Among many others, including the fact that the teachers (not all, but many) are horrible, standardized testing, and well, the fact that PG county is a shitty area.
I never said the email address has to be the same as the username, all I said was not to use the username as part of the email address.
This has nothing to do with security through obscurity. This has nothing to do with ridiculously long hashes as a username, that was a mere example, and an easily automated way of creating user accounts.
The whole purpose of my original statement was that the email address should be different from the username. The username should also not be easy to guess, as it is just an additional piece of information that an attacker can utilize. The reason that a hash is a good idea is that it prevents people from guessing at usernames based on patterns like first initial last name as the username, but the users first.lastname@domain.
People around here cannot read nor can they comprehend.
1) Doing so provides an attacker with half the information they need. 2) Which leads me to the second point, don't create usernames based on a users name (ie, firstinitiallastname or whatever), knowing the persons email leads back to point no 1
Create usernames using some sort of hashing algorythm or other mechanism using 1 way hashing and salting, just like passwords.
semi point 3, configure the operating environments not to display last login information...
While you are mostly correct, there are some issues that still need to be resolved. On contract, you are spot on, after the contract has expired is a different story. No matter what ATT says, they almost never provide the unlock codes for phones once the contract has expired. Go ahead, and try, see what happens.
That is the primary issue at hand, I have fulfilled my end of the contract, and I should be able to do as I please, whether that is remain, or take my device elsewhere. As an exercise, every time I upgrade (as much as I hate ATT, they provide the best service in my area and are significantly faster then anyone else.. LTE I get around 50mbit down, 30mbit up, compared to my corp Verizon phone with LTE that maxes out around 15mbit both ways), I attempt to get ATT to unlock the phones, that's 3 iPhones, over the last 5 years, and close to 5 or 6 Android/Windows Mobile phones (family contract with 2 lines). Every single time I have hit a brick wall with ATT. That's not to say I have not managed to unlock them on my own using alternate methods, but that's not the point.
ATT sees an unlocked phone, as a lost potential sale, even on the used phone market, keep the phone locked, the next purchaser will have to use ATT, or break the law now, or go outside the US and get the phone unlocked.
And a side note, while yes, they are subsidizing the cost of the phone when you sign up for a 2 year contract, hoping to make their money back over the term of the contract. But that same contract also notes that if you choose to leave before the end of the contract, you pay a penalty, whether or not that is the full ETF, or a prorated ETF based on the amount of time on the contract is irrelevant, you have two options, remain a customer, or pay the ETF. So unlocking your phone should have no bearing on that, as you are most likely going to remain a customer, with an unlocked phone (who may use it to travel elsewhere on this planet), or you are going to pay the ETF. As for the first part, using an unlocked phone elsewhere, well ATT has a vested interest in forcing you to use ATT's international roaming rates, they are ridiculously overpriced, and a good money maker for carriers in the current age of IP routed networks vs the old voice switched networks, where the cost was much higher. Therefore they like to refuse to unlock (some people have managed to get their phones unlocked, but it takes jumping through some serious hoops)
Literally, toss it in the microwave and nuke it for a few seconds, that will destroy any electronics in it, leaving the badge in tact (well mostly except for maybe a few burn marks...
Whoever you were talking to.. you got screwed.. why spend $500 a piece for Linksys branded Cisco equipment, when you could have picked up Cisco Aeronet 2600's (or the equiv back whenever), for around $600, and that is not even the lower end of the Aeronet range...
I disagree, I think the Cisco SG300 and SG500 series switches are excellent value for what they are. A good quality introduction into managed switches with a decent feature set, and essentially running catos light (okay maybe light light would be better).
I picked up 2 of them on Amazon a while back (20 port and 10 port), and they are perfect for the small business. The downside (at least from Cisco's standpoint), is that had they not had they not purchased Linksys, and retool the business class products into Cisco branded slightly upgraded small business devices at a much cheaper price point, those same businesses may have actually purchased the lower end Cisco enterprise products (Catalyst etc) at a much higher price point.
So the move probably cannibalized some of those sales.
Either way, having used Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Fore and many more in a past life, I can say that the SG series are at least decent pieces of equipment. However, a caveat is that I never used Linksys business products before Cisco bought them, so I do not know how much better (or potentially worse) they have become outside of the pricing of said devices.
The primary reason that there were so many small ISPs was dialup. Anyone could install a crap ton of dialup servers and run an ISP.. dialup is dead, and those ISPs died with it.
If the gov would force the Telcos to share the line infrastructure, we might have more DSL and fiber provider options, but that will never happen.
