One of the best ways to track ants back to the nest is to lay out a cupcake.
It would be interesting to see if the DMCA folks have deployed bots and will looking for this file in transit; leaving the courts trying to separate out leaches from newbies
Certain parties in the name of copyright have already been cited as poisoning torrents as far back as 2005.
Will they be tracing and then analyzing the UL/DL. If "private" torrents are encrypting having a well known file helps break or isolate the encryption in use.
I wonder if somebody figured out how to detect the patterns of a torrent not so much in the transmission but in the reception.
It would be awesome if some sends the file through analysis to see if it is injected and carrying any traceable meta data, spyware or unidentified cruft.
DARPA just didn't on a whim send up a bunch of red ballons... I doubt the film industry is brainless about money when they release in this way.
Watching the audience is something great film makers & studios have learned to do.
Meth is not a drug its poison to the human body and society for both use and manufacture. It has not a peer to alcohol, or other lesser drugs.
War on Drugs? How about War on Money Laundering?! Thats the imperialism of the mafia over civil society.
I say money laundering is the serious and imminent threat to geek culture. Too many geeks are getting sucked into the underworld's lure of fast money, trinkets and bobbles and hallmarks of evil-geekdom.
Will anyone miss the old days when geeks would just rip-off cpu cycles, disk space and bandwidth for wares & p0rn from their company sites. Next it moved into fencing parts -- where did all that Disk & memory go from the upgrades last month? Now entire data centers have been compromised in Eastern Europe by mafia seeking to money launder all sorts of activity.
Looking at one of the mug shots. gang / mafia is involved: Nasty stuff, stone cold died in the wool killers & innocent lives wreaked.
Its enlightening the AG says it accounts for 2/3 of the ID theft: probably to cloak procurement of the means to manufacture, warehouse, and transport the nasty stuff. That means other much more serious crimes have to be committed in support of this industry... not just the simple possession.
Companies have many ways to vet new-hires and typically do a probation period before any real trust is given with the new hires.
Irregardless of any IT skills I look for these in my junior levels
First the trifecta-- Does a new hire arrive prior to "on time", is prepared for a days work, and then works a full days work? This is a real tell as if they have been prepared well enough at Univ or 2 year + job experience and scores high to building professional confidence in them. My experience this is counter intuitive: the less education the more the person know these.
Second -- Stop, Drop and Document Does the candidate know when to stop working on a dead end resolution, Does a candidate drop things (work assigned & hot potatoes onto others), lastly do they document as they go or promise to do so at the "end." My experience anyone with less than 2 years will flounder and fail miserably at all three.
Last -- Look then Jump, or Jump then Swim Depending on the need either could be called for. Maintaining a tuned system the former; building a prototype the latter. Mixing the 2 simultaneously is the most common mistake and has led to disaster in my experience. The guy that didn't do anything decided to tweak the system on Friday night as accounting needed its batch jobs by Monday morning. The woman that was hired to RAD quickly shifted to studying the heck out of things instead of whipping up inspired GUI mockups.
Each did so without asking their colleagues and both ended poorly
Unless the Univ or 2 College or voc ed school did numerous substantive team projects+individual performance most would flail at least 2 of the three "professionalism" hallmarks in less than 3 months.
This is more toward Cryptome.org territory as its was accidentally posted as part of a memo then publicly stated for withdrawal by the city government for secrecy reasons.
The map was included in the PDF for Jan 14 weekly updates to the city council http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/files/City%20Council/WIPS/2010/Jan_14_WIP/Medical_Marijuana_WIP.pdf
The memo has not even a classification nor mark stating it is secret, confidential, restricted, eye only,etc yet will be withdrawn because it is "Secret."
The memo is _Still_ reachable as of Jan 9... the fast wheels of city government
Woot! Microcenter in my area has this... though these days it still has long lines due to inefficiency of the security locker for small & high value products being purchased by newbies.
Still the last good place in my area to sell good and sometime hard to find odd toys & parts locally. The impulse buy at the the single queue is harder to resist though.
I'd hope that this was a spring board to more positive benefits for consumers of Intel products, especially businesses with big data centers.
It would be a good way to get past the financial crunch times, a derivative of the kill switch is a license switch. IE phoning to power up a few more processors in my grid, then phoning again power them down them in a few weeks. Would really be easier to do the licensing than now. I'd have a bill for it and could make cases justify the IT costs.
A second case that is beneficial is remotely deactivating a branch office in the face of a natural disaster would also be a positive. Im thinking katrina or other kind of wide spread civil disaster. Certainly a peace of mind for data loss prevention over physical assets lost to looting or just plain MIA PCs and laptops. Of course would be useful when an embassy is overtaken or deserted without the thermite being set off.
If the kill switch would be audit-able it would be beneficial to Congress, OMB, local gov and business auditors who could get documentation how many times kill switches were used for employee lost equipment, etc... Its a metric unable to be figured out today.
It used to be real news when a Gov PC or laptop went missing. Now a days it how many dozens per month that had to accounted as de-rezed.
If it lowered a consumers deductibles and insurance to have this feature I think they wouldn't mind. But insurance as a system isn't working anyhow.
Lastly we may get some trade wars going on. Im sure no other government would want american origin CPUs at this point. They may just turn to China's copy of what we did 2 years ago. I guess that makes it a positive for China's economy.
I haven't had but once a window for my shared office/cube in 15 years of IT.
I think that EU building architects are way ahead of US building architects for sunshine and Natural Ventilation.
Wireless really helped when it was permitted to work that way. To many coworkers abused that flexibility. We had garden quads within walking distance that helped as well. If upwind of the smokers you could actually feel naturally human at some point during the work day.
Being that there are already active programs running at the.mil/.gov level attempting to account all the workstation disk, and fragmented file space looking for keywords and other trace phrases, file formats and phrase fragments in packets for info leaks in certain datasec compartmentalized areas.....
