Funny I just setup my brand new DirecTV HD Tivo via a vonage line. No special codes, no special hardware (just what Vonage sent me a Cisco ATA) no fax line option. Realy what it is is persistances I probably redialed 20 times before it worked. My Googling for help led me down all sorts of roads with prefixes even plugging it into my fax line via vonage.
What it seems to come down to is packet loss I've been told that Packet loss is what kills modem connections over VoIP and that Vonage can alter your packet size to help compensate. I was trying late afternoon and had issues my Tivo has since automaticaly dialed up and is fine on Vonage probably due to the low packet loss in the early morning. I didnt even have to call vonage. It dosent work well but it does work.
One human maid might be cheaper how about the 4 needed for 24/7 staffing without ovetime? What if the robot could do other things like say drive your car? Perform maitnence around the house? What happens when there are hacks for the robot so it gets new abilities added free? What happens when the robots become 1/10 as expensive does your math still work out? Humans cost more and more to employ technology becomes cheaper and cheaper. Granted there might be usefull sociatal things that employing a human over a robot, but I for one dont think there are people not capable of something better than menial labor unless they are handicapt, so find something better for them to do.
Yes you can actualy. Vonage is a standards based VoIP service you just need to know where to point your VoIP endpoint to register put in the password (Hard to get unless it's a softphone account) I currently run Vonage through an Asterix PBX it's not that hard to get working. Hit up google for the particulars.
You can do this now. Asterix makes a good PBX you just and outward and inward facing physical lines as you desire more inside extensiuons (Groups of phones) and outside lines. The cards are a few hundred and it needs a modest PC to run everything. Pretty much you can add any type of extension be it VoIP or POTS and any type of outside line be it VoIP POTS ISDN or a PRI. You can implment outgoing dial plans so that long distance is autmoticaly routed to the VoIP with fallback to land lines etc etc etc. Right now I run my house with these (it helps that I baught a small pile of dirt cheap Diamond USB attached inside POTS lines) every phone is it's own extension and I have POTS and VoIP external lines.
I think he is trying to get to the point that you sould not be required to present ID to travel inside a country EVER, to operate a vehical maybe (I'm not thrilled with it) Any BTW before 9/11 you could just fly with a ticket sure you gave a name I've flown with tickets under the company name before even with all the same name (in a large group) this was all before 9/11. Now we have the 2 hour wait to go through a metal detector funny thats something that dosent work a sharp pen can be a weapon hell the 9/11 guys were using jail style shanks something that has been going through metal detectors for years.
Realy all the physical security improvements seem to be to placate the people. If you want security vs a suicide troops you better start looking elsewhere, it cant be done you cant stop the effect you have to stop the cause (I vote for utilizing large scale explosions in retaliation either the bombing will stop or the countries of origin will cease to exist to bad thats genocide) Unfortunatly fixing a problem isn't something you can legislate it requires real action. US style justice isn't setup to cope with somebody that cares less for there own life but more for there cause.
OK sorry for the rant. Oh if you think I'm incensitive to those that died I work at the NYC Medical Examiner and have seen more grusom things that TV can imagine related to the towers, I've also seen all the family members comming in to give DNA samples so we can try and give them some closure and soemthing to burry.
If it's anything like my laptop connector it's realy 6 pin fully compatable with S-Video and can be used with an adapter for composite this is a pretty standard config. Now since you have 3 pairs you can pretty easily set of software switch or a jumper etc to make it output component. Realy it's just 6 pins from the chip (ok maybe 3 as most of those are shield ground) This wouldent requre any special external circutry.
I agree with you in priciple (I dont like the ADA laws for a lot of reasons) but this is realy no different than any public place of business the movie theater has to accomidate wheel chairs and hearing impared audio feeds they are just asking the web sites to do the same thing. They are operating a place of business and thus need to make it accessable.
Gee because all DHCP addresses are allready pretty much listed as suspicious. Beyond that it's so so trivial to change a MAC address on any modern gear.
