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   abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 01:10:39 JST abadidea

   Y’all there’s thirteen laptops open in this room and aside from mine, only one has stickers. The rest are completely factory default. Are linguists okay??

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     Whitney McNamara (whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 01:10:47 JST Whitney McNamara

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     @0xabad1dea At least for the linguists I know, their laptops are generally owned by the institutions they work for, and academic IT tends to be super sensitive to "disifiguring" of institution assets.

     That said, I've seen a "my books smell good" sticker on a linguistics professor's laptop, so dunno.

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     Roger BW 😷 (rogerbw@discordian.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 01:12:27 JST Roger BW 😷

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     @0xabad1dea Ooh, does anyone make a "U+A66E CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O" sticker? And if not why not?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 01:12:52 JST Rich Felker

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     @0xabad1dea They just have opsec. 😂

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     Jeff Grigg (jeffgrigg@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 03:26:23 JST Jeff Grigg

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     @0xabad1dea

     A few years ago, one of my traveling peers had their corporate laptop accidentally swapped with someone else's in the TSA security check. Corporate laptops all look the same, you know. 🙄 We found the person and swapped back, fairly easily.

     But …

     I contacted my boss and said that this is a
     - Security issue
     - Productivity issue
     - Marketing opportunity
     - Asset Risk

     And that we should *put a large sticker with our corporate name on the back of every laptop* to reduce risk.

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