It's called the cost of doing business. With gas and electricity, you pay what the meter at your house states you have used, no more, no less (unless you end up on one of those budget billing plans which take the previous years usage, divide by 12 and charge you equal monthly payments. Works out great for people who have gas for heating and electrical for AC in shitty old houses that leak air like a sieve. You don't end up getting smacked upside the head with $400 electrical bills during the hottest months of the year). All other costs are incurred by the provider as the cost of doing business.
Currently, if you read DSLreports, there are alot of complaints about usage billing and how ISPs are calculating the costs to charge consumers, and not a single provider seems to have gotten it right. More so the FCC is aware, but the revolving door of FCC employees to Telco Employees on a regular basis has prevented any of the high up within the FCC from actually doing anything other then paying lip service to the people, and hoping for a high paying job when they roll out of the FCC.
Attempts to force ISPs to a standard with oversight (similar to other bill per use industries) has been brought up many times, and always fallen flat on its face.
The hard coded default.. is not actually hard coded. The Actiontecs just use the mac address as the default password, and I believe the Serial number as the SSID (I forgot, I have not used it in years, I completely bypassed it with the use of a dlink MOCA adapter to my FBSD firewall.
None of those products were forced onto the populace, there are plenty of alternatives that you can get the same information on. Those 2 companies you listed just happen to be better at marketing their products.
Also, Amazon fixed that issue, and the owner of said ereader got all her data back. She of course had to jump through hoops, and it had to go public for them to fix it, but in the end, she got her shit back, and Amazon noted that even when an account is closed, books you paid for should remain accessible. This is an issue that I am sure will happen again, but at least we know it can be resolved.
There is no way this could be forced onto the populace. For example, I do not have the Kinect, or any other input device other then the controllers (I did download the smart glass app so I can use my phones keyboard). This would not work on me.
More to the point, this would increase the chances of me never purchasing such a device, which in turn means I would not purchase any games that require such a device (are there any Kinect only games other then the ones that were developed in conjunction with it to show off the capabilities?). That is a cascading loss of revenue for anything related.
Now, if say MS and the cable companies got together, and offered a significant discount (I mean like 30 to 50%, not $5 off a month) on your monthly cable bill to voluntarily use this technology and abide by its restrictions, I can see that possibly being popular. There are rarely more then 2 people watching anything at one time in my house. (3 if you count the 6 month old). Even more so, when the TV is on, many times both my wife and I are working and using our laptops so we are not even looking at the TV (provides background noise to keep the dogs from going nuts everytime they hear something outside).
My guess would be that you would feel the pressure at the point where the artificial limb is attached to the body when you shift your weight to that side.
Also, huge props for not giving up to the OP.
Now, I would be curious to know if medical paid for it, or if he paid out of pocket (or with donors helping out).
Seriously... People have been mocking religion for thousands of years, you don't see the Jews or Christians rioting and killing people every time someone pokes fun at God or Jesus. I'm not counting the middle ages here either.. just the last 200 or so years..
This is absolutely ridiculous.. I think every time some country or the people of that country chant death to America, or insult our culture, we should go on a rampage and wreck their embassies, burn down neighborhoods where that particular demographic happens to call home......
We have been paying it for years. It has also been mismanaged immensely, and is mostly a profit item for the phone companies.
Until there is better oversight over the existing fees and taxes on telecommunications products, there should be no new fee's and taxes. ATT and Verizon have made billions off the USF (Universal Service Fund), which was meant to help offset the cost of wiring under served and rural areas.
Now both Verizon and ATT are abandoning their wireline systems in favour of wireless, yet they are still charging the USF fee to all of their customers... Where is that money going, it cannot be used on the wireless or broadband side currently.. it is not payed to the gov either, it stays in the bank accounts of the telcos.
While they can force you into arbitration rather then a class action suit, you still have the right to sue them as an individual, that right has not been taken away.
Of course, the costs involved are high, going up against a corporation with an entire team of lawyers is going to be very expensive, and they would most likely bankrupt an individual before anything ever makes it to trial. I also do not see to many lawyers taking this case on contingency as the potential to win is very very low.
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Because those same HR groups use the services from Equifax and friends to perform background checks on employees, and new hires.
Among many others, including the fact that the teachers (not all, but many) are horrible, standardized testing, and well, the fact that PG county is a shitty area.
I never said the email address has to be the same as the username, all I said was not to use the username as part of the email address.
This has nothing to do with security through obscurity. This has nothing to do with ridiculously long hashes as a username, that was a mere example, and an easily automated way of creating user accounts.
