The DMZ - 2020-09-21 (page 1 of 4)

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9:00 AM

Speaking of Office, after seeing this question...

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Q: Why aren't Microsoft Office macros sandboxed?

For about 20+ years now, Microsoft Office macros have been used to spread malware. Even in recent years those threats have not disappeared and they often resurface in one form or another e.g. World’s most destructive botnet returns with stolen passwords and email in tow and It’s 2016, so why is t...

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I have to say that I've never used a macro in all my life. I actually only know what a macro is (more or less) because I read about it on the internet. I really wonder if macros are really needed, and who really needs them

I guess it's just one of those "features" I will never understand, like the need to have JS in PDFs

but I still feel that all that "crap" that is not part of a document should have been moved to another program to begin with

I hate project managers...

"Can you please check this for me?"
"Sorry, I'm busy with this project"
"But it's important, you have to check it for next week's project"

Next week
"Can you do this now?"
"No, I am doing the stuff that I was supposed to do last week"
"But this is your project now, this has priority"

@MechMK1 I guess you should not even explain what you are doing, if you are a freelance at least (not an employee). "Can you do..." No, period

Not a freelance

Working full-time for our company

Just some project managers can be...insistent

Anonymous

Morning.

Anonymous

I've slept a total of... 0 hours in the last 34.

Anonymous

9:12 AM

I feel great.

Oh dear

Was it because you farmed for the FGO event?

Anonymous

lol, no. My brain just likes to go into a mode where it overthinks for entire weeks at a time and I just have to you know, exist with my brain constantly telling me things which are bad.

Anonymous

It is really great. Anxiety is just, yay.

I also tend to postpone sleep, and unfortunately it is a very bad idea

Anonymous

Yeah, just gotta' wait till I crash.

9:17 AM

You probably already entered the "too tired to sleep" phase

Anonymous

I do wish I could turn my brain off, really. I have literally nothing to worry about my brain just finds things.

What helps me is to play a game on my phone like Pokemon

Anonymous

Honestly if I am not working mech

Anonymous

i just get sad

Anonymous

thats my reality

Anonymous

9:17 AM

its awesome

You too?

Anonymous

(not)

As soon as I don't occupy my brain, it's like "Yeah that was nice, but what if you're just an absolute failure in everything you do? Crazy idea, right?"

Anonymous

Yeah fucking mood.

do you guys have problems with procrastination?

Anonymous

9:20 AM

Not really.

I have enormous problems with that

Anonymous

If I procrastinate I get sad.

I do

Anonymous

I have to just do something

Anonymous

I usually watch finance videos about stocks and shit if I don't feel like working on tech

9:21 AM

I feel like I should do something, then I postpone it, then I start to feel guilty about not doing it, and then the problems just pile up

in fact, right now I'm chatting here, while I should be preparing an invoice. I could have done it 2 hours ago, I'm procrastinating until midday I guess.

I should finally pentest that one application I should have pentested last week

Anonymous

I think the only time I "procrastinate" is when I'm doing a report, lol.

Anonymous

Other than that I try and do like 10 things at once

Anonymous

just so i never run out of things to do

9:22 AM

It's friday and the report isn't done is the norm for me, @ConorMancone can confirm

Anonymous

hehe

Anonymous

luckily i dont do many reports since i work internal testing

Anonymous

and i am more focused on long termthings now so

Anonymous

i dont have stupid 20 page reports every week or whatever

My list of things to do is so long, I had to write another list: the list of todo lists

9:24 AM

Lucky you

Anonymous

That sounds exactly like my list of books to read, Reed.

@MechMK1 confirmed :)

:DDDDD

Anonymous

I have about three lists of books to read.

Anonymous

I made a new list to differentiate priority and then did it again lmfao

Anonymous

9:24 AM

It's getting out of hand.

Anonymous

I wanna take like 3 months off work, go to Bali and read books for 3 months straight.

I'm still getting rid of emotional baggage from my breakup

Why is my brain such a cunt though?

Anonymous

I've been asking myself that question most of my life, Mech. I'll let you know if I ever figure it out.

Anonymous

Life's greatest problem. Nevermind the crypto puzzle outside CIA or NSA (don't remember who) someone solve my brain...

Anonymous

lul

Anonymous

9:27 AM

also mech about emotional baggage

My rational side is like: "You're not a bad person. Sure, you have your flaws, but you're working on them. It's definitely not your fault that you have been abused in the past. It could have happened to anyone."

My emotional side: "Yeah it was definitely your fault. You'll never find anyone who will love you, and even if you find someone, she'll probably abuse you again. Best to wallow in self-pity, really"

Anonymous

each day i get closer and closer to being a robot

@MechMK1 My brain likes to take things that are, literally, decades ago that were stressful/uncomfortable, bring them up again, and remind me about how little I liked the circumstance in general. It's really just an asshole, but I can't do anything about it.

