Idk if it’s an ADHD thing, but I’ve notice sometimes when I reach a certain level of extreme sleep deprivation I become significantly more productive that my baseline state.

Need some Blue Team advice for a presentation I'm giving. As I understand it, Task Scheduler stores credentials via DPAPI, which AFIK is protected by a master key stored on disk, not LSA. So, would I be correct in saying that newer protections such as LSA protection, Credential Guard, VBS, etc, would not prevent an attacker running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM from dumping plaintext credentials from scheduled tasks (or really anything DPAPI related)? And if so, what is the recommended best practice for securing scheduled tasks?

One thing I thing I do think the US does a lot better than the UK in terms of elections is having a couple months window to flee the country following an election. In the UK if Trump won he'd be in office within like 24 hours of the election and I'd be so fucked

Selecting the Luxury option on Uber and getting a Model Y is the adult version of your grandma getting you socks for Christmas

I really don't encourage rolling hatred of Biden's handling of certain issues onto Kamala. VP is a literally useless position. For all intents and purposes her job was to just be a backup dancer for whatever Biden is doing. Reading between the lines, I think she would have handled a couple of key issues much better than Biden did, she's just not making her position clear before the election because doing so would harm her chances of being elected. I'd bet money that she is going to be a lot closer to what you want than Biden ever was. Secondly, if Kamala wins, you will likely never have to worry about Trump ever again. The majority of the Republican party despises him, they just ran the numbers are realized they can't win without him. He holds the key to the MAGA cult, and if he runs as an independent it splits the right-wing vote and they lose the election. If he loses a second time in a row, it literally doesn't matter since they can't win with him either. their best bet is to get rid of him themselves. He has a ton of court cases hanging over him, and if he ends up it jail he loses his influence and ability to split the vote in the next election. Their voters won't even remember him in 4 years never mind what they did, so they have the perfect opportunity to put an end to his tyranny for good, and I there is a good chance they take it. The bigger a margin Kamala wins by, the more likely it is that the Republicans party will take Trump to a farm upstate and therefore the more likely it is that the US can go back to having semi-normal elections instead of narrowly avoiding the complete and total collapse of democracy every 4 years.

It's honestly wild that people are super concerned about a bunch of hard working illegal immigrants who underpin the US economy, yet ignore the one who came over, extracted hundreds of billions of dollars in value, busted union, violated labor laws, then spent the money trying to dismantle US democracy in an attempt to re-elect a fascist.

I'm so glad someone actually investigated this. I've always suspected he was an illegal immigrant. None of his story makes any sense if you're familiar with US immigration. You can't just go to school in the US as a foreigner, drop out, then start a company. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/

I've seen a lot of wild things during US elections, but the PAC paying for ads in Jewish neighborhoods claiming Kamala supports Palestine and then running the same ads in Muslim neighborhoods claiming Kamala supports Israel is by far the wildest. What's even wilder is a significant amount of money come from Elon Musk, and he's potentially their largest source of funding, but it'd be basically impossible for the average voter to figure out where the money came from because it's all routed through multiple dark-money PACs which don't disclose donors.

Some more from tonight

I had one client ask me to prepare a hacking demo for their live event and the deadline they gave me i was pretty sure was literally impossible, but I gave it a go out of interest and ended up getting close enough that I actually surprised myself. Now I’m just going to justify my future rates with “my rate isn’t for 2 days of work, it’s for the 20 years of experience that enables me to do 20 days of work in 2” 😆