Amazon Lightsail VPS and openvpn (They even support FreeBSD). It is what I use. My ISP is Verizon FIOS.
What I found interesting.. well a few things really.. 1) I pay for 150150 service, yet when I tunnel all my traffic (my home gateway is a FBSD connected to my VPN perpetually), I'm getting closure to 500/500 tier speeds. I don't know why, I suspect it may be that AWS peers with VZ, and VZ is not enforcing speed tiers to AWS networks.... dunno. 2) Netflix still works.. mostly because Netflix is an AWS customer, and Lightsail uses the AWS infrastructure). 3) The downside now.. I am starting to get side errors claiming I am using a proxy (regular websites, not Netflix), this has affected my wife's ability to work from home at times. 4) They are cheap, just as cheap as any of the other VPS providers (I used Vultr prior, not a bad service, but the IP blocks are known and blocked by legitimate streaming services we use)
I had that same problem for a while.. for the life of me could not remember my password, and the domain I used originally had expired and got snagged by a domain squatter). I ended up just creating a new username (this one).
Yes they are used in sports, and hunting, and what not. But their purpose, intent and design is to kill (note I never said people as the intended target). When they were first invented, sport was not something they had in mind. The framers of the 2nd amendment were not exactly thinking of firearms as a sportsman tool, it was a weapon. And if you saw some of my other comments, I actually stated as much, that I enjoy shooting and grew up with guns. So I am not anti gun. I was just taking apart the OP's comment that I responded to that a trucks initial design is not as a weapon, however a firearms design is, therefore you cannot compare the 2
If you had taken the time to read some of my other statements, you would note that I am not calling for a ban on guns outright, only meaningful laws and regulation related to gun control. Will that end all gun violence, no, would it reduce it significantly, my guess would be yes, but we will never know till something changes.
In this particular case, had the owner secured their weapons appropriately, the shooter may not have been able to get a hold of them. Now could the shooter have gone somewhere else, sure, was there any way to prevent this tragedy, as it stood then, no, there were already too may legal firearms out in the open. But with current gun laws, it is difficult to hold the legal owner of a firearm liable when their weapon is taken from them and used in a crime. They just have to report is stolen and they are free of any guilt, even though it was stolen due to their own negligence. In the event they did have it locked up and secured, then yes, they were responsible and the thief was determined, so they are no longer liable, but most stolen weapons are ones that were secured poorly or not at all. Time to start holding those people responsible.
Till we know for sure, we cannot really make any assumptions, I agree with that (although apparently my prior statement did not come across as such as I was responding to someone who made an assumption that it was one side, and I posted an attempt to show that I could just as easily show the opposite, and was not actually making that assertion in earnest).
You are right that country music fans are a diverse bunch, in fact, I would say that for many genres, music brings people from all backgrounds together.
It may have just been a target of opportunity at the time. LV is full of people at all times of the day and night. I have been there for more than 10 years of Blackhat and Defcons (I generally don't like LV). Last week or the week before was an even bigger music festival (the I Heart Radio one).. I dunno.. I'm just rambling now...... I'd like to say it could have been worse had it not been for the quick response by law enforcement, but with more than 50 dead and 400 injured now... but that just seems hollow...
No one is calling for an outright ban... okay some are... fine a good majority are, but in many cases that is a knee jerk reaction to a heinous crime like this. Many sane people that are anti gun in their own homes (like my wife), are more for better control, and meaningful regulations. Would that eliminate all gun violence, of course not, but it would cut down on it to a major extent, and make those who are too stupid (read: irresponsible) to own guns more liable to the damage and death caused by them. Laws, and for that matter, the Constitution itself, really do need to catch up with the times. Not saying radical changes, but what the framers had in mind when it was written, is not how we exist today. Things change, and as a country and a populace, we need to change appropriately, which means, time to rethink some laws and Constitutional elements.
FYI, the shooter in that incident actually shot himself, the usher just went and got his and held the shooter till the police got there.. not the best example, but I will concede it is better than most come up with for a good person with a gun.
Odd,/. ate my last comment (or I forgot to hit submit...)
