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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-01-25 23:18:58

The truth is, I’ve never trusted FileVault or really any whole-disk encryption.
I have a couple of FreeBSD machines using geli but not on their boot disk (is that even a thing?) and I’ve never been willing to jump into FileVault because it seems to have had a steady stream of “Oh, well, hope you have a backup” problems.
#Sysadminnery

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-02-23 00:45:26

I never ceases to amaze me that mail systems do this shit. I know it was a thing with Sendmail but most of us have moved on or at least fixed the stupid mailer flags.
#Sysadminnery #Email #Sendmail

An image of doubly-quoted email header text showing a telltale Sendmail “auto-conversion” done by whatever idiots run carrierzone.com > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by > mail54c40.carrierzone.com id [REDACTED]
@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-02-24 14:40:08

It seems to me based on mailing list traffic like a lot of people are seeing the free side of MS email (outlook.com, hotmail.com, etc. not paying customers on ms365) doing what it so often does today: mystery rejections and dropping mail on the floor.
I assure you: if you're getting bounces because of this, your mail admin knows that it is happening and has NO WAY to address it.
#Sysadminnery

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-01-12 02:49:41

Using MS365 for email is accepting the combined unknown unknowns of both MS operating policy choices and their other customers’ security.
And the KNOWN risk that it makes phishing much easier to execute in ways which are harder to catch.
#Sysadminnery @…

Danny Palmer (@dannyjpalmer@infosec.exchange)
A surge in phishing attacks which exploit email routing settings and misconfigured domain spoofing protections to spoof domains and make malicious emails appear as if they were sent from within the organization are targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. Microsoft Threat Intelligence has warned that the attacks are themed around phoney messages from HR departments and IT security teams and are being deployed in attempts to steal login credentials. While the attack vector isn’t new, Microsoft said…

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-02-07 22:53:22

CONFESSION:
My ongoing hatred of git is almost entirely grounded in my inability to switch FreeBSD branches without wiping and recloning.
#Sysadminnery