ThatNateGuy 

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Information sponge, InfoSec Enthusiast, Street Epistemologist, geek, friend, うるさい白人, lover, one of the good guys.

Opinions are obviously mine alone and should not be construed as representing or speaking for a past or current employer.

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Show threadThatNateGuy Mar 4

On that topic, please consider signing this change.org petition. I really don't want Google to start preventing installation of apps from outside the Play Store. The freedom I have to install software on my handheld computer is part of why I'm not in Apple's ecosystem.

I'm also concerned Google will start locking down the bootloader like Samsung has, though this petition doesn't address that.

https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage/exp/cl_/cl_sharecopy_490736141_en-US/8/30909662?recruiter=30909662&recruited_by_id=a816e240-f3c3-012f-7961-4040ea65fa16

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Stop Google from limiting APK file usage

Change.org
ThatNateGuy Mar 3

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116159602850585685

I want these to succeed for a number of reasons. At the top of my mind right now is seeing GrapheneOS become a first-class citizen on a major manufacturer's platform, and to signal to other manufacturers the appetite people have for strong security, privacy, and true digital sovereignty.

ThatNateGuy Feb 27

I know it's probably better practice to simply use a terminal (#skillissue ), but I have to say that VS Code (and its forks) have fantastic remoting capabilities when connecting over ssh, especially to UNIX-based systems.

It made the process of joining this Ubuntu server VM to my Active Directory domain sooo much easier.

NOTE: This is an isolated machine in a lab environment, not a production system.

ThatNateGuy Apr 17, 2025
Lol. Lmao.
ThatNateGuy Apr 16, 2025
InfosecjenApr 16, 2025
Huge congrats to the folks behind the new CVE Foundation (https://www.thecvefoundation.org/) - amazing work to be able to announce this so quickly after the news about MITRE's funding expiring broke. I really look forward to see how the next phase of the CVE Program will unfold... I hope lots of private sector and government folks are having conversations about how they can support the Foundation going forward.
CVE Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a

ThatNateGuy Apr 16, 2025

It's difficult to overstate how huge this is. CISA and the DoD rely on CVEs to say nothing of the hundreds of companies that also do.

Did Congress fail to fund? Did DOGE's downsizing hit this?

ThatNateGuy Apr 7, 2025
What are some of your ways to determine whether someone is looking for a meaningful dialogue versus "just asking questions"?
ThatNateGuy Mar 19, 2025

I have heard a lot of takes from even malware analysts that most Windows users do not need third-party antivirus solutions for their own PCs and that Windows Defender is sufficient these days.
I think even @JohnHammond said as much in one of his YouTube videos. (John, call me out if I'm wrong!)

What do you guys think?

ThatNateGuy Mar 7, 2025
I wonder what the people who write "u" instead of "you" do with all the time they've saved.
ThatNateGuy Feb 18, 2025

I'm planning to (eventually) do some network overkill on my small home LAN. Specifically, I'm planning to offload my #dns and #dhcp to my Protectli Vault.

I have a number of options available for both, but I'm leaning towards BIND9 for DNS and either Kea DHCP or ISC DHCP server. Yes, I know the latter is deprecated. What would push me towards Kea would be DDNS that's not too insane to set up.

Thoughts?