Looks like they found someone.

It doesn’t sound like he can do that without giving up his ownership stake in his company. Or is that what you are suggesting?

This is like the epitome of the XY Problem.

https://xyproblem.info/

I agree with the first part but vehemently disagree with the third paragraph.

I suspect it varies wildly based on where you live, but in Chicago there absolutely ARE places with waitstaff worth getting a burger from.

I’d be careful about completely trusting any AV to give you any certainty that you aren’t infected.

As I mentioned in another comment, Pegasus is comprised of many different exploits. So just because Bitdefender can detect some older Pegasus variants, doesn’t mean it can detect all of them.

In fact it’s quite unlikely they can detect the latest variants.

I don’t know the full answer, but Pegasus isn’t one single piece of spyware, but rather a toolkit of many, many zero-day exploits.

A lot of them (the majority maybe?) are non-persistent meaning that they don’t survive a reboot.

That said, aside from keeping your phone up to date with security patches and rebooting frequently, I’m not sure there’s much the average person can do if you’re actively being targeted.

Recovery partitions on servers – especially VMs – are kind of pointless. Just boot the ISO if you need WinRM.

We still do.

It’s similar to the rdx app but for people who like to self-host.

It scrapes reddit without requiring a login so you can still use it without their shenanigans.

If you’re not techy, you can just use the rdx app. There’s an iOS version too.

But in this case, she’s serving him Great Pumpkin pie.

I drink my whiskey straight from the Klein bottle.

He’s definitely on the jazz!

Then you apply the scientific method and/or research in search of truth.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research

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Look man, this is just exhausting. I’m well aware of that security policy. I have enabled it at some of my clients. But it’s not a default setting and would never be on a random non-enterprise PC. This is what I mean when I say the only people who are getting locked out this way were screwing with their computers in ways they don’t understand, installing random garbage and following bad advice on the internet.

From your link:

If you set the value to 0, or leave blank, the computer or device will never be locked as a result of this policy setting.

I don’t care what you think. I’m playing chess with a pigeon here. Test it yourself.

Edit: And sorry for being a jerk. Back to my original point, I’m pretty much fed up with the “technical” communities of Lemmy where correct information is downvote to oblivion and blatantly wrong information is lionized as absolute truth. And when I have tried to actually help and provide useful information I get met with the hordes of confidently incorrect people trying to discredit me.

That’s the BitLocker PIN, not the OS PIN. Go away.

Bitlocker activates when you enter an incorrect OS password too many times.

This is completely false. Please stop spreading misinformation. You clearly have no idea how BitLocker works, nor Secure Boot, BCD, TPM, or PCRs. Or anything really.

Maybe you should stick to an iPad. I’m done replying to this blithering nonsense.

Bitlocker activated because of an OS update

This did not happen. You did something to enable it.

I don’t have an MS account, because I have no need to give MS all of my data

If you had one, all of your data would have been safe in OneDrive and easily recoverable. But I’m sure the irony is completely lost on all the anti-MS people here. Nah, it must be Microsoft’s fault you didn’t have backups when you broke your tablet.

Agreed. The immature iamsosmart user base is making me strongly consider leaving Lemmy for good. There just aren’t enough actual professionals here for any serious discussion in a technical community. It’s just a bunch of 20-year-olds who think they have the world figured out. And they all downvote based on emotion rather than facts (which I am quite prepared for).

Microsoft accounts, OneDrive, and BitLocker are absolutely great features for the average user providing SSO, cloud storage with ransomware-proof backups, and seamless full-disk encryption.

I love Linux too, but there seems to be no room for nuance on Lemmy. These children are insufferable.