Hopefully Chivas Regal and cocaine

Tech-savy teenagers can pull of a “cyber attack” on a nonprofit. It doesn’t have to be a smart choice. Sometimes people just want to relieve their anger, break some shit, and claim it for whatever floats their boat right now.

The evidence is absolute bullshit though. So I don’t believe it either.

Thanks to a bit of anonymous text on the disinformation machine of a fascist US billionaire, we finally know what’s up. Thank God for this achievement in journalism.

This is nothing new. You can buy these USB cable testers on Amazon or directly from Alibaba. They just put some fancy visualization on top so you don’t have to look up what the individual LEDs on the tester mean.

As others have generally noted about Kickstarter, this is just another scam with cheap Chinese gadgets.

Username definitely checks out

They realized that they can get away with stealing data. No reason to keep up the facade anymore

These people claimed their product can pass the bar exam (it was a lie). Tells you how they feel about the legal system

A minute ago I saw a post that was a screenshot of a tweet of a screenshot of a Chinese social media post, claiming some shit. People upvote that.

I rather let it stand for the handful of people that need to know 95% of the room are challenged in their ability to evaluate the situation

Nothing you know about maybe

If you believe every developer at Amazon, including AWS, might as well permanently work from home, globally, then I just can’t take your opinion seriously. Sorry. All points have been made

I don’t even disagree with you. However…

There are thousands of people at home with access to privileged information and they have never heard of a KVM switch. It’s insane how blind to reality some people here are. If you have never been in an online meeting where a participant had their camera off, mic on, was AFK, and their child fucked around on the laptop, because they never lock it, then you really have no fucking idea about security at scale.

Just because some people here love to work from home, doesn’t mean it applies to an entire corporation as large as Amazon

I wish you knew how stupid you look for writing that

Likewise :) Sad to learn you are one of those that act confidentially while being blind. I’m the guy that cleans up after you.

I’m not talking about myself in your last quote. I consult clients on their operational and technological challenges. I see a lot. Of course, you might also consult similar amounts of clients and you can see that their largest deficit contributor is that people aren’t taking their work home, but that’s not what I’m getting from you.

You just seem angry, because you can’t stomach that there are valid reasons for you to move out of your comfort zone. Sorry.

So how did those laptops get stolen? Would that have been possible if their users worked on a local client at the office?

Rocket science is a fucking joke compared to secure IT practices. You saying that, proves that you know neither well enough to participate in this discourse. Most users would operate more securely if their client device was also physically restricted. If you don’t understand that, that’s the reason you are not making decisions. I’m sorry to be so blunt.

There are highly capable technical people that can securely work from home, but this is not the average user. If you don’t recognize that, you are probably just cheering for your own personal comfort right now. I get comfort, but don’t be blind to reality

I work in consulting. I don’t have to make up anything. Be angry, but some people are trying to play their role in capitalism successfully.

Just because you can perform a job from home, doesn’t mean it’s ideal for performance. With jobs like surgeons or bus drivers it’s more obvious, but the cut is not as clear as people like it to be.

I would hope it doesn’t take you long to imagine someone who has access to information about you where you would prefer it not be open on their laptop on their kitchen table at home while guests are around.

I’m not trying to defend Amazon. This is an active subject at many companies.

Confident. I like that.

Especially because TypeScript compiles down to JavaScript JS