Can I refuse MS Authenticator?
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That might be an optional requirement which can be set by the admins. On my phone (Android) I have disabled location permissions for the MS Authenticator app. I have no issues logging in. I also regularly have to deal with alerts for users with improbable geographic logins, because they have a VPN on their phone. So, they login from their PC from one location and then their phone logs into Azure from the other side of the planet moments later.
Jokes on them, I rarely buy a game at release anyway. An extra year of console players beta-testing the game just means I am more likely to know a game is a dud that much sooner.
Not really. Fallout 76 is the same sort of bland grind-fest you can find in any MMO. The main storyline is ok, but the world, crafting and just everything else about the game is designed to push you towards the normal MMO "grind this quest 10,000 times to improve your gearscore" gameplay. It also leans heavily on punishing you for not subscribing to "Plus"; so, imagine the weight problems you have in a normal Bethesda game, except now you also have weight limits in your one container at home. It is manageable, but it's a pretty obvious ploy to convince you to pay for Plus.
If what you really want is "Fallout, except I get to bring a friend instead of a worthless companion", Fallout 76 isn't really it. It's probably worth playing with a friend just long enough to complete most of the main quest line; but, the late game is crap. You will hit a point where all you are doing is daily quests to grind some faction's reputation. When you hit that stage, it's time to move on.
Hey now, this headline is just all kinds of wrong.
He's a Confused, Demented Old, Convicted Felon
Ya, not surprising. I'm in my late 40' and game. My father was gaming in his 70's until his death. My mother, also in her 70's, plays Minecraft. Video games aren't the domain of kids anymore. The kids who played them grew up and some folks started to take to them in their later years. They are just another form of entertainment now and not some nerdy, niche thing. Quit trying to gatekeep fun.
Rapid Unscheduled Team Disassembly.
Call me when the global birth rate is falling.
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of the phone ringing.
UN Data shows the Fertility Rate falling from ~2.7 Births per Woman in 2000 to ~2.3 Births per Woman in 2024. Here is a handy chart of the data from 1960 to 2021. Global birth rates have been falling for most of the 20th and 21st centuries. Barring a major shift in demographics, the world's population should peak this century. That isn't a terrible thing, and probably a good thing from a climate perspective. But, it will have economic consequences which we will need to deal with (aging populations, economic stagnation, shrinking workforces, shrinking economies). None of this has to be a problem, but those types of demographic changes can cause societal instability.
You’re god damn right they are, and they have every right to be. I’m in It too and I’m absolutely sick of the condescending attitude and downright laziness of people in the field who constantly act like what the users want doesn’t matter. If they don’t want it on their personal device, they don’t need a damn reason.
Sure, and I suspect they company will have another option for folks who either can't or won't put the application on their personal device. It's probably also going to be far less convenient for the user. Demanding that the company implement the user's preferred option is where the problem arises.
complaining because users don’t want Microsoft trash on their phone might make marginally more work for you is exactly as whiny.
It's a matter of scale. In a company of any size, you are going to find someone who objects to almost anything. This user doesn't like Microsoft. Ok, let's implement Google. Oh wait, the user over there doesn't like Google. This will go on and on until the IT department is supporting lots of different applications and each one will have a non-zero cost in time and effort. And each of those "small things" has a way of adding up to a big headache for IT. We live in a world of finite resources, and IT departments are usually dealing with even more limited resources. At some point they have to be able to cut their losses and say, "here are the officially supported solutions, pick one". While this creates issues for individuals throughout the organization, it's usually small issues, spread out over lots of people versus lots of small issues concentrated in one group.
If you're in IT, you've likely seen (and probably supported) this sort of standardization in action. I can't count the number of places where every system is some flavor of Dell or HP. And the larger organizations usually have a couple of standard configurations around expected use case. You're an office worker, here's a basic laptop with 16Gb of RAM, and mid level CPU and fuck all for a GPU. Developer? Right, here's the top end CPU, as much RAM as we can stuff in the box and maybe a discreet GPU. AI/ML work? here's the login for AWS. Edge cases will get dealt with in a one-off fashion, there's always going to be the random Mac running around the network, but support will always be sketchy for those. It's all down to standardizing on a few, well known solutions to make support and troubleshooting easier. Sure, there are small shops out there willing to live with beige box deployments. Again, that does not scale.
