Full disclosure: I am a Russian citizen. Since I have not found anything like "36 rockets" here I must warn you of 2 facts: 1) Exactly 36 Tomahawks were lost in transit and were unable to hit the Shairat base. 2) The Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system based in Khmeymim can track and destroy exactly 36 targets at once.
All this cashless society has the main problem that during any serious cataclysm that kills the communication infrastructure the trade just stops. Not only the global nuclear cataclysm and EMP but any kind of local cataclysm like Katrina or war in Syria. And if the trade stops the hungry people could rob since they could not buy.
Moreover, I feel that the more Western is the society the higher the unrest. Some Somalians could organize a government-less society based on traditional law, in the First World it's just impossible. We Russians survived the wild capitalism of 1990-s because in any crisis there was impossible to foreclose or cut off the electricity and heat. Next such crisis could produce hordes of homeless.
1. You could boot the system from the flash drive that is removed after boot. The part of the key resides on the same flash, the second part is entered. It's quite possible to do, at least for FreeBSD. THEY need both a keylogger in a keyboard or bios and a seizure of the boot flash. Additionally there is no place on the disk where THEY could implant a child pornography if THEIR other efforts fail. 2. You could setup the security system that signals the systems to erase the keys and shutdown on intrusion so you can be sure that your keyboard is not compromised after you buy it. 3. I've read somewhere (maybe on Slashdot or Habrahabr.ru) that there exists an open source utility to check the authenticity of your BIOS. So BIOS keyloggers can also be caught.
The separate conventional building would be 1) Not a closed steel protection box. You would spend much more money for concrete walls, steel blinds, doors etc than the price of container. 2) Something on a foundation while you just throw a pair of concrete blocks below a container. 3) Realty with lots of corresponding paperwork and legalese.
1. Here in Russia I see no multimode. Single mode only everywhere. 2. Here is some UPS that officially holds up to 300AH batteries. Is it enough? 3. Your walls and everything inside should not be flammable. 4. The steel doors are quite standard here in Russia as well as concrete walls of usual apartment building. And if you use a container then you have steel doors over the windows.
According to local (Russian) laws the container is a movable property, not a building. I have a house with bad basement. It was easier to raise the house, remove the basement and build a new one in place than make a paperwork for total destruction and rebuilding.
It took me 1 day to repaint the roof of MY container "office". Also, you would need: 1) Total disk encryption on all your computers; 2) The device that halts all your computers and destroys the keys during intrusion (You can recover keys from your friend that is instructed to return them only in condition that you are free. Since you have no keys they cannot be extorted); 3) The encrypted off-site copy of your disks; 4) Non-flammable walls inside (I used a plywood; it's bad) 5) A video recording system offsite (and you can install some system for your friend in exchange) 6) A second Internet connection, preferably radio. 7) IP door intercom so you can talk to visitors even from the opposite side of Earth.
Forget about the guns and any form of active self-protection: The biggest problem is not robbers but a party van that either is going to find some copyright violation or to check the accusations given by your competitors. They will not find anything but will spend enough time to crash your business.
The compression is already built in in the recording device. Tested in both RAW and PRORES of BMPCC camera as well as processed MP4 video. It's not a case for BMCC camera RAW but the LTO compression is not specifically suited for it.
Nevertheless there was a bank search in GB some 3-4 years ago. Bank cells have been opened in search of drugs and illegal profits. And you have been able to receive the wedding rings of your grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandparents in condition that you have a proof of purchase ONLY.
First you need to ask yourself some questions: 1. what are you trying to protect against? Hard Drive Failure?, Multiple hard drive failures? Fire? Theft? Disk/file corruption? Destruction of your whole home/work? Everything?
Golden words. As our ex-president Medvedev once said, they would be cast in granite.
1. Don't assume anything about the LTO compression. 2. Drives with one digit indicator (Read: IBM and such) are preferable due to the full set of local tests and other useful procedures. Also IBM has much more documentation on it's drives. 3. LTO4 drive would work with LTO3 cartridges. They are cheap but the postage (I live in Russia) make LTO4 a preferable choice.
There is a LOT of possibility for data to get corrupted while transferred to USB disk. While SATA and USB are covered with some error correction codes, the internal memory of SATA to USB chip isn't. And EVERY USB rack I have ever tried to backup my data has an overheat problem. It does not matter when you copy some DVD movies but when you copy 2TB then the probability of failure nears 100%, with destruction of file system and need to fsck all the backup. You need to add some heat sink to the chip, or else.
