Even if you're a public servant, a backdoor is a big security risk.
exactly!
Readit Newsmito88 commented on Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Hypothetically, how would someone know there was a warrant out for their arrest in another country? That doesn’t seem like public information.
I figure most cyber criminals assume they are untraceable until they get arrested.
interpol
mito88 commented on Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/c... · Posted by u/kekqqq
0. Don't use a garbage retail or ISP-provided, closed-source router.
Here's one option:
https://shop.opnsense.com/product/dec740-opnsense-desktop-se...
1. Suggesting turning off IPv6 is ridiculous security theater. It's a known quantity deployed at scale. Dual stack or turn in your "hacker cred" card now. ;)
€749,00
gulp
mito88 commented on Show HN: Shehzadi in Peril – My first ever game shehzadi.vercel.app... · Posted by u/sh4jid
nice!
One question candidates like to ask me: "What's your biggest challenge over the next year? Next 5 years?"
and then.. "How is this role contributing toward solving that challenge?" (Sometimes people replace "challenges" with "vision" or "goal")
These question catches me off guard sometimes. But if I were the candidate, they are great questions to expose whether a company is hiring this role to fix a problem (if so there are probably very specific expectations) or are they hiring the role to make a good thing better.
Dirty secret about interviews: there are very few questions a candidate can ask that would leave a negative impression. You can literally ask "Are you profitable?" or "What is the turnover rate of your team?" or "If you had to improve our team culture, what's one thing you would change?" or even "I've worked at a lot of companies that don't know what they're doing. What's your plan?"
On the interviewer side, there's also very few questions candidates won't answer. I always ask what their salary expectations are, where they are in the process with other companies, how they like to be managed, etc --- occasionally there's someone who's dodgy with these questions, but 95% of candidates are extremely transparent. I return the favor by happily answering any questions a candidate asks. It's a big decision on both sides to hire someone or accept an offer, so no point in putting on a facade.
5 years: "In five years, I see myself as an important part of this organization, having grown in my role and contributing to the company's success...."
next year: "achieve 20% of the above..."
:)
mito88 commented on L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure l402.org/... · Posted by u/janandonly
Can anyone tell me why this is any better than just logging in? This seems like its solving a problem that doesnt exist.
is it an alternative?
mito88 commented on Making a Linux-managed network switch blog.brixit.nl/making-a-l... · Posted by u/_Microft
STP is "slow" STP, and RSTP is a degenerate case of MSTP!
MSTP is Multiple spanning trees ie you can group VLANs and prefer paths for those groups of VLANs. That means if you have say two links between two bridges (switches) you can prefer some to use one link and the rest to use the other, that means you are not "wasting" a standby link. They will fail over to the surviving link on failure. STP and RSTP will only consider one link as a whole, so two ports are "wasted" when not in use: in the case of a two bridge, two links example.
Old school STP without the Rapid part hasn't really been a thing for several decades. I can't think of why you wouldn't use RSTP in general but if you need to make best use of your forwarding capacity then a 50/50 MSTP may be indicated. That's where you look at your traffic flows across VLANs and try to bundle them up into a 50/50% collection. One lot prefers link A and the rest get link B. Obviously you can get really creative as the number of VLANs and links mount up. Bear in mind that dot1Q is a simple version of QinQ!
Sorry, got a bit carried away there.
For nearly all intents and purposes, RSTP is STP. If you plug in a network cable between two devices and it does not start working within say five seconds then you are living in the 1990s.
> If you plug in a network cable between two devices and it does not start working within say five seconds then you are living in the 1990s.
a living in a hub...
:)
Mucking around with autoexec.bat, config.sys, emm386 etc to get 1-2-3 to load was fun. Lots of TSRs using up memory. The amount of times I had to tell people to create a "clean config" by commenting out most of autoexec.bat...
We also had to post people floppy disks with the correct printer driver on. No downloads in those days.
"What would a piece of software have to do today to make you cheer and applaud upon seeing a demo?"
I was at LotusSphere when Lotus Notes 4 was announced and demo-ed. That got a standing ovation.
:)