Some time ago the Xorg ATI driver team decided that they would exclusively support KMS (Kernel Mode Switch) which obviously is NOT implemented in FreeBSD and anywhere except Linux. Basically it costed me US$1000 in unusable hardware since I falsely believed that my beloved Radeons would still be supported. The news of about 1 year ago are that the old console driver cannot support KMS but the new console driver does not support KOI-8r codepage which is required here in Russia. In other words, the hardware is still unusable. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newco...
Almost the same problems plagued the Intel drivers (X cannot exit to text mode) at least when I tested it with FreeBSD 10.1. So I am forced either to use VESA drivers or install Geforces.
And I don't care about BSOD since it's a Windows thing and the Windows is almost nonexistent for me during 18 years.
You cannot produce enough RTGs without producing LOTS of radioactive waste in reactors. The plutonium RTGs used in space research, for instance, are reasonably safe since the plutonium produces only the alpha particles. But together with it there are lots of more serious isotopes radiating high energy gamma. If you use these isotopes the cost of shielding would be enormous - much more per watt than the reactor itself. It's the reason why the RTGs are used in extreme circumstances only.
Your Chief Doctor should sign an order that this medical device should be properly backed-up by the competent sysadmin (you), that the IT dept receives the finances to do so and that any violator pays from his own pocket.
Problem is NOT the prevention of the outbreak since everything unpleasant SHALL happen (Murphy's law). Problem is the recovery from this situation as well as recovery from the situation where the recovery is impossible.
So imagine yourself in position of sysadmin when all the Windows and Mac computers already display the ransomware message. What exactly would you want in this situation? (Hint: Backup)
Let's calculate. Once upon a time I was a sysadmin in some Russian hospital. About 100 quite old computers with about 100 GB each. The critical data are about half of them. So you need about 10 TB to hold a reserve copy of everything - about US$500 of HDD. Maybe less. Then, you take any computer that has enough HDD ports - about US$150 since you don't need a new shiny computer, it would just work. Install there some software that would copy the modified files - it's free.
But it's not the solution. The correct solution is the order of Chief Doctor that everybody who does not cooperate with Sysadmin would pay the ransom from their own pocket.
The hive of cryptic keywords needing a special education and a special documentation to understand and having no place for comments is a security breach by itself.
In other words, if I work in a large Soviet Russian military organization and something becomes wrong (WWIII for instance. Or just an idea of your Congress to apply more sanctions) the Windows installations would work 2 weeks and then fail.
The keyword here is "proper". It's not known beforehand what settings are proper, the next update may introduce something that needs other proper settings, and the life slowly becomes self-education about the proper settings leaving no time for work when you can simply install *BSD and forget this problem once and forever.
... the Polite Men In Green use the MSVS (Modulnaya Sistema Vooruzhennyh Sil - Modular System of Armed Forces). It's basically hardened Linux and I've seen it on torrents (had no time to check it). Moreover, they use SPARC computers so unless the malware is cross-platform it has no chance to survive. Also, MSVS can work on much weaker equipment than Windows 10.
I spent about 8 years to convince my boss to never use Windows in equipment control. The only places where Windows XP (not later) is allowed to be are the workstations of different secretaries and specialists which are too old to be retrained. So if some ransomware hits the damage is limited to the computers that are easily reinstalled from scratch.
There is the place where the ransomware can still hit: It's the SAMBA server that has shares that the ransomware can encrypt, but it presumably has a proper backup.
To do so we sometimes had to design and produce our own data collection equipment since the existing one is Windows-only.
Sorry, I have no security clearance to name our preferred OS (not Linux) and a place in the Russian military-industrial complex where I work.
I may not reimplement or duplicate your app. I state that my app will be closed in 24 hours after you demonstrate that your app with similar functionality 1) exists, 2) existed before my app (as I believe it's a necessary prerequisite to "reimplement or duplicate") and 3) was accessible for the public so it was possible for me to know beforehand that such app exists. Google Maps does not count since it has no functionality to facilitate the route building.
It does not matter what does it host, be it CP, Mein Kampf or just a botnet. It either cooperates with Roskomnadzor, FSB and Department R (Or maybe K, I cannot remember) in catching or at least suppression of criminals, or loses it's license.
