The "Average" hours of sunshine on a tropical island are indeed great for morning exposures, which is why this idea makes sense for them... But tell me, dear sir, what happens when a tropical storm happens though? Depending on the timing, such a storm could mean 2 full days of rain, possibly more. Surely you don't think they can afford 3 days worth of batteries and the extra capacity to charge them. It will be very expensive. A better solution is to not be dependent on any single unreliable source and keep that diesel capacity around for the days when it's been raining. The other option is to just figure the electricity won't always be on and plan your personal life accordingly, use non electric lighting, kerosene refrigeration and bottled propane to cook. Also, don't figure on having domestic water so make sure to keep a couple of days worth of bottled water on hand. Certainly, don't buy an electric car....
BUT, they still need the full complement of diesel generators for those times when the sun doesn't shine enough to keep the batteries charged.
This island is totally isolated and they have depended on diesel generators for a long time. Solar is a great option for them because diesel is a really expensive way to produce electricity. Shipping large quantities of fuel to an island is expensive. Solar is a great way to offset this unusually high cost by burning less fuel and batteries let you offset some of the excess solar power you get in the day time and shift it to other times when you need it. It makes sense to do this.. However...
They will still need a full complement of diesel generators ready to pick up the load for when it is cloudy, and it IS cloudy from time to time there, sometimes for more than a day or more. Also, it will not be economical to go 100% solar because it will cost way to much for the storage capacity necessary to carry the load for the time required to be sure you get to the next sunny day, plus the extra capacity to recharge that storage. So, for those days they have a topical storm churning off the coast, their current diesel plants better be available or the lights will go out.
Of course, if you don't mind going back to the stone age from time to time.... Feel free to depend on solar power for your 24hour needs.
I use a password manager that has Windows, Linux, Android and IOS clients. They all use the same encrypted data file that I keep on my dropbox.. I keep my day to day non-user critical account passwords in there so I can access them easily and quickly no matter where I find myself. But I don't put the important passwords (finical accounts and the like) in there, I just remember them.
But the PRIMARY thing you can do to keep yourself safe is to "DON'T use the same password on multiple sites!" Never, EVER use the same password in your "fun" accounts and your financial logins... This is because a breach at one of these "we don't care about your security" sites is a lot bigger risk than at your bank, but if you have the same password, you just gave the crooks a very important piece of information.
Secondary to that, is keeping passwords hard to guess. If you have a manager that generates passwords for you, use it for the throw away accounts.
So, in summary. Sure, use a password manager for the trivial junk accounts, use complex passwords and keep them different. But NO, don't put your important passwords in an online storage... Develop a way to remember them and Keep those in your head.
I get the traffic issue, but I don't think the economics of the area will be very helpful. Maybe if you need a government that's not afraid of taking property by force to get your track built, that has loosey goosey liability laws and can be easily bribed this is a good choice. I'm inclined to think it's a bad choice, but hey, hope that works out for you.
Yea, in the addled minds of some posters They think the following statement is true: National security == Personal security
Sorry folks, that evaluates to false...
The CIA is charged with protecting National Security by gathering intelligence on foreign targets. They are NOT charged with protecting individual's personal security though their protection of the nation does protect the individual in some ways.
You are right. The CIA is NOT responsible for ones personal security. They are involved in NATIONAL security, which is related to personal security, but the two concepts are NOT the same thing.
"National Security" is not the same as "Personal Security". While they are related at times please do not conflate the two.
One is about the defense of the nation as a whole and is clearly a government responsibility, the other is only a government responsibility in as far as law enforcement and regulations are concerned.
Even spy agencies like the CIA have a responsibility to protect the security and privacy of Americans.
It's their job.
I hate to disagree, but isn't that the FBI's job domestically? At least it's going to be part of Homeland Security or something...The CIA is specifically limited to gathering forgiven intelligence isn't it?
Ok, I'll chalk you up to the "I need root because it's MY device" crowd... Which is fine... But my point here is you are taking a security risk when you do this stuff.
Seriously, I don't care what you do with your device, but if you do this to your phone, don't complain to me that Android is now subject to malware and other problems. It's not. If you don't take unnecessary risks your chances of having a security issue with Android is pretty slim.