Anonymous

im enjoying it thus far

Anonymous

i cant wait till i become an actual cpu

Anonymous

9:28 AM

mood @ConorMancone

@ConorMancone Ah yes, the "Remember that argument you had 12 years ago? Here's why you were actually wrong"

Anonymous

one day my girlfriend is going to wake up and when she texts good morning

Anonymous

ima reply "Hello, World!" and she knows im just lost to the binary

Anonymous

lmfao

>lost to the binary

Anonymous

9:29 AM

hehehe

So whenever she wants to communicate with you, she needs to do a Three-Way Handshake?

Anonymous

Hahahaha.

Anonymous

Well, that's assuming she will be able to communicate with me. I am not about to teach her binary or asm for when it happens lul

I should write an IRC plugin that when you connect to a channel and your first message isn't SYN, followed by anyone replying SYN-ACK, and followed by your ACK, you get kicked immediately

My knowledge of RE is just good enough to hack some singleplayer games

And I started messing around with multiplayer games as well

Journeyman Geek

..... isn't that what IRC constantly does behind the scenes? :D

9:32 AM

Just to see how well they cope with desyncing

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 So THAT'S what the kids call it these days

@JourneymanGeek No idea, last time I used IRC was pretty awkward. It was on the Dolphin-Emu IRC, where someone I had an argument with a few days before was a mod

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 oh as a protocol

I didn't want to escalate, so I just left :D

Journeyman Geek

I don't think I have been on IRC in over a decade :(

9:34 AM

I mean besides, I was a newcomer there, she was an established mod. No way in hell I could have won that argument

Journeyman Geek

I used to live in a place with a finicky router and It would disconnect if there wasn't constantly traffic going on, so I used to run IRC just to keep it up :D

Oh dear :D

I used to torrent a lot of stuff, because our internet was slow and regular HTTP downloads would fail constantly

Anonymous

I've probably only ever used IRC like three times in my life.

So torrenting was so comfortable because it was so fault tolerant

Anonymous

And I think twice was for a CTF.

Journeyman Geek

9:35 AM

@J.J I WOULD HAVE THEE VACATE MY SMALL FIELD OF GRASS YOUNG SIR!

Anonymous

Well time to take a modafinil so i survive the rest of the day

I feel so old-school for not using Discord

Back in my day we used TeamSpeak and we liked it!

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 I think I use it for some SE diaspora communities :D

right now, I'm on that, slack and matrix

Anonymous

I also used TeamSpeak for about 11 years @MechMK1

I would honestly migrate to discord IFF it would let me host my own servers

Journeyman Geek

9:37 AM

@MechMK1 oh, that's why we're on matrix :D

Anonymous

To be honest, I don't really appear anywhere anymorel

Anonymous

I barely come in here either.

I love that you can set up TS3 as an invite-only server. Anyone interested in how that works? I'm proud of it :DDDD

Anonymous

I dont like being around people on the internet any longer

Anonymous

or anyone at all really

Journeyman Geek

9:38 AM

I do need to get my crappy bots fixed up though, I use it for notificatiions from my linux livecd download box :D

I used to go to ##security on freenode. Pros: lots of people. Cons: you don't always get answers

@J.J Good thing this is the DMZ and not the internet

Anonymous

@MechMK1 hehe :D

Journeyman Geek

@J.J I'm social enough on the internet that I am considering taking a risk and making a living off herding y'all iif they'd hire me :D

Anonymous

good point

Anonymous

9:39 AM

I just don't like socialising anymore

Anonymous

i want to move to mongolia or something ngl

Journeyman Geek

which is fine. :D

I am just a failure at socializing. God knows how I managed to do it here

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 meh

people socialise at their own pace

"managed" :D

Journeyman Geek

9:40 AM

and sometimes need a break. Sometimes a long one :D

Anonymous

lol

Anonymous

I am trying to find a new apartment and I realised that my requirements are way too ridiculous

Journeyman Geek

(I kinda was a shut in + cut my self off from my old internet communities for a few years)

Anonymous

i was wondering why i couldnt find something and then when i wrote down all my requirements

Journeyman Geek

@J.J "helipad"

Anonymous

9:41 AM

i have unnecessary demands

Anonymous

hahahhahahah not quite

Journeyman Geek

@J.J the new apartment I am getting has district cooling + ethernet. Its a 2 room though :/

Anonymous

but small things like

Journeyman Geek

also its currently a giant pool of mud.

Anonymous

walk-in shower is a must, no bath, no 2in1.

Journeyman Geek

9:42 AM

uh lol

If you close an account while it's still friends with people, it contributes to database linkage accumulation slowdown, which is a major looming problem for web infrastructure and definitely not a thing I just made up.

