Corporations are stupid. My dad got his job eliminated with a severance package after 25+years at a place that was moving plants, then hired at same company as a contractor at 50% raise for 8 more years (till he retired). Like the accounting math makes no sense

Yes.

Steals it from your system I meant. Which has even happened to security pros.

True dat. But if they compromise your computer the first thing the look for is key files.

Like my ssh keys are in a root permission file. Protected from general sight, but if somebody compromises my PC with a CVE on then goodbye keys.

At least with hardware key it is removable and requires a button press.

So accessing becomes physical access or quantum computer cracking

I mean yes everything is hackable. Thankfully the hardware key supports FIDO where there is a public / private pair with private locked on the hardware. Not enough services support this though.

So threat is being targeted and having somebody steal the hardware key.

Not if your TOTP codes are generated by another device, then the attacker needs your password, plus the device holding the key for TOTP. If you use it on your phone and authenticator is your phone then a theif has everything when they steal your phone.

Hardware key for TOTP is a better 2FA method as its totally separate from your PC or phone

Its still just a single factor if some body steals your private key.

They do. But I have seen a lot of nasty divorced couples, that made me realize most adults are still kids. 🙁

I can’t answer directly but have seen some instances with a family member, and a stranger. Family member: stayed friends and once in a while them and their spouse have dinner with the ex.

Strangers: i saw a family at the doctors office. Daughter and Mom and Step Dad, then Biological Dad showed up. They all got on really well, and the StepDad and Dad talked about getting together for some BBQ Salmon and beer one day.

Some seem to show a lot of grace, in what could have been awkward dynamics

Yes because the keyboard and mouse were via the serial PS connectors, but the IT dudes could have just opened the case and unplugged the USB headers instead of permanently filling the slots with glue.

Its the best we have until Linux phones become more viable

The what’s app is encrypted to get to your phone so transmission is protected, however to view your message it is unencrypted (obvious) and at that stage WhatsApp will parse it for key stuff such as Child Sexual stuff, or other threats they have determined they look for, that then triggers a data send back to the mother ship. The problem with this is if the Government wants to silence a political opponent or journalist they can go to Meta and request a search other than CSAM. So end to end encryption via any META product is a joke

E2EE but with a caveat that they can do on device detection of unencrypted messages and flag content back to mothership

They are low priced because they expect data harvesting to happen

The software locks out the auto discover and auto config of attached devices, unless they are in an allow list.

Same like some android phone models where you can turn off USB port to protect your phone from being infiltrated.

I did work at a place that filled the USB ports with HotGlue to stop workers loading movies on the computers on night shift

Is that a mouse in the small of my back?

I’m running an early version of that on a 16 year old ARM board NAS, the NAS has 256MB of RAM and OpenMediaVault runs great on it.

Right. It is used in books often. Maybe people don’t read?

They can’t be a 10, only framework gets a 10. Nothing compares.

My memory was fuzzy, but I think it wasn’t UEFI but apps/drivers, but j could be wrong