If EMP kills your drive then you just buy a new one (It's also true for the tape drive) - in condition that a post-apocalyptic world would need your data. If EMP kills your HDD then you are out of luck.
But I'd still prefer not to store my data on anything optical.
LTO4 is my personal choice. Later generations of LTO are more expensive per byte. Both LTO-5 cartridges and drives are more than twice expensive than LTO-4. And LTO-4 are at least faster than my 2-TB HDDs.
You would need much more than 3 tapes. At least 2 generations of backup would need 6 tapes. If you partition your data to portions of not more than 800 GB each and declare some of them frozen, you may economize on tapes. But it's still slightly cheaper and much more reliable than HDDs.
Be warned that the drive would preferably have a 1-digit indicator. Also, I prefer Fibre Channel and Qlogic cards.
I have read some years ago in jpost . com about Israeli woman that was in Indian prison. It looks that Indians specially make their prisons terrible. It both saves money and make the prison terms more terrible so they may be proportionally shorter.
I live in Russia, and there is no forced MITM with replaced certs. The official replaced certs that I have read about were: 1) in Kazakhstan, 2) In Australia where they were limited to some school system (which is understandable due to minors protection laws). The SORM (Read: PRISM) is totally passive and is prevented by law from any modification of traffic. The laws that punish the circumvention of filters are in project only.
Being a Russian I just don't beeping care. And maybe I'm even glad that this bill is proposed, because it means that all the official messengers (I mean: companies that provide messenger services using closed source software) will be compromised and the only messengers that are trustworthy will be the open source decentralized ones having no central authority that can be fined.
In such conditions the maximum fine would be 5000 Roubles (less than US$100) which means that the expense of collecting the evidence would not pay up. It's just impossible to interrogate everybody whose traffic comes to some nonstandard port, and it's impossible to prove that it's a messenger and not anything else.
Also I hope that any software that used the outdated HTTP(S) and HTML protocols which have so many builtin security holes will be compromised at last and the only programs that survive would have no such thing as web page phenomenon and correspondingly site phenomenon. For instance, Freenet now supports something like a webpage. But it edits out anything that could be dangerous. RetroShare just has no web page. It displays web links but you should copy them to the browser with full understanding for your actions.
Please understand: This bill is neither Putin's nor the FSB/KGB initiative. The FSB works stealthly. It's the initiative of parlamentaries who propose the laws that just cannot be observed.
You all remember the Virginia Tech where one of teachers was an Israeli who had a specific training and could kill the criminal but had no gun.
But I heard that is Virginia there was a mass shooting some years before. But it was NOT the arms free zone. So the students went to the parking, took their gins from their cars and shot the criminal. It's a hint.
The only method that could save you Americans from mass shooting is the perspective for the shooter to be immediately shot. So your Second Amendment is precious.
Nerds can sometimes (one nerd for million) create something that generates so severe [beep]hurt for politicians that they are glad to tear all the hair from their heads, [beep] and [beep]. The PGP is the specimen.
It's never "available". It is supplied with the cable internet contract and is usable only where the distribution network for cable TV exists. In Russia there were lots of small cable TV providers so they had an infrastructure to use it as well as inability to use the telecom cabling since the telecom is a monopoly. In Europe it's quite possible that the cable TV and telecoms are the same structures and so it's preferable to use ADSL.
As I understand it's a modem, not router. So you need either a router or a PPPoE in your computer. My policy is that
1) the boundary between the Internet and my internal network lies between the equipment I control and equipment I don't control. In other words, either I choose the equipment, flash there anything I want and set any password I want - or this equipment is yours, you must do everything to return it in working order. And if you don't - I either go to some other provider or write a complain to Roskomnadzor. It's exactly what happened with my friend and his Motorola DOCSIS modem. The ISP personnel had seizures seeing his number on their phone. They reflashed the modem many times. But he still called them every time the problem occurred. They agreed to pay him to move to any other provider but he refused.
2) Either my router has an ability to install alternative firmwares, or it's not my router. Period.
I'd better download a minimal flash installation of FreeBSD and build the rest from source. It does not save me from the source-level malware but at least make it much less probable.
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Full disclosure: I am a Russian citizen.
Since I have not found anything like "36 rockets" here I must warn you of 2 facts:
1) Exactly 36 Tomahawks were lost in transit and were unable to hit the Shairat base.
