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@DavidFreitag This might help: download.microsoft.com/download/a/f/7/…
From 2007? Likely contains outdated information that is unusable or won't work.
Oh shiznits
LOL
> What's New in Windows Vista
lmao
Sorry
Nah I'll still read it, it will probably help
00:02
I closed the link when it said "virus scan your code"
00:20
ah, code-signing. indeed. this is a good idea
I've been reading up on it
01:14
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A: How (in)secure is POP/IMAP/SMTP

wschloss"Hey Joe," I have been having almost the exact same discussion/argument with o p t o n l i n e (CableVision)for several years. Problem is I really like my email address (had one of the very first back in '97), which is not portable, and it would be a HUGE pain to change--and I have tried (mostly...

Is that well disguised spam, or just weird?
Just weird
01:49
@Xander This is weird spam.
 
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07:39
Mornin'
07:53
but those are all great jokes
heh
08:10
Morning
08:21
@M'vy mornin'
08:42
mornin' @deed02392 hows Leatherhead?
morning
09:07
Morning
09:19
oh, rep capped before getting dressed, might as well go back to bed then
I found a total of 0 acceptable to use samples in Fallout
although I did think about sampling the opening monologue
Rep-capped pony :)
@kalina keeping the streak alive?
acceptable-to-use samples in Fallout, heh? Do you usually do Fallout'mix?
@M'vy I look for content to sample in every activity I undertake
yes that means I'm terrible to take to the cinema
@kalina hehe :)
Does it mean you bother your companion with it while watching the film?
09:36
it means not being quiet, having phones etc on
eeeeek
it also means what started as watching youtube ends up being a music making session
or tv
or movies
or driving places
or visiting friends
or playing games
or... anything
@kalina chatting on the DMZ?
being on the internet in general
@kalina I was just wondering if you'd sampled the DMZ..
Do..dododo...dodo.......NUT!
09:41
I think I'm not comfortable in being sampled.
@RоryMcCune There isn't all that much sound in here. Except for the occasional ping.
@Arperum you could sample the Chat.SE ping :)
or text-->speech some of the text
You can find cool title for songs though
"I prefer toasted tigger"
please, text to speech is only appropriate for being completely inappropriate
you can't try and make a serious track using text to speech
@RоryMcCune in my mind, that went to the tune of du hast.
09:46
@JourneymanGeek ohh that would be good
@kalina well TBH I didn't really think you'd try to make a serious track with data from an InfoSec chat room
it's not the most inspirational of sources
considering it's what I do for a living, most writing of a track are generally serious
@kalina you could do stuff for fun too surely
that would be like me saying "TBH I didn't really think you'd try and make a serious career out of information security"
or is it all SRS business
@kalina not it's not, it's like saying "you can have fun in IT sec, even though it's your job"
not everything has to be super serious
fun and serious are not mutually exclusive things
09:55
shit I hang out here and give away free advice, yet I'm a consultant who gets paid for that advice
Mandy Haeburn-Little of @sbrc_scotland tells #ScotGovNEF if Scotland upgrades its IT devices we would be 80% more cyber secure
:)
^^what does that even mean!!
nothing
snakkkkkkkes
@RоryMcCune If Scotland destroys its IT devices it would be 100% cyber secure :P
@TildalWave well hearing things like that from people advising the gov. on security does make me want to destroy my IT devices... by bashing my head off them
09:59
@RоryMcCune they're just selling shit
i.e. they're doing their job
@TildalWave oh sure, but it really pains me, that improving security is really really easy conceptually without all this nonsense people talk about. start by "knowing what all our IT systems are, their location, installed software, patch level, patching process"
it's not stakeholder's fault that a country is seeking advice from them
@TildalWave ahh well the Scottish Business Resiliancy Centre (SBRC) are meant to be helping scottish business to be more secure/resiliant and they get paid to do that
@kalina oh...
@RоryMcCune see? then it's all fine :)
10:02
@TildalWave grr Subject matter experts shouldn't be saying things like "80% more cyber secure"
"lies to children" is a thing, I know , but that's taking the mickey
if govt spends money in its area of influence then that's fine even if they spend it stupidly, right?