Personally, I don't do this stuff to my PHONE. Why take the added risks. I just want my phone to work when I need it and I don't want to bother with it when I don't. I don't want to be responsible to administer yet again another Unix box in my life. I'm guessing you don't need root either, but if it floats your boat to have it, I don't care.
1. Don't turn on wireless when your sensitive data files are laying around on your device...Simple, effective, but not likely what the user wants. You can augment this a bit by encrypting the data when at rest and trying to have a policy that users are NOT allowed to have their wireless on when the data is unencrypted. (I.E. Do individual file/directory encryption and only decrypt when the network is turned off).
2. Only do you work on VM's which are NOT run locally on the portable device but in a secure physical location which is only accessed by a secure VPN tunnel which is encrypted. Not so simple, Very effective, but always requires a network connection to "access" the data in question.
Personally I like #2 for a couple of reasons... 1. It's very secure if you have good VPN. 2. It allows editing and sharing of files on a common file system and avoid the "how do I merge this change" issue. 3. If your mobile device gets stolen or searched, your valuable data isn't on it (Just make sure to have some kind of token for the VPN connections)
I fully understand that, but why on earth does an app need root on a device?
Unless you are messing around with the hardware in the device in ways the manufacturer didn't intend or trying to hack a service you carrier usually charges for what does an app need with root? Nothing that I've heard of was worth given root to an app so why open up the path to give something root? It must makes your device more easily hacked. Take it from this ole' Unix admin with decades of experience, don't use root to run anything if you can help it. NO user app should need root on Unix, just about the only need for root is installing some kinds of software, which, even then, root isn't usually required. If your user application simply MUST have root to run, you are either an idiot, a newbie or a hacker who doesn't care about security.
Besides, this is roughly the same thing Windows used to do with that crazy popup warning about giving a program administrator privileges... How well did that work out? Not very. Folks got accustomed to just hitting OK to get about their business or simply shut that annoyance off with a registry hack. Virus infections LOVE that kind of foolishness...
I'm thinking about getting SU to root. It is a common security practice to avoid having things running with root privileges when ever possible. In nearly all cases there is zero real reason to have root on an Android device for the average user. I know folks that bypass this protection in the system in an attitude of defiance (Hey it's MY device and if I want root, I'm entitled to it!), which from a security prospective is stupid, even if it makes you feel like you are in control.
Personally, I have access to root on hundreds of boxes so the lure of being "in total control" of yet another system has no appeal to me. There is literally *nothing* I need to do to my phone that requires root. Where I understand that some need to feel like they are in control and having access to root fulfills that need, it also opens you up to a compromised device.
However, Unlocking the boot loader is just about as bad...
I've never had an issue with my Note4 which is 4 years old now. Not once. Now I haven't jail broken it but run the stock OS from my carrier or run anything but well known and respected applications. I have one free "Malware scanner" but it's never caught anything. Everything works just fine.
If you are constantly having issues with your Android, I figure you are not applying due diligence about security for your activities. I suggest you figure out why your daily activities cause you so much trouble. Downloading Porn applications? Jail break your phone? Running a malware ridden custom firmware load? What is it you do to cause this?
WHO is part of a nut house of international craziness called the UN. Where I don't throw out ALL they say, I don't trust it anymore than the National Enquirer. The WHO is often motivated by less than obvious political pressures and is inclined to let the world's health fall to second place in their initiatives. They are an arm of the UN and an agent of it's policies first and foremost, health being their secondary objective. I appreciate their efforts where effective, but in this specific issue they are but another unreliable source of dubious information.
This issue was studied from a work place safety perspective a LONG time before cell phones made an appearance and the safety of RF clearly established. Exposure limits in the workplace have been in place for decades which are extremely conservative based on field strengths and frequency...
You are quoting WHO & The Daily Mail? Seriously? Has the National Enquirer weighed in here yet?
Look, this is pretty clear from he physics involved. EMF radiation is not a serious problem for human tissue as long as you keep the power density and frequencies such that no major heating takes place. You can cook yourself, shock yourself, and even Image yourself (MRI's anyone) with EMF, but the chances of causing cancer is pretty much nonexistent.
