I’m an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.
That’s literally what a pi-hole is.
Does that require admin access? It wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.
This wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.
I saw that happen once in a big presentation.
There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.
I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.
Sadly, Firefox mobile got rid of about:config, and I can’t find any relevant options in the regular settings.
You can disable this “feature”:
Visit about:config
Set “dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled” to false
Full disk encryption doesn’t help with this threat model at all. A rogue program running on the same machine can still access all the files.
Video tutorial covering roundabouts and also defensive techniques for fighter aircraft.