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[-] crossover@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

Guest network on a separate VLAN is the way to go.

[-] daFRAKKINpope@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

This is the way.

[-] redditcunts@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

I see we are still living in 1999.

[-] InterestFreeBread@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 5 points 11 months ago

my joints are telling me otherwise

[-] redditcunts@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I went on a trampoline with my kid and my knees are still shaking 2 days later....

[-] vulnerability@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

I ain't no IT expert but what are some things a vulernable windows computer can do?

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In general, a compromised system may be running any software the attacker might find useful, including, but not limited to:

  • keyloggers to find passwords that are in use in the company
  • software to copy sensitive files to a remote server
  • software to encrypt the system itself or (if the computer has access to other machines on the network) other computers
  • produce documents (think, mail) that purport to have been created by the user of the corrupted machine.
[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The users tend to be less tech savvy than Linux users so they tend to not have adblockers and or allow arbitrary JavaScript from any page to run and or they are running trojanized software because the uploader was "trusted".

Due to market share they are the biggest target.

Untrusted devices should be on an isolated subnet or if you have the time only devices that need to talk to each other should be on the same subnet.

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In an ecosystem where the solution to every problem is “Download this piece of software someone wrote because the standard Windows utilities are worse than useless and don’t provide this basic functionality”, you can’t really blame the users for running every script they encounter uncritically.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I don't blame them, as you say it is the software ecosystem itself.

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 19 points 11 months ago

Windows PCs often carry viruses that can try to compromise other parts of your network. They are also a privacy concern in a big way especially after windows 10.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

it probably wasn't very secure network if anyone can join and cause this. so instead of being misogynistic moron, you could spend some more time on improving your security.

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 24 points 11 months ago

So now it’s misogynistic to identify a girl on a picture or an unnamed person in an anecdote as “she”?

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

no, it is misogynistic to draw a picture where she is the incompetent user causing problem and he is the brave security engineer whom she has to beg for forgiveness.

when it is in fact his shitty security that is root of the problem, because users will be users, no matter what gender. so it is the "hero" of this magnum opus who is really the incompetent one. do you understand how laughingly pathetic that is? bragging about your "secure network" when one user with windows can burn it to the ground?

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

Sir this is a meme.

And this meme format has a girl, hence 'she'.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

that doesn't change single word in my argument

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 16 points 11 months ago

Your argument is based on at least two shaky assumptions.

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago

he is the brave security engineer

You made that up. OP never said they were male.

she has to beg for forgiveness.

You made that up, too.

users will be users

They will be. And in this case the offending user appears to be female. They are allowed to touch computers these days, didn’t you know?

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They are allowed to touch computers these days, didn’t you know?

i do know, yes. does that piss you off? because you are investing lot of energy to defend stupid insulting behaviour. you are not really good at it, you are just trying to spin phrases taken out of context 180 degrees around hoping that you will hide the forest amongst the trees, but boy are you trying.

And in this case the offending user appears to be female.

yes, in this case the "offending user" is a woman. it wouldn't be misogyny otherwise, that just comes from the definition of the word.

OP never said they were male.

that's what we call understanding context. not a lot of women produces misogynistic attacks on other women.

she has to beg for forgiveness

You made that up, too.

really? so why is the title of the post "i didn't do anything"? that is something kids would say when they break a neighbour's window and are afraid of the consequences. does the woman in this case have to be afraid of the consequences from the op of unknown gender who can't protect his network and brags about it in dumb meme?

or maybe she didn't really do anything (which is even worse for the network admin's reputation, because it means it just caught on fire all by itself), but that is really not what the meme template suggests, is it?

oh, and for your future arguments, i suggest using the word woman. "female" just screams butthurt incel little too much ;)

[-] artifice@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Are you okay?

[-] aggelalex@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Who is a brave security whom she has to beg for forgiveness? Did you just assume their gender?

[-] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 11 months ago

Well block all Microsoft website on your routers firewall

[-] Pfnic@feddit.ch 5 points 11 months ago

Well I don't see what the problem is…

[-] mod_pp@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

You must have winshit nightmares.

[-] nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Call me dumb, but... to me that just sounds like an insecure network, labeled "secure" as long as someone physically guards all the ethernet ports

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