• 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    5 months ago

    “I restart every day before going home”

    Uptime: 19:23:07:24

    Yeah… Logging off isn’t restarting…

    (Brought to you by my actual day today)

    E: correct autocorrect

    E2: of course that’s not why I told her. I explained how fastboot sometimes takes over and doesn’t actually restart the device, only “refreshes” the experience. I recommended she restart at least once a week. We’ll see what happens.

    • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      85 months ago

      windows doesnt actually shut down, its some kind of hybrid hibernation now. it only really reboots if you actually reboot. so they may actually be “shutting down” every day.

      • @Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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        55 months ago

        They have successfully circumvented the reboot. I just always turn that setting off. SSDs are ubiquitous, nobody needs a fake shutdown. It just causes more issues.

    • @lud@lemm.ee
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      65 months ago

      If you are internal IT you (or someone at least) should disable fastboot though GPOs

      • Idk how that person’s IT works, but in mine, that would probably warrant a lot of paperwork. The techs would have to pitch the change to client management, client management would have to pitch it to change management and provide test results to show it has no side effects, then deal with the techs complaining about the uptick in tickets about slow boot times or people justifying never shutting down or restarting with it taking so long to boot.

        Not that they’re actually slow, our users are just super entitled. I got to observe the rollout of automatic screen lock for security reasons, and the ensuing pushback. The audacity of having to reenter your password if you’ve spent more than ten minutes doing nothing!

        Security even managed to push for reducing it to five minutes after some unfortunate incident… but it got reverted for reasons you can probably guess. Hint: shit always flows downward.

        • @lud@lemm.ee
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          15 months ago

          I recommend looking into Windows hello for business to reduce the usage of passwords in the first place. It’s so much nicer to use your fingerprint, face, or even a PIN.

          • @rekorse@lemmy.world
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            15 months ago

            I would never consider fingerprints or face scans to be secure even for personal devices. I guess if theres literally nothing to protect, if thats possible.

            • @lud@lemm.ee
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              05 months ago

              Passwords can in most scenarios be considered to be even less secure.

              Remember that you aren’t replacing 64 character passwords with fingerprints. You are replacing 8 character shit passwords with fingerprints.

              Also pretty much everyone in IT security agrees that passwordless is the way to go.

              Passwords REALLY fucking sucks for so many reasons.

              • @rekorse@lemmy.world
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                15 months ago

                I do understand the point that the biometrics are replacing very short pins usually, oftentimes 4 digits only but I dont quite see how that makes the passcodes worse than the biometrics.

                I’d say even a 6 digit passcode with a randomized number pad, alongside an emergency wipe pin, would do better than biometrics, which also need to have a passcode setup as backup anyhow.

                Maybe you could play out a few scenarios that illustrate your point?

                • @lud@lemm.ee
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                  15 months ago

                  Why exactly do you think biometrics are so terrible? Is it because you could theoretically access someone’s computer when they are sleeping or something?

                  As far as I’m aware that is not the consensus in the industry. I even need biometric (in combination with a card and a pin) to enter a specific datacenter.

                  I do think that bringing up specialised and uncommon hardware like randomised number pads is out of scope. Are you talking about highly sensitive and restricted systems? I’m talking about normal user computers.

                  • @rekorse@lemmy.world
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                    15 months ago

                    Randomized keypads are for touchscreens, although like you said sort of not common for desktop workstations.

                    Just comparing a password to biometrics though on say a laptop or desktop, there is the major drawnback that you can be forced either knowingly or unknowingly to put in a biometric to unlock a device. It would be easier to circumvent then a standard password (at my company and the clients we work with, 16 characters is standard) with an encrypted hard drive.

                    This is all deduction ive made from other things I know to be true though, if you happen to know of a resource that explains both methods of securing g a workstation and the risks associated, I’d love to read it.

                    I also do agree overall that password less makes the most sense now, as people are never going to get better at making secure passwords and remembering them.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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        15 months ago

        Our company policy is not to disable it. I tried getting it approved a year or so ago : /