I see this all the time and it’s downright hysterical. Who the hell can’t handle having to have two devices on them? “Oh yeah you’ll regret asking for this! Just wait till you have to pull out that other thing in your bag occasionally! You’ll be sorry you ever spoke up!”
Hey, if that's your thing, great. But, there is a reason BYOD took off. And a lot of that was on users pushing for it. Having been on the implementation side, it certainly wasn't IT or security departments pushing for this. BYOD is still a goddamn nightmare from an insider threat perspective. And it causes no end of headaches for Help Desks trying to support FSM knows what ancient piece of crap someone dredges up from the depths of history. Yes, it's a bit of cop out to give the user a crappy solution, because they push back against the easy one. But, it's also a matter of trying to keep things working in a standardized fashion. A standard configuration phone, with the required pre-installed, gives the user the option they want and also keeps IT from having do deal with yet more non-standard systems. It's a win for everyone, even if it's not the win the user wanted.
Also, develop some pattern recognition. If you can’t see how Microsoft makes this substantially worse once other methods have been choked out, you haven’t learned a thing about them in the last 30 years.
I do understand how bad Microsoft can be. I was an early adopter of Windows Me. And also have memories of Microsoft whining about de-coupling IE from the OS. And I don't want MS to win out as the authentication app for everyone. That said, I still believe that the Microsoft Authenticator app on a personal device is the wrong hill to die on. There is a lot of non-Microsoft software out there and there are plenty of options out there. But, Microsoft software using the Microsoft app isn't surprising or insidious.
I work in cybersecurity for a large company, which also uses the MS Authenticator app on personal phones (I have it on mine). I do get the whole "Microsoft bad" knee-jerk reaction. I'm typing this from my personal system, running Arch Linux after accepting the difficulties of gaming on Linux because I sure as fuck don't want to deal with Microsoft's crap in Windows 11. That said, I think you're picking the wrong hill to die on here.
In this day and age, Two Factor Authentication (2FA) is part of Security 101. So, you're going to be asked to do something to have 2FA working on your account. And oddly enough, one of the reasons that the company is asking you to install it on your own phone is that many people really hate fiddling with multiple phones (that's the real alternative). There was a time, not all that long ago, where people were screaming for more BYOD. Now that it can be done reasonably securely, companies have gone "all in" on it. It's much cheaper and easier than a lot of the alternatives. I'd love to convince my company to switch over to Yubikeys or the like. As good as push authentication is, it is still vulnerable to social engineering and notification exhaustion attacks. But, like everything in security, it's a trade off between convenience, cost and security. So, that higher level of security is only used for accessing secure enclaves where highly sensitive data is kept.
As for the "why do they pick only this app", it's likely some combination of picking a perceived more secure option and "picking the easiest path". For all the shit Microsoft gets (and they deserve a lot of it), the authenticator app is actually one of the better things they have done. SMS and apps like Duo or other Time based One Time Password (TOTP) solutions, can be ok for 2FA. But, they have a well known weakness around social engineering. And while Microsoft's "type this number" system is only marginally better, it creates one more hurdle for the attacker to get over with the user. As a network defender, the biggest vulnerability we deal with is the interface between the chair and the keyboard. The network would be so much more secure if I could just get rid of all the damned users. But, management insists on letting people actually use their computers, so we need to find a balance where users have as many chances as is practical to remember us saying "IT will never ask you to do this!" And that extra step of typing in the number from the screen is putting one more roadblock in the way of people just blinding giving up their credentials. It's a more active thing for the user to do and may mean they turn their critical thinking skills on just long enough to stop the attack. I will agree that this is a dubious justification, but network defenders really are in a state of throwing anything they can at this problem.
