The costs don't work. This is supposed to MSRP for $250, and hold 400GB. This example of an LTO5 tape costs about $22, and holds 3TB. https://www.amazon.com/LTO5-Ul...
I keep hearing suggestions like this for blocking signals. Why do people confuse lead with a faraday cage? Lead is good for blocking particle radiation, ie alpha or beta. A faraday cage is good for blocking radio. Lead is a big heavy atom that gets in the way of the particles. It will even help block some electromagnetic radiation, especially high frequencies, if thick enough. However, it's a poor conductor. Electromagnetic radiation is more easily blocked with a faraday cage, ie a conductive shell. The more conductive, the better. So a superconductor would be best, followed by silver, or copper. Lead is far down the list.
Also, lead is poisonous, and exposure is cumulative.
Have you ever tried to triangulate wifi clients from access point signals? There are a lot of technical problems. Anything metal creates reflections. Anything dense, ie concrete, creates shadows. You need a lot of access points, and a very detailed cad drawing of the building, including the material of each wall and duct. It's expensive and time consuming to set up.
To do that in a prison, you would need hundreds of cell phone sensors. You would also need to pay thousands of hours of contractor time to set up the maps. You might even have to factor in if the cell doors are open vs closed.
Most cell phone jammers are small, with a limited range. You wouldn't have one big one, you'd have many small ones distributed through the prison. Their range would be small, and probably not even reach the fence.
A stingray is much more complex, and expensive, than a jammer. It's hard to get good numbers on what they cost, but it's tens of thousands of dollars, whereas a short range jammer is a couple hundred.
Have you ever tried to dictate jargon or anything detail oriented? "Connect the 2m SM LC/LC fiber jumper to router cent-m3 port xe-1/3/0 and to sonet node NEX23 port 1-3-10." Good luck even getting that past autocorrect.
Actually, within limits, unions like slackers, because it creates more union job opportunities. The union protects management from firing slackers. The only way to get the work done is to hire more union people to cover the load. Then the new people get quietly told to "slow down" and "not rock the boat".
4 50mg vials is around $9k USD. Standard dosage for adults is 200mg every 3 weeks. That's about $156k per year.
http://www.merck.com/product/u...https://www.goodrx.com/keytrud...
In contrast, my Remicade for arthritis is about $40k / year, but my insurance brings it down to about a $300 / year co-pay.
So you don't have to be rich. You just need a job with decent benefits.
I also believe windows is too unreliable to run on bare metal, and should be run in a VM. If nothing else, it lets you roll back to a snapshot before a bad patch. However, Microsoft deliberately makes that difficult. It turns out every time we VMotion a Windows VM, the cpu id changes, and invalidates the OS registration. Then after a month or so, it stops working. We have to re-register it after each move. That pretty much prevents us from using VMware's dynamic balancing. We've never found a way around that limitation.
I've used Linux desktops and laptops for work for the last 17 years. Most of my co-workers use either Linux or MacOS. I think we have five windows users in the department. One or two others have secondary windows desktops. We mostly work with Solaris and Linux servers, or Junos routers and switches. So having a similar environment on our desktop is very useful.
Windows is used in conventional non-tech business, ie banking, insurance, etc. So it's common in the 1st level tech support for those kinds of companies. It's far less prevalent in third level tech support, server support, or companies whose product is technology.
Longer answer: A good proxy could help protect you from worms, but not from a stupid user downloading something bad, or clicking on something bad in email. Good deep-inspection proxies are also expensive. To protect against something like this, it would have to intercept the mail client protocol (probably IMAP or MAPI), unwrap any TLS encryption on it using MitM certificates, detect and decode the attachment (ie pdf), then decode it for embedded.docm files. That's a lot deeper than any cheap proxy can handle.
Another issue is many people confuse firewalls and proxies. Proxies are a subtype of firewall that actually intercepts and processes the connections. Most firewalls are not proxies, and operate at a shallower level where decisions are made based on packet header source and destination information. Some next-generation (expensive) firewalls can do both.
A home-style gateway is a low end firewall. It doesn't do deep inspection. Worse, they are normally configured to allow Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). This is a protocol that allows anything inside the firewall to request an inbound hole in the firewall. It's often used for games. So once one kind of malware is in (or many Internet of Things (IoT) devices), it opens the gates to other attacks.
The only way I know of to protect a system like this is to air-gap it. Information is carried to and from the protected system on removable storage drives, which are always virus checked before being connected to the internal system. That's very time consuming and annoying.
That sounds horribly like the US government programming sweatshop in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That was supposed to be a dystopian warning, not a how-to guide. I hope they don't regulate the toilet paper too.
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They also triangulate on cell towers.
My opinion is mixed. They have contributed a lot to the Linux ecosystem. On the other hand they push systemd, pulseaudio, networkmanager, and gnome.
The costs don't work. This is supposed to MSRP for $250, and hold 400GB. This example of an LTO5 tape costs about $22, and holds 3TB. https://www.amazon.com/LTO5-Ul...
But they work 24x7, and never complain to HR.
