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julianj··on De-escalating social media conflict
Reminds me of Black Mirror Season 3e6. It's all fine until you mess up and piss off the mob.
julianj··on The SOC2 Starting Seven
Thanks, I hadn't yet made it through the full thread for context.
julianj··on The SOC2 Starting Seven
Sorry for any mistakes, mobile.

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AES advanced encryption standard

AICPA American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

CISO chief information security officer

COSO risk management framework

CSO many things, probably chief security officer in this context

DEP data execution prevention

FDE full disk encryption

FIM file integrity monitoring

IDS intrusion detection system

IR incident response

JAMF apple device management

LDAP lightweight directory access protocol

MDM mobile device management

OIDC open id connect

SOC2 audit standard

SSO single sign on

S/N serial number

WAF web application firewall

julianj··on “Just walk out” technology by Amazon
Gary Larson agrees. Sorry, I couldn't find a better image. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/8KjQYFOjfafGpGLFpwnwxFq4_c...
julianj··on Ask HN: First hire offered to work part-time – what should I do?
> had cancer followed by twins. We reassigned the CEO title, thinking with heads over hearts.

This sounds like the person was punished for being sick and then having kids. Am I reading this wrong?

julianj··on Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art
I wonder, based on your comment, what the output would look like if the training was inverted. Anything that looks like art would skew towards zero, for instance.
julianj··on When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
Helpfully, my state will allow you to search tax records by VIN or name.
julianj··on When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
In my area, the VIN is also easy to find with just a name from the public-facing tax property website.
julianj··on When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
And not to forget Opie from the Andy Griffith show
julianj··on Two-thirds of American employees regret their college degrees
Thanks for this. I was planning to try this from a similar background. I am glad to know it is at least possible...
julianj··on Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
Wouldn't the intentional smearing of feces over someones carpet throughout their home qualify as vandalism?
julianj··on Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'
To me its almost like I have two separate canvases. One that my eyes render to and an 'offscreen' canvas my mind renders to. I can access both, but they don't overlap.
julianj··on 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (2012)
I snickered at first but couldn't stop imagining ways to implement this. Thanks for giving me something to kickstart my brain today.
julianj··on Show HN: Leave Me Alone – A privacy focused email unsubscription service
I run a script that moves any email to to the trash that does not come from a list of approved domains. I have toyed with the idea of setting up a catch all domain to do the same as you, but keep finding excuses not to proceed. How much time to you spend on administration for your solution?
julianj··on DNS Zombies (2016)
I don't believe so. I wrote a browser plugin that would ping a time based DNS entry similar to what the article does in order to alarm if someone was inspecting my traffic and show from where. I have seen hits from Singapore and other locations. Sometimes it's a web filtering vendor or other security tools company-- days or weeks later. Sometimes I can't determine who the source is and avoid using that network in the future.
julianj··on Are Flat-Earthers Being Serious?
I personally know one. Conversations about the topic are impossible. His arguments for the earth being flat are made of half truths and broken logic. Any debate brands you as a NASA shill. He doesn't believe the earth orbits the sun.

I have had doubts as to whether he actually believes and just uses this to make money off of his semi-successful youtube channel.

julianj··on PayPal told customer her death breached its rules
If a person takes out a loan to buy a car then the financing company actually holds the title to the vehicle. You can't give away something you don't own.
julianj··on California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online
Executives should go to prison for not staffing call centers properly?
julianj··on Exposing the secret Office 365 detailed activity logs and forensics tool
This makes me wonder how many other APIs rely solely on obscurity to protect major features.
julianj··on A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident
I used to do this. I once ran across a prod HRC VPN subdomain and got myself banned from r/netsec.

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/5wizf8/hillaryclint...

julianj··on Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults admitted to psychiatric hospital
I have felt this for a long time but have lacked the ability to put this feeling into words. Thank you for doing what I could not.
julianj··on Bike Share Oversupply in China
True, but at least food decomposes a little faster than the bicycles.
julianj··on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Yeah the images must still be distributing. Some hits still show beta but go away after a refesh.
julianj··on Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
I didn't downvote you, but I believe I understand why folks got upset. It appears that you are taking a passive aggressive dig at all religions because the parent comment referenced a Christian biblical verse (1 Timothy 6:10). While this usually isn't an issue here, the comment appears unrelated to the main conversation and may be seen as trolling.

I could be wrong.

julianj··on The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model
How is chain of custody maintained if the process is a secret? Couldn't a person argue that the data obtained was planted?
julianj··on The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model
I agree, but based on some people's risk profile, the option would be nice.
julianj··on The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model
Good points. Thank you for this reading material.
julianj··on The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model
No. An example would be automatically erase if the device has not been unlocked in 3 days.
julianj··on The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model
I wish there was a kind of "dead man switch" app that would wipe a device if it is not unlocked for x days or met some other kind of personalized criteria.
julianj··on Face-verify.js: Monitoring who is physically looking at a website
In my experience ProctorU is not automated. They use a branded version of logmeinrescue that allows ProctorU to take full control of your PC and record from your webcam. You can also see the proctor. However, the proctor's camera is usually paused while taking the exam and they proctor more than one exam at a time. ProctorU also executes custom scripts on your PC to check for suspicious software and virtualization.

Source: As a remote student, I have used ProctorU several times. Most recently within the last few months. I use a dedicated PC for this proctoring.

Edit: Clarified text and fixed some typos

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