Ditto with the folks promoting Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). If you’re on the free side, that’s the tool to use. It’s fully supported by Microsoft not to screw things up. Personally, for big jobs, I prefer System Center Configuration Manager, but that’s over kill if you’re doing less than 500 systems. With SCCM…

I believe it’s getting circulated in the next mandatory security awareness course.

Wow. Since there are some tragic idiots here... I can’t share the paperwork I have (NDA), but how about I post an example of one of the policies we use?

Microsoft Partner here. Microsoft gives my company requirements for handling their data. What they are referring to is incredibly simple. MS has tools to automatically detect company sensitive content and put in place rules that prevent it from being shared in ways that would break their data handling policies. It’s…

That may be true for a few, but it’s not true for all of the ones I’ve been around. My Ring doorbell and my external security cameras just turn on the IR LEDs, there’s no sound to something like that.

Just so you know, that line will get you detained or fined.

Just be aware that they can and will ask for your password manager password at a border. I still totally use one, but beware the limitations. 

I’ll add one important one:

I wish they noted the battery drains on the various offerings, some of these kill battery life, but I’m not about ready to test each one.

Liberator furniture is definitely a life hack. 

Couple suggestions:

Weed? (Denver)

Financial Times did a study not too long ago that tracked about about half to Chinese Government. 

Why yes, I see why you want to text embed as many keywords as possible there, eh? And of course link backs... can’t forget the linkbacks.

It’s hard to tell, but several have been found with sketchy ties either back to governments or other similar stuff. One recent study found about half of them had links back to the Chinese government. I think it was the financial times, so it’s paywalled though. I know my former sig int employees were all joking about…

I think you underscored my point that people use VPNs for wildly different things. It’s easy for technologists to assume the end user needs to most contrived possible solutions, but it simply isn’t necessary most of the time.

Depends entirely on why you’re using a VPN. I’m usually coming at this from a wildly different perspective as frankly, it’s my job to make sure anyone using an anonymizing VPN can’t access their company data. If we can’t trust who/where you are, I’m sure as hell not letting you grab sensitive company data.

(Security professional here)

Alas, another set of recommendations that anyone living at altitude cannot follow. Our boiling water isn’t the same temp as your boiling water. I usually have to resort to an instapot recipes which come out the same, or sub-boiling temperatures in a sous-vide, for the timings to be correct. (Colorado resident) 

Southwest is probably the easiest bar to achieve. 25 one way flights or 35,000 points per year is pretty manageable. My company standardized on them since we were paying about 80K / quarter just on airline change fees. That means I’m solidly in Companion pass (100 flights or 110K points) each year. I mean, it still…