1) Why would the keepers of the hounds want to deal with a polluted environment with potential false positives from new outlets.
2) While true much of the wiki leaks was sneaker netted, its also about that data not yet exposed.
If anyone Copied/scanned or DL'd something new it could be possibly disk cached while in transit to less than systems of certain clearance.
The phenomena of wiki leaks has its roots well before Nixon, we are just seeing the fruition of the process of dis-enchantment of the 1960's of the enlightenment experiment aka the Unites States. That dis-enchantment had its roots in the Korean War and subsequent Coldwars That situation was an arc from WWII which was an arc from WWI...
Anyhow, anyone with a Benedict Arnold bitter streak, Bradley Manning syndrome, or greedy like Aldrich Aimes, or is simply hot for Anna Chapman is not a technologically solvable problem nor policy solvable problem.
Wiki leaks is just a new facet at internet speed of old human nature.
The political message is 1) don't give somebody an idea to copycat 2) send a clear message the next guy that does X -- give the example that when he/she is caught, he/she is going to have rougher treatment.
Nothing new to what I just said since Cain killed Abel.
HP many years ago integraded with brocade switches. There was always an admin password to most HP device at the enterprise level: the cited storage array + fibre switch or tape library robot. However most only worked with physical access to either operator panel or serial port.
Now that IP has been for a few years the new serial port I predict many more devices in the future will have their firmware/management ports compromised. I think its SOP in large vendor enterprise to build such into your systems.
At some point you have to trust the guy inside the datacenter. What scares me is many Datacenter grade IP/KVMs, and other embedded devices are in now SMB and moving into the house.
To be honest its saved my bacon when the OP before me took the secret sauce passwords to Davy Jones locker.
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We are in the process of sunsetting all SUN branded equipment for vendors other than Oracle. Its taken over 6 months to renew some contracts and expended far too many cycles & was so painful for us to be worth it to do it again.
For us as a customer its obvious that its a circus inside.
Oracle has chopped off those that used to resell SUN support and service at the knees. These were the guys that would go the extra mile for us, their local customers, yet were told by the great Oracle to take a hike as Oracle would do it better. Apparently we are not worthy of a gov sector sales call back for the EOL boxes we are looking to shelve at this point next year.
We are neither big nor tiny but do a lot of.gov.. I remember cutting my teeth in univ on both IBM & SUN equipment; that led to favorable sales when I entered the industry. I'll miss SUN so much .
On the bright side I hope a bunch of good ex-SUN or ex-IBM or ex whoever people are working hard to bury their former companies who make decisions because of investor avarice not because of in house innovation and genius.
Not to wear tinfoil but it sounds like a Law Enforcement dry run for bigger operations..gov is "testing" to see how their methods are going to work in real life, if things will stick, how the public reaction to be. When the horse bolts out of the barn, you better have to grab a pre-tested lasso before data gets to far out.
No one will admit how much data leakage happened since the late 90s with p2p flooding data out of.gov, R&D, and medical offices in the West.
You don't think the intel community never caught on? Lives and reputations are continuing to be be jeopardized with wikileaks... you think people are lying around for it to just happen to them?
Likely a lull as they regroup see how to improve things, then another round.
Politicians & Bureaucrats are not techies, but they tend to hire really smart companies and individuals for consulting and executing their work.
Similar methods which today were used to down some.mp3 or girlie picture site will be in the future be used to down leaked data out of Gov, IBM, Apple, Boeing, Dow Chemical,....
As for US constitution, we have met the enemy and they is us. Peer Jury? I don't trust to be driving on the road with most of the people around me let alone have 12 decide my fate.
When certain crap is impelled through the fan certain plans are going to be set into motion. They were approved already by people voted upon and installed into power by peaceful means, and will "reflexively" activate. If the US.gov goes out of control it is because of the citizens of the US, past and present actions, not because of anyone's future action.
Why was I groped at the airport? Someone who was elected or appointed by someone elected perceived a credible threat of real person(s) who can't be identified and "found." instituted a response to that. Whoever that person who wants other people to be hurt or die for whatever reason; will use whatever means and opportunity they have to do it. That is a situation of intractable security.
From a classical point of view; its means, motive and opportunity. US citizens can only react to means , increase/reduce opportunity and fuel or dowse the motivation for any kind of activity criminal or otherwise.
When was the last time anyone asked "why somebody needs a new 32-64GB for their videos, pics & songs?".. that's a whole lot of cash on top of the equipment -- I'm sure they could produce each cassette, cd, dvd or print magazine and the receipts proving they bought license it and they didn't DL it off somewhere for free.
We have met the enemy and they is us - greed, apathy, indifference, do it as long as nobody's hurt or if the "Big X" gets hurt even better. Enough of this kills a Constitutional democracy (big C little d)
Launching is one thing, where it when & where it splashes down is another. Somewhere along the line it ought to have a radar track unless its really far out.
Could be a home brew DIY given the locale?
The track & distance to splash tells a lot
There once was a company called Sea Launch wasn't there?
Once long ago there was "a href="http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html"> vis-a-calc. Who would of thought today we'd be in the mess we are in.
Once long ago there was real and imminent fear that mutual self destruction would occur, and almost did, because the Nuclear C&C systems act out commands fast. Humans were inserted to cool things off.
Wow, now the Wall Street(s) have wired the financial & economic system together with less safeguards of global meltdown when the spreadsheets (now huge programs) start to ping pong (like in Forest Gump in china ) the markets. Its cool --- as long as you keep your eye on the ball.
However societies can't now rely on inserting humans into the chain. Anyhow Stock & Money Traders are not.mil hardy nor accountable like.mil
I cite May 6, 2010 --- b !=m --- who programmed that billions of stocks could be sold without 2 person authorization? I cite Jerome O'Hara, and George Perez , who worked on programatically cooking the system for Bernie Madoff
The message came from his words to an assembly of the catholic press.