It's not realy security through obscurity. The encryption stops attackers from joining a wifi network besides protecting all data passing through it. Thats a big deal because passive sniffing is one thing active attacking is another. Once they can inject packets onto your network depending on design they have breached a layer of security (then there are those that treat there wifi like the inetnet and trust none of it)
Yup your L2 is secured and your L4 is as well when we get ipsec in place your l3 will also be secured.
It's all breakable it's just a question of time vs computing power. There is only one known unbreakable encryption method the one time pad (quantom encrypt is realy just pad generation and distribution with the added benifit of being tamper evident)
AES secures Layer 2, the physical layer might be secured via fairiday(sp?) cages, directional anetena's guys, guys with guns etc. But only the realy paranoid worry about that to much.
Overall is a good idea to secure each and every layer as it just adds to the ammount of computation required to decrypt what you want.
Have you ever been on a NYC commuter rail traing (aka metro north) everybody that can is sleeping the rest are reading etc. There are a few talkative people but they are allmost allways a group travaling to the city for a day out not a commuter. Yes sometimes the person next tto you will talk but it's rare. WiFi on the commute would provide access to read news web sites, do research take care of a lot of things (think about net banking) and general give them more time to be at home with people they care about like there family.
Funny DLT tape has been backwards compatable since day 1 and same goes for ultrum (cant talk about AIT or Travan never used them) You might bnot be able to write to the tapes but you can read from them.
As for disk how many PC's can still use an RLL controler or ESDI PC's dont even have ISA slots anymore to house them. These were common hard drives only 15 years ago. SCSI has endured but IDE is allready on it's way out the door do you think in 7 years you will still be able to fine an IDE controler that works with new systems once everybody has moved to serial ATA and beyond?
Ah the reason why programmers should not be allowed near hardware. Thats a general rule. Programmers with degrees in EE can touch hardware otherwise they dont have a clue.
The other reason is if programmers are allowed near hardware they will start to blame hardware for there issues.
Yea DirecTV sucks as a corperation. I just wish somebody would come out with a comparable service, dont even mention Dish I had there DVR it's pitifull and there picture quality is worse than DirecTV. Forget any device based upon analog capture it's one thing if it's a one time cost but there is such a quality hit untill you get into expensive cards it's hard to justify. Cable's analog is hit or miss and there digital offerings in my area are worse than DirecTV. The best fit I have found is the HD DirecTV Tivo's.
The only anonymity in modern systems is what you create in them. Raly should anybody have the right to privacy when you call somebody??? Your invading there privacy why shouldent they be able to invade yours?
LOL the users pays extortion to the phone company they make caller ID made you pay for it then made caller ID blocking and made you pay for it. Realy it's all them using there monopoly on the phone system to make new business. Nope it's not encrypted so I doubt the DCMA would apply more importantly the information is REQUIRED for some systems to operate removing it breaks things like automatic call routing based on incomming location.
Your talking about reworking the whole infrastructure to make you happy. If you realy want anonymity in your outgoing phone calls use a proxy and deal with the issues. I think everybody should get caller info period if you dont like it stop calling people or use a proxy.
What security protocal? Like I have stated elsewhere this is a feature the every business with a digital line has allways had. Telco's trust business to tag there outgoing calls with the corret caller ID info. Realy even home users with ISDN can set there caller id info it's part of the call setup process.
Funny the phone company currently does this with anything digital aka ISDN and above. It's actualy required to work if you want dial back to function, this is a standard business feature why shouldent smarter than average home users be able to do it?
Forget about NAT and start running proxies for anything you need. Worms will keep working as long as they can get out. Proxies can help with not allowign the stupid stuff in and running all sorts of malware scanning but it's very important to stop the spread as well. NAT is good for things you cany proxy like games.
OK I have gone through this and on a decently setup network that dosent use USB or firewire attached storage we disabled the drivers for them. Not to hard there is a easy technical fix for this without getting draconian looking for data leaving on USB sticks.
