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		<title>CFE: Smart Hostility</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2024/05/cfe-smart-hostility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Commentary From Elsewhere: Smart Hostility &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Recently I ran into an article about a hiccup with a particular Smart TV. Long story short, it broke Windows on the computer that shared the network. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;While the details were not how I would have expected this to happen, such an outcome should have been considered inevitable. Any device &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2024/05/cfe-smart-hostility/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">CFE: Smart Hostility</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2024%2F05%2Fcfe-smart-hostility%2F&amp;action_name=CFE%3A+Smart+Hostility&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>PSA: Pictures are spoofable</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2022/12/psa-pictures-are-spoofable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Public Service Announcement: Pictures are spoofable &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Long and short of it is that technology has reached the point where it&#8217;s easy enough to make &#8216;realistic&#8217; images of someone doing&#8230; anything. While there are a couple qualifiers, they aren&#8217;t big enough to be reassuring. First, it&#8217;s not trivially easy, as it does require some basic computer &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2022/12/psa-pictures-are-spoofable/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">PSA: Pictures are spoofable</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2022%2F12%2Fpsa-pictures-are-spoofable%2F&amp;action_name=PSA%3A+Pictures+are+spoofable&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>CFE: The End of Location Tracking?</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2022/09/cfe-the-end-of-location-tracking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Commentary From Elsewhere: The End of Location Tracking? &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;As you may know, much of what you do with computers is tracked. And as a smartphone is a computer, this applies there too. In particular, as the phone is a mobile device, talking to relatively stationary devices, it knows where it is. At least in a &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2022/09/cfe-the-end-of-location-tracking/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">CFE: The End of Location Tracking?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2022%2F09%2Fcfe-the-end-of-location-tracking%2F&amp;action_name=CFE%3A+The+End+of+Location+Tracking%3F&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fake Email Followups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fake Email Followups &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Recently I&#8217;ve been seeing an interesting form of spam: Fake Email Followups. The most recent message on the chain is bogus, but the rest includes valid back and forth between people. Including the recipient (ie you). &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Thus the request to follow the link and download a file seems reasonable at first glance. &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2022/03/fake-email-followups/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Fake Email Followups</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2022%2F03%2Ffake-email-followups%2F&amp;action_name=Fake+Email+Followups&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>SAAB: Ignored Scams</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2020/07/saab-ignored-scams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Support As A Business: Ignored Scams &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Generally speaking, when people have work for me it is to accomplish a partial task. Build this website, recover this data, teach this skill, etc. Often enough, in the process of doing what I&#8217;ve been asked, other things come to my attention. At which point I&#8217;ll bring them to &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2020/07/saab-ignored-scams/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">SAAB: Ignored Scams</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2020%2F07%2Fsaab-ignored-scams%2F&amp;action_name=SAAB%3A+Ignored+Scams&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>uBlock, again&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2019/07/ublock-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[uBlock, again&#8230; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;At a recent meeting I observed, a website was mistyped, which brought up a scam about the computer being infected (it wasn&#8217;t, it was fine). As typos are a thing, I&#8217;m sure this sort of thing happens all the time. So what do you do to prevent the scary scams? &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;As pointed out &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2019/07/ublock-again/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">uBlock, again&#8230;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2019%2F07%2Fublock-again%2F&amp;action_name=uBlock%2C+again%26%238230%3B&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>SPF: FTL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2019 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Single Point of Failure: For The Lose &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Much like in the &#8216;real&#8217; world, so to on the internet: Any given point will eventually fail. Thus, either be ready for it&#8217;s failure, or have alternates in place to compensate. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;A recent Firefox kerfuffle reminded me of this. Something went wrong on their side, breaking all addons &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2019/05/spf-ftl/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">SPF: FTL</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2019%2F05%2Fspf-ftl%2F&amp;action_name=SPF%3A+FTL&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to use uBlock Origin</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2018/11/how-to-use-ublock-origin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;When I use a computer belonging to someone else, I am often amazed by the amount of junk that websites toss at their users. Ads, pop-ups, singing and dancing, junk everywhere. If you ignored the distraction, all that stuff is still a bad idea. It slows down the system, running code that has no value &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2018/11/how-to-use-ublock-origin/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How to use uBlock Origin</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2018%2F11%2Fhow-to-use-ublock-origin%2F&amp;action_name=How+to+use+uBlock+Origin&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>STO: Admin Accounts</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2018/10/sto-admin-accounts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security Through Obscurity: Admin Accounts &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Wiser men then I have pointed out how &#8216;security through obscurity isn&#8217;t security&#8217;, and they are right. On it&#8217;s own, obscurity does not create security, although it may grant the illusion of such. But as part of a more comprehensive system, obscurity can be a useful tool. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Take administrative logins, &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2018/10/sto-admin-accounts/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">STO: Admin Accounts</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2018%2F10%2Fsto-admin-accounts%2F&amp;action_name=STO%3A+Admin+Accounts&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>AIC: Locked myself out of my Computer</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2017/06/aic-locked-myself-out-of-my-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Adventures In Computing: Locked myself out of my Computer &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;A few years back I was having difficulties with remotely accessing my computer. The details of which are a different story altogether. What is relevant here, is that I was attempting to copy files from one computer to another over the network. In the process of &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2017/06/aic-locked-myself-out-of-my-computer/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">AIC: Locked myself out of my Computer</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2017%2F06%2Faic-locked-myself-out-of-my-computer%2F&amp;action_name=AIC%3A+Locked+myself+out+of+my+Computer&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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