The primary sources are necessary --> Spanish not yet in English. I know/. can work google translation. Even better I challenge/.ers to read & speak more than 1 human language.
Really, he is urging catholics not to get sucked into false reality that technology can enable. He urges catholics not to live life as a theatre -- he was not addressing the world in his comments -- its the world that got a guilty conscience after hearing them.
Probably most here wont also read the philosophical works of Jacque Ellul (French 1912-1994) who was also a contemporary of Benedict XVI. He was a philosopher who challenged a person holding Technology for Technology's sake world views -- which many do here. Both he and Benedict XVI align on many points concerning technology.
It's actually quite good to see that Benedict is actually active in commentating on Technology (as compared to other Leaders political, or spiritual who never will) and technologies impact/change of human society. Most here take Technology as de facto like fish take water as de facto in the fish tank. Those that do here should step away from the terminal and get a different perspective for a bit -- give it a whirl.
FWIW I think Ellul's work "La technique ou l'enjeu du siècle" ought to be required reading for those in a Engineering or Comp Sci program. Aldus Huxley is said to have "brought Ellus' work on Technology" to the English speaking world BTW... so also too did the UniBomber read it... but we get all kinds here as well -- probably more of the latter..
I'd lean toward planned. Somewhere that has to be some infographics showing the Internet doing its thing in reorganizing small whole in the DNS.
I've heard stories of.gov with 3 letter names alligator clipping batteries to the powercords of servers in order to move them "uninterrupted" So I think they got the right stuff to keep the hardware going.
It was a synchronized raid by e-crimes unit of the Yard + photojournalist
It has the standard political trial the bad guy in the press pictures a) stackup of officers in body armor and battering ram -- check b) photos of the "crime scene ala the laptop" -- Check -- nice Orthodox icons BTW c) photos of the guilty being lead away in irons by the guard -- Check and Check
It makes no mention of where the money went but only that the active criminals are caught. Some things to think about
1) 2 M £ divided by 19 conspirators (unlikely if equally) is still four times the average wage in Britain and just over the top salary of an defective for the yard after 10 years.
2) It doesn't mention what means the yard used. I mean the interception, the wire tapping and other means to know when the transaction was to occur-- to put doubt into the criminal mind? did the yard keylogger the keyloggers? did the yard just pay off for a tip? The yard could hide their means with the need for state secrecy unlike US courts --- until recently. Still want to take your mobile and net book on your holiday to London?
The Boeing A160 was taking a trip to Belize before crashing into the rainforest. That hummingbird has goals for 2,500-mile (4,000 km) range, _24-hour endurance_, and 30,000 ft (9,100 m) altitudes.
But then perhaps its objective was to sip nectar from a rare jungle flower -- IE don't name your UAVs hummingbird for the fun of it.
This could really muck up the depreciation cost of IT data centers. Intel has to have run some financial models on this to go this direction.
Is the $50 unlock going to depreciated or be full cost 3 years after the initial sale?
If I got a racks that we don't have to have a pull and replace with current CPUs but could get another 1 -2 years by unlocking them I'm going to get a note from the comptroller for not choosing to spend the really low unlock cost but instead going with upgrades which will be higher.
Next will the unlock transfer? That would really bite if it was non-transferable unlock / license. This would also be important when a CPU does go casters up and is replaced with a like unit. Would the unlock follow the specific CPU package or the customer installation? Doing any kind of "credit" tracking is a nightmare financially and for license compliance. Second hand sales are also a potential problem.
Anyhow I also see Viking and/or SDD makers also doing this stuff with the wacky great Sata DIMM. How many more circuits needed to unlock 1TB RAM drawn from SDD rather than the base 32 GB they sold you a license for.
Non mainframe datacenters have had "unlockable" storage upgrades for almost over decade (IE tape libs), its almost time for unlockable, SDD, CPU & SDD/SATA memory upgrades.
In my experience employers that directly or indirectly turn a blind eye, ie who hire against national/local labor policies, already have deep problems anyhow. I wouldn't work nor recommend anyone work for such businesses.
For legit businesses, most housekeeping staff I've known are decent hard working folks often looked down upon by the Management and IT guys if even recognized at all. Most won't steal nor want to be implicated because it costs them their job or the contract instantly. No investigation period.
I brought the fact they block open the doors from my experience of having to account for disabled door alarms and other bypasses to areas meant to contain sensitive customer info. Its a real problem solvable by having shredders & screen savers internally to the command center.
In my experience its the "entitled" IT that typically steal. What happened to the old parts locked up in some drawer from all that upgrading last month? Its now in somebody's home system or ebay'd without a trace.
As for low skill employee, contractor petty theft (phones, change, purses) that is an entirely different realm of security.
However being wiped out of laptops and HDTVs either in one fell swoop (stupid criminals who have to fence a big score) or trickling them out (smarter but still stupid criminals who open up an opportunity for surveillance) is not the issue.
The financial loss is not the IT management concern. Equipment should already in plan to be replaced and insurance covers real theft.
However explaining to management the downtime, that the laptops went out the door without encrypted partitions, that the serial numbers of equipment were never inventoried is a bigger theft -- IT guys ought to know this as stock and trade and if they were paid big money for no real work -- this is basically ripping off the stockholders/owners. IT & management took "big" money for not doing basic diligence in their work.
Anyhow most every large building has a door -- the smokers door -- that never latches and just needs a few tugs or leverage to pop open. Its just a matter of observation and turning doorknobs. I'm sure the building rent-a-cop does that right?
Those criminals that try to score used electronics probably already need rehab. Else want to fence them for cash for getting presents for the wife or girlfriends.
No criminal retires on the fortune accrued by stolen used electronics from a business.
If they were organized they would hijack a trailer headed to bestbuy or frys and live well for a few months or 1/2 a year.
24x7 ops in a confined space that you want to actually work inside means caring about the two things overlooked by both IT and Management.
