• ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      7 hours ago

      Do you know what a “safe word” is? I’m asking seriously because if you don’t, I’ll start my explanation there, but I don’t want to assume you don’t.

      It’s a joke about kink and the safe word being impossible to remember or use plus a play on tech security with the cat o’ nine tails being made out of wires.

  • zephiriz@lemmy.ml
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I know PoE and other minor things that make use of the unused pairs but I never really understood why only 2 of the 4 pairs of wires is used as standard practice.

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
      21·
      17 hours ago

      Real men are far too hard to find, anyway. They’re mostly insecure AF children overcompensating for… things. It’s always the little things that fuck everything up.

  • Pat@feddit.nu
    8·
    20 hours ago

    The problem with doing the safeword like that is that it counterintuitively REDUCES entropy (you just use ! for the special character, first character’s uppercase, number at the end), and is so hard to remember it just goes on a Post-It. Get a couple dice and the EFF Large Wordlist. New Requirement: Safeword Must Have >80b Entropy.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    38·
    1 day ago

    Your safe word requires two factor authentication. I hope you kept your phone handy.

    That or put a yubikey on your nipple ring.

    • bampop@lemmy.world
      9·
      17 hours ago

      You have used the safe word correctly. Now please identify all the squares with traffic lights in them so we can email you a six digit code in order to proceed

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      12·
      1 day ago

      Fun fact: I work in municipal government and they started making us use 2-factor that sent messages to our cell phones. That came back to bite us when we got an Open Records request that included a request for text messages between staff containing specific keywords. Employees who didn’t have a city-issued phone and hadn’t been using their personal phones for work got pretty upset when I had to take their phones and search their text histories.

      And that’s how every remaining employee down to the guys running the lawnmowers in the parks department got a monthly phone stipend.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        10·
        1 day ago

        You mean “had been using their personal phones”? Or you had to take their personal phones regardless? In which case the phone stipend wouldn’t have mattered? Makes me think some people might just pocket the stipend and then be upset when the same thing happens again, so maybe you should just issue phones lol.

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 day ago

          Lots of employees did keep the stipends as a pay bonus, but then it was on them if they used their personal phones for work and they got caught up in Open Records.

          I think the better solution would have been to use a different form of 2FA, but I do like having a separate work phone anyway. It makes it easier me turn it off and not get distracted by work shit when I’m off the clock, and also lets me change my number when I change cities without having my personal contacts lose my number.