Mastodawn

SwiftOnSecurity 2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116771101679070048

You may think this is silly, but USB-based malware is absolutely still a thing in some countries.

SwiftOnSecurity 2d ago

It never occurs to Europeans that maybe Americans don't need to take vacations from freedom 🇺🇸

SwiftOnSecurity 3d ago

An old version of our company's "Open this box if your region of North America has fallen" kits distributed to our corporate properties: an official Iridium satellite phone solar battery charger

SwiftOnSecurity 4d ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/116761521140383487

Note this was a joke do not do this

SwiftOnSecurity 4d ago

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/usr/local/goth @ home 4d ago

@SwiftOnSecurity holy crap nk2 cache takes me back so many years

SwiftOnSecurity 4d ago

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[nate@social0 ~]$

4d ago

@SwiftOnSecurity my supervisor once let me walk a guy through ms dos fdisk, by memory, so he could monitor the call and see if i could. Even though it was way outside of the scope of support we provided.

Those were the days. When techs were rewarded for expertise, and a job well done. not call time averages with no context. i'm glad i put my time in then, before the whole industry shifted.

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SwiftOnSecurity 4d ago

Oh, we're on the 3rd hour of this Helpdesk call? No, YOU hang up motherfucker, this is the most interesting shit I've seen this month.

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SwiftOnSecurity 4d ago

Working in Helpdesk I'd build solutions for people that wasn't my job just so I wouldn't answer another call about resetting the Outlook NK2 cache again or some shit.

SwiftOnSecurity 4d ago

Just opened a Microsoft support case for IPsec. It's not actually for an IPsec issue, but those are the smartest oldheads left over there, and they'll probably just figure it out so they don't have to take another call about IPsec.

SwiftOnSecurity 5d ago

Was just given an escalation why we weren't allowing a piece of open source software. It was one of these AI generated shitware wrapper sites
https://social.kernel.org/objects/bc6c59fe-a58c-47f7-9f1a-604d21b7f003

Bartosz Golaszewski (@[email protected])

This is the first time I'm posting anything here but I figured this may be the right audience. I've never run into something like this and I don't quite know what to make of it. I'm the author and...