@RoryAlsop <InfoSecMeme> Is that a Euphamism? </InfoSecMeme>
@TildalWave sure as long as it's not an area I know something about 'cause then I get narky if they're wasting it
@RоryMcCune I would read that as "it's easy to sell IT services to Scottish govt, invest in IT" rather than "Scottish gotv is spending IT money unwisely, I'm out of here"
@RоryMcCune ... Could be
@TildalWave all govts spend IT money unwisely
10:06
@RоryMcCune No, I don't think so. From your perspective perhaps, but if they're spending it within Scotland and there's free market and open competition for it, then that's not unwise and if it seems ill advised it's not govt's fault either, it's the industry that has to get better at it.
And the only way for it to get better is to inject more money into it. So it's actually the opposite of unwise :P
@TildalWave perhaps we're talking at cross-purposes. when I say unwisely I mean they spend it on the wrong things, their priorities are incorrect in many cases and their projects fail
this to me is an unwise way to spend money
@RоryMcCune then it's your job to inform them of a more wise way to spend it
better it should be spent wisely on projects which deliver and make a difference
an unwise way to spend money is to get your bi-annual royalty payment and spend it all on cocaine
@TildalWave yeah when I win the lottery and have the freedom not to do a day-job I can go bang my head on the brick wall of large bureaucratic entities for funsies
@kalina yes that is unwise and potentially fatal (depending on how much money is involved)
10:09
@RоryMcCune can't you just start an interest group? :D
@RоryMcCune well no, not at all
irrelevant how much money is involved
more down to how quickly you consume it
@TildalWave well OWASP is kind of one, but the problem is that to change govs opinions involves politics and IT people tend to be allergic to that, also you are up against some serious entrenched interests (the large co's who like the current arrangements just fine)
@kalina I'll defer to your greater experience in this field :)
@RоryMcCune I meant one that will seek influence within the govt
@TildalWave again should I have the financial liberty to do that, I may have a shot :)
but succeeding at lobbying a government is much more about being good at politics than having good knowledge of a field
What financial liberty? You have some good arguments here, start talking about it by maybe publishing a critical article in one of your local newspapers. Make an interest group then wait for people to join. Then propose an independent review of Scotland's IT infrastructure et al.
You might be closer to such position than you realize.
10:14
@TildalWave that would be amusing, but I'm reasonably certain it would take a lot more work than that
If you're upset that people lobby your govt with BS then lobby it with non-BS, don't complain about it :P
it's your govt ;)
@TildalWave whhaaat I have to try and fix everything I complain about.... I'm a security person, all we do is complain
4
sometimes, for fun, we like to change things up and whinge about things
@RоryMcCune "being good at politics" translates to "unethical but subtle enough to bribe officials properly, yet still retain plausible deniability", right?
@AviD hey that's cyncical even for me :op I was more thinking that building a case, identifying key stakeholders, persuading them to back you, getting access to more senior people , creating policies, getting them past committees etc are all political skills that may not come easily to techies :)
@RоryMcCune you should watch House of Cards
plus, Kate Mara.
10:26
@AviD I watched the old one :oP
@RоryMcCune the old one?
oh crap, dont tell me that is also based on an old crappy BBC version of the same thing?
House of Cards is a 1990 British political thriller television drama serial in four episodes, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was televised by the BBC from 18 November to 9 December 1990, to critical and popular acclaim. Andrew Davies adapted the story from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters. Neville Teller also dramatised Dobbs's novel for BBC World Service in 1996, and it had two television sequels (To Play the King and The Final Cut). The opening and closing theme music for those...
and I dont mean Yes, Mr. Prime Minister
@AviD we've had this conversation before
@RоryMcCune I must have repressed it.
oh look, I just did that again.
10:28
May 8 at 13:06, by AviD
damn, did I just #simon up the place?
^is what you said after the last time
@AviD it's usually the other way around actually and the original trumps over some lame US version
yes but the lame US version has Kevin Spacey just being himself in it
it's a bit like with computer games... just because there's more eye candy it doesn't mean it's a better game
@kalina and kate mara
no she's dead
10:30
@TildalWave by "eye candy" you mean Kate Mara, right?
