un: 9hilism

[ninehilist]

[Right, okay, he has to ask. He's been here long enough.]

quick question

does anyone OTHER THAN JAILBREAK know how to use a freaking antivirus? VPN? adblock? any basic internet and computer security protocol?

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[nau]

all of them

[ninehilist]

when you say "all of them" do you mean "antivirus, VPN, adblock" or "computer, antivirus, VPN, adblock"?

[He has a bad feeling the answer is "the second one"]

[nau]

I know what a computer is. It's the big machine that prints out paper and you sit in front of it and push buttons

[Which actually might be worse than he was expecting.]

[ninehilist]

[Well. It's. It's something.]

that sure is something a computer can do yeah

are you in any computer science classes?

[nau]

no why would I be

[ninehilist]

because computers can do a lot more than just print out paper if you press buttons

kinda important in the 21st century

[nau]

can't be that important if I've never used one

[ninehilist]

I've never needed an x-ray and they're still important

you need to learn how to use a computer

[nau]

other people can use them if they need to

[ninehilist]

and what if you need to and no one's around who speaks Finnish or wants to use Translate?

[nau]

I have no reason to use a computer so that wouldn't happen

[ninehilist]

you're using one right now and unless you live in the woods or something you kind of need to use one regularly to function

[nau]

this is a phone the outpost gave me and I do live in the woods

[ninehilist]

you what

[nau]

I'm from saimaa

[Okay, technically he's been living on the outskirts of Keuruu for longer than he ever did at the lake, but... Still.]

[ninehilist]

not a town near Saimaa?

[nau]

if I lived in a city I would have named the city

[ninehilist]

[What the fuck.]

not if it was tiny

but you have no plans to stay in society?

[nau]

why would I? there's nothing here for me

I'm just here to learn magic

[ninehilist]

[He can't really argue with that. He's just here because Lia strongarm'd him.]

well if you change your mind

[nau]

are you offering lessons

[ninehilist]

I'm one of the IT techs/TAs here, not a teacher

but I can, yeah

[nau]

if you are not a teacher why do you care so much about this stuff

[ninehilist]

because I'm a hacker. even without my powers, I can still hack into computers, phones, anything with an internet connection. I know exactly how to take a network and make it do whatever I want. back in the States, my personal network was more secure than most banks. even now my stuff's pretty impregnable and the school's network isn't terrible.

but everyone else who isn't using even semi-decent protection is a weak link and it's driving me nuts

[nau]

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