Floppy disks go bad pretty quickly. Few of yours disks from 1993 still work. Tough to find any working disks from 1983. Unless there's something inherent to the disk itself (the "original" software with the artwork and sleeve) there's not a whole lot of point in keeping it after securing the data.
And God help you with tapes.
Hard disks have better longevity. If you can find a working PC-AT with a working MFM controller you can probably still boot that 40 meg drive from 1988. But... why? You can fit thousands of those on a modern thumb drive. Physical storage costs money. You can spend it better places than storing obsolete hard drives.
Check out what they do in Hawaii County, Hawaii (the Big Island). They have street lights but must control light pollution for the sake of the telescopes on Mauna Kea.
I have a firefox running on a Debian box that serves as my network monitoring station. It's been running since May 20, reloading a plain html 2.0 web page every 5 minutes. No tabs, no javascript, no images, just plain jane html on a single web page. It has leaked its way from the 200 megs it started at up to 1.2 gigabytes today.
(And don't get me started about how Firefox for Linux doesn't honor the standard X primitives for positioning the window on the screen. Not that its competitors are any better.)
Maybe this would be a good time to mention that I put my console computer into -sleep- mode rather than leave it running. It returns from sleep mode in about 5 seconds with the day's work on screen and all ready to go.
Firefox wasn't running overnight, but it's still running from yesterday. Get it?
Many eyes look at open source software. The NSA only has to get busted once and they lose all their credibility as a source of contributions. They'd rather have a tool that includes the code they need for their own security efforts.
As for encryption -- the overwhelming majority of sensitive but unclassified information held by the U.S. Government is encrypted with exactly the same algorithms you use. If that's a fakeout, if the NSA knows the algorithms to be breakable by our adversaries, it's one hell of a fakeout.
You do a root cause analysis on a selection of IT's failures. After you sort through the proximate causes, see if justifiable case can be made for management error as the root causes. If yes, the presentation is: I analyzed several failures and it all tracks back to Joe.
If you have the right not to be beaten but don't have the right against self-incrimination then after the beating the confession is still valid in court. If the executive then declines to punish the officers for the beating, the right not to be beaten fades to a paper tiger.
Your error lies in thinking like a computer where something is an absolute yes or an absolute no. The law is a living thing implemented by people in a "more or less" fashion. If you're serious about preventing a bad behavior, you make it worse than futile to engage in it.
One of the worst places I've worked had a well stocked break room. Sodas, chips, ice cream, everything short of a full meal. They patted themselves on the back about how well they treated their employees. And failed to treat them well in the areas that matter.
Virginia considers you not merely to be a citizen of the country and of the state but also a citizen of your locality within the state.
Section 5. County, city, and town governing bodies.
Whenever the governing body of any such unit shall fail to perform the duties so prescribed in the manner herein directed, a suit shall lie on behalf of any citizen thereof to compel performance by the governing body.
Check your civics boss. According to the 14th Amendment, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The overwhelming majority of classified documents are classified because they were derived in part from some other document that was classified and were written by a government contractor who is not authorized to declassify any portion the prior document marked classified.
Even if that weren't true, it has no bearing on a state government's response to FOIA requests. Classification is purely a Federal government thing where Federal FOIA rules apply.
And in case it wasn't clear, I don't want some dope from California wasting my Virginia tax dollars on some paranoid quest to find out what Virginia knows about alien abductions. If you can't at least find a like-minded Virginian to sign his name to the request, something is seriously wrong with the request.
If with all the Internet at your disposal you can't find one single person in the state willing to submit the FOIA request and pass you back the results, it's a good sign you're wasting everybody's time and *shouldn't* have access to the information you seek.
This is terrible advice. You can bankrupt yourself this way and the state doesn't have to compensate you even if you really were innocent. If you truly have nothing to hide, your best bet is to hide nothing. That maximizes the speed with which the police can clear you as a suspect and zero in on the suspects they can't clear. Besides, you remember the old saw about "round up the usual suspects?" How do you think someone joins the list of "usual suspects?"
If you do have something to hide (related to the alleged crime or not) then yeah, shut up and lawyer up. Or if you're actually under arrest then shut up and lawyer up. They don't arrest you until they're pretty confident it was you. Time to let a professional sort it out.
Not correct. If asked your legal name, you can't take the 5th. They may have proof that a person with your name committed the crime. They may not have proof that's your name, so answering would increase your chances of being found guilty. You still have to answer because your name cannot intrinsically be incriminating.
Indeed other judges have compelled decryption when state has demonstrated that the defendant does in fact possess the encryption key. This judge's ruling is completely compatible with the others.
The government hasn't proven that Feldman *has* the encryption key. Compelling him to turn over the encryption key would be compelling him to admit that he has the key. The compelled admission that he has the encryption key is the fifth amendment violation.
Had Feldman admitted that he had the key or if there was prima facie evidence that he possessed the key, the government could still compel him to provide it.
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Not selfishness but rather self-interest. Cooperation is often in one's self-interest. There's a reason that "power in numbers" is a truism.
Another guy caves because some generic dude on the Internet sent him some baseless but threatening letters. I'll play a sad song on my tiny violin.
At least let the guy get sued before reporting it as actual news.
You can find | sort | diff ahead of time (maybe in the background) and then constrain the rsync to only the files recorded to have changed.
Floppy disks go bad pretty quickly. Few of yours disks from 1993 still work. Tough to find any working disks from 1983. Unless there's something inherent to the disk itself (the "original" software with the artwork and sleeve) there's not a whole lot of point in keeping it after securing the data.
