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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

How far do you guys go?

'All of it's or until it's inconvenient?

What's the pain tolerance for when everyone says it makes the job too hard?

Ever compared CIS controls to STIG ACAP?

I've only ever used SCAP for a few reasons z but one being it's free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

What do you guys use for STIG audit?

Manual STIG viewer or SCAP?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Personally, I am also convinced there's unlikely to be a flip of Indiana from red to blue (unless something changes), so I have to consider which red I want, or dislike the least.

I haven't researched the new likely front runner yet. I've only seen comments here, which likely won't favor him, but I might not either after I consider his record and stances, IDK.

Rock and a hard place?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Why is nothing about this shit ever taught in school. They basically say there's a Congress and constitution, and that's it.

And now, we make sure not to leave our they all owned slaves, but nothing useful as a society member IMO.

I don't know anything about this stuff

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

We are just a little behind trying to elect our new dictator...

But just for a day...

/S 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nice. Then what's the Spanish equivalent?

I have only visited Rota. Neat place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the insight.

It's a shame we still can all just get along. That saying is lame, but it's ultimately the goal.

One of my ideas, that isn't terribly realistic or shouldn't have to be resorted to, is to locate our selves in regions that are more welcoming.

There was a person at my work who was lesbian, which I suspected, but they weren't open. One day at a social event, they brought their wife and brother (for support) and made public. I was stupid and didn't put all that together until then.

They moved to Washington State and both have great jobs now. I felt like part of that move was related to moving to a region known to support their life style more welcomingly, at least compared to Indiana.

You shouldn't have to do that, but if I could stack enough chips to afford doing that and needed to, I would.

I said above that you shouldn't have to do that ever. No one should be treated like shit by whole groups of people, political, religious or other wise.

I like the idea of states competing for talent and opportunity. Washington also tried decriminalization of all drugs. Lots of people nay sayed. I thought it was great. They tried an experiment instead of just listening to a bunch of wind bags. That didn't work as it was implemented, but we all got real world data, and identified other failures of legislation that went beyond just drugs (treatment, transportation issues, logistics, funding,.etc). I might be all talk though, I would not want to conduct that here.

Weed is the same way. All the states doing it are eventually going to have eliminated all excuses for now allowing it. Some states still might never. That's ok. People can shuffle around based on what's important to them.

You shouldn't ever have to be subjected to mistreatment just for who you are though, anywhere in America.

I hate both our parties, most of all politicians, and a large majority of our policies in their current form. There's no one for me to vote for, and no national pride in what they do or represent.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Wow, classic.

Merica

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I enjoyed the weird feeling when all the traffic was very scarce, and even though stores and shops were open, everything seemed to stop for 30 minutes as everyone stood outside.

It was like capitalism took a 20 minute break, and I wish we could do that more often. Not a ton, just a little

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are all Republicans the 'same' I your opinion?

I often want to think that people can be conservative and like some Republican ideas, but without the stereotypical bigotry stuff.

Personally now, I think that's less and less possible, but part of why I'm asking.

I feel like I'm running into less barely Republican people, and more very Republican people. I guess by that, I mean people whom are more accepting or believing that their policies are right (being very opposed to immigration, accepting LGBTQ, pro corporate, etc).

I like the Midwest, and dislike the East Coast look and feel. I haven't been on the West Coast enough to form a meaningful opinion.

I also don't qualify for discrimination targeting. Most of the corruption I'm surrounded by seems to relate more to socioeconomics and greedy politicians than people who care about someone's color/etc, but again, maybe naive...

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The content creator for RealLifeLore explains how the USSR transformed the Asia for agriculture, and destroying the world's 4th largest lake in the process.

Edit to add further description:

Author outlines water diversion for crops, effects on ecosystem, resulting complications from further chemical and pesticide use, predicts future potential conflict due to lack of water resources.

 

This article outlines an opinion that organizations either tried skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hiring because it was warranted, or they didn't adapt their process in spite of executive vision.

Since this article is non industry specific, what are your observations or opinions of the technology sector? What about the general business sector?

Should first world employees of businesses be required to obtain degrees if they reasonably expect a business related job?

Do college experiences and academic rigor reveal higher achieving employees?

Is undergraduate education a minimum standard for a more enlightened society? Or a way to hold separation between classes of people and status?

Is a masters degree the new way to differentiate yourself where the undergrad degree was before?

Edit: multiple typos, I guess that's proof that I should have done more college 😄

 

ALL,

I have noticed a bunch of slightly overlapping communities, or some that just don't seem super active.

There are a couple of security related news communities already.

Is there actually interest in INFOSEC projects, blogs, frameworks, TTPs, etc?

Perhaps people who are interested would weigh in, and we could pick a community to work in? I know people don't always like the idea of consolidation, but I'm more interested in gauging people's continued interest.

  • Do people here actively work on info sec projects that would post walk throughs, configs?
  • Do people work within security frameworks and have sharable configurations?

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

 

I don't have a problem blocking it, just seems like a pro Russian influence operation to me, since I don't know anything about this group or the culture.

 

I'm curious if anyone feels they get the same degree of workplace protection the concept of tenure for professors?

