38

So being paid to perform a service has now graduated from "handout" to "bribe" in clown world?

In child rapist island world, bad people made deals to grift and graft in between bouts of raping children. One of those people is sitting in the big chair, deciding who gets paid instead of the people the constitution says are supposed to do it. You want to act surprised that people believe the funds are being misappropriated?

The only contractors in the US which have a chance to get anything to the moon are SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Boing. All are hugely problematic for a variety of reasons, and asserting that noticing that is clown shit is itself cuck shit.

Comment Re:Fuck These Tests! (Score 1) 60

User awareness is impossible to create. Yes, for the rather primitive phishing campaigns of 10 or even 5 years ago it was possible to a very limited degree. With the attackers now using LLMs, that time is past. Get actually secure email systems and clients or get hacked. Those are your only choices.

Comment Re:Fuck These Tests! (Score 1) 60

Yes. These tests are worse than useless. They insult those with a clue and waste the time of everybody. They make everybody angry and that means less mental power to recognize scams and problems. They are a meaningless ritual that accomplishes less than nothing.

The thing that would need to be done is use of better technology. And that is the only thing that can fix this problem. The user is not the problem.

Comment Re:Does not make me like the IT guys (Score 2) 60

That is because you give your users technology that sucks and cannot be secured. Terrorizing your users will do nothing. Using better technology will. Yes, that means dumping the steaming pile Microsoft sells on the trash-heap of history where it belongs, and quite a few other offerings as well. Yes, that means telling the C-levels they have to get used to a different desktop. But nothing else will do it.

Comment These tests are useless (Score 1) 60

If your IT security is so abysmally bad that clicking on a link can blow up your set-up, "educating" employees will do nothing. And if that is the best your go-to vendor can deliver, get a different one.

That said, information about complex phishing attacks, like the "chef email" scam and the like, is different. But these target human interaction, not intricate technology that is very much outside of the areas of expertise of almost everybody.

Comment A friendly warning (Score 1) 41

Those of you in America who have Ukrainian heritage had best avoid this service. I think Elmo might well throttle your data on a mere whim.

After all, he's already done that in Ukraine on more than one occasion. If he's willing to fuck Ukrainians over half a world away, why wouldn't he do it to the ones in his own back yard?

Comment Obligatory John Brunner quote (Score 1) 15

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then...? Then you serve machines.

Arguably, we started wearing machines with the advent of the smartphone, so I think a case could be made that we're already serving machines to some extent. But with the advent of LLMs - and now a wearable GUI - our servitude may grow by leaps and bounds. Yay!

Comment Re:Lifestyle brand known for bass-heavy headphone (Score 1) 40

I have no experience with their cans, only their buds, which I've been very happy with. Maybe they have been ruined since they started taking advice from Bose, as I haven't bought any in a while, but the last ones I did buy had a more-easily-untangleable flat rubbery cord and sounded really nice. They were clear for both music and calls, and were less than twenty bucks... maybe $14?

I'm not a "pay extra" kind of guy, though I do try not to buy the absolute most crap thing. I'm a "refurb" type.

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