when I suggested this law might be used against a social engineer. I think companies are looking for ANY way to protect thier cash cows or to even make ANYTHING a cash cow.
I can't wait until going through my office door right behind someone is an offense - since I didn't use my badge.
------------------- "Don't let what you can't do stop you from what you can do." - unknown
Doesn't the US DCMA NOT allow for tools that bypass security? I wonder how soon it will be before someone tries to use the DCMA against someone who used social engineering.
they have hopes of making it BIG with the BIGgest beast on the block. They don't think they will get screwed over... and when they do, they seem surprised. Working with MS and WM are like replying to MLM schemes on the net. Over and over people are warned about internet scams but "it will never happen to me!" Yeah right. MS and WM just do it on a corporate scale.
was a human error. We were a smallish hospital (270 beds). I was the new IS Manager. I was looking for power outlets in the computer room for all the new euqipment I had ordered. Well, there were a lot of dead plugs. Also, I was told to stop since electricity based things like that were left up to the union guys. No big deal. I called them and asked them to locate and label the outlets under the raised floor. While I was sitting at my desk later that day the power went off for a sec then on.... I got up and looked toward the data center. The lights AND the equipment went off then on. I ran in to find the union guys flipping switches on the UPS (on/off). They had stuck a light bulb w/plug in each of the open outlets and were flicking the power on and off to see what bulb was effected. They were on the equipment side of the UPS! All of our servers, network gear, and such took hard downs that day! Ahhh!!! Who needs technology to make things not work! This was the same union that wrote me up for moving a cube wall to get at an outlet. Moving furniture was a union duty!
I have set up a mail server in my home (DSL). My wife and kids do not get any mail from anyone NOT in a filter list. Sure, the mail server gets the SPAM but that is where the buck stops. I can review the mail to make sure nothing is being tossed out that was supposed to be read but if it was AND it was important, I usually get another copy or they pick up the phone.
if I thought it was new worthy I would have posted my own. I did this a long time ago with my R/C jeep. I even did it one step cooler. I raced by ONLY watching the TV. The jeep I have is an electric one so it didn't go so fast. The guys with the fast gas powered engines laughed at my pace. One of them let me move my camera to his car - then he slowed quite a bit after his billionth crash. It is a lot different driving from the drivers point of view vs from a grand stand.
Sounds like me...
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Now that I am over 35 (egad! Going to hit 28h soon!) I can actually afford the games. The ones I buy would have been a heck of a lot of allowance or lawns in my day. In fact, I think this age thing also has to do with the fact that games are much better than they used to be too - from a hardware and software point. When I first started out there wasn't much available for my $3500 Leading Edge...
I did the same thing with a laptop. I spent $900 on it but we met over lunch. I tested out the laptop, he bought lunch. I handed him the money order and it was done. I have bought items for many, many years and had only 1 problem with 1 seller who was 'convinced' he shipped the product to me (later he shipped it to me when I mailed him a print-screen of the AuctionWatch page showing "not shipped"). I figure I only (a) bid up to what I really want to pay and (b) bid only up to what I am willing to lose (unless other arrangements are made).
Right now my biggest beef is getting responses from sellers. I am sorry but I have a few questions now and then. Out of the last 15 auctions I have had questions about I got but 3 replies. Thier loss though.
I first bought a Kodak DC50 to see if I liked digital photos and digital photography. I was hooked. I then bought a DC265 (as did my father-in-law 6 months later). Together we have taken over 12000 photos and printed hundreds to send out as well as burn CDs for friends and family. I am looking to move up to a higher resolution camera and a better printer. My 35mm camera sits in the closet....
Doesnt it just figure that the person clearly putting more of our freedom in jeapardy than any before him is someone that wasnt elected, but appointed? How can we get this lunatic removed?
"It's all about getting these big fat pipes that were laid in North America to people who want broadband - and real broadband, not the wussy broadband people are marketing at the moment."
The problem with your arguement is you make it so narrow. The RIAA wants to get control of your PC, your stereo, your car, and so on. At what point will you decide the RIAA is screwing you? Think the RIAA is going to stop at piracy by copy protecting CDs? What about when there are only players available that will play a RIAA approved CD (or whatever format comes next)? Yeah, you can have yer CD player now... but how long will it last.