Funny they had us do this then allowed all the CD-R drives you wanted buecause sometimes you just need to give somebody a CD. They also allowed outgoing encrypted SSH sessions and the like it's not like you couldent scp the data out.
Juniper has a big market share at the mid high end as thats where they fit, your not seeing junipers replaces 26xx gear as they dont have the convergent techs to do so (IP, Voice, Dial IN/OUT, Fax, intergrated switches, IDS etc etc etc) I think by dollar ammount for core routing juniper is doing realy well but it's not trickling down into the 2-5k a pop branch office router/switch/pbx/blender that everybody seems to be installing.
BTW I thin the cisco press books are actualy quite good on a lot of subjects, they dont baby you and the get the point accross. They dont put out cisco for dummies.
If your going to just plug in backup and swap try the USB 2.0 to IDE backup boxes pretty much its a power brick and an US to IDE chipset in a plastic case with a 40 pin IDE connector on it. You plug in the drive and your good to go. No cases or hot swap caddies to deal with. And 5400 RPM drives dont get hot to the touch sitting on the desk. It's not pretty but if your just running backup keep on buying $100 IDE disks (generaly best cost per GB)
Your missing the point even with postal mail some people have to be able to open your letter and look at it as part of the process in the post office it's the dead letter office they open them up look for addresses etc when the envelope is unreadable. It's dosent happen alot but is does happen and it needs to be legal, otherwise mail has to get dropped in the shredder with no notification.
Your missing the point your not password protecting your email at all it's all sent clear text including your password (yea we can read those to) the end user has to step up if they want privacy and start using better tools. Most of the time when I see the random bit of email it's accidental but trying to make it a crime would stop ISP's from keeping there networks healthy so in essance you are asking for the internet to stop working so you can feel safe that nobody looked at your email postcard to bad you cant send them anymore because the medium dosent work. Remember your the one choosing to send a smoke signals instead of a letter dont complain because other people look at them. Your being unreasonable because your refusing to change but asking everybody else to not look at your private smoke signals.
I realy dont care about work tools thats between you and your work. Some workplaces are legaly required to look at your email from time to time like brokers and such. This I beleive is allready a contractual bit. The sys admins can still look at your email and may have to just to get there job done (things like fixing your email account, scanning for nasty bits etc). It's not a question of 100 times harder is a question of possible or not.
I work for ISP's at the transit level aka the guys that get the packets from your ISP to there ISP. If you want to make a law about something I think there are existing laws about decrypting somebody elses data if not make one.
Email is not mail it's a post card at best. I see peoples mail regularly as part of work as it's going down the wire, it's not illegal as I'm performing maitence and troubleshooting for the companies that own the routers. Same goes for a random sys admin that needs to say fix an email box or generaly run the system. Your service provider has allways been able to do this. The post office can read your mail if they need to what do you think dead letter offices are for? Dont like it encrypt the contents and use anon remailers.
Na no need to upgrade the memory just filter anything smaller than/18:) Realy it's nothing like the phone company's issues they can do a slow table lookup as they are session not packet based it might mean one extra ring. IPv6 does not fix any routing issues besides making protability easier and probably reducing the number of blocks to one per AS as they are HUGE, in thte interim it's realy a big memory bloat keeping two tables around.
Actualy as I have been following the Nanog thread the client willing ended there contract and has IP space to move into but is refusing to renumber. The space in question is a/24 so isn't going ot make it to far especialy is people start null routing the block out of pricible. If they wanted to keep the space they should have kept there contract or at least picked up a leased line for the incomming. The TRO is hazardess to the internet and should be killed by any means avalible otherwise people with a/32 will start getting TRO's when they move providers the internet is NOT CAPABLE of dealing with this on a global routing level if you want to keep an IP lease your own block like verybody else otherwise they are not transferable period.