  • Some contractors get protection if it's built into their contracts
  • Unions create termination restrictions
  • Military gets sanctuary for their last two years before twenty years service, then usually kicked out, unless they're generals
  • you can't legally fire someone because color, religion, orientation, etc

What makes professors different or not different?

You can fire retail workers for anything not illegal

Based on your stance, if professors should be special, why?

If not, do you believe we won't get good ones all the sudden if they can't have tenure?

I'll try to find specific arguments made by opposing legislation, but but not necessarily asking for people just to verbally slay conservative/liberals. There's already a million posts for that.

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Ah yeeeah!

If there was ever a time to email your reps...

 

This is interesting.

Firstly, I love that states inherently have the power to set their own laws. This allowed Oregon to be a great large scale experiment for drug policy.

I saw some interesting quotes:

But estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show, among the states reporting data, Oregon had the highest increase in synthetic opioid overdose fatalities when comparing 2019 and the 12-month period ending June 30, a 13-fold surge from 84 deaths to more than 1,100.

Despite public perception, the law has made some progress by directing $265 million dollars of cannabis tax revenue toward standing up the state's new addiction treatment infrastructure.

I guess since only cannabis is sold, it's the only taxable substance in the mix.

Some lawmakers have suggested focusing on criminalizing public drug use rather than possession. Alex Kreit, assistant professor of law at Northern Kentucky University and director of its Center on Addiction Law and Policy, said such an approach could help curb visible drug use on city streets but wouldn't address what's largely seen as the root cause: homelessness.

Homelessness leads to drug use? Or drug use leads to homelessness? Couldn't it be either?

In the first year after the law took effect in February 2021, only 1% of people who received citations for possession sought help via the hotline, state auditors found.

Critics of the law say this doesn't create an incentive to seek treatment.

Thoughts:

  • Maybe just start with cannabis and see how that goes? Or do we really need to progress collectively to heroine, meth, cocaine, MDMA?

  • Is the major public health crisis the use of more illicit drugs, or overdoses? Is possible that recreational use of cocaine/MDMA/others wouldn't be as big of a crisis as meth and fentanyl?

  • Should heroine be legal for use?

  • Should MDMA be legal for use?

  • Should cocaine be legal for use?

( I am not advocating for or against use of these substances with this post. Posted for discussion/interest. Questions are posed for discussion. )

 

Now, before you go ape shit on Republicans are all....

Instead, I'm curious about the matter of running vs voting.

Do you believe you should only be able to run for a party you voted for?

Does this protect the party? Or limit candidates (assuming it's a candidate you don't disagree with)?

Are there down sides to this?

What is if a moderate ran for Republican, but he voted Democrat a few times, or vise versa?

Would it be good if a middle of the road person ran instead of a more partisan candidate?

Lastly, I'm not advocating for this guy. Only discussion about the situation.

 

Far out dude...

I am super interested to see how this goes. I've heard studies from western states have shown encouraging results in some people.

It only took 50 years to circle back to considering these things might have benefits beyond getting high or hearing colors.

 

On July 25, 2023, the states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Iowa, along with intervenors American Water Works Association and National Rural Water Association, petitioned the Eighth Circuit to review the EPA’s new rule. This rule requires states to review and report cybersecurity threats to their public water systems (PWS).

The states’ brief argues that the EPA’s Cybersecurity Rule unlawfully imposes new legal requirements on states and PWSs. It also contends that the rule exceeds the EPA’s statutory authority by ignoring congressional actions that limit cybersecurity requirements to large PWSs and by changing the criteria for sanitary surveys through a memorandum

And then there a bunch of PLCs at water utilities compromised:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/28/federal-government-investigating-multiple-hacks-of-us-water-utilities-00128977

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/11/28/exploitation-unitronics-plcs-used-water-and-wastewater-systems

https://apnews.com/article/water-utilities-hackers-cybersecurity-1c475f5d2ef3b5d52410c93bdeab3aad

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breach-us-water-facility-via-exposed-unitronics-plcs/

So many more...

Now, I can understand arguments about jurisdictions, but would the exact same requirements coming from CISA instead of the EMP have been OK, or where these places just whining about any kind of oversight? At the end of the day, they look a little foolish.

 

This episode of Security Now covered Google's plan to deprecate third party cookies and the reaction from advertising organizations and websites.

The articles and the opinions of the show hosts are that it may have negative or unintended consequences as rather than relying on Google's proposed ad selection scheme being run on the client side (hiding information from the advertiser), instead they are demanding first party information from the sites regarding their user's identification.

The article predicts that rather than privacy increasing, a majority of websites may demand user registration so they can collect personal details and force user consent to provide that data to advertisers.

What's your opinion of website advertising, privacy, and data collection?

  • Would you refuse to visit websites that force registration even if the account is free?
  • What's all the fuss about, you don't care?
  • Is advertising a necessary evil in fair trade for content?
  • Would this limit your visiting of websites to only a narrow few you are willing to trade personal details for?
  • Is this a bad thing for the internet experience as whole, or just another progression of technology?
  • Is this no different from using any other technology platform that's free (If it's free, you're the product)?
  • Should website owners just accept a lower revenue model and adapt their business, rather than seeking higher / unfair revenues from privacy invasive practices of the past?
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