It’s safe to assume that the US government owns all your software and the Chinese government owns all your hardware. The thing that protects you is that your local police department is too stupid to work a computer and you’re probably not important enough to come to the attention of the heavy hitters in the government.

As for whether or not the mcfascists will kick in your door: maybe. The answer would still be “maybe” regardless of your internet usage…it’s random and arbitrary by design, to keep everyone terrified and encourage them to constantly compete to please the regime.

I disagree with everything besides #1. I think this may actually be too dated to be helpful.

Anyone gone back to school for an advanced degree after working in the field for a long time? What was your experience like?

The thought entered my mind to go back to school and get a Masters or something. I have 14 years in the field already but my bachelor’s was unrelated. Anyone else done something similar and have any input?

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A friend’s MSP got wiped off the map by this, we think. Not just exploited in the wild but, apparently, easy enough that random vandal kiddies are playing with it

They used to just hit http://localhost/:<various ports>/cc.png which connected to your Creative Cloud app directly, but then Chrome started blocking Local Network Access, so they had to do this hosts file hack instead.

Ok but adobe what if you didn’t portscan me either, please.

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