I work for a mid-sized IS department for a unamed corporation. Our Is is centralized though we have facilities in 4 states. We didn't have a formal telecommuting policy BUT the IS folks who had DSL/Cable set up a VPN so work could be done from home. Some folks took 1 day a week. Others worked through rush hour then came in. All in all it was a good deal. Productivity was up (number of help desk calls closed was up). Employees were happy.
That was until the top dogs pulled everyone in last friday. Apparently some folks complained that they could not telecommute. So rather than take what was working and modify it and define roles/positions that could telecommute they pulled the plug on ALL telecommuting.
This was a good way to piss off a lot of good folks.
Bottom line, if the company you are looking to work for says they allow telecommuting make sure they have a policy in writing.
Wrong. Does it have games? Minesweeper? Nope, Diablo... And I don't know how many other applications I have added to my Windows system even though windows shipped with a version of an app I added. MS Paint? Right. Paint Shop Pro for me. The same goes for default shipments of Linux.
The average user doesn't want to have to deal with that
Bingo.
I have enough problems with Windows and all the system/DLL issues. I was hoping Linux would be a tad easier - WRONG.
Until Linux can emulate the ease of install that Windows has it is doomed to the techies.
It has been thought of here. I recall a year or so back a story on the BBC about an experiment done and the results registering at earthquake monitoring sites but I can't seem to find it right now...
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when I suggested this law might be used against a social engineer. I think companies are looking for ANY way to protect thier cash cows or to even make ANYTHING a cash cow.
I can't wait until going through my office door right behind someone is an offense - since I didn't use my badge.
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"Don't let what you can't do stop you from what you can do." - unknown
...after a long, hard boring meeting I laughed so hard at this that I spit my soda onto my keyboard and screen! Har! Thanks!
Doesn't the US DCMA NOT allow for tools that bypass security? I wonder how soon it will be before someone tries to use the DCMA against someone who used social engineering.
they have hopes of making it BIG with the BIGgest beast on the block. They don't think they will get screwed over... and when they do, they seem surprised. Working with MS and WM are like replying to MLM schemes on the net. Over and over people are warned about internet scams but "it will never happen to me!" Yeah right. MS and WM just do it on a corporate scale.
was a human error. We were a smallish hospital (270 beds). I was the new IS Manager. I was looking for power outlets in the computer room for all the new euqipment I had ordered. Well, there were a lot of dead plugs. Also, I was told to stop since electricity based things like that were left up to the union guys. No big deal. I called them and asked them to locate and label the outlets under the raised floor. While I was sitting at my desk later that day the power went off for a sec then on.... I got up and looked toward the data center. The lights AND the equipment went off then on. I ran in to find the union guys flipping switches on the UPS (on/off). They had stuck a light bulb w/plug in each of the open outlets and were flicking the power on and off to see what bulb was effected. They were on the equipment side of the UPS! All of our servers, network gear, and such took hard downs that day! Ahhh!!! Who needs technology to make things not work! This was the same union that wrote me up for moving a cube wall to get at an outlet. Moving furniture was a union duty!
I have set up a mail server in my home (DSL). My wife and kids do not get any mail from anyone NOT in a filter list. Sure, the mail server gets the SPAM but that is where the buck stops. I can review the mail to make sure nothing is being tossed out that was supposed to be read but if it was AND it was important, I usually get another copy or they pick up the phone.
if I thought it was new worthy I would have posted my own. I did this a long time ago with my R/C jeep. I even did it one step cooler. I raced by ONLY watching the TV. The jeep I have is an electric one so it didn't go so fast. The guys with the fast gas powered engines laughed at my pace. One of them let me move my camera to his car - then he slowed quite a bit after his billionth crash. It is a lot different driving from the drivers point of view vs from a grand stand.
Now that I am over 35 (egad! Going to hit 28h soon!) I can actually afford the games. The ones I buy would have been a heck of a lot of allowance or lawns in my day. In fact, I think this age thing also has to do with the fact that games are much better than they used to be too - from a hardware and software point. When I first started out there wasn't much available for my $3500 Leading Edge...