And God help you with tapes.
Hard disks have better longevity. If you can find a working PC-AT with a working MFM controller you can probably still boot that 40 meg drive from 1988. But... why? You can fit thousands of those on a modern thumb drive. Physical storage costs money. You can spend it better places than storing obsolete hard drives.
Check out what they do in Hawaii County, Hawaii (the Big Island). They have street lights but must control light pollution for the sake of the telescopes on Mauna Kea.
I have a firefox running on a Debian box that serves as my network monitoring station. It's been running since May 20, reloading a plain html 2.0 web page every 5 minutes. No tabs, no javascript, no images, just plain jane html on a single web page. It has leaked its way from the 200 megs it started at up to 1.2 gigabytes today.
(And don't get me started about how Firefox for Linux doesn't honor the standard X primitives for positioning the window on the screen. Not that its competitors are any better.)
Maybe this would be a good time to mention that I put my console computer into -sleep- mode rather than leave it running. It returns from sleep mode in about 5 seconds with the day's work on screen and all ready to go.
Firefox wasn't running overnight, but it's still running from yesterday. Get it?
Because my time is too valuable to spend it waiting for windows to boot? Because I like having my work ready to continue when I sit down at the desk?
If daily reboots float your boat, you're welcome to them. I expect my software to work for longer than an 8-hour work day.
Some of us don't reboot windows every day.
IE and Firefox allow you to disable it without a whole lot of hassle.
Not impossible. Impractical.
Many eyes look at open source software. The NSA only has to get busted once and they lose all their credibility as a source of contributions. They'd rather have a tool that includes the code they need for their own security efforts.
As for encryption -- the overwhelming majority of sensitive but unclassified information held by the U.S. Government is encrypted with exactly the same algorithms you use. If that's a fakeout, if the NSA knows the algorithms to be breakable by our adversaries, it's one hell of a fakeout.
I abandoned it over backspace = page back. Lost too many web app sessions that way.
But the firefox memory leaks really bother me. Every couple of days it's kill the process and restart.
You do a root cause analysis on a selection of IT's failures. After you sort through the proximate causes, see if justifiable case can be made for management error as the root causes. If yes, the presentation is: I analyzed several failures and it all tracks back to Joe.
Also, the right against self-incrimination disrupts chains of horror like the Salem witch trials.
If you have the right not to be beaten but don't have the right against self-incrimination then after the beating the confession is still valid in court. If the executive then declines to punish the officers for the beating, the right not to be beaten fades to a paper tiger.
Your error lies in thinking like a computer where something is an absolute yes or an absolute no. The law is a living thing implemented by people in a "more or less" fashion. If you're serious about preventing a bad behavior, you make it worse than futile to engage in it.
One of the worst places I've worked had a well stocked break room. Sodas, chips, ice cream, everything short of a full meal. They patted themselves on the back about how well they treated their employees. And failed to treat them well in the areas that matter.
Virginia considers you not merely to be a citizen of the country and of the state but also a citizen of your locality within the state.
Section 5. County, city, and town governing bodies.
Whenever the governing body of any such unit shall fail to perform the duties so prescribed in the manner herein directed, a suit shall lie on behalf of any citizen thereof to compel performance by the governing body.
Check your civics boss. According to the 14th Amendment, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The overwhelming majority of classified documents are classified because they were derived in part from some other document that was classified and were written by a government contractor who is not authorized to declassify any portion the prior document marked classified.
Even if that weren't true, it has no bearing on a state government's response to FOIA requests. Classification is purely a Federal government thing where Federal FOIA rules apply.
And in case it wasn't clear, I don't want some dope from California wasting my Virginia tax dollars on some paranoid quest to find out what Virginia knows about alien abductions. If you can't at least find a like-minded Virginian to sign his name to the request, something is seriously wrong with the request.
It's not the government's time. As a citizen of Virginia, it's my time. *I* paid for it.
If with all the Internet at your disposal you can't find one single person in the state willing to submit the FOIA request and pass you back the results, it's a good sign you're wasting everybody's time and *shouldn't* have access to the information you seek.
This is terrible advice. You can bankrupt yourself this way and the state doesn't have to compensate you even if you really were innocent. If you truly have nothing to hide, your best bet is to hide nothing. That maximizes the speed with which the police can clear you as a suspect and zero in on the suspects they can't clear. Besides, you remember the old saw about "round up the usual suspects?" How do you think someone joins the list of "usual suspects?"
If you do have something to hide (related to the alleged crime or not) then yeah, shut up and lawyer up. Or if you're actually under arrest then shut up and lawyer up. They don't arrest you until they're pretty confident it was you. Time to let a professional sort it out.
Not correct. If asked your legal name, you can't take the 5th. They may have proof that a person with your name committed the crime. They may not have proof that's your name, so answering would increase your chances of being found guilty. You still have to answer because your name cannot intrinsically be incriminating.
Indeed other judges have compelled decryption when state has demonstrated that the defendant does in fact possess the encryption key. This judge's ruling is completely compatible with the others.
No, the trick is this:
The government hasn't proven that Feldman *has* the encryption key. Compelling him to turn over the encryption key would be compelling him to admit that he has the key. The compelled admission that he has the encryption key is the fifth amendment violation.
Had Feldman admitted that he had the key or if there was prima facie evidence that he possessed the key, the government could still compel him to provide it.