What is agreeable for social safety net(s) from the perspective of conservatives?

Single payer healthcare? Universal Basic Income? More expansive food subsidies? More expansive housing subsidies?

What is not considered “government hand out” that we can all agree on?

Next up, mute detection…

I’m in IT security and I’m fighting this battle. I want to lessen the burden of passwords and arbitrary rotation is terrible.

I’ve ran into a number of issues at my company that would give me the approval to reduce the frequency of expired passwords

• the company gets asked this question by other customers “do you have a password policy for your staff?” (that somehow includes an expiration frequency).

• on-prem AD password complexity has some nice parts built in vs some terrible parts with no granularity. It’s a single check box in gpo that does way too much stuff. I’m also not going to write a custom password policy because I don’t have the skill set to do it correctly when we’re talking about AD, that’s nightmare inducing. (Looking at specops to help and already using Azure AD password protection in passive mode)

• I think management is worried that a phishing event happens on a person with a static password and then unfairly conflating that to my argument of “can we just do two things: increase password length by 2 and decrease expiration frequency by 30 days”

At the end of the day, some of us in IT security want to do the right things based in common sense but we get stymied by management decisions and precedence. Hell, I’ve brought NIST 800-63B documentation with me to check every reason why they wouldn’t budge. It’s just ingrained in them - meanwhile you look at the number of tickets for password help and password sharing violations that get reported … /Sigh

RDC could be a good option to uninstall for businesses where the machine acts as a terminal and you don’t want those devices launching RDC to begin with Not sure why it hasn’t been allowed already.

replaced Google’s Network Time Protocol servers with NTP Pool Project

In the the context of degoogling and privacy, NTP would seem way down on the list of concerns.

What’s the importance of calling out NTP? Is it just to emphasize the point?