ObM

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[–] ObM 1 points 1 year ago

These are fully stand alone. Downloadable. So not strictly hosted I guess?

[–] ObM 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does it need to be “hosted”?

I like both these:

yEd (https://www.yworks.com/products/yed)

Dia Diagrams (http://dia-installer.de)

I think yEd had a free version but closed source.

[–] ObM 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it depends on what you mean.

In many cases malware and phishing is hosted off other compromised sites. So, they build a list of Wordpress sites with vulnerabilities, and use the vulnerabilities to host their files on them. For example, imagine “legitimate-medical-site.net.com” is a real site. The attacker will use the exploit to upload malicious files in there somewhere like “legitimate-medical-site. net. com/qwertasdf/invoice.pdf”.

If the site gets blocked or shutdown it’s no loss to them.

Another technique, especially phishing wise, they will have a semi-plausible domain name (e.g. youbank-security-server .con). But they will register heaps of these. There are tonnes of top level domains that do next to no checking. These things cost a few bucks, so having it taken down is not a problem.

The combination of burner sites and domains mean they have a window of opportunity to run their attacks and scams before other protections kick in.

[–] ObM 1 points 1 year ago

We’ve had many of these. We just leaver up the boards and tear them out.

You could plunge cut with a circular saw along the edge. Then work a chisel under it and just tear out the floor boards any way you can.

Then for the screws, I either tear them out with pincer pliers for the shallow ones (you can get decent leverage with pincer pliers). Or just cut them flush with the joists and leave them there (quick work with an angle grinder and cut-off disc).

PS. Sorry been trying to reply to you for a few hours but my client wouldn’t connect.

[–] ObM 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just wondering, do you need to save the floor board?

[–] ObM 3 points 1 year ago

TIFSNO? Today I Found Some Nonsense Online?

[–] ObM 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I secretly moved a bank of high school lockers about 1ft per day, every school day, for a whole year.

They were pretty light - those steel “backpack only” sized lockers in a about a 3x4 arrangement. Some days I’d just lean on the end of them to nudge them over, but skipping doorways and around corners meant extra planning and often meant I had to come in to school early.

The janitor caught me one morning. He agreed it was a funny prank and offered to help when we got to the staircase.

By the end of the year the lockers had migrated up one floor and over to a separate building.

I kept the secret for decades and only recently started telling the story.

[–] ObM 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lexx is wild. I watched it originally on a pay tv channel that had cut the episodes up into ~25 minute blocks.

I first dropped into late season 2 and occasionally I’d miss an episode.

So, combined with the weird cutting, the no context and the standard Lexx craziness, I had NO idea what was happening. The whole thing was a fever dream. Highly recommend!

I actually think it’s was the best way to watch it first go round! Then, when I came back and do the whole series in order and it was almost as much of a surprise.

[–] ObM 4 points 1 year ago

“size… of a dinner plate” !!

[–] ObM 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah. “Nation state”, “Sophisticated”, “command injection”… where have I heard this before?

Ahh, that’s right - with every breach where they had basic vulnerabilities exposed, or admin credentials compromised.

[–] ObM 4 points 1 year ago

There’s a very familiar and comforting writing style and tempo to these old magazines. Articles that feel like they were written by some kid hired from a BBS.

Definitely a feel that’s missing from modern blogs and computing or gaming news sites.

I love all these old Internet Archive scans. Very glad that these have been preserved.

Thanks.

[–] ObM 13 points 1 year ago

One of our jokes for pretty much every sale we see is: “20% off of 50% more”.

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