In order to cause cancer you need to cause chemical changes to a cell's genetic material. Cell phone RF at the power density levels allowed just doesn't do that.
So, based on the fact that EMF waves are involved in both situations... Can we please stipulate that the safety issue is the frequency being used? In which case, can we please accept the scientific studies that show where "EMF radiation" starts causing problems as well as the kinds of problems noted? Cancer is NOT among the issues here...
How many times are we going to go through the whole cellphone radiation thing?
Hey, we still have folks who think the Apollo program took place on a sound stage and it's been half a century. We are almost 20 years out from 9/11 and folks still think it was a building implosion that brought down the World Trade Towers... There are people who think vaccines are causing autism after that was disproved 20 years ago... I'm guessing we are going to be going though this cell phone "radiation" as long as I expect to be alive...
Too bad Linux still use the archaic terminal. If the elitists could just shut it with their god damn terminal and add a proper GUI for everything, Linux would gain mainstream support.
I can tell you've not ever managed a Windows box in any kind of serious way. Sure, Microsoft has all sorts of GUI's for your viewing pleasure, but even they haven't made it possible to do it all from an understandable GUI so you often end up at the command line on a windows server. It's not some "If the command line was good enough for the old gezers it's good enough for me" attitude. What really makes management GUI's hard to write is how complicated everything is, Linux, Widows or whatever.
So I don't believe the lack of GUI's is why Linux hasn't made it to the desktop. Windows doesn't have what you demand either..
How about FUCK YOU LINUS TORVALDS!!! His ego is too big.
I'm no Linus fan boy... Quite the opposite actually, I agree his ego, mouth and self importance are all too big... HOWEVER, in this case, he is 100% correct about Nvidia. They are being idiots about Linux and not providing open source drivers.
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The "Average" hours of sunshine on a tropical island are indeed great for morning exposures, which is why this idea makes sense for them... But tell me, dear sir, what happens when a tropical storm happens though? Depending on the timing, such a storm could mean 2 full days of rain, possibly more. Surely you don't think they can afford 3 days worth of batteries and the extra capacity to charge them. It will be very expensive. A better solution is to not be dependent on any single unreliable source and keep that diesel capacity around for the days when it's been raining. The other option is to just figure the electricity won't always be on and plan your personal life accordingly, use non electric lighting, kerosene refrigeration and bottled propane to cook. Also, don't figure on having domestic water so make sure to keep a couple of days worth of bottled water on hand. Certainly, don't buy an electric car....
BUT, they still need the full complement of diesel generators for those times when the sun doesn't shine enough to keep the batteries charged.
This island is totally isolated and they have depended on diesel generators for a long time. Solar is a great option for them because diesel is a really expensive way to produce electricity. Shipping large quantities of fuel to an island is expensive. Solar is a great way to offset this unusually high cost by burning less fuel and batteries let you offset some of the excess solar power you get in the day time and shift it to other times when you need it. It makes sense to do this.. However...
They will still need a full complement of diesel generators ready to pick up the load for when it is cloudy, and it IS cloudy from time to time there, sometimes for more than a day or more. Also, it will not be economical to go 100% solar because it will cost way to much for the storage capacity necessary to carry the load for the time required to be sure you get to the next sunny day, plus the extra capacity to recharge that storage. So, for those days they have a topical storm churning off the coast, their current diesel plants better be available or the lights will go out.
Of course, if you don't mind going back to the stone age from time to time.... Feel free to depend on solar power for your 24hour needs.
I use a password manager that has Windows, Linux, Android and IOS clients. They all use the same encrypted data file that I keep on my dropbox.. I keep my day to day non-user critical account passwords in there so I can access them easily and quickly no matter where I find myself. But I don't put the important passwords (finical accounts and the like) in there, I just remember them.
But the PRIMARY thing you can do to keep yourself safe is to "DON'T use the same password on multiple sites!" Never, EVER use the same password in your "fun" accounts and your financial logins... This is because a breach at one of these "we don't care about your security" sites is a lot bigger risk than at your bank, but if you have the same password, you just gave the crooks a very important piece of information.
Secondary to that, is keeping passwords hard to guess. If you have a manager that generates passwords for you, use it for the throw away accounts.
