Re: [AFMUG] company cell phones

2025-01-05 Thread chuck
I realize this is a totally non PC boomer sexist thing to say, but women are easier to socially engineer. Fact.I think they have a helpful nature and that kicks in when you ask with a smile “I hope you can help me”. And many of them (female non IT folk) are less tech savvy or less suspici

Re: [AFMUG] company cell phones

2025-01-05 Thread Bill Prince
Guessing that 2 or 3 people out of 100 are in the gullible/stupid category (that number is not based on fact, but it feels good), then any organization < 50 people might only have 1 who can be weeded out pretty quickly. If you have an org of 5,000, suddenly you have the equivalent of an infesta

Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-05 Thread Bill Prince
1. Always add Stabill or equivalent to the fuel you use (this should give you almost a year of use). 2. Shut off the generator by shutting off the fuel and letting it run dry. 3. Set up a schedule to once or twice a year to drain all the fuel and replenish it. 4. Put all the 6-month-old fue

Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics

2025-01-05 Thread Steve Jones
I think it would be a lot more inconvenient to keep a human pet in a war zone. On Sat, Jan 4, 2025, 1:19 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > A comment I saw from someone who lived through a warzone in Kosovo was > that anyone who wanted one could get their hands on an AK, but you're > better off carrying f

[AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
What do you folks do with your portable gasoline generators to avoid stale fuel problems? I'm talking 1000-2400 VA generators that you take out to a tower site when there's a power shortage. And when power comes back on, there could be from zero to a full tank of gas in the generator, and it c

Re: [AFMUG] company cell phones

2025-01-05 Thread Steve Jones
get any bank auditor drunk off the clock, they'll tell you that is 100 percent fact. women are the top risk for targeted attacks, followed by end of career middle managers who have credentials and poor memory. On Sun, Jan 5, 2025, 5:09 PM wrote: > I realize this is a totally non PC boomer se

[AFMUG] OT - inbreeding

2025-01-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
I think Chuck started the thread about incest and politics. This article unfortunately requires a subscription. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791/ "People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA-and learning that incest is far

[AFMUG] When I was a kid

2025-01-05 Thread Chuck
The old “Here I sit all broken hearted” poem was about the funniest thing I ever heard. Was not aware of it being prophecy. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] company cell phones

2025-01-05 Thread Ryan Ray
Lots of weird stuff in here Steve. Your computers should be locked down with no admin rights, not possible to install software. You should have a password manager for the company. 1Password, Keeper, Bitwarden, etc. I'm not sure why you think because lastpass failed due to their poor security arch

Re: [AFMUG] company cell phones

2025-01-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
My theory is all businesses are equally vulnerable, because ability to take security precautions increases along with attractiveness as a target. So Chinese state hackers probably won’t waste their time on any of us. I fear that could change as AI and bots start doing the hacking. If the ef