I did the same thing with a laptop. I spent $900 on it but we met over lunch. I tested out the laptop, he bought lunch. I handed him the money order and it was done. I have bought items for many, many years and had only 1 problem with 1 seller who was 'convinced' he shipped the product to me (later he shipped it to me when I mailed him a print-screen of the AuctionWatch page showing "not shipped"). I figure I only (a) bid up to what I really want to pay and (b) bid only up to what I am willing to lose (unless other arrangements are made).
Right now my biggest beef is getting responses from sellers. I am sorry but I have a few questions now and then. Out of the last 15 auctions I have had questions about I got but 3 replies. Thier loss though.
I first bought a Kodak DC50 to see if I liked digital photos and digital photography. I was hooked. I then bought a DC265 (as did my father-in-law 6 months later). Together we have taken over 12000 photos and printed hundreds to send out as well as burn CDs for friends and family. I am looking to move up to a higher resolution camera and a better printer. My 35mm camera sits in the closet....
simply because they looked like Muslims, Arabs, Pakastanis, Iranians, or in many people's minds "like them terrorists".
Not all all what she said. She was interviewed by a radio staion BEFORE the rest of the world got a hold of her. Check out the facts.
Doesnt it just figure that the person clearly putting more of our freedom in jeapardy than any before him is someone that wasnt elected, but appointed? How can we get this lunatic removed?
Need to get rid of his boss.
Did Ashcroft help design thier logo?
My favorite quote from the article:
"It's all about getting these big fat pipes that were laid in North America to people who want broadband - and real broadband, not the wussy broadband people are marketing at the moment."
A dig at Charter? AT&T? SWBell? Har!
The problem with your arguement is you make it so narrow. The RIAA wants to get control of your PC, your stereo, your car, and so on. At what point will you decide the RIAA is screwing you? Think the RIAA is going to stop at piracy by copy protecting CDs? What about when there are only players available that will play a RIAA approved CD (or whatever format comes next)? Yeah, you can have yer CD player now... but how long will it last.
I work for a mid-sized IS department for a unamed corporation. Our Is is centralized though we have facilities in 4 states. We didn't have a formal telecommuting policy BUT the IS folks who had DSL/Cable set up a VPN so work could be done from home. Some folks took 1 day a week. Others worked through rush hour then came in. All in all it was a good deal. Productivity was up (number of help desk calls closed was up). Employees were happy.
That was until the top dogs pulled everyone in last friday. Apparently some folks complained that they could not telecommute. So rather than take what was working and modify it and define roles/positions that could telecommute they pulled the plug on ALL telecommuting.
This was a good way to piss off a lot of good folks.
Bottom line, if the company you are looking to work for says they allow telecommuting make sure they have a policy in writing.
stop thinking about the shareholders
ha! that is a good one! Almost lost my breakfast on it!
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Hmmm.... Wonder why they aren't using thier own technology?
Remember your heros!
Wrong. Does it have games? Minesweeper? Nope, Diablo... And I don't know how many other applications I have added to my Windows system even though windows shipped with a version of an app I added. MS Paint? Right. Paint Shop Pro for me. The same goes for default shipments of Linux.
Remember your heros
Bingo.
I have enough problems with Windows and all the system/DLL issues. I was hoping Linux would be a tad easier - WRONG. Until Linux can emulate the ease of install that Windows has it is doomed to the techies.
Remember your heros
Thanks for the chuckle! I spit my soda all over my keyboard and PC when I first read this!
Just imagine it on celebrity boxing! Whoo hoo!
If not FOX, then a deathmatch of course!
The resonance between this story and the current war is so strong that it's almost impossible to watch it for what it is.
I can't wait till he reviews Two Towers. In fact, I can't wait till the US population as a whole gets wind of this being released!
I should do all my research before replying. Now Jump!
It has been thought of here. I recall a year or so back a story on the BBC about an experiment done and the results registering at earthquake monitoring sites but I can't seem to find it right now...