So, in summary. Sure, use a password manager for the trivial junk accounts, use complex passwords and keep them different. But NO, don't put your important passwords in an online storage... Develop a way to remember them and Keep those in your head.
I get the traffic issue, but I don't think the economics of the area will be very helpful. Maybe if you need a government that's not afraid of taking property by force to get your track built, that has loosey goosey liability laws and can be easily bribed this is a good choice. I'm inclined to think it's a bad choice, but hey, hope that works out for you.
Yea, in the addled minds of some posters They think the following statement is true: National security == Personal security
Sorry folks, that evaluates to false...
The CIA is charged with protecting National Security by gathering intelligence on foreign targets. They are NOT charged with protecting individual's personal security though their protection of the nation does protect the individual in some ways.
You are right. The CIA is NOT responsible for ones personal security. They are involved in NATIONAL security, which is related to personal security, but the two concepts are NOT the same thing.
"National Security" is not the same as "Personal Security". While they are related at times please do not conflate the two.
One is about the defense of the nation as a whole and is clearly a government responsibility, the other is only a government responsibility in as far as law enforcement and regulations are concerned.
Did you not read the summary?
Even spy agencies like the CIA have a responsibility to protect the security and privacy of Americans.
It's their job.
I hate to disagree, but isn't that the FBI's job domestically? At least it's going to be part of Homeland Security or something...The CIA is specifically limited to gathering forgiven intelligence isn't it?
Ok, I'll chalk you up to the "I need root because it's MY device" crowd... Which is fine... But my point here is you are taking a security risk when you do this stuff.
Seriously, I don't care what you do with your device, but if you do this to your phone, don't complain to me that Android is now subject to malware and other problems. It's not. If you don't take unnecessary risks your chances of having a security issue with Android is pretty slim.
Personally, I don't do this stuff to my PHONE. Why take the added risks. I just want my phone to work when I need it and I don't want to bother with it when I don't. I don't want to be responsible to administer yet again another Unix box in my life. I'm guessing you don't need root either, but if it floats your boat to have it, I don't care.
1. Don't turn on wireless when your sensitive data files are laying around on your device...Simple, effective, but not likely what the user wants. You can augment this a bit by encrypting the data when at rest and trying to have a policy that users are NOT allowed to have their wireless on when the data is unencrypted. (I.E. Do individual file/directory encryption and only decrypt when the network is turned off).
2. Only do you work on VM's which are NOT run locally on the portable device but in a secure physical location which is only accessed by a secure VPN tunnel which is encrypted. Not so simple, Very effective, but always requires a network connection to "access" the data in question.
Personally I like #2 for a couple of reasons... 1. It's very secure if you have good VPN. 2. It allows editing and sharing of files on a common file system and avoid the "how do I merge this change" issue. 3. If your mobile device gets stolen or searched, your valuable data isn't on it (Just make sure to have some kind of token for the VPN connections)
I fully understand that, but why on earth does an app need root on a device?
Unless you are messing around with the hardware in the device in ways the manufacturer didn't intend or trying to hack a service you carrier usually charges for what does an app need with root? Nothing that I've heard of was worth given root to an app so why open up the path to give something root? It must makes your device more easily hacked. Take it from this ole' Unix admin with decades of experience, don't use root to run anything if you can help it. NO user app should need root on Unix, just about the only need for root is installing some kinds of software, which, even then, root isn't usually required. If your user application simply MUST have root to run, you are either an idiot, a newbie or a hacker who doesn't care about security.
Besides, this is roughly the same thing Windows used to do with that crazy popup warning about giving a program administrator privileges... How well did that work out? Not very. Folks got accustomed to just hitting OK to get about their business or simply shut that annoyance off with a registry hack. Virus infections LOVE that kind of foolishness...
I'm thinking about getting SU to root. It is a common security practice to avoid having things running with root privileges when ever possible. In nearly all cases there is zero real reason to have root on an Android device for the average user. I know folks that bypass this protection in the system in an attitude of defiance (Hey it's MY device and if I want root, I'm entitled to it!), which from a security prospective is stupid, even if it makes you feel like you are in control.