2) The Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system based in Khmeymim can track and destroy exactly 36 targets at once.
All this cashless society has the main problem that during any serious cataclysm that kills the communication infrastructure the trade just stops. Not only the global nuclear cataclysm and EMP but any kind of local cataclysm like Katrina or war in Syria. And if the trade stops the hungry people could rob since they could not buy.
Moreover, I feel that the more Western is the society the higher the unrest. Some Somalians could organize a government-less society based on traditional law, in the First World it's just impossible. We Russians survived the wild capitalism of 1990-s because in any crisis there was impossible to foreclose or cut off the electricity and heat. Next such crisis could produce hordes of homeless.
What about immediate shutdown on tamper?
1. You could boot the system from the flash drive that is removed after boot. The part of the key resides on the same flash, the second part is entered. It's quite possible to do, at least for FreeBSD. THEY need both a keylogger in a keyboard or bios and a seizure of the boot flash. Additionally there is no place on the disk where THEY could implant a child pornography if THEIR other efforts fail.
2. You could setup the security system that signals the systems to erase the keys and shutdown on intrusion so you can be sure that your keyboard is not compromised after you buy it.
3. I've read somewhere (maybe on Slashdot or Habrahabr.ru) that there exists an open source utility to check the authenticity of your BIOS. So BIOS keyloggers can also be caught.
Because the file /usr/bin/child_pornography.jpg could magically appear out of nowhere if your filesystem is in wrong hands.
The separate conventional building would be 1) Not a closed steel protection box. You would spend much more money for concrete walls, steel blinds, doors etc than the price of container. 2) Something on a foundation while you just throw a pair of concrete blocks below a container. 3) Realty with lots of corresponding paperwork and legalese.
1. Here in Russia I see no multimode. Single mode only everywhere.
2. Here is some UPS that officially holds up to 300AH batteries. Is it enough?
3. Your walls and everything inside should not be flammable.
4. The steel doors are quite standard here in Russia as well as concrete walls of usual apartment building. And if you use a container then you have steel doors over the windows.
According to local (Russian) laws the container is a movable property, not a building. I have a house with bad basement. It was easier to raise the house, remove the basement and build a new one in place than make a paperwork for total destruction and rebuilding.
It took me 1 day to repaint the roof of MY container "office". Also, you would need:
1) Total disk encryption on all your computers;
2) The device that halts all your computers and destroys the keys during intrusion (You can recover keys from your friend that is instructed to return them only in condition that you are free. Since you have no keys they cannot be extorted);
3) The encrypted off-site copy of your disks;
4) Non-flammable walls inside (I used a plywood; it's bad)
5) A video recording system offsite (and you can install some system for your friend in exchange)
6) A second Internet connection, preferably radio.
7) IP door intercom so you can talk to visitors even from the opposite side of Earth.
Forget about the guns and any form of active self-protection: The biggest problem is not robbers but a party van that either is going to find some copyright violation or to check the accusations given by your competitors. They will not find anything but will spend enough time to crash your business.
The compression is already built in in the recording device. Tested in both RAW and PRORES of BMPCC camera as well as processed MP4 video. It's not a case for BMCC camera RAW but the LTO compression is not specifically suited for it.
Nevertheless there was a bank search in GB some 3-4 years ago. Bank cells have been opened in search of drugs and illegal profits. And you have been able to receive the wedding rings of your grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandparents in condition that you have a proof of purchase ONLY.
First you need to ask yourself some questions:
1. what are you trying to protect against? Hard Drive Failure?, Multiple hard drive failures? Fire? Theft? Disk/file corruption? Destruction of your whole home/work? Everything?
Golden words. As our ex-president Medvedev once said, they would be cast in granite.
I'd add one more threat: Party Van.
1. Don't assume anything about the LTO compression.
2. Drives with one digit indicator (Read: IBM and such) are preferable due to the full set of local tests and other useful procedures. Also IBM has much more documentation on it's drives.
3. LTO4 drive would work with LTO3 cartridges. They are cheap but the postage (I live in Russia) make LTO4 a preferable choice.
There is a LOT of possibility for data to get corrupted while transferred to USB disk. While SATA and USB are covered with some error correction codes, the internal memory of SATA to USB chip isn't. And EVERY USB rack I have ever tried to backup my data has an overheat problem. It does not matter when you copy some DVD movies but when you copy 2TB then the probability of failure nears 100%, with destruction of file system and need to fsck all the backup. You need to add some heat sink to the chip, or else.