Along with that extra security step, there's probably a bit of laziness involved in picking the Microsoft option. Your company picked O365 for productivity software. While yes, "Microsoft bad" the fact is they won the productivity suite war long, long ago. Management won't give a shit about some sort of ideological rejection of Microsoft. As much as some groups may dislike it, the world runs on Microsoft Office. And Microsoft is the king of making IT's job a lot easier if IT just picks "the Microsoft way". This is at the heart of Extend, Embrace, Extinguish. Once a company picks Microsoft for anything, it becomes much easier to just pick Microsoft for everything. While I haven't personally set up O365 authentication, I'm willing to bet that this is also the case here. Microsoft wants IT teams to pick Microsoft and will make their UIs even worse for IT teams trying to pick "not Microsoft". From the perspective of IT, you wanting to do something else creates extra work for them. If your justification is "Microsoft bad", they are going to tell you to go get fucked. Sure, some of them might agree with you. I spent more than a decade as a Windows sysadmin and even I hate Microsoft. But being asked to stand up and support a whole bunch because of shit for one user's unwillingness to use a Microsoft app, that's gonna be a "no". You're going to need a real business justification to go with that.
That takes us to the privacy question. And I'll admit I don't have solid answers here. On Android, the app asks for permissions to "Camera", "Files and Media" and "Location". I personally have all three of these set to "Do Not Allow". I've not had any issues with the authentication working; so, I suspect none of these permissions are actually required. I have no idea what the iOS version of the app requires. So, YMMV. With no other permissions, the ability of the app to spy on me is pretty limited. Sure, it might have some sooper sekret squirrel stuff buried in it. But, if that is your threat model, and you are not an activist in an authoritarian country or a journalist, you really need to get some perspective. No one, not even Microsoft is trying that hard to figure out the porn you are watching on your phone. Microsoft tracking where you log in to your work from is not all that important of information. And it's really darned useful for cyber security teams trying to keep attackers out of the network.
So ya, this is really not a battle worth picking. It may be that they have picked this app simply because "no one ever got fired for picking Microsoft". But, you are also trying to fight IT simplifying their processes for no real reason. The impetus isn't really on IT to demonstrate why they picked this app. It is a secure way to do 2FA and they likely have a lot of time, effort and money wrapped up in supporting this solution. But, you want to be a special snowflake because "Microsoft bad". Ya, fuck right off with that shit. Unless you are going to take the time to reverse engineer the app and show why the company shouldn't pick it, you're just being a whiny pain in the arse. Install the app, remove it's permissions and move on with life. Or, throw a fit and have the joys of dealing with two phones. Trust me, after a year or so of that, the MS Authenticator app on your personal phone will feel like a hell of a lot better idea.
I suspect Politico fixed it. When I first loaded the page, it had the same image you see in the thumbnail. And that's was what prompted my comment. Looks like they updated the page and it's now an appropriate image.
Story about Belgian F-16s.
Picture shows US F-35.
Guess the AI's came for Politico's editors first.
I apologize now for the hostility I’m about to through your way,
Can't say I really felt your reply was hostile. But, I appreciate that you tried to prevent and bad feelings.
You have 4 paragraphs and 864 words, explaining a fantastically well thought out premise and long term plan that is so absolutely achievable that you could literally do this right now with a like $100k extra.
I mean, I already live semi-rural in a good place for the kids to have friends close, go to good schools, and still have a bit of separation from the neighbors. When the kids are out on their own, we'll probably sell this place and buy a smaller home on a larger plot of land further away from people. Having the passive income setup for retirement may already be in the cards, though certainly not at the level I could pull off by being able to create objects out of nothing. Also, without that ability and the need to hide it, rural Virginia is plenty far enough away from other people for me. Part of picking Alaska for that scenario was accepting that you don't want to get noticed, ever.
With a mix of imagination and diligent scanning you could make yourself your own distinct content with no long term tectonic impact on the planet and a technocratic government that runs everything with a goal of perfect balance between human comfort and long term global stability. You could retire there with your family within the first year to watch your children grow up as the first generation of a true utopia.
Utopias have a bad habit of falling over when you get humans involved. I'd love to believe that, with a human replicator running about, we could end all suffering and bring world peace. I actually believe that the usual mix of greed, ego and self-centered-ness would result in just as many wars and strife as we see today. Hell, if you sit back and take a cold look at reality as it exists today, we should be living in a time of unparalleled peace and abundance for all. As a species, we have plenty of resources that no one should be hungry, no one should be without a roof over their head and no one should be worried about a bomb being dropped on them tomorrow. Yet, here we are. Now, this isn't to say things are all doom and gloom. For all the news reporting to the contrary, we are actually living in an incredibly peaceful time, historically. Even with the invasion of Ukraine, the civil wars in Somalia and Yemen and the genocide in Palestine, the world is actually really peaceful, by historic standards. But, the wars that are going on are driven by assholes who feel they should be in control and that some group of others is less deserving of the right to live in peace. Adding a human replicator to the mix would just mean people fighting to get control of that human replicator. If the US Government discovered a human replicator today, you can bet they would be scooped up and be chained inside a warehouse tomorrow churning out 155mm shells for the war in Ukraine. Rights of that person be damned. Better to hide and just let the world keep spinning.