Personally, I have access to root on hundreds of boxes so the lure of being "in total control" of yet another system has no appeal to me. There is literally *nothing* I need to do to my phone that requires root. Where I understand that some need to feel like they are in control and having access to root fulfills that need, it also opens you up to a compromised device.
However, Unlocking the boot loader is just about as bad...
What in the heck are you doing with your android?
I've never had an issue with my Note4 which is 4 years old now. Not once. Now I haven't jail broken it but run the stock OS from my carrier or run anything but well known and respected applications. I have one free "Malware scanner" but it's never caught anything. Everything works just fine.
If you are constantly having issues with your Android, I figure you are not applying due diligence about security for your activities. I suggest you figure out why your daily activities cause you so much trouble. Downloading Porn applications? Jail break your phone? Running a malware ridden custom firmware load? What is it you do to cause this?
It tells me that handheld portable devices are outnumbering windoz desktops in shear devices shipped and in operation... But we knew that already.
WHO is part of a nut house of international craziness called the UN. Where I don't throw out ALL they say, I don't trust it anymore than the National Enquirer. The WHO is often motivated by less than obvious political pressures and is inclined to let the world's health fall to second place in their initiatives. They are an arm of the UN and an agent of it's policies first and foremost, health being their secondary objective. I appreciate their efforts where effective, but in this specific issue they are but another unreliable source of dubious information.
This issue was studied from a work place safety perspective a LONG time before cell phones made an appearance and the safety of RF clearly established. Exposure limits in the workplace have been in place for decades which are extremely conservative based on field strengths and frequency...
You are quoting WHO & The Daily Mail? Seriously? Has the National Enquirer weighed in here yet?
Look, this is pretty clear from he physics involved. EMF radiation is not a serious problem for human tissue as long as you keep the power density and frequencies such that no major heating takes place. You can cook yourself, shock yourself, and even Image yourself (MRI's anyone) with EMF, but the chances of causing cancer is pretty much nonexistent.
In order to cause cancer you need to cause chemical changes to a cell's genetic material. Cell phone RF at the power density levels allowed just doesn't do that.
So, based on the fact that EMF waves are involved in both situations... Can we please stipulate that the safety issue is the frequency being used? In which case, can we please accept the scientific studies that show where "EMF radiation" starts causing problems as well as the kinds of problems noted? Cancer is NOT among the issues here...
How do you think hearing aids work with telephones? Well, at least the old kind of telephone...
You know.. There have been studies... Pretty detailed studies on this. Just ask the FCC, they are responsible for regulating this stuff.
How many times are we going to go through the whole cellphone radiation thing?
Hey, we still have folks who think the Apollo program took place on a sound stage and it's been half a century. We are almost 20 years out from 9/11 and folks still think it was a building implosion that brought down the World Trade Towers... There are people who think vaccines are causing autism after that was disproved 20 years ago... I'm guessing we are going to be going though this cell phone "radiation" as long as I expect to be alive...
You are all a disappointment.
So, let's start a flame war... Name your poison...
Systemd or Upstart?
Linux or BSD?
AC or DC?
Trump or Hillary.... (oh, forget that one..)
There...Feel better now?
Too bad Linux still use the archaic terminal. If the elitists could just shut it with their god damn terminal and add a proper GUI for everything, Linux would gain mainstream support.
I can tell you've not ever managed a Windows box in any kind of serious way. Sure, Microsoft has all sorts of GUI's for your viewing pleasure, but even they haven't made it possible to do it all from an understandable GUI so you often end up at the command line on a windows server. It's not some "If the command line was good enough for the old gezers it's good enough for me" attitude. What really makes management GUI's hard to write is how complicated everything is, Linux, Widows or whatever.
So I don't believe the lack of GUI's is why Linux hasn't made it to the desktop. Windows doesn't have what you demand either..
How about FUCK YOU LINUS TORVALDS!!! His ego is too big.
I'm no Linus fan boy... Quite the opposite actually, I agree his ego, mouth and self importance are all too big... HOWEVER, in this case, he is 100% correct about Nvidia. They are being idiots about Linux and not providing open source drivers.
You got that right, those things are hot hot hot.. So hot they are on FIRE!
Musk is everything Jobs thought he was.
Jobs said he was a pain in the butt selfish boss more than once... I think you are right.