Mobile providers need to STOP allowing their reps to have remote access over the web to their network switches! Many have over the last decade or two ... but many still allow it. sad really. There are tools though.
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Reddit Suffers Data Breach With Hackers Obtaining Email Addresses From Some Users
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Mobile providers need to STOP allowing their reps to have remote access over the web to their network switches! Many have over the last decade or two ... but many still allow it. sad really. There are tools though.
You and me ... we are here
I never posted anything too weird, but some sensitive stuff about my family and dealing with their mental illness. Some of that I've posted on MacRumors before at a surface level, but out of an abundance of caution for something I write being potentially used out of context in the future I used a wildly different name and even made a matching Gmail address for it.
If you received the reddit newsletter thing, it's an issue for recent members. Usernames with linked email addresses were obtained from that database.
I still fail to see how this doesn't dovetail with the real world. One, weirdos tend to stand out more from the crowd, both on reddit and in the real world. Two, people's 'personal selves' are probably weirder in general than their 'public selves' as a rule. Most people don't want to be thought of as weird, so they tone down their eccentricities in public. The anonymity of reddit allows for the former to come out more than it otherwise would in a public space. How many 'normal' people do you think you know in real life, who may be one of the 'weirdos' on reddit? There's a reason the general rule of thumb is to keep your username secret, or to make throwaway accounts.
Yeah that's the whole reason I was saying that a lot of people are probably worried about that. And yes, there are some REAL weirdos on reddit. Like legit whackjobs. Moreso than I see other places online (though the hacker 4Chan likely has them beat by a long shot).
lmao r/The_Donald is the only not-trashy part of Reddit that makes the site worth visiting for me (aside from a random band's page).
Apple’s 2FA with only one Apple device...
people with only one device should not rely on 2FA. Sad that it is no longer an option.
Which is great as long as it's not 2FA that goes through SMS.
Hopefully this will remind more companies that SMS-based 2FA is basically trash.
https://arstechnica.com/information...-reddit-that-yes-phone-based-2fa-is-that-bad/
One company I know uses such hardware key to allow certain employer access intranet and "certain part" of internet. That said key is also used to access special software.
Several banks in China implements another form of key that generates a unique 6-digit auth code indefinitely. When log into online bank system, site requires user to enter that 6-digit code in a textbox protected by some sort of "security plug-in", alongside the password. This should be robust enough as that key is inaccessible via internet. The best bet to get the number is via social engineering.
Reddit is one of those places that I could never quite get my mind wrapped around. Still find the concepts of "subreddits", etc. difficult to understand. and I'm a software engineer!
Pretty simple really. Each "subreddit" is a forum for that specific topic, and you can post threads to it, comment, upvote the good ones and downvote the bad ones.
Instead of an "@" to reference accounts like on Twitter (and most other social media), you reference users with "u/pickausername" and subreddits with r/pickasubreddit"
That sub is toxic and sickening. But hey, cool, now I can finally use Macrumors’ Ignore function for the first time!
Lol, whatever you want to think, man. I'd expect nothing less from a Seattle resident.
I mean, if I was running a website, I'd keep backups for the life of the site. You never know when you may want that.
because it renders deleting posts, username, replies, inbox useless. Its a privacy concern thing. I thought when you delete something companies will delete it. I guess every file I uploaded to DropBox is just backup somewhere.
Oh i get why it's a concern, I'm just saying, I feel like having data brings with it the desire to archive.