There is no such thing as a perfectly secured router/firewall/gateway. Any degree of access required increases attack surface. The most you can do is lock down everything you possibly can, intelligently allow the absolute minimum of access (bi-directionally) required to do what you need to do, and pray.
Most reputable open-source *ix based solutions work the best (unless you're talking commercial/industrial appliances) , and which one you want depends on which featureset you require combined with available hardware. There are even pre-spun *ix distros for this specific purpose.
The other half of this is intelligent use of the interwebs. It's already been said, but don't go to sketchy sites, don't fool around with flash/java games (remove flash and java from your PC if you can), don't use windows/OSX unless you absolutely have to, and don't click stupid stuff.
Basically treat it as your 2 weeks notice (or whatever is standard in your area). If you start talking about it too early, you paint a target on yourself. It's an easy way for them to "find" a reason to fire you so they don't have to pay out benefits. There's a fairly extreme amount of bias and discrimination against older folks in the workplace now as-is without painting an even larger target on yourself.
Considering that both the far left and far right regularly advocate violence against the other on twitter and facebook, why aren't facebook and twitter removed as well under the same policy? Facebook also has some degree of soft-core pornography, as well as the various *chan browsers, twitter, imgur, reddit, and nearly every other social media site
Sounds more like targeted anti-right thought police to me... Denial of access to forums of speech that happen to lean politically the opposite of you is still targeted censure(silencing) of free speech, just by a different name. There is nothing illegal that has been done by hosting the app, and you cannot advertise your market as "open" when you take such action.
The reality is that trying to put the entire US power grid in the hands of a single plant, regardless of the plant type is unrealistic and foolish. All it takes is a single natural disaster, terrorist attack, technical issue or otherwise to throw the entire country in the dark.
Considering a squirrel, snake, rat, bird, etc is all it takes to knock out half of a major metro grid, what do you think it'd do to a massive solar array?
You simply cannot have a single point of failure when it comes to the electrical grid of an entire country. While it may be a good idea to stand something like this to shore up the grid for years to come, you will still need additional solar, hydroelectric, wind, coal, nuclear and CNG plants to keep the grid sound and fault-tolerant as possible.
1: Contact both your local police and the police for where the account is registered. Give them as much information as you can when filing the formal complaint.
2: Contact the major credit bureaus and file a fraud alert. This will help mitigate what damage has already been done.
3. Contact the BBB for the region and file a complaint.
4. If a local TV station has one of those "troubleshooter" things where they go after businesses as consumer advocates for issues, try to get them involved, if not, check the same for the locality of the cable provider and try them.
5: Seriously do 3 and 4. Companies don't like public bad PR campaigns run against them. They tend to take action off of these kinds of things.
6. If none of the above work, seek legal counsel. You will have to drag them through the court system if none of the above work. Document all of the above actions in extreme detail as they will be useful if this has to go before a judge. This includes recording phone calls (you will legally have to disclose to the person on the phone that the call is being monitored and recorded, otherwise they will be inadmissible as evidence)
As do I. I work remote and regularly pull multi-gigabyte files across my VPN connection, multiple times per day. I would obliterate a data cap in only a few days (if not less) effectively forcing me and many of my colleagues to return to commuting to work daily, and potentially costing many of them their jobs. (some are many states away from one of our offices). So much for going green.....
Wrong on all parts.
The majority of countries in the European continent COMBINED pay more than the US in direct monetary contribution. The US just so happens to provide an on demand military force for the UN, paid for by the US taxpayer. The US also just so happens to pay for 'round the clock security and upkeep for the building in NYC, which costs a few hundred thousand dollars PER DAY when they're NOT IN SESSION. It's over a million when they are. In reality the US taxpayers pay for nearly half of the UNs functions wholesale.
Google pulling out of China was purely a business decision. They didn't want the expense of having to maintain multiple versions of their flagship service. Their move, while a good business decision, was as transparent as oxygen.
