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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I am a big fan of BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front). Condense your entire email to a single sentence and then explain afterward.

The person you're emailing will see the key point immediately (maybe even in the lede). If they agree with you, you're good. If not, they can then read your explanation.

If the email is so complex I can't explain it one sentence, that's usually when I consider asking for a meeting or try to reduce further.

Example:

Hi {boss},

I think we should do X.

X is the best way to do Y because it can be automated and reproduced sustainably.

Etc. Etc. Supporting details...

Let me know if you'd like to meet to discuss further, {Name}

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have never seen someone talk about tebibytes ever lol

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago

Ada is a feminine name. The Ada language is named after Ada Lovelace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

I thought about changing the headers for our tests to avoid this, but honestly if someone is doing that I'm not very concerned about them, lol.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Generally no-- the payload typically comes from some sort of interaction (click a link, open an attachment, reply to the message). There have been some zero interaction attacks with emails before. Like for example, when the email is previewed in the reading pane in Outlook. These are exceptionally rare and not what we're training against when we do phishing training.

That said, if you know an email is phishing it's always best to not interact with it at all, but you really can't always tell by the sender and subject line alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Is banning them from lobbying sufficient?

What if someone retired from politics and then works for Shell and pays for a free weekend getaway to the Bahamas for a Congress member? Or for their "friend"?

Sounds like we need strict laws around what is lobbying

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Love Primitive Technology but that food looks pretty bad 😆

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The good news is, a lot of old secrets won't really matter anymore by the time we have quantum computers that can break the encryption. There will obviously be a big impact on information that was encrypted just before we get a working quantum computer that can crack modern crypto.

In cryptography discussions, I feel like we're usually implying (or even saying out loud) that the encryption is secure for a sufficient amount of time and computer power. Perhaps people outside of cryptography don't know it, but I think there is a reasonable expectation that encrypted communications could be decrypted at some point in the future. We just hope it's sufficiently far enough away (or difficult enough) to not be a problem.

Honestly as soon as we get some good post-quantum crypto, we'll probably want to switch over to it asap, even if good quantum computers are still far out, just to help alleviate some of this problem. Of course, I imagine we're still going to be finding new things once the technology is real and being used. Let's hope the post-quantum cryptography algorithms we come up with actually are strong against a sufficiently large quantum computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah "gif" has basically become a common noun like escalator at this point.

It's even notified on the Wikipedia page for gif, in the third paragraph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Sounds like a lot of work. I have no idea how heavy a ship's anchor is, but I imagine it would be hard to throw any significant distance.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I mean, yes? Here's another photo from the same shoot posted on their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQzDKmhVxN/?igsh=MTl1N25xemZhN3hwMw==

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact website before

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