mansfield

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[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

Don't fall for this horseshit. The only danger here is unchecked greed from these sociopaths.

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for these to get hacked and turned against us.

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (7 children)

If a hospital can't operate because some asshole was able to remotely hack it bad enough to basically shut it down, we might need to rethink how things are run.

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Seems best to do this after firing the first 2-3 levels of leadership since this whole mess was created under their watch. Maybe the next thing to do is to ask if the US government wants to so heavily depend on a company that is no longer a US entity.

Microsoft is overwhelmingly Indian contractors now. Infact much of the large legacy US tech companies have done so much offshoring I'd hardly call them US companies anymore. Are these companies really who we want to stake our national security on?

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Anything with over 100WH batteries would need airline approval before you can fly with it. This is why laptop makers rarely exceed this limit.

https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/portable-electronic-devices-with-batteries

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My impression is that on M(n) silicon Parallels is the most polished virtualization experience on Mac you can get now. Virtualbox lives under the shadow of Oracle which is not a place you want to be.

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (6 children)

redhat is just sitting right there.... waiting,

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This very partial list is based on my being in cyber security for 20 years and working a variety of incidents involving these apps. You all can do whatever you want with your computers.

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (4 children)

So just to illustrate, I went to the normal FileZilla download page and downloaded the Win64 package. Then I submitted it to VirusTotal.

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64#close

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dbde8a4bd71bb1fbc0511cdb657dfeffdaedc513aa425f856043532a7cba6fce

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 65 points 7 months ago (47 children)

Kaspersky is just one piece of software to avoid. Others include:

  • Telegram
  • Avast AV
  • Anything from 360 Safe / Qihoo 360
  • Opera browser ... now owned by above
  • Zoom
  • FileZilla / UTorrent / other PUA that bundles adware and acts essentially as a trojan
[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

ARM is limited by licensing greed. RISC-V or its successors is the future.

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