Whether or not they try to make cheap knock-offs is one thing. The Chinese government learning the designs and having their military's R&D use whatever weaknesses they find in our systems to 1, circumvent our defenses, 2, figure out how to take control of these weapons systems and either shut them down or turn them on us, and 3 - sell the information to our enemies. Our country has enough problems without having the blueprint to our defenses on the black market. People fail to remember that the absurd strength of our military is meant to be a deterrent in itself. We've just been duped into being the world police as of late....
I hope this opens people's eyes... The Chinese are NOT our allies, and it has been this way for years. Goes to show that the large corporations have more power in this country than the gubbmint and sheeple combined.
This is your privacy being slowly but surely encroached on..... once everyone is used to this... next it'll be just a bit closer to your home.... and a bit more.... eventually everyone's home is bugged...
Next thing you know, you're being black bagged by some government goon and being hauled off as a usurper or something.
Don't believe this shit is coming? Take a good read of Orwell's 1984, the movie Demolition Man or V for Vendetta and then compare the similarities to the likes of Europe or China, or the "Smart City" in South Korea where everyone is chipped and every. single. action. is tracked.
If people would turn the MSM off and think for themselves, the vast majority of this country would probably find themselves to be 'libertarian.' People like to say that libertarians are 'conspiracy theorist wackjobs,' when in reality, far too many of those 'conspiracy theories' have held way too much water lately. We have gone far askew of what the framers had intended when they set up the 'federalist' system. The Federal Gov't was never supposed to have anywhere near as much power as it has now by a long shot. High school and some college US history classes will tell you that "The Civil War was fought over slavery." Which couldn't be more wrong if you wanted it to be. The Civil War was about the northern 'left leaning' states imposing power and governance over the southern 'right leaning' states, and stripping the southern states of their rights as individual states. We are looking at the same issues that they were looking at in the Civil War, but today. Regardless of the issue, it boils down to 'States' Rights.' The Federal gov't, constitutionally speaking, DOES NOT have the right to hold the power it currently does, and has been in direct violation of the constitution for DECADES, going back to President Lincoln himself. Lincoln violated the constitution by not relinquishing executive power during wartime after the war was over. This may have been an oversight, as he was assasinated and may have never got the chance to relinquish said power, or it may have been intentional. In either case, as his actions apply to the OFFICE of the Presidency, not the sitting President himself. this creates a 'dictatorship by proxy' as now the president can do nearly as he pleases, which has become a growing problem over the years. Jump to modern day: now we have presidents that do as they please and have no problem saying that they will do as they please. Neither the states, nor the people, have no rights in the eyes of the fed, and the president can legislate as he pleases .
Currently, congress, as a whole, doesn't have the balls to do anything about it, and probably doesn't care.
The Federal Reserve shouldn't even exist, as it is an unconstitutionally instated institution, and acts unilaterally, despite congress being the branch in charge of coining and maintaining currency.
The conversion of our currency from gold-backed, to debt based was unconstitutional, and a general failure on the behalf of congress as it put the US on a debt based monetary system.
Congress can't pass a budget, which is a failure of the office and a constitutional violation.
The supreme court has begun to legislate from the bench (unconstitutional as hell)
The Bill of Rights means nothing and does not exist for those who disagree with the government and/or popular establishment
The masses are eating the bullshit fed to them by the MSM verbatium
The masses are too chickenshit to exercise their rights, and those that aren't are called lunatics
All libertarians are really asking for is a return to CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, instead of continuing the path to ruin
If you want to know who I voted for? it was George Carlin (yes the comedian) because the choice between a socialist dictatorship and a elitist autocracy is a goddamn joke. If the government is going to be a fucking joke, at least have a proper comedian at the helm.
You can find these stories all over the internet... just google "______________ defends themselves with a firearm" (fill in the blank) and you'll find plenty of stories like these.
Another thing that you'll find (if you do some research and ignore the lamestream media and BS talking points from both sides) is that the gross majority of these mass killings are done by deranged individuals with histories of mental illness, criminal actions, terrorist connections, and the like. Very few of the weapons used to perform these horrid actions were acquired legally, and even fewer were legally allowed to even possess a firearm.