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Funny I just setup my brand new DirecTV HD Tivo via a vonage line. No special codes, no special hardware (just what Vonage sent me a Cisco ATA) no fax line option. Realy what it is is persistances I probably redialed 20 times before it worked. My Googling for help led me down all sorts of roads with prefixes even plugging it into my fax line via vonage.
What it seems to come down to is packet loss I've been told that Packet loss is what kills modem connections over VoIP and that Vonage can alter your packet size to help compensate. I was trying late afternoon and had issues my Tivo has since automaticaly dialed up and is fine on Vonage probably due to the low packet loss in the early morning. I didnt even have to call vonage. It dosent work well but it does work.
One human maid might be cheaper how about the 4 needed for 24/7 staffing without ovetime? What if the robot could do other things like say drive your car? Perform maitnence around the house? What happens when there are hacks for the robot so it gets new abilities added free? What happens when the robots become 1/10 as expensive does your math still work out? Humans cost more and more to employ technology becomes cheaper and cheaper. Granted there might be usefull sociatal things that employing a human over a robot, but I for one dont think there are people not capable of something better than menial labor unless they are handicapt, so find something better for them to do.
Yes you can actualy. Vonage is a standards based VoIP service you just need to know where to point your VoIP endpoint to register put in the password (Hard to get unless it's a softphone account) I currently run Vonage through an Asterix PBX it's not that hard to get working. Hit up google for the particulars.
You can do this now. Asterix makes a good PBX you just and outward and inward facing physical lines as you desire more inside extensiuons (Groups of phones) and outside lines. The cards are a few hundred and it needs a modest PC to run everything. Pretty much you can add any type of extension be it VoIP or POTS and any type of outside line be it VoIP POTS ISDN or a PRI. You can implment outgoing dial plans so that long distance is autmoticaly routed to the VoIP with fallback to land lines etc etc etc. Right now I run my house with these (it helps that I baught a small pile of dirt cheap Diamond USB attached inside POTS lines) every phone is it's own extension and I have POTS and VoIP external lines.
I think he is trying to get to the point that you sould not be required to present ID to travel inside a country EVER, to operate a vehical maybe (I'm not thrilled with it) Any BTW before 9/11 you could just fly with a ticket sure you gave a name I've flown with tickets under the company name before even with all the same name (in a large group) this was all before 9/11. Now we have the 2 hour wait to go through a metal detector funny thats something that dosent work a sharp pen can be a weapon hell the 9/11 guys were using jail style shanks something that has been going through metal detectors for years.
Realy all the physical security improvements seem to be to placate the people. If you want security vs a suicide troops you better start looking elsewhere, it cant be done you cant stop the effect you have to stop the cause (I vote for utilizing large scale explosions in retaliation either the bombing will stop or the countries of origin will cease to exist to bad thats genocide) Unfortunatly fixing a problem isn't something you can legislate it requires real action. US style justice isn't setup to cope with somebody that cares less for there own life but more for there cause.
OK sorry for the rant. Oh if you think I'm incensitive to those that died I work at the NYC Medical Examiner and have seen more grusom things that TV can imagine related to the towers, I've also seen all the family members comming in to give DNA samples so we can try and give them some closure and soemthing to burry.
If it's anything like my laptop connector it's realy 6 pin fully compatable with S-Video and can be used with an adapter for composite this is a pretty standard config. Now since you have 3 pairs you can pretty easily set of software switch or a jumper etc to make it output component. Realy it's just 6 pins from the chip (ok maybe 3 as most of those are shield ground) This wouldent requre any special external circutry.
I agree with you in priciple (I dont like the ADA laws for a lot of reasons) but this is realy no different than any public place of business the movie theater has to accomidate wheel chairs and hearing impared audio feeds they are just asking the web sites to do the same thing. They are operating a place of business and thus need to make it accessable.
Gee because all DHCP addresses are allready pretty much listed as suspicious. Beyond that it's so so trivial to change a MAC address on any modern gear.
