@TomK. Didn't we explicitly say that cat calling is offensive and rude?
I just said it shouldn't be banned. That would be censorship.
@TomK. It's an example of an asshole who is an asshole in the name of (3rd wave) feminism. That kind of thing is not uncommon. Note that I specify 3rd wave because those kinds tend to get angry at nothing.
@TomK. The idea of 4th wave feminism isn't really well-established in feminist theory. I tend to think of it as having only 3 waves, with the 3rd wave ranging from the 90s to now. Hell, some people even claim there's a 5th wave...
@TomK. Each wave is a distinct movement. No one is condemning 1st/2nd wave feminism. It was those waves that gave women equal rights, not the 3rd.
On-topic now, but why do so many people think that a TPM stores an encryption key while it is in-use, as if it removes the need for the key to exist in memory?
I just saw an answer claiming that a TPM can encrypt a filesystem and cache...
I give it 777 this so my php scripts can easily modify it. Maybe I only need 766. Don’t I? — codezombie9 hours ago
> this is by far the best damn read I've ever had on TFTS and easily top 3 all-time IT stories. This had me to the edge of my seat since part 1, and while a bit technical, it's worded very friendly and I can feel the taste of nationwide meltdown in my mouth.
Man I just got kicked from Tavern on the Meta for saying that killing albinos in the name of alternative medicine, or beating wives in the name of religion is wrong. O_o
This is exactly why I need to spend time to figure out how the damn chat API works.
There's always that one community which is like that, with moderators who never explain what is problematic until they kick or suspend you, and finally ban you for politely asking for clarification. At least I'm not attached to that room.
@JourneymanGeek If you're hitting it manually, you need to configure delays in your IRC client. Otherwise it's too easy to get kicked when you paste like 4 lines.
@J.J Think: a text chat protocol so simple that you could use telnet for it.
@J.J IRCop, someone who's basically a god on IRC. They have access to OperServ which lets them kline (ban) people from the whole network, not just a single channel. There's op, ircop, and sysadmin. A regular op can only kick from their own channels.
I did that once to a room I got banned from cuz the op was a bigot, and flooded them with links to <insert horrible thing published by some Mexican cartel here> for a couple of weeks. Even got one person to vomit (supposedly).
And the crazy thing about IRC is there's really nothing you can do about it.
It's very, very open. All you need is a few hundred proxy that's not on DNSRBL.
I (think) rene thought I was advocating for wife beating when I had called out a moderator on another site for promoting it. So apparently I'm playing innocent by saying that's not at all what I had meant. :P
I'm 80% sure I'll get kicked again for correcting the mod's incorrect understanding.
IRC is much more forgiving since you can troll the living fuck out of a room and not worry about getting banned from the network. IRCops even tell room owners/moderators to just ban the person and forget about it. :D
There's nothing like seeing a mod abuse their power and responding by knocking them off the network or getting them banned themselves.
Since on IRC, if you send too many queries to a specific person, it fills up the server receive queue and instead of you getting kicked, the recipient of the flood of messages gets kicked. IRC is so archaic that apparently that's logical. :D
Honestly, as much as I love the OSCP material I cannot wait until I have my certification break.
I have been wanting to sit down and really get into Crypto for the longest time ever, but because I don't have much experience in IT I really needed the certs to get me in the door.
So once I pass this OSCP I am going to for sure sink my teeth into Crypto.
I'm going to order Bruce Scheiners books: Applied Cryptography & Cryptography Engineering.
I've got a book called "Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography" I think I might sit Dan Boneh's OU Crypto course.
The core ideas are still solid, but some specifics like antiquated modes of operation and no mention of true authenticated crypto makes it less useful for practical stuff.
It's so fascinating how numbers are so powerful. I'm really not an academic kid, I hated Maths, I hated English, I hated Science but I love computers, it, networking, security.
And even though Crypto is a pretty academic subject, something about it makes me so interested heh.
I really don't understand a lot of the math.
I really struggle with math a lot.
But, it doesn't stop me from trying to understand the math, I'm still trying to get my head around Padding Oracle Attacks, heh.
And I had to watch Cristof Paars lecture on DES a couple times.