If EMP kills your drive then you just buy a new one (It's also true for the tape drive) - in condition that a post-apocalyptic world would need your data. If EMP kills your HDD then you are out of luck.
But I'd still prefer not to store my data on anything optical.
LTO4 is my personal choice. Later generations of LTO are more expensive per byte. Both LTO-5 cartridges and drives are more than twice expensive than LTO-4. And LTO-4 are at least faster than my 2-TB HDDs.
You would need much more than 3 tapes. At least 2 generations of backup would need 6 tapes. If you partition your data to portions of not more than 800 GB each and declare some of them frozen, you may economize on tapes. But it's still slightly cheaper and much more reliable than HDDs.
Be warned that the drive would preferably have a 1-digit indicator. Also, I prefer Fibre Channel and Qlogic cards.
The killing in self-defense shouldn't be a crime, too.
I have read some years ago in jpost . com about Israeli woman that was in Indian prison. It looks that Indians specially make their prisons terrible. It both saves money and make the prison terms more terrible so they may be proportionally shorter.
I live in Russia, and there is no forced MITM with replaced certs. The official replaced certs that I have read about were: 1) in Kazakhstan, 2) In Australia where they were limited to some school system (which is understandable due to minors protection laws). The SORM (Read: PRISM) is totally passive and is prevented by law from any modification of traffic. The laws that punish the circumvention of filters are in project only.
Messengers encrypt YOU!
Being a Russian I just don't beeping care. And maybe I'm even glad that this bill is proposed, because it means that all the official messengers (I mean: companies that provide messenger services using closed source software) will be compromised and the only messengers that are trustworthy will be the open source decentralized ones having no central authority that can be fined.
In such conditions the maximum fine would be 5000 Roubles (less than US$100) which means that the expense of collecting the evidence would not pay up. It's just impossible to interrogate everybody whose traffic comes to some nonstandard port, and it's impossible to prove that it's a messenger and not anything else.
Also I hope that any software that used the outdated HTTP(S) and HTML protocols which have so many builtin security holes will be compromised at last and the only programs that survive would have no such thing as web page phenomenon and correspondingly site phenomenon. For instance, Freenet now supports something like a webpage. But it edits out anything that could be dangerous. RetroShare just has no web page. It displays web links but you should copy them to the browser with full understanding for your actions.
Please understand: This bill is neither Putin's nor the FSB/KGB initiative. The FSB works stealthly. It's the initiative of parlamentaries who propose the laws that just cannot be observed.
You all remember the Virginia Tech where one of teachers was an Israeli who had a specific training and could kill the criminal but had no gun.
But I heard that is Virginia there was a mass shooting some years before. But it was NOT the arms free zone. So the students went to the parking, took their gins from their cars and shot the criminal. It's a hint.
The only method that could save you Americans from mass shooting is the perspective for the shooter to be immediately shot. So your Second Amendment is precious.
Nerds can sometimes (one nerd for million) create something that generates so severe [beep]hurt for politicians that they are glad to tear all the hair from their heads, [beep] and [beep]. The PGP is the specimen.
It's never "available". It is supplied with the cable internet contract and is usable only where the distribution network for cable TV exists. In Russia there were lots of small cable TV providers so they had an infrastructure to use it as well as inability to use the telecom cabling since the telecom is a monopoly. In Europe it's quite possible that the cable TV and telecoms are the same structures and so it's preferable to use ADSL.
As I understand it's a modem, not router. So you need either a router or a PPPoE in your computer. My policy is that
1) the boundary between the Internet and my internal network lies between the equipment I control and equipment I don't control. In other words, either I choose the equipment, flash there anything I want and set any password I want - or this equipment is yours, you must do everything to return it in working order. And if you don't - I either go to some other provider or write a complain to Roskomnadzor. It's exactly what happened with my friend and his Motorola DOCSIS modem. The ISP personnel had seizures seeing his number on their phone. They reflashed the modem many times. But he still called them every time the problem occurred. They agreed to pay him to move to any other provider but he refused.
2) Either my router has an ability to install alternative firmwares, or it's not my router. Period.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
I'd better download a minimal flash installation of FreeBSD and build the rest from source. It does not save me from the source-level malware but at least make it much less probable.