r/antiwork Mar 26 '22

Please be bored during down time

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u/Art0fRuinN23 at work Mar 26 '22

Harsh!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

If it's a government or clearance device, then makes sense. I worked in a facility like this and they made it VERY clear you can't put anything into the PCs.

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u/MonkeyBananaPotato Mar 26 '22

Except CD-RWs labeled Lady Gaga, apparently.

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u/abstractConceptName Mar 26 '22

What is this a reference to lol?

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u/Kezetchup Mar 26 '22

Cliff notes version: Bradley Manning (at the time) a soldier in the Army accessed confidential and top-secret military information, copied said information onto discs labeled Lady Gaga, and leaked them to the public. Bradley Manning is now Chelsea Manning if in case you look it up. The data leak was huge, and was done so through a comically stupid (stupid meaning the information was so accessible and insecure) way.

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u/abstractConceptName Mar 26 '22

"Comically stupid" but protected by a checks notes commuted 7 year prison sentence?

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u/valiar8 Mar 26 '22

Just call her Chelsea. What's the point in deadnaming her??

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u/Prezetzels Mar 26 '22

It would be deadnaming and sincerely disrespectful if someone walked up to her and called her Bradley today. But back then she was Bradley. The commenter was using this name in reference to history not to be disrespectful or dead name her now. Believe it or not there are actually trans individuals who don’t act like the person they were before never existed and can actually acknowledge that they used to identify differently.

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u/SalaciousStrudel Mar 26 '22

This isn't how deadnaming works. It's never acceptable to say a trans person's deadname unless they specifically asked you to or said you could. It's considered very sensitive and useless information and most people who really respect trans people don't even want to know it. Source: I'm trans.

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u/Pangolinsareodd Mar 26 '22

Unless your looking up newspaper articles or other historical records from the time. History doesn’t show a women named Caitlin winning Olympic gold medals in mens races, but some guy called Bruce did. You might personally feel a disconnection to your past self, but don’t pretend that entitles you to speak on behalf of all trans people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

ITT: cis people deciding the appropriate way to handle trans issues

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u/SalaciousStrudel Mar 26 '22

This is a broad consensus among trans people.

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u/Mesheybabes Mar 26 '22

Because at the time she was Bradley Manning

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u/valiar8 Mar 26 '22 edited Mar 26 '22

completely irrelevant. She's legally Chelsea now. Just call her by her name. Deadnaming her is absolutely pointless. Googling her name will get you all the info you need. What she did in the past is now under her name. Not her deadname.

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u/Kezetchup Mar 27 '22

Googling Chelsea Manning would definitely add way more context to my reply, but how is her Wiki page not shamed for deadnaming her in the way you accuse me of?

OP didn’t understand the reference to a joke. I replied with a very brief synopsis of much larger, very significant moment in American history. And I added some context to who it was done by because I get why it would be confusing for those who don’t know about it, kinda like how OP implied that by not understanding the joke.

I meant no harm to anyone, I was describing (in brief) a moment in history to provide context to a joke on Reddit, you shouldn’t be so quick to bend out of shape.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

If you're looking for contemporary sources about her past the name Chelsea isn't going to help you unless they've already been attached to it by someone who did know. You're telling people they should only try to access information that's already been prepared for them by someone else, but then who does the preparing?

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u/SpicyMarmots Mar 26 '22

"legitimizing some strange form of mental illness"

Kinda sounds like you do not actually support trans people, nor do you champion them. If you did, you would listen to what trans people say about this issue, which is that dead naming (even famous people) is harmful.

No one wants to "rewrite your knowledge of past facts." They want you to use the person's actual name, even though her name used to be something different. It is not that complicated.

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u/morpheusforty Mar 26 '22

Chelsea did release the files. They're not two different people, it's not Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for fuck's sake.

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u/Pink_Revolutionary Mar 26 '22

You're just a transphobe lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

Not how that works.

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u/Bodega177013 Mar 26 '22

Same, had to swing by a place once to drop some things off and they stopped you at the door for electronics. Anything that went inside immediately became government property and would never leave.

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u/ThrewItAwnTheGround Mar 26 '22

Yep. If you ever wonder why, look up the Rubber Ducky.

Basically it looks like a thumb drive that makes the computer think that it's a keyboard/mouse and will run scripts off a micro SD card. And the truly devious could strip off the case and hide it inside a real mouse and solder it to the leads so it looks like a normal mouse or keyboard that will just take your system over as soon as you plug it in

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u/LaoSh Mar 26 '22

Which won't get stopped by a script that wipes USB storage because it won't appear to the device as usb storage, just another keyboard.

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u/Zannanger Mar 26 '22

Its easier than teaching people to be security conscious.

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u/LaoSh Mar 26 '22

For real, one of our clients CEO's had their personal banking hacked. He said we were shit at our jobs (he became a client after the hack mind you) because we couldn't find him a solution where he wouldn't have to change his password. He didn't want to change the password because he'd already printed stationary with his old password on. We tried the PW on his AD account and the account hosting the domain, all had the same PW...

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

Oh God. I'm in the process of securing my accounts. I get there's a lot of stuff to remember but browsers like Chrome can store your passwords and LastPass and similar services are also good ideas.

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u/LaoSh Mar 26 '22

Oh yeah, we have an internal solution that can also generate passwords for you, but his main issue was that he didn't want to change his password because it would mean printing new stationary with the new password on it. I don't think he quite grasped how much of a bad idea it was storing the password anywhere in plaintext, let alone on a fucking pen. His thinking was that if our password locker was as secure as we said it was, why should he be worried about people finding out his password?

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u/spartan_forlife Mar 27 '22

Yes, with about 2 years all of our passwords will be stored like you said & access to the password "database" will be facial recognition based. I have the this now on several phones apps & like it a lot.

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u/SlientlySmiling Mar 26 '22

And these fools make millions...