Posts by DualPolarity

The world is 'clearly' not prepared for cyberwarfare

The answer is not to spend. Spending is what got us here. Spending on "automated" systems that need to be maintenance more often than they're used.

The very existence of our profession, the "IT Professional", is a symptom of the root of the problem. The root of the problem is the general public does not understand how computers work, yet they rely on them for literally everything.

How do you stop malicious packages from being mailed to your employees? You have a receiving department. Shielding the workers from the outside world.

Yet when the internet came along everyone said "oh sure everyone in the company gets their own company email"

Not everyone needs a company computer, or company email, or internet access

Re: "The world is 'clearly' not prepared for cyberwarfare"

The fact that we equate "airgapped" with "miserable" is part of this problem.

Why does an accountant need internet access? The calculations are done locally

Sounds like internet connected computers are a lot of work.

Does everyone in the company need an internet connection?

Windows 10 paid downloads end but buyers need not fear ISO-lation

Re: Just Today I Bought A "Refurbished" Workstation With Windows 10.......

The fact that microsoft tricked us into thinking it's OUR fault for being online when installing the OS was one of the greatest tricks a company has pulled in recent years.

Not anymore, it's not our fault. These software companies are malicious in their design. There is a reason techies are always at odds with Big Data, it's because Big Data wants the techies to disappear. If the knowledge of how a computer system really works were to be lost, and become a trade secret, that'd be the end of free information

'Chinese wall'? Who uses 'Chinese wall'? Well, IBM did, and it actually means 'firewall'

The battle to control language is disingenuous at best and criminal at worst

It's a play right out of the old-school espionage handbook, "tie up your enemy with minutia and pick apart language" (paraphrasing)

Language, like culture, changes naturally. Forcing/legislating changes to either of those is a bad idea, historically speaking

For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

It's not, they just want to sell you a premium subscription

Use Keepass with a NAS and offsite encrypted backup. No more cloud please, this fad has gone on long enough

Everyone keeps telling me how "great" cloud management is yet at the past 3 jobs I've had, all clients seem to have more trouble getting the automated systems to work than it would be to just create accounts manually, and when the auto provision systems fail the mess is wayy longer to clean up than just doing it the old fashioned way