I'm assuming this guy knows what he's talking about...... given that, there's a few options here:
- 'Mr. Horrible' is trying to protect his job by making his code such a PITA, that no one else wants to deal with it.(It's a nightmarish task for an elderly individual to find a programming job in the current IT community)
- 'Mr. Horrible' is stuck in or was taught some antiquated/obfuscated/twisted/bass akward coding methodology, either by choice or simple habit, and refuses to change (lots of older people are this way).
- 'Mr. Horrible' fully knows and understands what he is doing, and is doing it solely to piss you young whipper snappers off.
- 'Mr. Horrible' just wants to watch the world burn.
Pretty easily actually....
First: bury it in layers and layers of fine print and legalese in the EULA, which, lets face it, no one actually reads.
Second: incentivization. Offers for free crap in the US sells crap quicker than ammunition sells in the middle east.
Third: Lobbying: sell it to congressional officials as a 'counter terrorism' tool, build in a back door for DoD/DHS and it'll be legalized in the annual defense authorization bills almost instantaneously.
Will it be abused? When hasn't a corporation and/or government entity abused something?
You tell me....
When you're in ohshit mode, that's the last thing you're concerned with. just rest some part of your arm on the chassis, don't shuffle your feet, wear rubber soled shoes, and roll on. I haven't used an ESD strap in years, I'm neck deep in broken systems all day, and have never fried anything from ESD.
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There is no such thing as a perfectly secured router/firewall/gateway. Any degree of access required increases attack surface. The most you can do is lock down everything you possibly can, intelligently allow the absolute minimum of access (bi-directionally) required to do what you need to do, and pray. Most reputable open-source *ix based solutions work the best (unless you're talking commercial/industrial appliances) , and which one you want depends on which featureset you require combined with available hardware. There are even pre-spun *ix distros for this specific purpose. The other half of this is intelligent use of the interwebs. It's already been said, but don't go to sketchy sites, don't fool around with flash/java games (remove flash and java from your PC if you can), don't use windows/OSX unless you absolutely have to, and don't click stupid stuff.
More proof that you are guilty until proven innocent. So much for the justice system....
Basically treat it as your 2 weeks notice (or whatever is standard in your area). If you start talking about it too early, you paint a target on yourself. It's an easy way for them to "find" a reason to fire you so they don't have to pay out benefits. There's a fairly extreme amount of bias and discrimination against older folks in the workplace now as-is without painting an even larger target on yourself.
THAT is the real question... why in the hell is a military bird flying only 500ft above a residential in what is most assuredly not a combat zone
Considering that both the far left and far right regularly advocate violence against the other on twitter and facebook, why aren't facebook and twitter removed as well under the same policy? Facebook also has some degree of soft-core pornography, as well as the various *chan browsers, twitter, imgur, reddit, and nearly every other social media site
Sounds more like targeted anti-right thought police to me... Denial of access to forums of speech that happen to lean politically the opposite of you is still targeted censure(silencing) of free speech, just by a different name. There is nothing illegal that has been done by hosting the app, and you cannot advertise your market as "open" when you take such action.
The reality is that trying to put the entire US power grid in the hands of a single plant, regardless of the plant type is unrealistic and foolish. All it takes is a single natural disaster, terrorist attack, technical issue or otherwise to throw the entire country in the dark. Considering a squirrel, snake, rat, bird, etc is all it takes to knock out half of a major metro grid, what do you think it'd do to a massive solar array? You simply cannot have a single point of failure when it comes to the electrical grid of an entire country. While it may be a good idea to stand something like this to shore up the grid for years to come, you will still need additional solar, hydroelectric, wind, coal, nuclear and CNG plants to keep the grid sound and fault-tolerant as possible.
1: Contact both your local police and the police for where the account is registered. Give them as much information as you can when filing the formal complaint.
2: Contact the major credit bureaus and file a fraud alert. This will help mitigate what damage has already been done.