Does USA have enough gold and other valuables to exchange for all dollars it has ever issued? And how can you be sure that it's a gold and not a gold-plated tungsten?
If you cannot contact an ISP, you can contact Roskomnadzor. If you cannot contact Roskomnadzor you always can contact a FSB (KGB) because it's FSB that ultimately manages our information security and is basically somehow immune to bribes. Especially if you are Cisco.
And all the phones will be associated with your SIM and THEY will know that all these phones belong to the owner of this SIM. If you really want to hide yourself you need a SIM not associated with you (you understand what I mean), a modem/phone anonymously bought for exclusive use with this SIM and a computer with some privacy-enhanced OS. And maybe even a modem/phone with SIM plugged to some router, hidden on some roof and contacted via WiFi only since the position of the modem can be easily determined.
There is no way to jam the metadata collection (to overload the collection engine) simply because you overload the mail system with a spam in the process. The only way to get rid of metadata collection is some darknet where metadata cannot be collected by design.
If Bitmessage sends everything everywhere (At least Wikipedia says so) so that only the recipient can decode the message addressed to him, how long you expect it to operate before it overloads the network?
I can almost guarantee that if you pay a lawyer to write up a nasty cease and desist order (even if it's kind of BS) than any noise YOU produce will be met with paying a lawyer that would write up a nasty cease and desist order to YOU. Especially if you live in USA. Please understand that if the dog lives there it performs the security function that is necessary for your neighbor, and that it's more expensive for him to move or hire a security than to countersue.
Kazakhstan basically consists of northern part - Russian Southern Siberia and southern part - Kazakhstan proper - and has been separated from Russia by Stalin in 1936. The northern part was part of Russia and inhabited by Russians during about 400 years after fall of Golden Horde. If you look at Google Maps you see that northern part has mostly Russian names and the southern one - Kazakh ones.
How the [beep] would you make a text file in the beginning if you at this moment don't fully know what would be the rest? And how can you write it afterwards if there is logically NO data after the last record on the tapes?
In Soviet Union there was a state policy: The university education is free. If your grades are high enough you even obtain some scholarship money. But after you graduate there is a procedure of "distribution": There is a list of employers pretending to employ the graduates, and the graduates choose the employers. The distribution begins from the best students which can choose the best employers, and then the worst students choose the rest. Then, the employer must give the new worker some place to live and spend efforts for his specialization but the worker must work here 3 years as a payment for his education.
The other state policy was that it was almost impossible to buy an apartment (cooperation and private sector aside). Instead, there was lot of state and employer's place to live rented for the nominal fee - but as a rule with a terribly long waiting list.
And this week I've read somewhere the article stating that the free education and free place to live are necessary to prevent the condition "poor became poorer, rich become richer" and the resulting crash of the society.
Now let's return to the procreation. In Soviet Union there was enough place to family life and enough time for family life. ("In USSR there is no sex" is a famous phrase I personally heard from TV). In USA (and in modern Russia too) you either have no place or no time for procreation since your student loans eat all your free money and correspondingly all your free time which you spend to earn money.
And the second factor is that in USSR your wealth didn't count, you needed something else for girls' attention. Creativity, for instance. Ability to obtain USA jeans. Or CPSU membership:-)
Have you ever talked to Russian people? I mean those who live there. You might be surprised that there's a really common belief that goes back to the days of the tsar that the guy in charge is benevolent and kind and caring... Khrushchev's time in power was probably the high water mark of the USSR in terms of achievements and quality of life... homicidal maniac Stalin was the greatest leader they ever had.
1. The monarch is never ideal. But he can survive ONLY with his people. Either it makes him at least slightly benevolent and caring, or he is overthrown and killed. In contrast, the democratically elected President can do everything he wishes and run away immediately after his term.
2. The first thing Khrushchev did was to destroy the private agriculture. And we Russians have LOTS of political jokes about him depicting him as an active idiot.
3. Yes, Stalin was a dictator (I tell it as a grandson of Kulak). But Stalin spent the results of his dictatorship EFFICIENTLY. No other maniac in the world did it.