Kevin Spacey killed her
threw her in front of a train
@kalina SPOILERS
literally
@AviD googles Kate Mara :)
@TildalWave make sure safe search is off
10:31
If I'm spoiling something that happened years ago and that's a bad thing then we need to talk about how you guys bring up stuff from the pre 2000s without taking into consideration that you're spoiling it for the rest of us
well, she ain't that bad lookin'
I bet she was after she was hit by a train
after being thrown under it by Kevin Spacey
for no reason other than her questioning why people were dying
@kalina lol
"spoilers" are only valid for current things
10:32
@kalina that's the seventh degree of Kevin Spacey?
season 2 of house of cards is not current
@kalina "did you kill people?" "NO, I would never do that!" kills person asking
@AviD literally that but without the denial
"why are all of these people dying?" "oh I wish you'd stop asking" "but I can't" throws in front of a train
it happened so fast that I had to rewind
@kalina hmm you're right, he was evasive instead.
@kalina 3 times
he should've thrown her off the top of the house of parliament instead
onto a parked van below
10:34
that scene instilled fear of trains and tube systems into me
there's nothing somebody of my size would be able to do to prevent such a scenario
@kalina duck?
it's like the end of fallout 4 when world war 4 starts and more nukes are dropped
@kalina only use tube stations with those plexiglass panels installed then ;)
@kalina paging @Ohnana to the spoiler ward
@AviD don't most European tubes use that middle rail for power? I actually don't know but it seems that there isn't really much space to duck
maybe if you lean sideways
they're rather deep
10:40
It was a short joke. I was implying that @kalina is oh so very short.
@TildalWave okay, so bring a duck and cook it on the middle rail.
crispy :)
it's ok, I got the "joke", I hate you for it and hope somebody nukes everywhere you've ever been
s/hole/hope?
your mother
10:42
If someone nukes where you've been, and dosen't airburst, there will be holes.
And craters.
if someone nukes every place I've been then the whole planet will look like the moon
@AviD pls, @kalina is a 6'4" 250LBS trucker, (s)he ain't that short
@RоryMcCune aye tis good, free doughnuts!
@deed02392 nice! someone's birthday?
@RоryMcCune honestly I'm not sure if I'm more offended by being called a man or fat
10:44
nah Matt is just awesome
and the tall thing is definitely mocking me for being not tall
you should be careful calling people fat, it causes psychological damage in which somebody who weighs 50kg starts trying to lose weight
@kalina 6'4" 250LBS (193 cm, 113 kg) ain't fat
@kalina it was more a reference to the fact that as far as anyone here knows you could be a blue pony with rainbow coloured hair, so references to physical characteristics are a touch irrelevant :op
@deed02392 suppose there have to be some advantages to working in an office...
@RоryMcCune this is the only one i need
mmm strawberry
And as far as anyone knows, I'm a 9.5 kg blonde terrier ;p
10:48
@TildalWave sorry if I offended you
also if you're that tall eye contact would be difficult
@kalina hehe no I'm not so tall and heavy
not that much less tho
I'm not short, I'm agile.
why is there so much snapchat spam with those confirm email messages?
and why isn't google blocking that?
I'm not interested in that shit!
steam bullied me into providing them a phone number
@kalina burner phone with a PAYG SIM?
10:51
I really wish I could get a burner phone for stuff like that here
and/or there was an easier way to report illegal loansharks
@JourneymanGeek can you not just get cheap PAYG SIMs bought over the counter with cash?
when I was in finland last week they sold them in all the convenience stores
they ask you for ID, even then, and you're limited to 3 active ones at a time.
@JourneymanGeek wow that's draconian for sure
10:53
Blame terrorists.
@JourneymanGeek you'll need to go ToR/TailsOS/VOIP then :)
(and of course, its not like you can't buy one off a foreign worker past his contract)
@JourneymanGeek heh
@JourneymanGeek Why? Because limiting terrorists to 3 sims stopped so many of them?
@TildalWave hey hey hey none of that logic here
10:54
@TildalWave well, we haven't had too many incidents, so clearly it works, just like the elephant repellent.
@RоryMcCune yes basically
although apparently having more than one phone is bad news
@RоryMcCune it's just one of those pretend to be doing something restrictions
I got stopped by the police some time back for speeding and because I had two phones they arrested me on suspicion of drug charges
(and yeah, I've considered a PAYG phone card for stuff like that. Or general use.)