You could populate the universe with so many tardigrades that the simulation you exist in crashes, or place a bowl of soup on the head of every cat on the planet, or make a new constellation to name after your wife, but instead the real life version of God mode isn’t actually part of your 10 year plan. It’s just a well managed lottery win. It’s this what those wackos are talking about when they preach about internalizing the system? Because if so they’re a lot less nuts than I originally thought.
Maybe. I think it's mostly just a matter of getting older and having perspectives change. I'm not going to say the world is perfect by any means, or that there isn't a lot which needs fixing. But, I think that the world is also not all that bad. Certainly not as bad as the folks screaming on Twitter would have you believe. Sure, I'd change a lot of stuff, had I the power. But, I don't and I don't see it as worth it to wring myself out trying to pretend I do. I'd rather spend my time and energy just trying to make a small corner of this world comfortable for my family. If that means I'm uncaring or a terrible person, because I don't seem to care about everyone else, then fine, I'm a terrible person. Good luck saving the world, I'll be over here eating popcorn and watching you slam your head against a wall. My skull just won't take that sort of punishment anymore.
The thing is, "the system" is rigged and we could do a lot better. And I'll certainly vote and maybe argue a bit online, to push it towards my view of "better". At the same time, "the system" could be way, way worse. And this is one of the problems with people who talk about "blowing up the system" or similar revolutionary language, they usually have a very poor understanding of what comes after. People like to pretend that there is some glorious path from tearing down the system to some sort of utopia. Anyone selling you that bullshit is either lying or has never picked up a history book. The French Revolution was followed by the Reign of Terror. The October Revolution was supposed to lead to a Marxist style utopia, instead they got the USSR and Stalin. The Chinese Communist Revolution was again supposed to lead to a people's utopia. Instead, they got the Great Leap Forward into mass famine, followed by the People's Republic of China we all know and love today. Simply put, most revolutions just end up shifting which horrible group of people get to do horrible things to the other group.
This isn't to say that people should try to overthrow really bad governments. In every one of the examples I listed above, what came before really did need to be torn down. But, I think the Douglas Adams quote is quite apt here, "it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it." Unfortunately, the folks who tend to lead revolutions also tend to be exactly the people you don't want in charge. You get ideologues who then seek to purge the "bad group" for whatever definition of "bad group" they have decided to come up with. Usually, said the Venn Diagram of the "bad group" and "people who question the leader's actions" looks a lot like a single circle. It can go the other way, but it can't be premised on any sort of ideological purity, or you just get The Reign of Terror. You need a really special set of people who are willing to tear down the bad system and then walk away from power. That is really, really rare. And I doubt you can really tell who would actually do that and who would descend into paranoia, once they had power, and refuse to let it go.
So all this is to say that yes, I probably have "internalized the system". Because, sure it sucks, it just sucks less than most of the other options.
Get off lemmy, do some research into properties in Alaska and gold speculation. This is so genuinely possible of a life goal that I genuinely believe you deserve to achieve it.
Once again, I think history is pretty instructive here. If you ever read about the California Gold Rush it wasn't the prospectors who got rich. Sure, some got really lucky, most toiled for decades to just scrabble out a living. Gold speculation in Alaska is actually really hard and down to a lot of luck. Sure, my current living of working for some faceless corporation may not be glamorous, but it provides a comfortable, reliable living. I'd much rather have stability than roll the dice on picking the right plot of land. Also, I'm lazy. Doing gold prospecting for real requires tons of hard work and physical labor. Without the magic ability to just spawn gold, it's not worth currently worth it for me.