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Some time ago the Xorg ATI driver team decided that they would exclusively support KMS (Kernel Mode Switch) which obviously is NOT implemented in FreeBSD and anywhere except Linux. Basically it costed me US$1000 in unusable hardware since I falsely believed that my beloved Radeons would still be supported. The news of about 1 year ago are that the old console driver cannot support KMS but the new console driver does not support KOI-8r codepage which is required here in Russia. In other words, the hardware is still unusable. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newco...
Almost the same problems plagued the Intel drivers (X cannot exit to text mode) at least when I tested it with FreeBSD 10.1. So I am forced either to use VESA drivers or install Geforces.
And I don't care about BSOD since it's a Windows thing and the Windows is almost nonexistent for me during 18 years.
Remembering a FreeBSD Radeon KMS hell I'd prefer anything else.
You cannot produce enough RTGs without producing LOTS of radioactive waste in reactors. The plutonium RTGs used in space research, for instance, are reasonably safe since the plutonium produces only the alpha particles. But together with it there are lots of more serious isotopes radiating high energy gamma. If you use these isotopes the cost of shielding would be enormous - much more per watt than the reactor itself. It's the reason why the RTGs are used in extreme circumstances only.
Your Chief Doctor should sign an order that this medical device should be properly backed-up by the competent sysadmin (you), that the IT dept receives the finances to do so and that any violator pays from his own pocket.
Do the damages include the "death by negligence"?
Problem is NOT the prevention of the outbreak since everything unpleasant SHALL happen (Murphy's law). Problem is the recovery from this situation as well as recovery from the situation where the recovery is impossible.
So imagine yourself in position of sysadmin when all the Windows and Mac computers already display the ransomware message. What exactly would you want in this situation? (Hint: Backup)
Let's calculate. Once upon a time I was a sysadmin in some Russian hospital. About 100 quite old computers with about 100 GB each. The critical data are about half of them. So you need about 10 TB to hold a reserve copy of everything - about US$500 of HDD. Maybe less. Then, you take any computer that has enough HDD ports - about US$150 since you don't need a new shiny computer, it would just work. Install there some software that would copy the modified files - it's free.
But it's not the solution. The correct solution is the order of Chief Doctor that everybody who does not cooperate with Sysadmin would pay the ransom from their own pocket.
The hive of cryptic keywords needing a special education and a special documentation to understand and having no place for comments is a security breach by itself.
In other words, if I work in a large Soviet Russian military organization and something becomes wrong (WWIII for instance. Or just an idea of your Congress to apply more sanctions) the Windows installations would work 2 weeks and then fail.
The keyword here is "proper". It's not known beforehand what settings are proper, the next update may introduce something that needs other proper settings, and the life slowly becomes self-education about the proper settings leaving no time for work when you can simply install *BSD and forget this problem once and forever.
... the Polite Men In Green use the MSVS (Modulnaya Sistema Vooruzhennyh Sil - Modular System of Armed Forces). It's basically hardened Linux and I've seen it on torrents (had no time to check it). Moreover, they use SPARC computers so unless the malware is cross-platform it has no chance to survive. Also, MSVS can work on much weaker equipment than Windows 10.
I spent about 8 years to convince my boss to never use Windows in equipment control. The only places where Windows XP (not later) is allowed to be are the workstations of different secretaries and specialists which are too old to be retrained. So if some ransomware hits the damage is limited to the computers that are easily reinstalled from scratch.
There is the place where the ransomware can still hit: It's the SAMBA server that has shares that the ransomware can encrypt, but it presumably has a proper backup.
To do so we sometimes had to design and produce our own data collection equipment since the existing one is Windows-only.
Sorry, I have no security clearance to name our preferred OS (not Linux) and a place in the Russian military-industrial complex where I work.
I may not reimplement or duplicate your app. I state that my app will be closed in 24 hours after you demonstrate that your app with similar functionality 1) exists, 2) existed before my app (as I believe it's a necessary prerequisite to "reimplement or duplicate") and 3) was accessible for the public so it was possible for me to know beforehand that such app exists. Google Maps does not count since it has no functionality to facilitate the route building.
It does not matter what does it host, be it CP, Mein Kampf or just a botnet. It either cooperates with Roskomnadzor, FSB and Department R (Or maybe K, I cannot remember) in catching or at least suppression of criminals, or loses it's license.
