❄️everyone loves .af, the fun domain name that everyone is positive af about! haha [five seconds later] we regret to inform you the domain is being used to fund the taliban
@russss curious whether India has a very dense electricity network or is just much better mapped than the rest of the world.
To prove the point that users will continue to click links, regardless of how obvious it is that they shouldn't, I worked with the person in charge of the monthly phishing trainings at $dayjob last month. Historically, they have used the hated ruses like fake gift cards, and I wanted to try to get away from that, especially during the holidays. We ended up using something to the effect of the following:
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Hello <first name>,
Happy Holidays. This is the monthly phishing test. Yes, really. It's not a trick. Use the <phishing reporting function> to report this as phishing. If you do not know how to use <phishing reporting function>, feel free to ask a colleague. If you still have questions, search for <phishing reporting function> on <internal docs site>.
Do not click the following link as it is there for metrics and will cause you to be assigned phishing awareness training: <phishing training 'malicious' link>
Sincerely,
IT Security Team
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I don't know how well it was received by users, but I do know that we still had more clicks than two other months in 2023, despite being explicitly told not to click the link. Users will always click links with their link-clicking machines. Relying on their discretion is either ignorant, or I expect in some cases, malicious in that there will always be a scapegoat to blame for the inevitable breach.
I am one (1) day into trying to buy a flat and already I’m wondering whether it would be better to just resign myself to renting for the rest of my life.
Fully expect someone to request that I fax them details at any moment.
I have entered the world of trying to purchase property, which is apparently being run via some sort of time portal from the 1990s where nobody is able to use email.
It has been A Day. Recovered from it by spending three hours straight watching For All Mankind and I’m deeply thankful for being able to lose myself in some excellent people doing stuff in space TV.
@pikesley in fairness they’re not wrong, but it is truly terrible advertising for OpenAI that the version of their product most people interact with is awful, and they keep the good version locked away where no one is going to find it because they bounced off.
Once again thinking about the film version of Children of Men and how scarily prescient it was, while hoping one day we’ll get past the current madness so I can once again watch it as a great film rather than a documentary of the next ten years.
@gsuberland I couldn’t agree more, compounded by the fact you join a server and are immediately added to every single channel with push notifications turned on. Nobody needs that in their life.
@Edent that looks like the height of quality compared to the absolute dross you find in Roblox, which is probably the closest thing we have to The Metaverse in reality.
@pikesley I genuinely have no idea. Just saw the thumbnail and title. To further not narrow it down it was a middle age white dude surrounded by RGB LEDs.
For the record, not a Tom Scott subtweet. It’s just some random nobody sitting at a desk.
Today in internet companies use data on everything I do to fail in targeting: YouTube recommended a video to me in which the host of a channel I’ve never watched before explains why he’s not going to be doing any more videos.
Today, 15 years ago #OTD the person or group with the fictive name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” created the first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin with the thought of it becoming a secure and fast alternative to fiat currency.
Now it's known as the most wasteful use of electricity, inefficient and limiting capability/functionality, as well as being among the most insecure and de-anonymizing ways to transfer money.
However, what Satoshi Nakamoto probably hasn't expected is how many scam-currencies would come after theirs, and how their invention would create a new breed of the most annoying people known to our species: crypto-bros.
@pikesley this has also stirred up my hatred of the “How would you rate our app” dialogues everywhere, which if you say 5* direct you to the App Store review page, and otherwise give the equivalent of “oh, never mind then, forget I asked”.
@pikesley NPS scores are a bane on humanity. They had one in my local A&E when I was last there, and let me tell you, I wouldn’t recommend that one little bit.
@thomasfuchs smart bulbs with motion sensors in infrequently used rooms. I’m terrible at remembering to turn off lights. These mean I don’t have to.
Please can someone teach game streamers that screaming into their microphone just makes it clip horribly. Don’t do that please, I cringe every single time, and then my son gets annoyed at me.
@gsuberland I’ve done cover for our security guy in a previous job. So much junk along the lines of “your web server is saying what version it is”.
Yes. Yes it is. Were you able to do anything with that information other than establish there’s no known exploits for that version?
Kicking off 2024 as I mean to continue, with cursed network configuration.