Lesley Carhart 
Oh to be young again, and believe I was really clever recommending technical cybersecurity solutions to the average human being.
Michael Robinson@hacks4pancakes Is this a LastPass subtoot? Because if it is, I feel you.
@michael_robinson I already tweeted it directly, and regretted reading a few replies
@hacks4pancakes I wonder* if there's someone out there working on a SolarWinds-style supply-chain attack on Authy. Because wouldn't that just be a fine day at the office.
(* not really)
Icevice@hacks4pancakes @michael_robinson I feel called out lol
Michael Gurski@hacks4pancakes I have a hard enough time convincing even moderately technical people...
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thompsonize@hacks4pancakes my appetite for that sort of thing died the day a user emailed me a password without me even asking for it while troubleshooting an issue together. "I thought you might need it."
We were literally on a call and chatting while they hit send. They emailed it to me casual af while I was as asking how their kids were doing.
ITX MikeWe *still* have clients who will reply to their ticket email with a password 'just in case'. We explicitly asked you to call with it. But thanks for adding it to a cloud ticket system. *redact*
@mspsadmin @hacks4pancakes Last time we revised our security orientation deck we put, "DO NOT TELL YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYONE INCLUDING IT, WE HAVE OTHER WAYS" in it. I'd've put it in <blink> tags if I could've.
Bee@hacks4pancakes I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that my mother’s habit of writing her passwords down in a little notebook that she kept in a safe place was the most secure way to do things.
@gippslandgoose it’s honestly fine for most people if they’re strong and unique
Nick 'The Viking'@hacks4pancakes @gippslandgoose
Assuming I'm not subject to a nation/state attack, is 8 characters of Aa2@ adequate?
@nlarson830 @gippslandgoose I’d suggest a bit longer these days. Pass phrases are a great option!
robert daniel pickardmy friend's mom teaches little kids and said there was always this stage where they'd be like "Miss R. look! I can read upside down! I can read without looking!".
I think about that a lot. The really excited, proud, enthusiastic but still free floating thing you just learned
@rdp I was insufferable.
@hacks4pancakes @rdp was? /ducking
I was the same way, and taught myself to read mirrored text, too (there was some Sunday comic with puzzles that printed the answers mirrored)
(And, wow, that was the first time I ever *intended* that word to start with "d" instead of "f", and autocorrect changed it to "f")
HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot@emag @hacks4pancakes @rdp Being able to read upside down and/or mirrored text can occasionally be useful! (Not _only_ for reading someone’s notes about me in a job interview, but…)
Play Ball and Fight Fascists@hacks4pancakes
I've done two rounds of softwares support (same product) over the course of about ~12 years.
I was good the first time, but so much better at it 10 years older.
My boss said, "you just ooze empathy" - cause life had put me through the wringer.
nikolawannabe@hacks4pancakes I have some serious 18 year old guilt for "helping" a cousin build a computer with a Duron processor running Linux during a winter break and never following up with them after going back to school. Oh my.
Rob@hacks4pancakes YEHP... If you manage to get your grandmother on Ubuntu linux, do NOT, I repeat DO NOT, under any circumstances try to set her up with tripwire and install snort on a pfsense device to her network... all security implementations will be ignored, bypassed, and disabled... old people have a funny way of doing this.