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Oculus Spirit [98159]
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Work from home PSA
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May 10, 2024, 8:49 AM
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So wife works for da gubmint. Well, gubmint servers and data anyway. And they have strict rules for work at home, like the FBI has to come to your house, inspect your equipment, and certify that you can connect, and this is after you yourself get security clearance. Like..... serious security.
Whale, just so happens some coworker at her company wanted to stream some movies that were pirated for her kids. So they used a VPN. And a VPN is fine, if you use one on your PC, that's a piece of software. But this person connected their entire router to a VPN, meaning the entire wifi network also went over the VPN. So kids of coworker are watching Trolls from a bootleg website or whatever, and coworker tries to log into gubmint VPN. Well, the ROUTER (connected to VPN) sent her gubmint VPN login request to Zimbabwe or somewhere, then back to the gubmint server. The login attempt to the gubmint servers from the Zimbabwe VPN was denied, blocked, and investigated.
This employee has now been fired. Their access terminated, their account terminated, their IP banned, and they may press charges. Even with the correct login credentials, the gubmint server blocked access due to the source IP of the login attempt. This is how they knew exactly who did it. For a brief period of time there was a random VPN server in Zimbabwe who, in theory, had access to login information for the gubmint servers/VPN.
So anyway......
/PSA
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But how was Trolls?***
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May 10, 2024, 8:56 AM
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Oculus Spirit [98159]
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I took liberties at picking the movie.
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May 10, 2024, 9:15 AM
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Was only told "movies for her kids, who were home sick". Trolls seemed appropriate. Could have been something else. Also took liberties with the VPN country. Could have been Rwanda, Lesotho, Congo, Nigeria, etc.
Either way, irregardless of the specific movie or shady VPN host country, I'm sure it wasn't worth it after mommy was fired from her job.
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cudda just netflixed and chilled.***
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May 10, 2024, 9:28 AM
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Oculus Spirit [98159]
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I have the option to do this on our router. My question is WHY
May 10, 2024, 9:34 AM
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would you set the entire router to a VPN service? That slows your entire internet to whatever the speed is in Zimbabwe. I guess it was enough to stream a movie, but still......
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Who pirates movies as an adult?***
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May 10, 2024, 9:40 AM
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Cmon, give her a break. She is unemployed.***
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May 10, 2024, 9:43 AM
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As long as OnlyFans exists she's underemployed, not unemployed.***
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May 10, 2024, 9:53 AM
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Can she acess OnlyFans
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May 10, 2024, 10:10 AM
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from Guantanamo Bay detention camp?
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I'd totally read this if I had dramamine***
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May 10, 2024, 8:57 AM
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Pretty expensive movie, I must say***
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May 10, 2024, 8:59 AM
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Zimbabwe pron accessed?***
May 10, 2024, 9:24 AM
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lol
May 10, 2024, 9:26 AM
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government workers
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Oculus Spirit [81620]
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The login creds are still encrypted
May 10, 2024, 9:30 AM
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Did teh gubmint folkks not like the login creds coming from another country or somethin'?
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Oculus Spirit [98159]
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Yep. That was the flag that denied access.
May 10, 2024, 9:35 AM
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But they somehow also knew exactly who was trying to log in. Don't ask me how they knew.
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Oculus Spirit [81620]
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Well, the creds gave it away.***
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May 10, 2024, 9:36 AM
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sure it was Trolls.....prolly more like Holes........ Gone Wild!
May 10, 2024, 10:17 AM
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Oculus Spirit [98159]
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It's even worse. The security is very tight. The rule is you can not
May 10, 2024, 10:57 AM
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connect to a gubmint server from ANY internet source, outside the US. One employee used Verizon 5G for their home internet. They lived near the Canadian border. The guy had to change his ISP because, at times, the 5G would connect to Verizon towers in Canada and during those times his access was denied.
Now this guy didn't get in trouble for his problem because he really had no way to know. It's not like he told verizon to connect to a Canadian tower or change from a US to Canadian tower. But he did have to change his internet source, even though Verizon is a US company and is well-vetted.
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Oculus Spirit [81620]
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I'm not getting why they even let her connect with a foreign IP address.
May 10, 2024, 11:52 AM
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They can put in a dynamic ACl and deny access based on geographic region.
I think she's lying why she got fired. Certainly this isn't the first time someone has done this.
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Re: Work from home PSA
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May 10, 2024, 11:14 AM
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What movie is this?***
May 10, 2024, 1:21 PM
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110%er [9132]
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They should have used Zscaler on the gov network, the newest thing
May 10, 2024, 11:36 AM
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for gov agencies
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Oculus Spirit [81620]
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We use that.
May 10, 2024, 11:50 AM
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Solid MEH.
Seems like it keeps out more than it should often..and needs a lot of tweaking.
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My favorite thing is getting the zscaler notifications as it spends a few minute
May 10, 2024, 12:23 PM
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cycling on/off.
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110%er [9132]
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We've been testing the heck out of it before releasing agency wide, may issues
May 10, 2024, 1:10 PM
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that what to be worked through.
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All-In [27663]
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It is better than what we were using before.
May 10, 2024, 1:22 PM
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This at least runs in the background and you don't have to manually create a VPN connection.
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