3. Contact the BBB for the region and file a complaint.
4. If a local TV station has one of those "troubleshooter" things where they go after businesses as consumer advocates for issues, try to get them involved, if not, check the same for the locality of the cable provider and try them.
5: Seriously do 3 and 4. Companies don't like public bad PR campaigns run against them. They tend to take action off of these kinds of things.
6. If none of the above work, seek legal counsel. You will have to drag them through the court system if none of the above work. Document all of the above actions in extreme detail as they will be useful if this has to go before a judge. This includes recording phone calls (you will legally have to disclose to the person on the phone that the call is being monitored and recorded, otherwise they will be inadmissible as evidence)
As do I. I work remote and regularly pull multi-gigabyte files across my VPN connection, multiple times per day. I would obliterate a data cap in only a few days (if not less) effectively forcing me and many of my colleagues to return to commuting to work daily, and potentially costing many of them their jobs. (some are many states away from one of our offices). So much for going green.....
In all seriousness.... what kind of society have we become when we sue over something so meaningless?
simple... you remove greed and malice from humanity
Your wrong.
... but yet so right
Wrong on all parts.
The majority of countries in the European continent COMBINED pay more than the US in direct monetary contribution. The US just so happens to provide an on demand military force for the UN, paid for by the US taxpayer. The US also just so happens to pay for 'round the clock security and upkeep for the building in NYC, which costs a few hundred thousand dollars PER DAY when they're NOT IN SESSION. It's over a million when they are. In reality the US taxpayers pay for nearly half of the UNs functions wholesale.
Google pulling out of China was purely a business decision. They didn't want the expense of having to maintain multiple versions of their flagship service. Their move, while a good business decision, was as transparent as oxygen.
Whether or not they try to make cheap knock-offs is one thing. The Chinese government learning the designs and having their military's R&D use whatever weaknesses they find in our systems to 1, circumvent our defenses, 2, figure out how to take control of these weapons systems and either shut them down or turn them on us, and 3 - sell the information to our enemies. Our country has enough problems without having the blueprint to our defenses on the black market. People fail to remember that the absurd strength of our military is meant to be a deterrent in itself. We've just been duped into being the world police as of late....
I hope this opens people's eyes... The Chinese are NOT our allies, and it has been this way for years. Goes to show that the large corporations have more power in this country than the gubbmint and sheeple combined.
all this talk about AI.... why not Skynet?
This is your privacy being slowly but surely encroached on..... once everyone is used to this... next it'll be just a bit closer to your home.... and a bit more.... eventually everyone's home is bugged...
Next thing you know, you're being black bagged by some government goon and being hauled off as a usurper or something.
Don't believe this shit is coming? Take a good read of Orwell's 1984, the movie Demolition Man or V for Vendetta and then compare the similarities to the likes of Europe or China, or the "Smart City" in South Korea where everyone is chipped and every. single. action. is tracked.
That's also what we call 'mob rule,' which is exactly what the framers set out to prevent in the first place.
Why do you have to be a repugnican or democrap?
If people would turn the MSM off and think for themselves, the vast majority of this country would probably find themselves to be 'libertarian.' People like to say that libertarians are 'conspiracy theorist wackjobs,' when in reality, far too many of those 'conspiracy theories' have held way too much water lately. We have gone far askew of what the framers had intended when they set up the 'federalist' system. The Federal Gov't was never supposed to have anywhere near as much power as it has now by a long shot. High school and some college US history classes will tell you that "The Civil War was fought over slavery." Which couldn't be more wrong if you wanted it to be. The Civil War was about the northern 'left leaning' states imposing power and governance over the southern 'right leaning' states, and stripping the southern states of their rights as individual states. We are looking at the same issues that they were looking at in the Civil War, but today. Regardless of the issue, it boils down to 'States' Rights.' The Federal gov't, constitutionally speaking, DOES NOT have the right to hold the power it currently does, and has been in direct violation of the constitution for DECADES, going back to President Lincoln himself. Lincoln violated the constitution by not relinquishing executive power during wartime after the war was over. This may have been an oversight, as he was assasinated and may have never got the chance to relinquish said power, or it may have been intentional. In either case, as his actions apply to the OFFICE of the Presidency, not the sitting President himself. this creates a 'dictatorship by proxy' as now the president can do nearly as he pleases, which has become a growing problem over the years. Jump to modern day: now we have presidents that do as they please and have no problem saying that they will do as they please. Neither the states, nor the people, have no rights in the eyes of the fed, and the president can legislate as he pleases .