The sole purpose of a gun is to kill and maim. It has no other purpose. A truck is transportation. I could probably kill you with a spoon too, but again it was not designed as a weapon.
Your comparison would be valid, say if the truck came from the factory with razor blades attached to the wheels, pikes sticking out all sides, and a big ass meat grinder in the front to munch up people and kick out soylent green hamburgers into the bed of the truck. And then yes, I would be for more regulation on said food trucks.
Read my original statement above, that was the point I was trying to make (and apparently failing.. maybe I need to use smaller words...). The OP I responded to automatically called the shooter a left wing extremist without providing any information. My response was that I could use the same thought process and come up with the opposite result.
Last I checked.. I'm pretty well aware of the area's political makeup.. considering in the last 20 years, I have lived in Fairfax (VA), Arlington (VA), Alexandria (VA), DC proper, Bowie (MD) and Annapolis (MD). Regardless of why the area is blue, it is a fact that NOVA is blue, and the rest of the state is red. That however does not mean that every person in NOVA is blue, and every person in the rest of the state is red. So no, there is nothing wrong with my example.
Funny, I read your source material.. while a heavily right leaning site... no where in that article is there a reference to any political leanings, right or left.. Not sure if I would call that publication a more reliable source since it appears a good chunk of what they are reporting on came from the AP newswire.
You are picking an choosing statements from a sentence and taking them out of context. That's a no no.
That particular aspect of course, I should have backed up, which say a link. https://www.nytimes.com/electi... You will note that the majority of the state is red, so that backs up my statement "which more than likely", which is a guess based on statistical data. Then again, at the same time the individual was from Misquite NV, which is in Clark County, same county as Las Vegas, which went blue. But like most counties that have major metro areas, the city typically goes blue, where as the surrounding areas are usually a solid red, but the number of city votes beats the rural ones (very similar to Virginia in which Northern Virginia is solidly blue, but the rest is solid red).
The point being, I made a supposition to support my original statement "because the other side of the political spectrum could make the same assumption" showing the OP that I could do the same thing and go in the opposite direction, providing the same guess work, and coming up with an opposite ideological conclusion.
Lets face it.. if killing 20 toddlers in a school did not change the laws, nothing will. It's a sad truth, but a reality because in the US, money reigns supreme, and the NRA has a metric shit ton of money that they throw around, not just to prevent changes to gun laws, but even to prevent research being done. Did you know that the CDC is not permitted to research gun violence (they did a study once a few years back by using some weird data gathering mechanism to avoid running afoul of some random rules the NRA has managed to get the Feds to agree to) because the NRA has effectively blocked federal funding into any gun research.
And even if he did have a rifle.. at night, with hotels that are lit up like christmas trees, good luck figuring out which window in a hotel with 43 floors, and almost a hundred rooms per floor, the shooter was firing from. And even then, the security and the police on the ground would have more than likely assumed that you (the good guy with a gun) was actually one of the perpetrators.. so you (again, good misguided idiot with a gun) would likely have been killed.
The whole good guy with a gun theory is completely asinine, it just adds to the confusion, and rarely if ever has a good outcome.
But good luck getting the gun nuts to agree with that.. You cannot argue with a stupid person with a big dick.. I mean gun in his hand.
And for the record, I am not anti gun, I grew up with them, I enjoy shooting them at the range when I get a chance. I am however against stupid and irresponsible people with guns and am for major changes and strengthening of gun control laws.
If I could mod your comment into the depths of hell I would. You are making assumptions where there is no information to make such, and showing your own political bias and agenda. And not a very hard attempt either, because the other side of the political spectrum could make the same assumption that he is a Trump support right wing second amendment loving nutjob, since we all know the left is anti gun and this guy had numerious firearms. We also know who he was, a 68 year old native resident of Nevada, which more than likely also makes him a Republican..
But unlike you, I won't jump to conclusions yet to, otherwise I would be a total dick... You should probably do the same else everyone will think you are a total dick.
And yes, while this is not exactly news for nerds, it is still an important event that should be covered.