The whole purpose of my original statement was that the email address should be different from the username. The username should also not be easy to guess, as it is just an additional piece of information that an attacker can utilize. The reason that a hash is a good idea is that it prevents people from guessing at usernames based on patterns like first initial last name as the username, but the users first.lastname@domain.
People around here cannot read nor can they comprehend.
That was the whole point I was making, and the OP asked if they should use usernames. I am responding as such.
Security 101.
1) Doing so provides an attacker with half the information they need.
2) Which leads me to the second point, don't create usernames based on a users name (ie, firstinitiallastname or whatever), knowing the persons email leads back to point no 1
Create usernames using some sort of hashing algorythm or other mechanism using 1 way hashing and salting, just like passwords.
semi point 3, configure the operating environments not to display last login information...
While you are mostly correct, there are some issues that still need to be resolved. On contract, you are spot on, after the contract has expired is a different story. No matter what ATT says, they almost never provide the unlock codes for phones once the contract has expired. Go ahead, and try, see what happens.
That is the primary issue at hand, I have fulfilled my end of the contract, and I should be able to do as I please, whether that is remain, or take my device elsewhere. As an exercise, every time I upgrade (as much as I hate ATT, they provide the best service in my area and are significantly faster then anyone else.. LTE I get around 50mbit down, 30mbit up, compared to my corp Verizon phone with LTE that maxes out around 15mbit both ways), I attempt to get ATT to unlock the phones, that's 3 iPhones, over the last 5 years, and close to 5 or 6 Android/Windows Mobile phones (family contract with 2 lines). Every single time I have hit a brick wall with ATT. That's not to say I have not managed to unlock them on my own using alternate methods, but that's not the point.
ATT sees an unlocked phone, as a lost potential sale, even on the used phone market, keep the phone locked, the next purchaser will have to use ATT, or break the law now, or go outside the US and get the phone unlocked.
And a side note, while yes, they are subsidizing the cost of the phone when you sign up for a 2 year contract, hoping to make their money back over the term of the contract. But that same contract also notes that if you choose to leave before the end of the contract, you pay a penalty, whether or not that is the full ETF, or a prorated ETF based on the amount of time on the contract is irrelevant, you have two options, remain a customer, or pay the ETF. So unlocking your phone should have no bearing on that, as you are most likely going to remain a customer, with an unlocked phone (who may use it to travel elsewhere on this planet), or you are going to pay the ETF. As for the first part, using an unlocked phone elsewhere, well ATT has a vested interest in forcing you to use ATT's international roaming rates, they are ridiculously overpriced, and a good money maker for carriers in the current age of IP routed networks vs the old voice switched networks, where the cost was much higher. Therefore they like to refuse to unlock (some people have managed to get their phones unlocked, but it takes jumping through some serious hoops)
Literally, toss it in the microwave and nuke it for a few seconds, that will destroy any electronics in it, leaving the badge in tact (well mostly except for maybe a few burn marks...
You just lost points for admitting you watch Judge Judy...
Whoever you were talking to.. you got screwed.. why spend $500 a piece for Linksys branded Cisco equipment, when you could have picked up Cisco Aeronet 2600's (or the equiv back whenever), for around $600, and that is not even the lower end of the Aeronet range...
I disagree, I think the Cisco SG300 and SG500 series switches are excellent value for what they are. A good quality introduction into managed switches with a decent feature set, and essentially running catos light (okay maybe light light would be better).
I picked up 2 of them on Amazon a while back (20 port and 10 port), and they are perfect for the small business. The downside (at least from Cisco's standpoint), is that had they not had they not purchased Linksys, and retool the business class products into Cisco branded slightly upgraded small business devices at a much cheaper price point, those same businesses may have actually purchased the lower end Cisco enterprise products (Catalyst etc) at a much higher price point.
So the move probably cannibalized some of those sales.
Either way, having used Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Fore and many more in a past life, I can say that the SG series are at least decent pieces of equipment. However, a caveat is that I never used Linksys business products before Cisco bought them, so I do not know how much better (or potentially worse) they have become outside of the pricing of said devices.
Well, its at that point where we send them to Xavier's School for Gifted and hope for the best :)
The primary reason that there were so many small ISPs was dialup. Anyone could install a crap ton of dialup servers and run an ISP.. dialup is dead, and those ISPs died with it.
If the gov would force the Telcos to share the line infrastructure, we might have more DSL and fiber provider options, but that will never happen.