You have 4 paragraphs and 864 words
I grew up in a time before Twitter. I'm used to longer form discussion boards. While "brevity may be the soul of wit" it's also often a sign that someone hasn't put any thought into what they are writing. The world is a messy place, it's very rare that the reality of a situation can be crammed into 140 characters or less. Also, arguing with people on the internet is my version of "drinking my morning coffee while reading the newspaper". I can wake up, sip mu coffee and pretend the world gives a damn about my opinions. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. But, it's now used up a bunch of electricity getting spewed about the world. And I'm much better caffeinated.
The first thing I learn to replicate: coffee.
My cup gets empty, just point a finger in and squirt out another cup.
This is going to be followed by water and various food items and gasoline. My wife would be in on the secret, I'd keep the kids in the dark as much as possible. Now it's time to try and generate a living. Creating cash is a no-go as it's serialized and someone is going to notice bills showing up with the same numbers. I'd also avoid most high value, finished goods, as those also tend to be serialized and might get noticed. It's not that I wouldn't catalog them, but that would be for emergencies. For a while (probably years), life would continue as normal. I'd just be saving a lot of money by not buying groceries, sundries or most things I could get by handling it in a store and replicating it at home. Anything big or obvious gets bought normally. This is things like cell phones or cars. But, by shaving a lot of the regular costs, I suspect I could save up a good bit in a reasonable amount of time.
Once I have the funds, it's time to move to phase two. Locate a claim in Alaska which is both somewhat likely to have gold, is close enough to a town to visit with a short drive, and has a scenic spot to build a house. Buy a nice R/V and spend a few weeks every summer prospecting on the land and building out a homestead. I'll need to start visiting home improvement stores to catalog the materials along with visiting conventions and the like to handle samples of other stuff needed to build. I'd be aiming for as much of a net-zero, off-grid home as possible. Internet would be via Starlink (which would be bought and paid for). And most of the other stuff (food, materials, etc.) get's zapped into existence.
The "prospecting" part of the trip would be real enough. The finds would just be padded, a bit. The first few summers will result in finding nothing but gold dust and maybe a nugget or two gets added over time. Nothing big, nothing notable. Just enough that it makes sense for me to keep going back. This trip would be a family tradition (I'm sure the kids would hate it), but it's how we spend a couple weeks every year. This goes on with finds being padded out more over time with most of the money going into stocks, bonds and other investments. My paycheck would also be mostly used this way, keeping enough to pay for unavoidable costs like taxes, trips and services. When the home is ready, sell the R/V and use it as the base of operations for prospecting. This all goes on until the kids are grown and moved out. We continue to live in our current home, the kids keep going to school and doing the normal growing up and getting prepared for life. Nothing changes for them and they get a normal, stable childhood. Once they are on their way, the wife and I move to Alaska permanently. I continue working (I already work remotely) and prospecting until the investments are big enough that we can live off the interest comfortably with the principal growing 3-5% per year to keep up with inflation. Though, I kinda suspect this would happen before the kids are fully grown. With my ability to just create the food, sundries and fuel we need, we'd be saving money pretty quick.
And then, we just live. I'm not going to save the world, I don't think I can. If I can generate enough money, I would start donating to worthwhile causes. Things which provide water, food and micro-business loans. I really want to avoid discovery and ending up as a lab rat or having my family ripped apart as various government agencies try to figure out if my ability is genetic. Anything I do, which gets me noticed, results in my kids not getting to have normal lives. And that is goal number 1, my family gets to live a normal, happy life. Depending on how the ability works, I might go for a MAD style option over this. If I can create objects very fast and at far enough distances, I'd work to learn as powerful of explosives as possible over the years (nuclear weapons if the option reasonably presents itself, not sure how it would). If I am discovered, the threat becomes "leave my family alone or I blow the fuck out of everything, everywhere, all at once".
But ya, that's basically it. My kids grow up and have a trust fund waiting for them when my wife and I kick it. My wife and I get to retire as far away from other people as possible. We grow old hiking and playing video games together. Considering family history and actuary tables, I'll die first and she can spend her last years (possibly decades, based on her family history) dotting on grandkids and hopefully finding someone else to be happy around in those years.