When your company is as large and widespread as many of the consulting companies, many who encourage work from home, it can be difficult to enforce restricting logins to a specific network. This is why 2FA is important.
Thats not completely true. I most definitely am not full of hot air.. then again they never would have hired me.. I came over with a buyout by Deloitte of my company. There are a ton of very technical very competent people in their respective fields. Sadly, there are not enough of us.
The FTC has no rule making authority, that falls on the FCC (as long as Title II remains). The FTC would not be able to enforce rules that don't exist, and without the FCC to craft rules, the FTC's hands are tied. This is why the ISPs want it so badly.
This is the biggest lie the ISPs and their paid mouth pieces have been pushing. If there were competent politicians who could craft a decent set of rules or laws that were not written by the ISPs with monstrous loopholes, then the FTC would have teeth and be able to enforce.
This is less of a concern. The cloud infrastructure used by the gov is for the most part, a completely separate infrastructure from the regular cloud setup the rest of us use. They have already gone through the FISMA compliance process, and their are agreements in place to try to mitigate your concerns.
As for being held hostage, well that happens in gov owned and operated datacenters too. Most government entities use contractors still to manage or build/maintain applications. I can say from personal experience that some are assholes. We had one, when we decided to not continue the contract and move to a different application, log into the application server, change the passwords to lock us out of the database to prevent us from migrating the data. They were stupid since the DB password was stored in the config files (this was in 2004 time frame) unencrypted. So I was easily able to access the data because we had physical access to the servers. Sometimes, even physical access does not help. Some contracts stipulate that you do not have admin or root accounts on the servers (even though they are in the federal datacenter). As the security engineer at the time, I had that provision removed from the contract if they wanted to move forward, we were not about to allow any equipment into our datacenter that the security team did not at least have access to, even if the server group did not.
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Amazon Lightsail VPS and openvpn (They even support FreeBSD). It is what I use. My ISP is Verizon FIOS.
What I found interesting.. well a few things really..
1) I pay for 150150 service, yet when I tunnel all my traffic (my home gateway is a FBSD connected to my VPN perpetually), I'm getting closure to 500/500 tier speeds. I don't know why, I suspect it may be that AWS peers with VZ, and VZ is not enforcing speed tiers to AWS networks.... dunno.
2) Netflix still works.. mostly because Netflix is an AWS customer, and Lightsail uses the AWS infrastructure).
3) The downside now.. I am starting to get side errors claiming I am using a proxy (regular websites, not Netflix), this has affected my wife's ability to work from home at times.
4) They are cheap, just as cheap as any of the other VPS providers (I used Vultr prior, not a bad service, but the IP blocks are known and blocked by legitimate streaming services we use)
You would have more credibility if you did not post as an AC.
I had that same problem for a while.. for the life of me could not remember my password, and the domain I used originally had expired and got snagged by a domain squatter). I ended up just creating a new username (this one).
Yes they are used in sports, and hunting, and what not. But their purpose, intent and design is to kill (note I never said people as the intended target). When they were first invented, sport was not something they had in mind. The framers of the 2nd amendment were not exactly thinking of firearms as a sportsman tool, it was a weapon. And if you saw some of my other comments, I actually stated as much, that I enjoy shooting and grew up with guns. So I am not anti gun. I was just taking apart the OP's comment that I responded to that a trucks initial design is not as a weapon, however a firearms design is, therefore you cannot compare the 2
If you had taken the time to read some of my other statements, you would note that I am not calling for a ban on guns outright, only meaningful laws and regulation related to gun control. Will that end all gun violence, no, would it reduce it significantly, my guess would be yes, but we will never know till something changes.
In this particular case, had the owner secured their weapons appropriately, the shooter may not have been able to get a hold of them. Now could the shooter have gone somewhere else, sure, was there any way to prevent this tragedy, as it stood then, no, there were already too may legal firearms out in the open. But with current gun laws, it is difficult to hold the legal owner of a firearm liable when their weapon is taken from them and used in a crime. They just have to report is stolen and they are free of any guilt, even though it was stolen due to their own negligence. In the event they did have it locked up and secured, then yes, they were responsible and the thief was determined, so they are no longer liable, but most stolen weapons are ones that were secured poorly or not at all. Time to start holding those people responsible.
