rakeman · HackerTrans

I wouldn't consider a drive attached to your computer 24/7 a backup, more like a simple copy of your data, they're very different things. It's at risk of being accidently deleted or open to attack at the same time the computer it's connected to is, so it isn't safe to have it connected at all time. You can use cron to mount a drive via uuid to a mount point then make an rsync cron job to backup incrementally. uuid shouldn't change after partitioning the drive so I'd imagine you could label them and swap them out every so often. But I haven't tried anything like that.

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I agree with this one, as much as I hate to say it. Twitter pays to host its website, the infrastructure, advertising, etc. So just as a company would have you escorted off the premises or arrested for saying something they don't like, Twitter should have the right to moderate their platform as they see fit. Though my personal belief is that no information should be censored except child pornography.

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It isn't really always clear on what it entails, for example the word "the" will appear in TS documents but you're allowed to use that word without worrying about this happening. Specific pieces of data or groups of data receive a classification based on the harm they can cause if disclosed improperly. However, an entire document receives a classification based on its most sensitive parts so it can be hard to determine what parts of it are actually sensitive. If you don't know, ask, so things like this don't happen. This person should have known better, I can imagine how it's possible to accidently transmit classified data on an unclassified network. But I have a hard time seeing someone make an honest mistake like that 13 times.

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Even if you agree with what he did, I don't think you can justify how it was done. I think it's fair to infect someone you dislike with malware if you're capable if that's the upfront intention. But the history of the particular piece of software in question was not malicious. It's like going to the doctor for your 6th booster shot, the first 5 were fine but this time he decides he doesn't like your accent and gives you the arsenic shot instead. Really his intention was clear with this, hiding malware behind a piece of legitimate software he was maintaining and had built a good reputation on. Ransomware is the new big thing so comparing it to that I feel that the motorcyclist's actions were actually worse. At least with actual malicious actors you know upfront what their intentions are. Putting aside the politics this is an overall negative for OSS.

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