I think AI is good with giving answers to well defined problems. The issue is that companies keep trying to throw it at poorly defined problems and the results are less useful. I work in the cybersecurity space and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a vendor talking about AI in their products. It's the new, big marketing buzzword. The problem is that finding the bad stuff on a network is not a well defined problem. So instead, you get the unsupervised models faffing about, generating tons and tons of false positives. The only useful implementations of AI I've seen in these tools actually mirrors you own: they can be scary good at generating data queries from natural language prompts. Which is, once again, a well defined problem.
Overall, AI is a tool and used in the right way, it's useful. It gets a bad rap because companies keep using it in bad ways and the end result can be worse than not having it at all.
While it's cliche, Kali can be a pretty good starting point, especially if you are looking at cybersecurity. You might even consider something like the TryHackMe module on Linux Fundamentals here:
https://tryhackme.com/module/linux-fundamentals
That can get your feet wet and then you can explore the rest of the site to look at security applications.
As for other distributions, Ubuntu is generally good as a "I want to try Linux and not hate myself" distribution. It will feel reasonably familiar if you have used Windows. And a lot of open source projects and software seems to target Ubuntu.
If you are ok with a learning curve which looks more like a cliff face, Arch Linux is great. It provides a very high degree of customizability and control, but far from holding your hand, it will actively smack it away while you are drowning. On the upshot you will learn as you go, you have no other choice.
If you plan to work in an Enterprise environment you can expect to run into RedHat/CentOS. While not quite as comfy as Ubuntu, it does provide a decent level of not letting you cut your own feet off. Though, you may have issues with some projects and software not being as easily available due to the high level of centralized control.
And lastly, a lot of what you learn in one distribution will be roughly applicable in another. Maybe things will be a bit different, but you will have a general sense of what things will be like. So, don't stress over the choice of a distribution too much. Pick one and go. When you find out you are wrong (because, of course, every choice is wrong to someone), learning the next one won't be anywhere near as hard.
That's easy for us to sit back and say on some internet forum. When a large company exec is sitting in front of you, waving a massive pile of money at you, it's a hell of a lot harder. Especially if your company is struggling or you just really want to focus on making games and leave the business side of things to someone else.
If you don't want someone to look at something, don't fucking hand it to them.
I realize good OPSEC is hard, but this director is demonstrating a complete lack of awareness around security.
Pretty much it's the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.
Any sort of collapse is going to lead to a lot of people fighting over dwindling resources. It's also going to provide fertile ground for warlords to take over and run their own kingdoms. And those kingdoms can be expected to fight. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire is likely instructive here. You will have a hollowing out of the cities as the logistical chains supporting them collapse. Where they make sense, the ruins will be used by smaller populations and in surprising ways (stables, forts, ramshackle dwellings). Subsistence farming will again be the occupation of the vast majority of the population. Though, that's going to take time to get going again; so, expect a lot of people to die of starvation. And, of course, farmers will regularly find themselves subject to raids from the previously mentioned warlords. Some might be lucky enough to be left with enough food to keep feeding themselves and just become serfs to said warlords.
With modern medicine and vaccines gone, our old friends tuberculosis and small pox likely show back up and start taking their toll. A lack of sanitation and water treatment brings back cholera and dysentery. And then there's all the joys of bacterial infections, without anti-bacterial medications. So, one unlucky scratch and you get to die a horrible death or face an amputation without the benefit of anesthetic.
So ya, pretty much we get to go back to scrabbling in the dirt for the hope to not die horribly. And maybe, if we're lucky, society will put itself back together again, eventually.
That's going to be one of those things which would need to be demonstrated on a case by case basis. Does being an asshole make him biased in a case on corporate law? Probably not. There could be cases where such a display might be used to question if he should recuse himself, but it's going to be much harder than "I think a reasonable person could question his impartiality". Honestly, if my lawyer was planning on that to make or break a case, I'd go find a new lawyer. Really, the interesting part of that code of ethics is the bit around political activities and the limits placed on the court and it's staff. Though, even those have been severely weakened for lower courts, where the limits are actually enforced.
And, as has been noted about the code, it's really just a paper tiger.
And that's completely fair. As I said above, the end result will almost certainly be a company provided phone with company provided apps. I've seen (and had) both solutions. It all comes down to how you view the risks. If you see running a Microsoft app on your personal phone as too great a risk to your privacy, then go for the two phone option. Personally, I don't see that as a high risk and think it's kinda silly.