"only dealers have more than one phone", I'm told
10:55
@kalina it's like they've not heard of people practicing good OpSec for other reasons!
they were very apologetic once they realized their mistake
@JourneymanGeek chewing gum ban might have done more for that
no way to bring into the country C4 wrapped in Hubba Bubba print :)
@RоryMcCune sometimes it's not even opsec related
@kalina heh, you should have said "One's for my boyfriend, and the other's for the one on the side"
10:57
smart phone batteries are hardly "great"
get a powerbank? ;p
powerbanks don't resolve the >72 hour issue
(One's for my wife, and the other's for my mistress happens here)
@kalina: mine might do that actually.
I'm not interested in carrying my own weight in batteries around with me
does roughly 4-5 full charges on my phone
wee bit bulky, but it lives in my backpack.
11:21
So todays reminder that I'm old came from @deed02392 who is so young he didn't know about the reserved words in windows filenames.. no calling things COM1 in case you get in the way of the serial port
@kalina how about a solar charger?
@RоryMcCune my bad!
@deed02392 no you're just young :op
i started out on 95
it's been a fair while since Serial ports were a big thing
my last serial device was probably a modem in the 90's
had to make sure you got the Hi-speed UART in your port of course
otherwise you were limited to 9600 bps (IIRC)
which was a serious crimp on your otherwise blazing 28800 bps speed!
11:31
9 answers and 64 votes away from the silver fallout-4 tag badge
not bad in 8 days
11:43
@RоryMcCune - I still have one device that requires a serial port. I think I can run it at 118kbaud
Only now I use a USB to serial adapter
I have a header somewhere on my desktop for that.
@RoryAlsop oh yeah i forgot the last bastion of the serial port, firewall management, but I have a serial --> USB converter for those
which is kinda wierd. I suppose though in a generation or 20, they'll have a webui.
11:57
@JourneymanGeek lucky @RoryAlsop, he'll be around to see that happen in 20 generations.
@JourneymanGeek Written in Javascript.
@TerryChia I've seen admin interfaces for systems in that already, I remember loading the login page of one and getting like 100KLoc of JavaScript down without even authenticating
@RоryMcCune oh many do, and its not even really new.
Hell I remember ISA 2006 had an admin webui.
@AviD no this was a couple of years back... I'd love to hear the patching strategy the vendors have for those JavaScript libs though
A lot of those boxes you get nowadays, like fortinet etc are also webui only.
e.g. imperva.
though that last is not strictly a firewall...
btw I think my UPS is also serial, I should look into getting a converter for that.
12:08
@TildalWave UK trains are powered by a middle rail, but French trains are powered from the cables above (and there is no middle rail)
@ThomasPornin ah cool I didn't notice that, thanks
actually if they also go above ground that kinda makes sense so they don't have to switch
@TildalWave yeah our overground electric stuff is overhead cables..
and IIRC the glasgow underground isn't middle rail, so much as rail at the side
@RоryMcCune you mean to say that there is ONE thing that UK does the same as continental Europe? :)
@TildalWave well ya know it's hard to be contrary all the time (I mean even @000, @kalina and @AviD agree on things sometimes!)
@RоryMcCune no we don't
12:15
hehe
@ThomasPornin I knew we was gonna get schooled on the current state of European trains design by a certain French bear.
current state? time current or electricity current? :P
wow the market for devs must be getting really tight, when people look at my Github profile and conclude that I would be right for a Full-stack dev. job in spain paying 50-65k Euros
@ThomasPornin even the paris metro?
@RоryMcCune You must have some juicy Javascript in that profile! ;)
12:23
@TerryChia apart from probably some repos from a training course I've looked at, I can safely say there's no JavaScript in there, mostly just ruby scripts for one thing and another...
and we all know that Ruby is full stack
just like JavaScript :))
I think the skill requirement for "full stack dev" is anyone who has ever written a line of code. Ever.
I had to switch my LinkedIn to "not interested" after getting loads of offers for having JS in my skills
That is to say not very high.
@JourneymanGeek no, only the “normal” trains. The Paris metro gets power from a third rail.
12:26
Yeah, thought so
Oh wait, the UK does have a normal rail system.
I used it once
@ThomasPornin Only in the south of London. The rest of the country uses catenaries.
Then realised buses/planes were cheaper and more reliable.