1) Human waste Unless able/willing to get time outside the tank, people _are_ going to: snack,drink coffee & water, etc at their stations. The bathroom (mens and womens) is going where? Outside the double tier biometric locked doors past the guard? In a crisis or crunch the time use for bathrooms actually goes up as more coffee and crap food (fatty, sugary, glutten, etc) are ingested & a trip to the sewage system is required.
Also bathroom facilities need to be built with those things necessary for those with disabilities; with obestity / diabetes and those with really bad digestion (IE get a really good odour neutralizaing vent system) Also some sound damping is necessary. After a shift change would you want to hear 14 flushes in a row at your station?
If you want a real good idea of how human smells take over a confined space take Greyhound to anywhere on a trip longer than 8 hours. After a few hours you'll be begging for fresh air & a decent restroom as well. You can figure out the max time people can hold it as would need to if they pass outside the security areas of your ops center.
2) Housekeeping & Janitorial How are and just who will clean the bathrooms as well as the control room area?
The guys & gals making so little as opposed to the IT guys, but do the really important grunt work during the night to porter the bathroom with their cleaning carts and supplies. Really, although the janitors have a key to everywhere they typically will block doors open. The cleaning team is so "trusted" it isn't questioned about bypass of security doors. If Solid Snake could hide in a janitors cart not a cardboard box - he'd go anywhere.
Additionally these are also the people that are going to empty the waste bins, recycle bins, spritz down empty cubes/stations with disinfectant / de oderizers. My former company had a policy: if techs are on a station that station will not be cleaned. You have to have some sort of desk rotation to move out your personnel (that monitor now covered by a different station) so the area can be cleaned adequately.
If this is not done you deserve the thick stank that will descend upon your control room.
If your running really critical Ops: A HR policy on proper hygiene and showers should also a clause in the personnel contract. Everyone laughs until you have to term a tech for stinking to much.
As a bonus I'll add that my experience is that the AC design will never be adequate nor will the heating. It will be visited often by AC techs in the first 5 years until everyone gives up hope. The failure is that AC is typically the retail mall design of a large scale dumping of cold dry air into a large volume of space and somebody's desk (hopefully not yours) is just under where this happens. Hot and cold spots are intractable in a large open floor plan arrangement.
For sure decoys were effective in Gulf I as much as they were in WWI till some post strike analysis and intel revealed their "presence."
Do you insinuate other capitalist/socialist/communist countries are actively selling iran decoys? If so why couldn't iran buy outright or at least the machinery to produce a non v1 cruse missle design. The lack of an original design to me shows how well the west's embargos and political isolation is "working".
The US BQM-34 firebee could "easily" be copied its that old. Enough payments to someone inside the right contractors. I use the firebee as example as it was contemporary to the western cruise missile programs.
I see you point about SCUD decoys, this is a SCUD in a different form. And what is the mission profile of the SS-1?
What worries me is what I see BBC reporting shows a disposable launcher, who's launch crew is expendable.
The parent article should be iran reveals it has a nacent cruise missile not a UAV program. I say again the Iranian weapon is not UAV but a precursor cruise missile.
Doing in house what could be bought or cloned shows iranian egoism or isolation from the mercenary pipeline.
Anyhow since 90's the USA has: 1) developed JDAM and still has enough ordinance to spread around even to hit decoys and real targets.* 2) shown it substantially wants to and will update their satelite intel capacity (x-37b)#
A 15 min fueling operation is the worst case. the west would need serious cruise missile ordinance to reach inside iran before that kind of fast first strike or retaliatory strike launch of the good ship lollypop aka Karrar.
*assuming the launchers are not purposefully based in proximity to civilian assets and persons. The west is squimish about this while the middle-eastern are not. #the fueling truck (as seen in the video) & human activity is a good way to tell between decoy and real threat. But I conceed that the USA airforce had a hard time finding launchers in the 90's
From the BBC photos it looks either to be 1) a first strike weapon as its not designed for reuse or 2) is part of a deadman switch retaliation for a strike against the iranian homeland.
Nazi V1 inspired rocket powered sled drones need not be rail based (iran has a few lines) but could be launched from modified SEA containers off semi-trucks (the drone quite stubby in wingspan) or dropped the wheeled carriage after takeoff.
Tactically in a moving / shooting war I doubt these are useful as they are easily destroyed on the ground after satellites and enemy surveillance drones pick them out of the other targets.
Denying lengthy roads, rail lines and destroying trucking depots would be the "counter offensive"
Brian Krebs is the go-to guy for backstory on the mules. Mules have to look "honest" to a banking system so they are really the tech-savy unemployeed being exploited by mafia.
In a more depressing story the cost of Online fraud is charting to be almost 1B USD in a few years
Nobody is reporting that this is not being shown on the balance sheets... where are the Untouchables when we need them.
I recently arrived as the "paid IT guy" at a small private university.
I just took as fact that systems were already being attacked and rooted.
Educational systems which nobody thinks twice about are already owned and have the least chance to fight off any concerted state or insert group name here sponsored attack. Its now a nice game of wack a mole as I watch the firewalls which now have egress logging on ports. Its interesting to see the "businesses" that connect to my systems daily. Nobody filters out going to a.edu domain from a business -- Oh its great my employees take online classes or want to go back to school!
Thus far the best scam I've seen attacking businesses directly is the Medical Marijuana Shops that snap up Point of Sale systems (pre rooted of course) from craigslist or ebay. The data on customers, EFTs,.gov Benefit, state ID info info and all that gets laundered through.edu then to the mafias botnets. The smarter scams encrypt the flow now.
I'm sure some cancer patients have died naturally but.gov is still paying benefits through that scam.
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One of the best ways to track ants back to the nest is to lay out a cupcake.
It would be interesting to see if the DMCA folks have deployed bots and will looking for this file in transit; leaving the courts trying to separate out leaches from newbies
Certain parties in the name of copyright have already been cited as poisoning torrents as far back as 2005.