I would be terrified it would work out like the movie Airplane!. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also consider that California gets quite a few earthquakes. They should help crack up the concrete, release the methane, and create sinkholes.
When a lightning bolt or storm knocks down the net, it becomes a ladder to help the inmates climb the wall.
I keep hearing suggestions like this for blocking signals. Why do people confuse lead with a faraday cage? Lead is good for blocking particle radiation, ie alpha or beta. A faraday cage is good for blocking radio. Lead is a big heavy atom that gets in the way of the particles. It will even help block some electromagnetic radiation, especially high frequencies, if thick enough. However, it's a poor conductor. Electromagnetic radiation is more easily blocked with a faraday cage, ie a conductive shell. The more conductive, the better. So a superconductor would be best, followed by silver, or copper. Lead is far down the list. Also, lead is poisonous, and exposure is cumulative.
Have you ever tried to triangulate wifi clients from access point signals? There are a lot of technical problems. Anything metal creates reflections. Anything dense, ie concrete, creates shadows. You need a lot of access points, and a very detailed cad drawing of the building, including the material of each wall and duct. It's expensive and time consuming to set up. To do that in a prison, you would need hundreds of cell phone sensors. You would also need to pay thousands of hours of contractor time to set up the maps. You might even have to factor in if the cell doors are open vs closed.
Most cell phone jammers are small, with a limited range. You wouldn't have one big one, you'd have many small ones distributed through the prison. Their range would be small, and probably not even reach the fence.
A stingray is much more complex, and expensive, than a jammer. It's hard to get good numbers on what they cost, but it's tens of thousands of dollars, whereas a short range jammer is a couple hundred.
The guards aren't paid enough, so they're easily bribed.
That depends on GPS, which can also be jammed.
Have you ever tried to dictate jargon or anything detail oriented? "Connect the 2m SM LC/LC fiber jumper to router cent-m3 port xe-1/3/0 and to sonet node NEX23 port 1-3-10." Good luck even getting that past autocorrect.
Actually, within limits, unions like slackers, because it creates more union job opportunities. The union protects management from firing slackers. The only way to get the work done is to hire more union people to cover the load. Then the new people get quietly told to "slow down" and "not rock the boat".
It may be legally protected, but that doesn't mean you still have a job. http://fortune.com/2015/04/20/...
4 50mg vials is around $9k USD. Standard dosage for adults is 200mg every 3 weeks. That's about $156k per year. http://www.merck.com/product/u... https://www.goodrx.com/keytrud... In contrast, my Remicade for arthritis is about $40k / year, but my insurance brings it down to about a $300 / year co-pay. So you don't have to be rich. You just need a job with decent benefits.
Could you use it as a mobile base for delivering small packages via drone to destinations as you slowly pass over?
Iris (or retina) scanning is scary, because it encourages thieves to steal your eyeballs. http://www.flickeringmyth.com/...
I also believe windows is too unreliable to run on bare metal, and should be run in a VM. If nothing else, it lets you roll back to a snapshot before a bad patch. However, Microsoft deliberately makes that difficult. It turns out every time we VMotion a Windows VM, the cpu id changes, and invalidates the OS registration. Then after a month or so, it stops working. We have to re-register it after each move. That pretty much prevents us from using VMware's dynamic balancing. We've never found a way around that limitation.
I've used Linux desktops and laptops for work for the last 17 years. Most of my co-workers use either Linux or MacOS. I think we have five windows users in the department. One or two others have secondary windows desktops. We mostly work with Solaris and Linux servers, or Junos routers and switches. So having a similar environment on our desktop is very useful. Windows is used in conventional non-tech business, ie banking, insurance, etc. So it's common in the 1st level tech support for those kinds of companies. It's far less prevalent in third level tech support, server support, or companies whose product is technology.
Han shot first. :-)
Longer answer: A good proxy could help protect you from worms, but not from a stupid user downloading something bad, or clicking on something bad in email. Good deep-inspection proxies are also expensive. To protect against something like this, it would have to intercept the mail client protocol (probably IMAP or MAPI), unwrap any TLS encryption on it using MitM certificates, detect and decode the attachment (ie pdf), then decode it for embedded .docm files. That's a lot deeper than any cheap proxy can handle.
Another issue is many people confuse firewalls and proxies. Proxies are a subtype of firewall that actually intercepts and processes the connections. Most firewalls are not proxies, and operate at a shallower level where decisions are made based on packet header source and destination information. Some next-generation (expensive) firewalls can do both.
A home-style gateway is a low end firewall. It doesn't do deep inspection. Worse, they are normally configured to allow Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). This is a protocol that allows anything inside the firewall to request an inbound hole in the firewall. It's often used for games. So once one kind of malware is in (or many Internet of Things (IoT) devices), it opens the gates to other attacks.
The only way I know of to protect a system like this is to air-gap it. Information is carried to and from the protected system on removable storage drives, which are always virus checked before being connected to the internal system. That's very time consuming and annoying.
So where can we submit suggestions or updates to BrickerBot?
That sounds horribly like the US government programming sweatshop in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That was supposed to be a dystopian warning, not a how-to guide. I hope they don't regulate the toilet paper too.