Currently, congress, as a whole, doesn't have the balls to do anything about it, and probably doesn't care.
The Federal Reserve shouldn't even exist, as it is an unconstitutionally instated institution, and acts unilaterally, despite congress being the branch in charge of coining and maintaining currency.
The conversion of our currency from gold-backed, to debt based was unconstitutional, and a general failure on the behalf of congress as it put the US on a debt based monetary system.
Congress can't pass a budget, which is a failure of the office and a constitutional violation.
The supreme court has begun to legislate from the bench (unconstitutional as hell)
The Bill of Rights means nothing and does not exist for those who disagree with the government and/or popular establishment
The masses are eating the bullshit fed to them by the MSM verbatium
The masses are too chickenshit to exercise their rights, and those that aren't are called lunatics
All libertarians are really asking for is a return to CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, instead of continuing the path to ruin
If you want to know who I voted for? it was George Carlin (yes the comedian) because the choice between a socialist dictatorship and a elitist autocracy is a goddamn joke. If the government is going to be a fucking joke, at least have a proper comedian at the helm.
You asked for stories:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10559641/ (WRAL TV)
http://www.vladtv.com/blog/80199/14-year-old-kills-intruder-in-gang-of-four-trying-to-break-in/ (link confirming the aforementioned)
http://www.amren.com/news/2013/01/woman-hiding-with-kids-shoots-intruder/ (mom defends herself and her kids from asshat hellbent on getting his hands on her)
You can find these stories all over the internet... just google "______________ defends themselves with a firearm" (fill in the blank) and you'll find plenty of stories like these.
Another thing that you'll find (if you do some research and ignore the lamestream media and BS talking points from both sides) is that the gross majority of these mass killings are done by deranged individuals with histories of mental illness, criminal actions, terrorist connections, and the like. Very few of the weapons used to perform these horrid actions were acquired legally, and even fewer were legally allowed to even possess a firearm.
Here's a link to some no bullshit firearms statistics:
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp (justfacts.com)
I'm assuming this guy knows what he's talking about...... given that, there's a few options here:
- 'Mr. Horrible' is trying to protect his job by making his code such a PITA, that no one else wants to deal with it.(It's a nightmarish task for an elderly individual to find a programming job in the current IT community)
- 'Mr. Horrible' is stuck in or was taught some antiquated/obfuscated/twisted/bass akward coding methodology, either by choice or simple habit, and refuses to change (lots of older people are this way).
- 'Mr. Horrible' fully knows and understands what he is doing, and is doing it solely to piss you young whipper snappers off.
- 'Mr. Horrible' just wants to watch the world burn.
How does this get around wire-tapping laws...
Pretty easily actually....
First: bury it in layers and layers of fine print and legalese in the EULA, which, lets face it, no one actually reads.
Second: incentivization. Offers for free crap in the US sells crap quicker than ammunition sells in the middle east.
Third: Lobbying: sell it to congressional officials as a 'counter terrorism' tool, build in a back door for DoD/DHS and it'll be legalized in the annual defense authorization bills almost instantaneously.
Will it be abused? When hasn't a corporation and/or government entity abused something?
You tell me....
Considering what passes for news nowadays...... A 90 year old story is more newsworthy than 90% of 'news' today.
Sooo..... World of Warcraft isn't this generation's greatest work of art?
When you're in ohshit mode, that's the last thing you're concerned with. just rest some part of your arm on the chassis, don't shuffle your feet, wear rubber soled shoes, and roll on. I haven't used an ESD strap in years, I'm neck deep in broken systems all day, and have never fried anything from ESD.