Will they be tracing and then analyzing the UL/DL. If "private" torrents are encrypting having a well known file helps break or isolate the encryption in use.
I wonder if somebody figured out how to detect the patterns of a torrent not so much in the transmission but in the reception.
It would be awesome if some sends the file through analysis to see if it is injected and carrying any traceable meta data, spyware or unidentified cruft.
DARPA just didn't on a whim send up a bunch of red ballons... I doubt the film industry is brainless about money when they release in this way.
Watching the audience is something great film makers & studios have learned to do.
Meth is not a drug its poison to the human body and society for both use and manufacture.
It has not a peer to alcohol, or other lesser drugs.
War on Drugs? How about War on Money Laundering?! Thats the imperialism of the mafia over civil society.
I say money laundering is the serious and imminent threat to geek culture.
Too many geeks are getting sucked into the underworld's lure of fast money, trinkets and bobbles and hallmarks of evil-geekdom.
Will anyone miss the old days when geeks would just rip-off cpu cycles, disk space and bandwidth for wares & p0rn from their company sites.
Next it moved into fencing parts -- where did all that Disk & memory go from the upgrades last month?
Now entire data centers have been compromised in Eastern Europe by mafia seeking to money launder all sorts of activity.
Looking at one of the mug shots. gang / mafia is involved: Nasty stuff, stone cold died in the wool killers & innocent lives wreaked.
Here is the AG post
Its enlightening the AG says it accounts for 2/3 of the ID theft: probably to cloak procurement of the means to manufacture, warehouse, and transport the nasty stuff. That means other much more serious crimes have to be committed in support of this industry... not just the simple possession.
Here are general facts about meth and more reading.
Companies have many ways to vet new-hires and typically do a probation period before any real trust is given with the new hires.
Irregardless of any IT skills I look for these in my junior levels
First the trifecta-- Does a new hire arrive prior to "on time", is prepared for a days work, and then works a full days work?
This is a real tell as if they have been prepared well enough at Univ or 2 year + job experience and scores high to building professional confidence in them.
My experience this is counter intuitive: the less education the more the person know these.
Second -- Stop, Drop and Document
Does the candidate know when to stop working on a dead end resolution, Does a candidate drop things (work assigned & hot potatoes onto others), lastly do they document as they go or promise to do so at the "end."
My experience anyone with less than 2 years will flounder and fail miserably at all three.
Last -- Look then Jump, or Jump then Swim
Depending on the need either could be called for. Maintaining a tuned system the former; building a prototype the latter. Mixing the 2 simultaneously is the most common mistake and has led to disaster in my experience. The guy that didn't do anything decided to tweak the system on Friday night as accounting needed its batch jobs by Monday morning. The woman that was hired to RAD quickly shifted to studying the heck out of things instead of whipping up inspired GUI mockups.
Each did so without asking their colleagues and both ended poorly
Unless the Univ or 2 College or voc ed school did numerous substantive team projects+individual performance most would flail at least 2 of the three "professionalism" hallmarks in less than 3 months.
This is more toward Cryptome.org territory as its was accidentally posted as part of a memo then publicly stated for withdrawal by the city government for secrecy reasons.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0VB_QrXYauUJ:www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D12380%26Itemid%3D22+http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D12380%26Itemid%3D22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
The map was included in the PDF for Jan 14 weekly updates to the city council
http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/files/City%20Council/WIPS/2010/Jan_14_WIP/Medical_Marijuana_WIP.pdf
The memo has not even a classification nor mark stating it is secret, confidential, restricted, eye only ,etc yet will be withdrawn because it is "Secret."
The memo is _Still_ reachable as of Jan 9... the fast wheels of city government
Woot! Microcenter in my area has this ... though these days it still has long lines due to inefficiency of the security locker for small & high value products being purchased by newbies.
Still the last good place in my area to sell good and sometime hard to find odd toys & parts locally. The impulse buy at the the single queue is harder to resist though.
Santa Baby, a Fryes in my state Please!
I'd hope that this was a spring board to more positive benefits for consumers of Intel products, especially businesses with big data centers.
It would be a good way to get past the financial crunch times, a derivative of the kill switch is a license switch. IE phoning to power up a few more processors in my grid, then phoning again power them down them in a few weeks.
Would really be easier to do the licensing than now. I'd have a bill for it and could make cases justify the IT costs.
A second case that is beneficial is remotely deactivating a branch office in the face of a natural disaster would also be a positive. Im thinking katrina or other kind of wide spread civil disaster.
Certainly a peace of mind for data loss prevention over physical assets lost to looting or just plain MIA PCs and laptops. Of course would be useful when an embassy is overtaken or deserted without the thermite being set off.
If the kill switch would be audit-able it would be beneficial to Congress, OMB, local gov and business auditors who could get documentation how many times kill switches were used for employee lost equipment, etc... Its a metric unable to be figured out today.
It used to be real news when a Gov PC or laptop went missing. Now a days it how many dozens per month that had to accounted as de-rezed.
If it lowered a consumers deductibles and insurance to have this feature I think they wouldn't mind. But insurance as a system isn't working anyhow.
Lastly we may get some trade wars going on. Im sure no other government would want american origin CPUs at this point. They may just turn to China's copy of what we did 2 years ago. I guess that makes it a positive for China's economy.
I haven't had but once a window for my shared office/cube in 15 years of IT.
I think that EU building architects are way ahead of US building architects for sunshine and Natural Ventilation.
Wireless really helped when it was permitted to work that way. To many coworkers abused that flexibility. We had garden quads within walking distance that helped as well. If upwind of the smokers you could actually feel naturally human at some point during the work day.
Being that there are already active programs running at the .mil/.gov level attempting to account all the workstation disk, and fragmented file space looking for keywords and other trace phrases, file formats and phrase fragments in packets for info leaks in certain datasec compartmentalized areas.....
1) Why would the keepers of the hounds want to deal with a polluted environment with potential false positives from new outlets.