It's called the cost of doing business. With gas and electricity, you pay what the meter at your house states you have used, no more, no less (unless you end up on one of those budget billing plans which take the previous years usage, divide by 12 and charge you equal monthly payments. Works out great for people who have gas for heating and electrical for AC in shitty old houses that leak air like a sieve. You don't end up getting smacked upside the head with $400 electrical bills during the hottest months of the year). All other costs are incurred by the provider as the cost of doing business.
Currently, if you read DSLreports, there are alot of complaints about usage billing and how ISPs are calculating the costs to charge consumers, and not a single provider seems to have gotten it right. More so the FCC is aware, but the revolving door of FCC employees to Telco Employees on a regular basis has prevented any of the high up within the FCC from actually doing anything other then paying lip service to the people, and hoping for a high paying job when they roll out of the FCC.
Attempts to force ISPs to a standard with oversight (similar to other bill per use industries) has been brought up many times, and always fallen flat on its face.
The hard coded default.. is not actually hard coded. The Actiontecs just use the mac address as the default password, and I believe the Serial number as the SSID (I forgot, I have not used it in years, I completely bypassed it with the use of a dlink MOCA adapter to my FBSD firewall.
None of those products were forced onto the populace, there are plenty of alternatives that you can get the same information on. Those 2 companies you listed just happen to be better at marketing their products.
Also, Amazon fixed that issue, and the owner of said ereader got all her data back. She of course had to jump through hoops, and it had to go public for them to fix it, but in the end, she got her shit back, and Amazon noted that even when an account is closed, books you paid for should remain accessible. This is an issue that I am sure will happen again, but at least we know it can be resolved.
Again, assumes you have hardware that can perform this function. I have cable cards in the back of my Tivo, no cable boxes in my house.
At the same time, it is still voluntary, you opted for the cable service and boxes.
There is no way this could be forced onto the populace. For example, I do not have the Kinect, or any other input device other then the controllers (I did download the smart glass app so I can use my phones keyboard). This would not work on me.
More to the point, this would increase the chances of me never purchasing such a device, which in turn means I would not purchase any games that require such a device (are there any Kinect only games other then the ones that were developed in conjunction with it to show off the capabilities?). That is a cascading loss of revenue for anything related.
Now, if say MS and the cable companies got together, and offered a significant discount (I mean like 30 to 50%, not $5 off a month) on your monthly cable bill to voluntarily use this technology and abide by its restrictions, I can see that possibly being popular. There are rarely more then 2 people watching anything at one time in my house. (3 if you count the 6 month old). Even more so, when the TV is on, many times both my wife and I are working and using our laptops so we are not even looking at the TV (provides background noise to keep the dogs from going nuts everytime they hear something outside).
As awesome as that would be.. I'm betting that the company that made the leg owns the rights to all the data generated from it.
My guess would be that you would feel the pressure at the point where the artificial limb is attached to the body when you shift your weight to that side.
Also, huge props for not giving up to the OP.
Now, I would be curious to know if medical paid for it, or if he paid out of pocket (or with donors helping out).
That is the only possible answer.
And let your in-laws decide what they want..
More to the point, anything too advanced you install, you will have to support...
ps.. if you did not get the sarcasm in that post.. well, that is just sad...
Seriously... People have been mocking religion for thousands of years, you don't see the Jews or Christians rioting and killing people every time someone pokes fun at God or Jesus. I'm not counting the middle ages here either.. just the last 200 or so years..
This is absolutely ridiculous.. I think every time some country or the people of that country chant death to America, or insult our culture, we should go on a rampage and wreck their embassies, burn down neighborhoods where that particular demographic happens to call home......
Lets see how they like it.
We have been paying it for years. It has also been mismanaged immensely, and is mostly a profit item for the phone companies.
Until there is better oversight over the existing fees and taxes on telecommunications products, there should be no new fee's and taxes. ATT and Verizon have made billions off the USF (Universal Service Fund), which was meant to help offset the cost of wiring under served and rural areas.
Now both Verizon and ATT are abandoning their wireline systems in favour of wireless, yet they are still charging the USF fee to all of their customers... Where is that money going, it cannot be used on the wireless or broadband side currently.. it is not payed to the gov either, it stays in the bank accounts of the telcos.
While they can force you into arbitration rather then a class action suit, you still have the right to sue them as an individual, that right has not been taken away.
Of course, the costs involved are high, going up against a corporation with an entire team of lawyers is going to be very expensive, and they would most likely bankrupt an individual before anything ever makes it to trial. I also do not see to many lawyers taking this case on contingency as the potential to win is very very low.