Open post Random Guy @randomdaz@infosec.exchange · 6mo ago Replying to @User47@vmst.io @randomdaz @p3ter @nixCraft is that the thing that you could install stuff and do whatever you wanted and upon restart it was back to pristine install? I remember folks losing their minds when AOL instant messenger disappeared on high school computer lab PC restarts. Also, remember computer labs? Ha! @User47 @p3ter @nixCraft Actually it looks like my memory is failing. It was an inbound firewall that allowed you to easily block based on events
Open post Random Guy @randomdaz@infosec.exchange · 6mo ago Replying to @User47@vmst.io @p3ter@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social I bet that app was Zone Alarm? IFLd that and honestly that era might have been peak Windows @User47 @p3ter @nixCraft Blackice Defender was a good option back then
Open post Random Guy @randomdaz@infosec.exchange · 22mo ago Replying to @ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social <p>1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). ⬇️</p> @ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social This study appears to be making a huge leap to causation
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