@JourneymanGeek if always late is normal then yes :)
@TildalWave I tended to take national express/megabus if I wanted to go into london, and airplanes elsewhere
12:28
though I once took a bus into scotland and it was ace.
they also go at great length to make it as inconvenient as possible
@TildalWave So, its crap ;p
e.g. I couldn't pay a ticket for someone else with my credit card
(that said, <3 the TGV)
@JourneymanGeek I prefer the trains from a comfort/speed factor (they're not always late, just a lot of the time) but the bus can't be beat for price
and of course if you ask @RoryAlsop the answer would be "bah public transport, get a subaru instead :op "
12:31
@RoryAlsop cheapie airfares kinda beat it on both.
@JourneymanGeek oh most rail systems in EU are pretty good, excellent even if you compare them to the UK ones, which I find really funny considering they invented the thing LOL
I think I flew one of the low cost airlines and it was a lot cheaper
it does get substantially worse out of EU tho
(and still in Europe)
12:31
@JourneymanGeek yeah if you book in advance ryanair/easyjet are much cheaper
I'd like to visit france again if my life gets back in order ;p
Maybe bristol. I have an odd affection for the place ;p
and there's a few exceptions in EU too, such as Romania ... trains there are awful
India runs a pretty good train system
@JourneymanGeek there's many a british person who likes a nice bristol
usually cheap and reliable.
Is that a euphamism? Based on the bristol scale?
12:33
@JourneymanGeek which is again funny considering it was set in place by the Brits
@TildalWave they kept it state owned, and focused on low cost, semi high reliability
@JourneymanGeek well the usual term is "pair of bristols"
@RоryMcCune what does that mean?
ah hah.
I suppose I might like a good pair of bristols.
A single bristol, though, poor lass.
@RоryMcCune oh cockney I didn't consider that
Three would be a little odd. And 6 would mean she's likely a right b****.
@TildalWave a fair quantity of uk slang comes from the cockneys they're inventive
@JourneymanGeek they have 8 don't they? it's just 6 functional ones
also, it's perfectly OK to say bitch if you're referring to female dogs :P
12:37
Donno, I don't go round rubbing ponies ;p
And typically we get boy dogs
I have one bitch ... don't really stare at her tits LOL but I would check her sometimes for ticks and it's good to make sure if it's a tit or a tick before I start pulling it out :))
@JourneymanGeek I'm sure I got something out of context, but it still amused me to clean that up proper.
@AviD: Entirely so ;p
@AviD mod abuse! :D
We were quite literally talking about girl dogs and their mammeries. ;p
12:40
we actually were talking of bitches (you know, female dogs) :P
poor women who have a dog as their chinese star sign
s/dogs/ponies/
I don't like how for no reason @AviD is trying to turn this into you all calling me a bitch
@kalina I have a pig as my chinese star sign.
000
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@AviD Yes we do.
12:44
@JourneymanGeek I'm so glad you don't have a cock as your chinese star sign :)))
000
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I dreamed that @ThomasPornin was talking to my mom, see how much you guys have corrupted my dreams with "your mom" things?
@TildalWave That would be fowl.
@000 it wasn't a dream.
ah they call it a "rooster"
The Rooster (simplified Chinese: 鸡; traditional Chinese: 雞/鷄) is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch character 酉. == Years and the Five ElementsEdit == People born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "Year of the Rooster", while also bearing the following elemental sign: == Basic astrology elementsEdit == == See alsoEdit == Chinese zodiac Five movements == ReferencesEdit... ==
12:46
@TildalWave some people call the 'pig' a boar too
@kalina @AviD stir up trouble.... well there's a surprising turn of events :o
apparently I'm a Wood Tiger LOL
if Wiki is to be trusted that is
@TildalWave you bounce up and down on wood?
@kalina wood tiger ... Tiger Woods ... duh! Obviously, I hit balls hard :D
000
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You also cheat on your wife in a very grandiose way.
12:51
really?
nothing grandiose about cheating
I just wanted to ask how does that work
000
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@kalina Of course but the media sure made it somewhat grandiose.
I'm glad it ruined his career
000
000
Well, he has enough money to sit back, relax and do the pls dance.
12:52
but from an objective point of view that was a pretty harsh punishment for domestic infidelity
Chinese astrology heh
000
000
True.
Your personal life and your career should never be related.
what not even in same person? :Oo
000
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tildol
pls
@000 well there are obvious exceptions
000
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12:57
kalinuh, watch this:

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