It's not realy security through obscurity. The encryption stops attackers from joining a wifi network besides protecting all data passing through it. Thats a big deal because passive sniffing is one thing active attacking is another. Once they can inject packets onto your network depending on design they have breached a layer of security (then there are those that treat there wifi like the inetnet and trust none of it)
Yup your L2 is secured and your L4 is as well when we get ipsec in place your l3 will also be secured.
It's all breakable it's just a question of time vs computing power. There is only one known unbreakable encryption method the one time pad (quantom encrypt is realy just pad generation and distribution with the added benifit of being tamper evident)
AES secures Layer 2, the physical layer might be secured via fairiday(sp?) cages, directional anetena's guys, guys with guns etc. But only the realy paranoid worry about that to much.
Overall is a good idea to secure each and every layer as it just adds to the ammount of computation required to decrypt what you want.
Have you ever been on a NYC commuter rail traing (aka metro north) everybody that can is sleeping the rest are reading etc. There are a few talkative people but they are allmost allways a group travaling to the city for a day out not a commuter. Yes sometimes the person next tto you will talk but it's rare. WiFi on the commute would provide access to read news web sites, do research take care of a lot of things (think about net banking) and general give them more time to be at home with people they care about like there family.
More importantly they were using the channels that the FCC gave them to use for cell phones right ext to emergency channels.
Funny DLT tape has been backwards compatable since day 1 and same goes for ultrum (cant talk about AIT or Travan never used them) You might bnot be able to write to the tapes but you can read from them.
As for disk how many PC's can still use an RLL controler or ESDI PC's dont even have ISA slots anymore to house them. These were common hard drives only 15 years ago. SCSI has endured but IDE is allready on it's way out the door do you think in 7 years you will still be able to fine an IDE controler that works with new systems once everybody has moved to serial ATA and beyond?
Ah the reason why programmers should not be allowed near hardware. Thats a general rule. Programmers with degrees in EE can touch hardware otherwise they dont have a clue.
The other reason is if programmers are allowed near hardware they will start to blame hardware for there issues.
Yea DirecTV sucks as a corperation. I just wish somebody would come out with a comparable service, dont even mention Dish I had there DVR it's pitifull and there picture quality is worse than DirecTV. Forget any device based upon analog capture it's one thing if it's a one time cost but there is such a quality hit untill you get into expensive cards it's hard to justify. Cable's analog is hit or miss and there digital offerings in my area are worse than DirecTV. The best fit I have found is the HD DirecTV Tivo's.
The only anonymity in modern systems is what you create in them. Raly should anybody have the right to privacy when you call somebody??? Your invading there privacy why shouldent they be able to invade yours?
LOL the users pays extortion to the phone company they make caller ID made you pay for it then made caller ID blocking and made you pay for it. Realy it's all them using there monopoly on the phone system to make new business. Nope it's not encrypted so I doubt the DCMA would apply more importantly the information is REQUIRED for some systems to operate removing it breaks things like automatic call routing based on incomming location.
Your talking about reworking the whole infrastructure to make you happy. If you realy want anonymity in your outgoing phone calls use a proxy and deal with the issues. I think everybody should get caller info period if you dont like it stop calling people or use a proxy.
What security protocal? Like I have stated elsewhere this is a feature the every business with a digital line has allways had. Telco's trust business to tag there outgoing calls with the corret caller ID info. Realy even home users with ISDN can set there caller id info it's part of the call setup process.
Funny the phone company currently does this with anything digital aka ISDN and above. It's actualy required to work if you want dial back to function, this is a standard business feature why shouldent smarter than average home users be able to do it?
Forget about NAT and start running proxies for anything you need. Worms will keep working as long as they can get out. Proxies can help with not allowign the stupid stuff in and running all sorts of malware scanning but it's very important to stop the spread as well. NAT is good for things you cany proxy like games.