2) While true much of the wiki leaks was sneaker netted, its also about that data not yet exposed.
If anyone Copied/scanned or DL'd something new it could be possibly disk cached while in transit to less than systems of certain clearance.
The phenomena of wiki leaks has its roots well before Nixon, we are just seeing the fruition of the process of dis-enchantment of the 1960's of the enlightenment experiment aka the Unites States.
That dis-enchantment had its roots in the Korean War and subsequent Coldwars
That situation was an arc from WWII which was an arc from WWI...
Anyhow, anyone with a Benedict Arnold bitter streak, Bradley Manning syndrome, or greedy like Aldrich Aimes, or is simply hot for Anna Chapman is not a technologically solvable problem nor policy solvable problem.
Wiki leaks is just a new facet at internet speed of old human nature.
The political message is
1) don't give somebody an idea to copycat
2) send a clear message the next guy that does X -- give the example that when he/she is caught, he/she is going to have rougher treatment.
Nothing new to what I just said since Cain killed Abel.
HP many years ago integraded with brocade switches. There was always an admin password to most HP device at the enterprise level: the cited storage array + fibre switch or tape library robot. However most only worked with physical access to either operator panel or serial port.
Now that IP has been for a few years the new serial port I predict many more devices in the future will have their firmware/management ports compromised. I think its SOP in large vendor enterprise to build such into your systems.
At some point you have to trust the guy inside the datacenter. What scares me is many Datacenter grade IP/KVMs, and other embedded devices are in now SMB and moving into the house.
To be honest its saved my bacon when the OP before me took the secret sauce passwords to Davy Jones locker.
We are in the process of sunsetting all SUN branded equipment for vendors other than Oracle. Its taken over 6 months to renew some contracts and expended far too many cycles & was so painful for us to be worth it to do it again.
For us as a customer its obvious that its a circus inside.
Oracle has chopped off those that used to resell SUN support and service at the knees. These were the guys that would go the extra mile for us, their local customers, yet were told by the great Oracle to take a hike as Oracle would do it better. Apparently we are not worthy of a gov sector sales call back for the EOL boxes we are looking to shelve at this point next year.
We are neither big nor tiny but do a lot of .gov.. I remember cutting my teeth in univ on both IBM & SUN equipment; that led to favorable sales when I entered the industry. I'll miss SUN so much .
On the bright side I hope a bunch of good ex-SUN or ex-IBM or ex whoever people are working hard to bury their former companies who make decisions because of investor avarice not because of in house innovation and genius.
Not to wear tinfoil but it sounds like a Law Enforcement dry run for bigger operations. .gov is "testing" to see how their methods are going to work in real life, if things will stick, how the public reaction to be.
When the horse bolts out of the barn, you better have to grab a pre-tested lasso before data gets to far out.
No one will admit how much data leakage happened since the late 90s with p2p flooding data out of .gov, R&D, and medical offices in the West.
You don't think the intel community never caught on? Lives and reputations are continuing to be be jeopardized with wikileaks... you think people are lying around for it to just happen to them?
Likely a lull as they regroup see how to improve things, then another round.
Politicians & Bureaucrats are not techies, but they tend to hire really smart companies and individuals for consulting and executing their work.
Similar methods which today were used to down some .mp3 or girlie picture site will be in the future be used to down leaked data out of Gov, IBM, Apple, Boeing, Dow Chemical, ....
As for US constitution, we have met the enemy and they is us. Peer Jury? I don't trust to be driving on the road with most of the people around me let alone have 12 decide my fate.
When certain crap is impelled through the fan certain plans are going to be set into motion. They were approved already by people voted upon and installed into power by peaceful means, and will "reflexively" activate. .gov goes out of control it is because of the citizens of the US, past and present actions, not because of anyone's future action.
If the US
Why was I groped at the airport? Someone who was elected or appointed by someone elected perceived a credible threat of real person(s) who can't be identified and "found." instituted a response to that. Whoever that person who wants other people to be hurt or die for whatever reason; will use whatever means and opportunity they have to do it. That is a situation of intractable security.
From a classical point of view; its means, motive and opportunity. US citizens can only react to means , increase/reduce opportunity and fuel or dowse the motivation for any kind of activity criminal or otherwise.
When was the last time anyone asked "why somebody needs a new 32-64GB for their videos, pics & songs?".. that's a whole lot of cash on top of the equipment -- I'm sure they could produce each cassette, cd, dvd or print magazine and the receipts proving they bought license it and they didn't DL it off somewhere for free.
We have met the enemy and they is us - greed, apathy, indifference, do it as long as nobody's hurt or if the "Big X" gets hurt even better. Enough of this kills a Constitutional democracy (big C little d)
Radar Track & Splash
Launching is one thing, where it when & where it splashes down is another. Somewhere along the line it ought to have a radar track unless its really far out.
Could be a home brew DIY given the locale?
The track & distance to splash tells a lot
There once was a company called Sea Launch wasn't there?
Once long ago there was "a href="http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html"> vis-a-calc. Who would of thought today we'd be in the mess we are in.
Once long ago there was real and imminent fear that mutual self destruction would occur, and almost did, because the Nuclear C&C systems act out commands fast. Humans were inserted to cool things off.
Wow, now the Wall Street(s) have wired the financial & economic system together with less safeguards of global meltdown when the spreadsheets (now huge programs) start to ping pong (like in Forest Gump in china ) the markets. Its cool --- as long as you keep your eye on the ball.
However societies can't now rely on inserting humans into the chain. Anyhow Stock & Money Traders are not .mil hardy nor accountable like .mil
I cite May 6, 2010 --- b !=m --- who programmed that billions of stocks could be sold without 2 person authorization?
I cite Jerome O'Hara, and George Perez , who worked on programatically cooking the system for Bernie Madoff
The message came from his words to an assembly of the catholic press.
