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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • I had a similar account that got banned for connecting to the wrong VPN endpoint. Clicked a random server from my VPN provider, suddenly my account was permanently banned with no ability to appeal

    Thinking it was just some issue on my end (it was a non-standard looking ban), I logged into another OG account of mine, which also promptly got perma-banned

    Extreme incompetence for them to be issuing perma-bans like that based on IP address








  • Not really. You’re not at much risk of harming yourself with the tools, and if an attacker is already on your system able to execute arbitrary software, you’re already pretty well pwned

    Which isn’t to say it doesn’t present any risk, just that it’s relatively negligible in a personal computing environment. In a corporate environment, you’d need strict controls on who can use those tools and when


  • I used it as a daily driver for the last couple years on one of my laptops

    I like Debian and work in cybersecurity. I’d have to install all these tools anyway, so it made sense. Turns out OffSec doesn’t bother testing persistent installs. The stability as absolutely atrocious. I run into so many issues because they change things like the audio manager and I end up with both trying to run in parallel

    Most people still say you’re not supposed to use it because of security issues. Those aren’t a concern these days. Lack of upgrade stability is the real reason not to have a persistent install, especially on bare metal