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  • I have used dd a few times without destroying my disk, here is my simple recommendation to stay safe:

    DON’T TYPE THE COMMAND DIRECTLY INTO THE TERMINAL!

    What I mean is that you should open a text editor, type the dd command you want to run in the editor, let it sit for 5 min, go back to the text editor, find the OF path, doublecheck and verify that it is safe.

    Correct misstakes, wait another 5 min and do the check again.

    Once you are confident that the command is accurate, copy paste it into a terminal and run it.


  • IBMs tabulation machines were never required for the functions of the death camps, but they vastly increased the speed and efficiency with which the Nazis were able to find and murder people through the death camps.

    There are clear differences in countries where the census database were poorly implemented and those that had a well established census database before the Nazis invaded, in how many people the Nazis were able to find and murder.




  • Sadly, until three things happen, this is not likely to change.

    1. LDAP for anything other than Windows needs to get way better, support for GPOs as extensively at Windows has is a requiernment.
    2. Software, you can have the coolest OS in the world, but as long as it doesn’t have normal third party applications, it is not suitable for office or government work.
    3. Technicians, you need to have knowledgable technicians to support the OS, without them there is no way any company or government would ever use it.







  • I ran a standard raspian ssh server on my home network for several years, default user was removed and my own user was in it’s place, root was configured as standard on a raspbian, my account had a complex but fairly short password, no specific keys set.

    I saw constant attacks but to my knowledge, it was never breached.

    I removed it when I realized that my ISP might take a dim view of running a server on their home client net that they didn’t know about, especially since it showed up on Shodan…

    Don’t do what I did, secure your systems properly!

    But it was kinda cool to be able to SSH from Thailand back home to Sweden and browse my NAS, it was super slow, but damn cool…