Does USA have enough gold and other valuables to exchange for all dollars it has ever issued? And how can you be sure that it's a gold and not a gold-plated tungsten?
If you cannot contact an ISP, you can contact Roskomnadzor. If you cannot contact Roskomnadzor you always can contact a FSB (KGB) because it's FSB that ultimately manages our information security and is basically somehow immune to bribes. Especially if you are Cisco.
And all the phones will be associated with your SIM and THEY will know that all these phones belong to the owner of this SIM. If you really want to hide yourself you need a SIM not associated with you (you understand what I mean), a modem/phone anonymously bought for exclusive use with this SIM and a computer with some privacy-enhanced OS. And maybe even a modem/phone with SIM plugged to some router, hidden on some roof and contacted via WiFi only since the position of the modem can be easily determined.
There is no way to jam the metadata collection (to overload the collection engine) simply because you overload the mail system with a spam in the process. The only way to get rid of metadata collection is some darknet where metadata cannot be collected by design.
If Bitmessage sends everything everywhere (At least Wikipedia says so) so that only the recipient can decode the message addressed to him, how long you expect it to operate before it overloads the network?
I can almost guarantee that if you pay a lawyer to write up a nasty cease and desist order (even if it's kind of BS) than any noise YOU produce will be met with paying a lawyer that would write up a nasty cease and desist order to YOU. Especially if you live in USA. Please understand that if the dog lives there it performs the security function that is necessary for your neighbor, and that it's more expensive for him to move or hire a security than to countersue.
Kazakhstan basically consists of northern part - Russian Southern Siberia and southern part - Kazakhstan proper - and has been separated from Russia by Stalin in 1936. The northern part was part of Russia and inhabited by Russians during about 400 years after fall of Golden Horde. If you look at Google Maps you see that northern part has mostly Russian names and the southern one - Kazakh ones.
How the [beep] would you make a text file in the beginning if you at this moment don't fully know what would be the rest? And how can you write it afterwards if there is logically NO data after the last record on the tapes?
$ man tar
You are right. But there are some other factors:
In Soviet Union there was a state policy: The university education is free. If your grades are high enough you even obtain some scholarship money. But after you graduate there is a procedure of "distribution": There is a list of employers pretending to employ the graduates, and the graduates choose the employers. The distribution begins from the best students which can choose the best employers, and then the worst students choose the rest. Then, the employer must give the new worker some place to live and spend efforts for his specialization but the worker must work here 3 years as a payment for his education.
The other state policy was that it was almost impossible to buy an apartment (cooperation and private sector aside). Instead, there was lot of state and employer's place to live rented for the nominal fee - but as a rule with a terribly long waiting list.
And this week I've read somewhere the article stating that the free education and free place to live are necessary to prevent the condition "poor became poorer, rich become richer" and the resulting crash of the society.
Now let's return to the procreation. In Soviet Union there was enough place to family life and enough time for family life. ("In USSR there is no sex" is a famous phrase I personally heard from TV). In USA (and in modern Russia too) you either have no place or no time for procreation since your student loans eat all your free money and correspondingly all your free time which you spend to earn money.
And the second factor is that in USSR your wealth didn't count, you needed something else for girls' attention. Creativity, for instance. Ability to obtain USA jeans. Or CPSU membership :-)
Have you ever talked to Russian people? I mean those who live there. You might be surprised that there's a really common belief that goes back to the days of the tsar that the guy in charge is benevolent and kind and caring ... Khrushchev's time in power was probably the high water mark of the USSR in terms of achievements and quality of life... homicidal maniac Stalin was the greatest leader they ever had.
1. The monarch is never ideal. But he can survive ONLY with his people. Either it makes him at least slightly benevolent and caring, or he is overthrown and killed. In contrast, the democratically elected President can do everything he wishes and run away immediately after his term.
2. The first thing Khrushchev did was to destroy the private agriculture. And we Russians have LOTS of political jokes about him depicting him as an active idiot.
3. Yes, Stalin was a dictator (I tell it as a grandson of Kulak). But Stalin spent the results of his dictatorship EFFICIENTLY. No other maniac in the world did it.
No way. In MY variant of Soviet Russia, the Unix Daemons are possessed by ME!