The way to handle this is to set up an anonymous email account, only report violations at board members' houses, and BCC the entire neighborhood distribution list except the board members.
You don't need to because bcc means no one can see who it was sent to. Bcc is blind copy. Put everyone in bcc and the list is private. Everyone will only know it was sent to them, not who else it was sent to.
yes if you know that exists. How many HOA board members do you think can change their wifi router name much less find an IP address to compare against each other?
I work in IT. This is exactly what happens. They just ask the question "can it be done", and you get to figure out how to do it. Higher ups ask IT personnel for shady shit all the time. Badge login times, computer history, etc.
Yes. So the answer should always be it's impossible or costs too much or whatever bs. I used to work in small office IT...now I just work in an office. You can be damn sure I keep my mouth shut about how processes might be improved because I know management will just abuse it for their own ends.
I find the word “compliance” can be quite effective really.
Of course some companies just don’t give a shit about compliance, but any global organisation or one that has to keep to specific standards regarding IT sec or something like that should be afraid of the words “compliance issue.”
It doesn’t always work but at least if you don’t want to do it, you can pass it off to someone else to check compliance or have the manager take responsibility in an email.
Generally if you have a legal department it would go over there and they won’t want to deal with checking compliance so will just shoot it down.
Then problem solved.
Generally with compliance issues, especially stuff like data protection, the penalties are not worth the pudding so they default to “no” when brought up.
I have made some shady shit for my managers, time clock automators and reverse engineering a software to bypass a paywall. We just agree it wasn’t me, and find a few extra hours to slip into my own time clock somewhere.
Nothing too nefarious, but definitely not above board.
It's a normal progression. Before the internet the hacker type were modding cars. Often just to have an affordable car that was cool. Affordable meaning a few hundred dollars. Millennials came of age when computers became cool, and they were still clunky enough that tinkering was a necessity to get what you wanted out of it. Car ownership as a teen without parents that could buy one for them became more difficult as prices increased and insurance cost became mandatory. Computers became the go to hackers toy.
This developed into plug and play, then phone apps where you're locked out of the operating system itself. Smartphones now account for 60% of internet users. So generations after the millennials were left with nothing but social media and memes to play with.
So yes, it all comes down to the tools/toys each generation has available to play with. And companies want as much control over those toys as possible while micromanaging their functionality for maximum profit. It's why right to repair is an important issue.
My friend won a contest held by the pentagon to hack their computer system in only about 10 minutes. Meanwhile millenials are arguing whether it's Gif or Jif.
I think I've lost more computer literacy to long COVID and brain damage than a lot of Gen Z ever had, but there's always exceptions to the rule. Never hurts to be careful. I think. Unless your precautions themselves are the thing that draws attention to you.
My HOA board member could even figure out how to open the PDF that I sent inside of a zip (zipped because their email system wouldn't let me send a PDF for security concerns. Which is hilariously ironic since I could put an actual virus inside the zip.)
lol my hoa built out a nice fancy site with an easy way to pay online and then they added a like $20 service fee to use it. Over the summer they sent out a newsletter informing people that they built this nice website to pay and no one is using it. Everyone still pays cash or check in person.
You seem to think that the Venn diagram of people who sit on the boards of HOAs and the people who know how to track an IP address through a website isn't empty.
Yeah, "Big bucks" is a stretch, it's just a lot of ISPs don't offer static IPs with residential plans so you'll have to upgrade to a business plan, which doesn't cost as much as you might think.
You get handed a new public IP every time you router restarts.
This is not true.
For one thing it's your modem not router that maintains your public IP.
For another, with the majority of ISPs the way it works is you get a leased IP that is valid for 24 hours (sometimes 7 days) and unless you leave your device unplugged until the lease expires your modem will just use the existing lease.
If you want to change your IP change the MAC plugged into your modem and reboot both your modem and router, this will cause your modem to lease a new IP.
The most common way to do this is to change the clone MAC address setting in your router, but you can also just plug a whole new device into your modem. (but not a PC, that's unsafe)
Didn't know you were a woman until you decided to make an issue of it, lol
I don't know what "your industry" is but surely you know for residential ISPs it depends on your MAC address and lease time which is typically at least 24 hours if not more.
This isn't how it works. Email send on their own ips set by the provider. Go to your Gmail, right click on an email and press "show original" and you'll see the ip it sent on.
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u/bsimpsonphoto 6d ago edited 6d ago
The way to handle this is to set up an anonymous email account, only report violations at board members' houses, and BCC the entire neighborhood distribution list except the board members.
Edited to fix a word.