Notices by Security Writer :donor: (securitywriter@infosec.exchange), page 3

Another tip… Ctrl+L

Select contents of URL bar.

This is so useful, especially for development combined with ctrl+left/right or ctrl+shift+left/right to navigate the URL bar.

Or just to past stuff in.

Pro tip I use way too much.

Most browsers support ctrl+click on the back button to open the previous page in a new tab behind your current page.

Perfect for when you don’t want to go back.

Lastly, we all know to ctrl+click links to open in a new tab, or shift+click to open links in a new window…

But what about ctrl+shift+click on links? This opens links in a new *background* tab.

Great for stacking up links from a page or document for research later.

From these tips you can see what I do a lot of!

Ugggh. Need to go to That Hateful Place* today.

*London.

Weirdly specific and highly customised bot accounts attempting to befriend me on here lately.

No followers/following, one post (to me) etc.

Really sus. Don’t like it.

Does anyone have any insight into the crossover of EU and UK law where I’d be protected by one as an EU citizen, and not by the other?

I’ve had no proper internet for a few days, and what the fuck have I missed.

Trump suggesting the US take over Gaza and make it into a resort?

What the actual fuck?

One phrase or attitude that reallly grinds my shit is “but X org does this and they have tighter security requirements than you”. Especially from vendors.

Firstly, that org are fucking idiots then, quote me. And second clearly they don’t have tighter security requirements than us if they’re fucking doing it.

@Infoseepage it’s definitely all supported (last 1-3 years) as it’s been running fine previously. It’s something to do with the config on the ISO installer. Tried secure boot and all the usual suspects but they’re just not accepting it.

This used to be the easiest thing in the world to install.

Something has changed with the Windows 11 installer from USB. I have 6 devices of different ages from different vendors and I can’t get it to recognise the local hardware on any of them. I’ve had 10/11 on and off them several times but something has changed now. I’ve got a few different versions of the official installer ISO, but they’re all relatively new. Also tried several USB drives and even a DVD to no avail.

They’ve also made the change on the Windows 10 ISO now. Looks like I need to go back and find an image from a few years back and upgrade.

Putting 25% tariffs on imports from your nearest neighbour is a staggeringly stupid act of national self harm. Also, It probably breaches any and all free trade agreements they have in place and the US is going to be sued tae fuck.

I’ve renamed cats to Groggleboffins and I hope you all partake.

I was just wondering if we hadn’t called them cats or considered the etymology leading up to that name, what we’d have called them.

Groggleboffins.

Mullvad VPN has acquired a new feature since I was last here, DAITA: Defence Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis.

Very cool. Here’s an explainer:

https://mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita

I don’t know what the FUCK I just heard but it sounded like whale song, but on the outskirts of a city, in the sky, dialled up to a million. My windows shook.

If it’s aliens, good knowing you.

🖖

@dalias @Gabriel @Fratm This is the main point. I don’t know any organisation larger than a handful of people where the CEO is allowed anywhere near social media accounts.

Massive red flag. It indicates that he has too much power and too much access. On a whim people may start dying, being imprisoned, persecuted, or deported.

@Infoseepage I think I will!

Acting on principle is fucking exhausting. Just the way they like it.

Took a long while to migrate all of our accounts out of Proton and validate everything had moved but it’s done.

Tuta for email. Mullvad for VPN. Bitwarden for password manager.

I settled on Tuta as I felt theirs to be the best, despite only allowing 30 aliases, which you cant’t delete. It’ll just mean I take a stricter approach to what I do and don’t create aliases for, and there’s always iCloud hide-my-email for the throwaway ones.

Not going to cover old ground on the politics again, but it’s a positive move. Also, having some independence with a more modular approach feels slightly liberating.

Just need to close the Proton accounts and billing down now.

OpenAI complaining DeepSeek stole its training data is just poetic.

They steal every bit of human knowledge, experience, academia, and art on the internet and somehow this is their intellectual property?

Yeah, fuck no, I hope it sinks them.

@liztai I only buy software that I can keep. Those that I’m not able to, I endeavour to crack so I can keep. I might want to share it with a friend for instance. Nobody’s bottom line is affected as the friend was never going to buy it anyway.

I remove DRM on ebooks for the same reason. I don’t do piracy, but can’t abide being told what I can and can’t do with software or media I own.

I have one SaaS service for my mail and VPN.

I’m a stubborn old relic, but it’s good that others are of this mindset too.