Till we know for sure, we cannot really make any assumptions, I agree with that (although apparently my prior statement did not come across as such as I was responding to someone who made an assumption that it was one side, and I posted an attempt to show that I could just as easily show the opposite, and was not actually making that assertion in earnest).
You are right that country music fans are a diverse bunch, in fact, I would say that for many genres, music brings people from all backgrounds together.
It may have just been a target of opportunity at the time. LV is full of people at all times of the day and night. I have been there for more than 10 years of Blackhat and Defcons (I generally don't like LV). Last week or the week before was an even bigger music festival (the I Heart Radio one).. I dunno.. I'm just rambling now...... I'd like to say it could have been worse had it not been for the quick response by law enforcement, but with more than 50 dead and 400 injured now... but that just seems hollow...
No one is calling for an outright ban... okay some are... fine a good majority are, but in many cases that is a knee jerk reaction to a heinous crime like this. Many sane people that are anti gun in their own homes (like my wife), are more for better control, and meaningful regulations. Would that eliminate all gun violence, of course not, but it would cut down on it to a major extent, and make those who are too stupid (read: irresponsible) to own guns more liable to the damage and death caused by them. Laws, and for that matter, the Constitution itself, really do need to catch up with the times. Not saying radical changes, but what the framers had in mind when it was written, is not how we exist today. Things change, and as a country and a populace, we need to change appropriately, which means, time to rethink some laws and Constitutional elements.
FYI, the shooter in that incident actually shot himself, the usher just went and got his and held the shooter till the police got there.. not the best example, but I will concede it is better than most come up with for a good person with a gun.
Odd, /. ate my last comment (or I forgot to hit submit...)
The sole purpose of a gun is to kill and maim. It has no other purpose. A truck is transportation. I could probably kill you with a spoon too, but again it was not designed as a weapon.
Your comparison would be valid, say if the truck came from the factory with razor blades attached to the wheels, pikes sticking out all sides, and a big ass meat grinder in the front to munch up people and kick out soylent green hamburgers into the bed of the truck. And then yes, I would be for more regulation on said food trucks.
Read my original statement above, that was the point I was trying to make (and apparently failing.. maybe I need to use smaller words...). The OP I responded to automatically called the shooter a left wing extremist without providing any information. My response was that I could use the same thought process and come up with the opposite result.
Last I checked.. I'm pretty well aware of the area's political makeup.. considering in the last 20 years, I have lived in Fairfax (VA), Arlington (VA), Alexandria (VA), DC proper, Bowie (MD) and Annapolis (MD). Regardless of why the area is blue, it is a fact that NOVA is blue, and the rest of the state is red. That however does not mean that every person in NOVA is blue, and every person in the rest of the state is red. So no, there is nothing wrong with my example.
Because they already identified the shooter, there is no assumption. The guys name is Stephan Paddock from Misquite NV.
Funny, I read your source material.. while a heavily right leaning site... no where in that article is there a reference to any political leanings, right or left.. Not sure if I would call that publication a more reliable source since it appears a good chunk of what they are reporting on came from the AP newswire.
You are picking an choosing statements from a sentence and taking them out of context. That's a no no.
That particular aspect of course, I should have backed up, which say a link. https://www.nytimes.com/electi...
You will note that the majority of the state is red, so that backs up my statement "which more than likely", which is a guess based on statistical data. Then again, at the same time the individual was from Misquite NV, which is in Clark County, same county as Las Vegas, which went blue. But like most counties that have major metro areas, the city typically goes blue, where as the surrounding areas are usually a solid red, but the number of city votes beats the rural ones (very similar to Virginia in which Northern Virginia is solidly blue, but the rest is solid red).
The point being, I made a supposition to support my original statement "because the other side of the political spectrum could make the same assumption" showing the OP that I could do the same thing and go in the opposite direction, providing the same guess work, and coming up with an opposite ideological conclusion.
Too soon man.. too soon (but yes I did get a chuckle out of that...)