The primary sources are necessary --> Spanish not yet in English. I know /. can work google translation. /.ers to read & speak more than 1 human language.
Even better I challenge
Really, he is urging catholics not to get sucked into false reality that technology can enable. He urges catholics not to live life as a theatre -- he was not addressing the world in his comments -- its the world that got a guilty conscience after hearing them.
Probably most here wont also read the philosophical works of Jacque Ellul (French 1912-1994) who was also a contemporary of Benedict XVI. He was a philosopher who challenged a person holding Technology for Technology's sake world views -- which many do here. Both he and Benedict XVI align on many points concerning technology.
It's actually quite good to see that Benedict is actually active in commentating on Technology (as compared to other Leaders political, or spiritual who never will) and technologies impact/change of human society.
Most here take Technology as de facto like fish take water as de facto in the fish tank. Those that do here should step away from the terminal and get a different perspective for a bit -- give it a whirl.
FWIW I think Ellul's work "La technique ou l'enjeu du siècle" ought to be required reading for those in a Engineering or Comp Sci program. Aldus Huxley is said to have "brought Ellus' work on Technology" to the English speaking world BTW... so also too did the UniBomber read it... but we get all kinds here as well -- probably more of the latter..
Its either planned or SNAFU.
I'd lean toward planned. Somewhere that has to be some infographics showing the Internet doing its thing in reorganizing small whole in the DNS.
I've heard stories of .gov with 3 letter names alligator clipping batteries to the powercords of servers in order to move them "uninterrupted" So I think they got the right stuff to keep the hardware going.
Keyser Söze was not among the suspects --- move along just a hedge move along ---
Its a political show.
It was a synchronized raid by e-crimes unit of the Yard + photojournalist
It has the standard political trial the bad guy in the press pictures
a) stackup of officers in body armor and battering ram -- check
b) photos of the "crime scene ala the laptop" -- Check -- nice Orthodox icons BTW
c) photos of the guilty being lead away in irons by the guard -- Check and Check
It makes no mention of where the money went but only that the active criminals are caught. Some things to think about
1) 2 M £ divided by 19 conspirators (unlikely if equally) is still four times the average wage in Britain and just over the top salary of an defective for the yard after 10 years.
2) It doesn't mention what means the yard used. I mean the interception, the wire tapping and other means to know when the transaction was to occur-- to put doubt into the criminal mind?
did the yard keylogger the keyloggers?
did the yard just pay off for a tip?
The yard could hide their means with the need for state secrecy unlike US courts --- until recently.
Still want to take your mobile and net book on your holiday to London?
3) I doubt they got Keyser Söze
The Boeing A160 was taking a trip to Belize before crashing into the rainforest.
That hummingbird has goals for 2,500-mile (4,000 km) range, _24-hour endurance_, and 30,000 ft (9,100 m) altitudes.
But then perhaps its objective was to sip nectar from a rare jungle flower -- IE don't name your UAVs hummingbird for the fun of it.
This could really muck up the depreciation cost of IT data centers.
Intel has to have run some financial models on this to go this direction.
Is the $50 unlock going to depreciated or be full cost 3 years after the initial sale?
If I got a racks that we don't have to have a pull and replace with current CPUs but could get another 1 -2 years by unlocking them I'm going to get a note from the comptroller for not choosing to spend the really low unlock cost but instead going with upgrades which will be higher.
Next will the unlock transfer?
That would really bite if it was non-transferable unlock / license.
This would also be important when a CPU does go casters up and is replaced with a like unit. Would the unlock follow the specific CPU package or the customer installation? Doing any kind of "credit" tracking is a nightmare financially and for license compliance.
Second hand sales are also a potential problem.
Anyhow I also see Viking and/or SDD makers also doing this stuff with the wacky great Sata DIMM. How many more circuits needed to unlock 1TB RAM drawn from SDD rather than the base 32 GB they sold you a license for.
Non mainframe datacenters have had "unlockable" storage upgrades for almost over decade (IE tape libs), its almost time for unlockable, SDD, CPU & SDD/SATA memory upgrades.
In my experience employers that directly or indirectly turn a blind eye, ie who hire against national/local labor policies, already have deep problems anyhow. I wouldn't work nor recommend anyone work for such businesses.
For legit businesses, most housekeeping staff I've known are decent hard working folks often looked down upon by the Management and IT guys if even recognized at all. Most won't steal nor want to be implicated because it costs them their job or the contract instantly. No investigation period.
I brought the fact they block open the doors from my experience of having to account for disabled door alarms and other bypasses to areas meant to contain sensitive customer info. Its a real problem solvable by having shredders & screen savers internally to the command center.
In my experience its the "entitled" IT that typically steal. What happened to the old parts locked up in some drawer from all that upgrading last month? Its now in somebody's home system or ebay'd without a trace.
As for low skill employee, contractor petty theft (phones, change, purses) that is an entirely different realm of security.
However being wiped out of laptops and HDTVs either in one fell swoop (stupid criminals who have to fence a big score) or trickling them out (smarter but still stupid criminals who open up an opportunity for surveillance) is not the issue.
The financial loss is not the IT management concern. Equipment should already in plan to be replaced and insurance covers real theft.
However explaining to management the downtime, that the laptops went out the door without encrypted partitions, that the serial numbers of equipment were never inventoried is a bigger theft -- IT guys ought to know this as stock and trade and if they were paid big money for no real work -- this is basically ripping off the stockholders/owners. IT & management took "big" money for not doing basic diligence in their work.
Anyhow most every large building has a door -- the smokers door -- that never latches and just needs a few tugs or leverage to pop open. Its just a matter of observation and turning doorknobs. I'm sure the building rent-a-cop does that right?
Those criminals that try to score used electronics probably already need rehab. Else want to fence them for cash for getting presents for the wife or girlfriends.
No criminal retires on the fortune accrued by stolen used electronics from a business.
If they were organized they would hijack a trailer headed to bestbuy or frys and live well for a few months or 1/2 a year.