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 oh

those communities died

like totally died

Anonymous

I like that xkcd a lot :D

Anonymous

but yeah i need to change some of my requirements

Anonymous

they're absurd

Anonymous

9:43 AM

the shower one though i wont go back on :D

Anonymous

I am scared of 2in1s

Anonymous

i know one day i will slip and smash my head open

Anonymous

same reason i refuse to take a bath over a shower because im clumsy

Anonymous

and i know ima bleed out on my bathroom floor

Anonymous

can you imagine how fucking miserable it would be to slip in the bath and crack your head

Anonymous

9:44 AM

and there is nobody to help

So anyways, the way it works is as follows: You set up a 1024 character long random password up on your TS3 server, then discard it. Essentially, nobody can connect to your server now.

TS3 has 3 groups by default. Admins, Normal Users and Guests. Admins by default have the privilege to connect to a server, even if they don't have the password. Change it so that "normal" users have that privilege too.

Now, TS3 also has a One-Time Privilege Key system. The server admin can generate a privilege key and send it to someone. When using this One-Time Key, you gain the privileges of being a norma…

Anonymous

just led there for hours and hours bleeding from your head...

Anonymous

terrifying.

Journeyman Geek

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that's my new place lol

Moving to flatland, I see

Anonymous

9:45 AM

I like this layout Journeyman.

The WC so central...ehhh?

Anonymous

But, personally I hate having a kitchen.

Not a big fan of that

Anonymous

I order out every meal so it's a waste of space.

Anonymous

I rather have a study than a kitchen. That's another one of my silly requirements.

9:45 AM

Where do you keep the gun safe? And the gaming PC?

Anonymous

I spoke to an estate agent like two weeks ago.

Anonymous

And he asked me "do you have any specific requirements?"

Anonymous

and when i said "very small / no kitchen" he laughed at me.

Anonymous

lmfao

Anonymous

and annoyingly in the uk if you have a small kitchen it doesnt mean you get an extra room for where it would be

Journeyman Geek

9:47 AM

@MechMK1 eh, in singapore detached, or semi detached is expensive

Anonymous

it just means the apartment is smaller in general,.

Anonymous

which is really frustrating

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 no guns in singapore, but if I did, I'd probably just use the house-hold shelter/bomb shelter

gaming PC... uhhh

Anonymous

I like that house hold shelter :D

Journeyman Geek

that's actually something to work out, but I can't really get something larger since I'm single, and its government housing

HDB BTO 2 Room Household Shelter

9:49 AM

My mom keeps her guns behind the bedroom door

what are those green circles?

Journeyman Geek

@reed air conditioner placement

@reed teleporters. They're colour coded

Also this app I am pentesting is weird

It allows me to tell whether or not a specific username exists

Why? Because it has two different messages, but both sound generic enough as if they tried not to give off too much informatiob

Journeyman Geek

and yes. We have an ethernet connection to the bomb shelter :D

Anonymous

also why is it so hard to find an apartment

Journeyman Geek

9:51 AM

I think mine will be a BIT bigger

Anonymous

with a built-in wardrobe ffs

Anonymous

its so frustrating

By putting the bed in the living room, my old bedroom now has my gaming PC

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 I am debating that :D

Anonymous

@MechMK1 Yeah my living room is currently my office

Anonymous

9:53 AM

so much space.

Journeyman Geek

and I don't really need a dining table as a singleton.

Anonymous

i dont have vistors round mine because i dotn have chairs

Anonymous

no furniture except my things

Anonymous

no plates, no kettle, nothing

Journeyman Geek

@J.J I need a comfy sofa.

:D

Anonymous

9:53 AM

oh i dont have one because

Anonymous

if i had furniture people would want to come round

Anonymous

so i dont have any so nobody comes round.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Anonymous

my girlfriend is happy to use my bed as a sofa so i dont have anything

Journeyman Geek

ah, you follow the vorlon philosophy of home decoration

@J.J oh, for me. Not for other people lol

Anonymous

9:54 AM

yeah also because i spend all my money on clothes and computer stuff

Journeyman Geek

oh uh :D

Anonymous

so my house is just rails of clothes

Anonymous

and sneakers everywhere

Journeyman Geek

ah uh

Anonymous

and then lots of computers and servers lol

Journeyman Geek

9:55 AM

I have 2 pairs of footwear. total

Anonymous

see thats smart

Journeyman Geek

2 desktops, 2 NUCs, 2 industrial PCs...

Anonymous

i have a collecting problem

Anonymous

some might call it hoarding

Journeyman Geek

(also I go to work in sandals if its at night)

Anonymous

9:56 AM

i collect sneakers, watches, pens, computer boxes, literally anything

Journeyman Geek

I was joking that if you see me come into work in shorts, I handed in my notice

Honestly, having a bad in the living room is really nice

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 I considered it but I do need to sit. :D

That's what the bed is for

Anonymous

yeah ngl mech it took me a bit to convince my girlfriend that the bed was sufficient seating

Anonymous

9:58 AM

lmfao

Anonymous

as i said id ont like people coming round

Anonymous

my friends used to want to come over and stuff

Anonymous

thats when i started literally gettign rid of all forms of hospitality tools

Journeyman Geek

"I'm sorry, I'm currently having a core reactor leak"

Anonymous

plates, cups, cutlery, kettle, everything really

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