Lets face it.. if killing 20 toddlers in a school did not change the laws, nothing will. It's a sad truth, but a reality because in the US, money reigns supreme, and the NRA has a metric shit ton of money that they throw around, not just to prevent changes to gun laws, but even to prevent research being done. Did you know that the CDC is not permitted to research gun violence (they did a study once a few years back by using some weird data gathering mechanism to avoid running afoul of some random rules the NRA has managed to get the Feds to agree to) because the NRA has effectively blocked federal funding into any gun research.
Yeah.. this country is currently fucked...
This would be funny.. if not scary that someone out there will read this.. and turn your joke into reality...
And even if he did have a rifle.. at night, with hotels that are lit up like christmas trees, good luck figuring out which window in a hotel with 43 floors, and almost a hundred rooms per floor, the shooter was firing from. And even then, the security and the police on the ground would have more than likely assumed that you (the good guy with a gun) was actually one of the perpetrators.. so you (again, good misguided idiot with a gun) would likely have been killed.
The whole good guy with a gun theory is completely asinine, it just adds to the confusion, and rarely if ever has a good outcome.
But good luck getting the gun nuts to agree with that.. You cannot argue with a stupid person with a big dick.. I mean gun in his hand.
And for the record, I am not anti gun, I grew up with them, I enjoy shooting them at the range when I get a chance. I am however against stupid and irresponsible people with guns and am for major changes and strengthening of gun control laws.
If I could mod your comment into the depths of hell I would. You are making assumptions where there is no information to make such, and showing your own political bias and agenda. And not a very hard attempt either, because the other side of the political spectrum could make the same assumption that he is a Trump support right wing second amendment loving nutjob, since we all know the left is anti gun and this guy had numerious firearms. We also know who he was, a 68 year old native resident of Nevada, which more than likely also makes him a Republican..
But unlike you, I won't jump to conclusions yet to, otherwise I would be a total dick... You should probably do the same else everyone will think you are a total dick.
And yes, while this is not exactly news for nerds, it is still an important event that should be covered.
When your company is as large and widespread as many of the consulting companies, many who encourage work from home, it can be difficult to enforce restricting logins to a specific network. This is why 2FA is important.
Thats not completely true. I most definitely am not full of hot air.. then again they never would have hired me.. I came over with a buyout by Deloitte of my company. There are a ton of very technical very competent people in their respective fields. Sadly, there are not enough of us.
I agree.. I have been here long enough to officially say... This is probably one of the most worthless posts I have ever seen..
The FTC has no rule making authority, that falls on the FCC (as long as Title II remains). The FTC would not be able to enforce rules that don't exist, and without the FCC to craft rules, the FTC's hands are tied. This is why the ISPs want it so badly.
This is the biggest lie the ISPs and their paid mouth pieces have been pushing. If there were competent politicians who could craft a decent set of rules or laws that were not written by the ISPs with monstrous loopholes, then the FTC would have teeth and be able to enforce.
This is less of a concern. The cloud infrastructure used by the gov is for the most part, a completely separate infrastructure from the regular cloud setup the rest of us use. They have already gone through the FISMA compliance process, and their are agreements in place to try to mitigate your concerns.
As for being held hostage, well that happens in gov owned and operated datacenters too. Most government entities use contractors still to manage or build/maintain applications. I can say from personal experience that some are assholes. We had one, when we decided to not continue the contract and move to a different application, log into the application server, change the passwords to lock us out of the database to prevent us from migrating the data. They were stupid since the DB password was stored in the config files (this was in 2004 time frame) unencrypted. So I was easily able to access the data because we had physical access to the servers. Sometimes, even physical access does not help. Some contracts stipulate that you do not have admin or root accounts on the servers (even though they are in the federal datacenter). As the security engineer at the time, I had that provision removed from the contract if they wanted to move forward, we were not about to allow any equipment into our datacenter that the security team did not at least have access to, even if the server group did not.
Screw up a firmware update resulting in a device that can not be recovered (short of using jtag or something similar), that is a bricked device.
Removing access to a critical part of a service for a product you own, just results in a useless product, but it is not bricked.