OK I have gone through this and on a decently setup network that dosent use USB or firewire attached storage we disabled the drivers for them. Not to hard there is a easy technical fix for this without getting draconian looking for data leaving on USB sticks.
Funny they had us do this then allowed all the CD-R drives you wanted buecause sometimes you just need to give somebody a CD. They also allowed outgoing encrypted SSH sessions and the like it's not like you couldent scp the data out.
Juniper has a big market share at the mid high end as thats where they fit, your not seeing junipers replaces 26xx gear as they dont have the convergent techs to do so (IP, Voice, Dial IN/OUT, Fax, intergrated switches, IDS etc etc etc) I think by dollar ammount for core routing juniper is doing realy well but it's not trickling down into the 2-5k a pop branch office router/switch/pbx/blender that everybody seems to be installing.
BTW I thin the cisco press books are actualy quite good on a lot of subjects, they dont baby you and the get the point accross. They dont put out cisco for dummies.
If your going to just plug in backup and swap try the USB 2.0 to IDE backup boxes pretty much its a power brick and an US to IDE chipset in a plastic case with a 40 pin IDE connector on it. You plug in the drive and your good to go. No cases or hot swap caddies to deal with. And 5400 RPM drives dont get hot to the touch sitting on the desk. It's not pretty but if your just running backup keep on buying $100 IDE disks (generaly best cost per GB)
Your missing the point even with postal mail some people have to be able to open your letter and look at it as part of the process in the post office it's the dead letter office they open them up look for addresses etc when the envelope is unreadable. It's dosent happen alot but is does happen and it needs to be legal, otherwise mail has to get dropped in the shredder with no notification.
Your missing the point your not password protecting your email at all it's all sent clear text including your password (yea we can read those to) the end user has to step up if they want privacy and start using better tools. Most of the time when I see the random bit of email it's accidental but trying to make it a crime would stop ISP's from keeping there networks healthy so in essance you are asking for the internet to stop working so you can feel safe that nobody looked at your email postcard to bad you cant send them anymore because the medium dosent work. Remember your the one choosing to send a smoke signals instead of a letter dont complain because other people look at them. Your being unreasonable because your refusing to change but asking everybody else to not look at your private smoke signals.
I realy dont care about work tools thats between you and your work. Some workplaces are legaly required to look at your email from time to time like brokers and such. This I beleive is allready a contractual bit. The sys admins can still look at your email and may have to just to get there job done (things like fixing your email account, scanning for nasty bits etc). It's not a question of 100 times harder is a question of possible or not.
I work for ISP's at the transit level aka the guys that get the packets from your ISP to there ISP. If you want to make a law about something I think there are existing laws about decrypting somebody elses data if not make one.
Email is not mail it's a post card at best. I see peoples mail regularly as part of work as it's going down the wire, it's not illegal as I'm performing maitence and troubleshooting for the companies that own the routers. Same goes for a random sys admin that needs to say fix an email box or generaly run the system. Your service provider has allways been able to do this. The post office can read your mail if they need to what do you think dead letter offices are for? Dont like it encrypt the contents and use anon remailers.
Na no need to upgrade the memory just filter anything smaller than /18 :) Realy it's nothing like the phone company's issues they can do a slow table lookup as they are session not packet based it might mean one extra ring. IPv6 does not fix any routing issues besides making protability easier and probably reducing the number of blocks to one per AS as they are HUGE, in thte interim it's realy a big memory bloat keeping two tables around.
Actualy as I have been following the Nanog thread the client willing ended there contract and has IP space to move into but is refusing to renumber. The space in question is a /24 so isn't going ot make it to far especialy is people start null routing the block out of pricible. If they wanted to keep the space they should have kept there contract or at least picked up a leased line for the incomming. The TRO is hazardess to the internet and should be killed by any means avalible otherwise people with a /32 will start getting TRO's when they move providers the internet is NOT CAPABLE of dealing with this on a global routing level if you want to keep an IP lease your own block like verybody else otherwise they are not transferable period.