24x7 ops in a confined space that you want to actually work inside means caring about the two things overlooked by both IT and Management.
1) Human waste
Unless able/willing to get time outside the tank, people _are_ going to: snack,drink coffee & water, etc at their stations.
The bathroom (mens and womens) is going where? Outside the double tier biometric locked doors past the guard?
In a crisis or crunch the time use for bathrooms actually goes up as more coffee and crap food (fatty, sugary, glutten, etc) are ingested & a trip to the sewage system is required.
Also bathroom facilities need to be built with those things necessary for those with disabilities; with obestity / diabetes and those with really bad digestion (IE get a really good odour neutralizaing vent system) Also some sound damping is necessary. After a shift change would you want to hear 14 flushes in a row at your station?
If you want a real good idea of how human smells take over a confined space take Greyhound to anywhere on a trip longer than 8 hours.
After a few hours you'll be begging for fresh air & a decent restroom as well. You can figure out the max time people can hold it as would need to if they pass outside the security areas of your ops center.
2) Housekeeping & Janitorial
How are and just who will clean the bathrooms as well as the control room area?
The guys & gals making so little as opposed to the IT guys, but do the really important grunt work during the night to porter the bathroom with their cleaning carts and supplies.
Really, although the janitors have a key to everywhere they typically will block doors open. The cleaning team is so "trusted" it isn't questioned about bypass of security doors.
If Solid Snake could hide in a janitors cart not a cardboard box - he'd go anywhere.
Additionally these are also the people that are going to empty the waste bins, recycle bins, spritz down empty cubes/stations with disinfectant / de oderizers.
My former company had a policy: if techs are on a station that station will not be cleaned.
You have to have some sort of desk rotation to move out your personnel (that monitor now covered by a different station) so the area can be cleaned adequately.
If this is not done you deserve the thick stank that will descend upon your control room.
If your running really critical Ops: A HR policy on proper hygiene and showers should also a clause in the personnel contract. Everyone laughs until you have to term a tech for stinking to much.
As a bonus I'll add that my experience is that the AC design will never be adequate nor will the heating. It will be visited often by AC techs in the first 5 years until everyone gives up hope.
The failure is that AC is typically the retail mall design of a large scale dumping of cold dry air into a large volume of space and somebody's desk (hopefully not yours) is just under where this happens. Hot and cold spots are intractable in a large open floor plan arrangement.
For sure decoys were effective in Gulf I as much as they were in WWI till some post strike analysis and intel revealed their "presence."
Do you insinuate other capitalist/socialist/communist countries are actively selling iran decoys? If so why couldn't iran buy outright or at least the machinery to produce a non v1 cruse missle design.
The lack of an original design to me shows how well the west's embargos and political isolation is "working".
The US BQM-34 firebee could "easily" be copied its that old. Enough payments to someone inside the right contractors. I use the firebee as example as it was contemporary to the western cruise missile programs.
I see you point about SCUD decoys, this is a SCUD in a different form. And what is the mission profile of the SS-1?
What worries me is what I see BBC reporting shows a disposable launcher, who's launch crew is expendable.
The parent article should be iran reveals it has a nacent cruise missile not a UAV program.
I say again the Iranian weapon is not UAV but a precursor cruise missile.
Doing in house what could be bought or cloned shows iranian egoism or isolation from the mercenary pipeline.
Anyhow since 90's the USA has:
1) developed JDAM and still has enough ordinance to spread around even to hit decoys and real targets.*
2) shown it substantially wants to and will update their satelite intel capacity (x-37b)#
A 15 min fueling operation is the worst case. the west would need serious cruise missile ordinance to reach inside iran before that kind of fast first strike or retaliatory strike launch of the good ship lollypop aka Karrar.
*assuming the launchers are not purposefully based in proximity to civilian assets and persons. The west is squimish about this while the middle-eastern are not.
#the fueling truck (as seen in the video) & human activity is a good way to tell between decoy and real threat. But I conceed that the USA airforce had a hard time finding launchers in the 90's
From the BBC photos it looks either to be 1) a first strike weapon as its not designed for reuse or 2) is part of a deadman switch retaliation for a strike against the iranian homeland.
Nazi V1 inspired rocket powered sled drones need not be rail based (iran has a few lines) but could be launched from modified SEA containers off semi-trucks (the drone quite stubby in wingspan) or dropped the wheeled carriage after takeoff.
Tactically in a moving / shooting war I doubt these are useful as they are easily destroyed on the ground after satellites and enemy surveillance drones pick them out of the other targets.
Denying lengthy roads, rail lines and destroying trucking depots would be the "counter offensive"
Now back to starcraft II.
Brian Krebs is the go-to guy for backstory on the mules. Mules have to look "honest" to a banking system so they are really the tech-savy unemployeed being exploited by mafia.
In a more depressing story the cost of Online fraud is charting to be almost 1B USD in a few years
Nobody is reporting that this is not being shown on the balance sheets ... where are the Untouchables when we need them.
I recently arrived as the "paid IT guy" at a small private university.
I just took as fact that systems were already being attacked and rooted.
Educational systems which nobody thinks twice about are already owned and have the least chance to fight off any concerted state or insert group name here sponsored attack. .edu domain from a business -- Oh its great my employees take online classes or want to go back to school!
Its now a nice game of wack a mole as I watch the firewalls which now have egress logging on ports. Its interesting to see the "businesses" that connect to my systems daily.
Nobody filters out going to a
Thus far the best scam I've seen attacking businesses directly is the Medical Marijuana Shops that snap up Point of Sale systems (pre rooted of course) from craigslist or ebay. .gov Benefit, state ID info info and all that gets laundered through .edu then to the mafias botnets. The smarter scams encrypt the flow now.
The data on customers, EFTs,
I'm sure some cancer patients have died naturally but .gov is still paying benefits through that scam.
Caveat Emptor