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  • infeeeee@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlVirus
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    5 days ago

    I worked for a small company, not an IT job, this happened like 10 years ago.

    The office administrator lady got an email from an unknown address. The email was in Italian, she couldn’t speak Italian, but we had an Italian client, so it was not unexpected that we got an email in Italian. The email had an attachment, a docx file. She downloaded it, opened it then Word asked if she wants to allow running macros embedded in the document, and she obviously clicked yes. We had a small Linux file server, and the virus running on her PC encrypted several tenthousand excel files before it was noticed that something is happening and her machine could be switched off.

    No problem - said the boss, we only lost a half day of work, as we have an offsite backup, it runs every night, we can just restore yesterday’s data. Unfortunately the backup stopped half years ago, but no one checked the logs…




  • infeeeee@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.worldCars are scary
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    2 months ago

    Where or how did you see that? As bluetooth clients?

    Bluetooth radios have unique mac addresses, so adding a relatively common first name to it doesn’t mean much, if someone wants to track you via this, it doesnt really matter if it’s 04:ad:22... or Geodad's car




  • infeeeee@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlLocal Area FTP
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    4 months ago

    1.5 A for 10 h is 15000 mAh, at 12V. Current powerbanks can do that. Here is a redmi one, specs says it can do that, 20000 mAh, 12V is the maximum: https://www.mi.com/global/product/20000mah-redmi-fast-charge-power-bank/specs

    Buy an usb-pd 12V cable, one end of the cable is type c, the other end is standard dc coax. The cable has a chip inside, so it will always ask for 12V from the power source, it’s like 5 USD, I have one for a similar usecase, works perfectly. They work only if the source can send the required voltage, if a powerbank can only send 5V or 9V it cant convert it up to 12.

    It should look something like this, make sure the voltage is correct before buying: