The hospital's network is responsible for the security of the ENTIRE network. If the "independent" practice is connected to their network, they fall under security's purview.
Perhaps, but probably not. Unless there are specific contractual terms spelling out who is responsible for what on which network, the network that is owned and operated by the private practice. It is their network, not the hospital's. Period. As others have already pointed out, it is not cool to pen test somebody else's stuff without a prior agreement that this will be happening. Simply having a "business relationship" between the two entities does not imply any right to perform things that are criminal in nature absent any specific consent. Now, if there is such contractual language, it's almost de rigueur to not inform those admins responsible for the target network, lest they assume a posture (blocking IP's) that would not reflect the day to day status of that network. That may be the case here, but considering it's doctors and hospitals, not likely.
In the part of the U.S. where I used to live, power is provided, almost exclusively, by public utility districts. These are governmental organizations that are beholden only to their rate payers. In the almost 40 years I lived there, I could count on one hand the number of outages that would have run-out a typical server-class UPS. Such a record is virtually non-existent where I live now. The grid, and the companies that do business on it, are private, for-enterprises, beholden only to their stock-holders. It shows. Repairs, and more importantly, maintenance, are prioritized according to how much an outage would affect the bottom line, which is to say, until it does, the work doesn't get done.
Put that old war horse down easy, it did it's duty and then some, it deserves some respect.
I loved Netware and worked on 2.x, 3.x and 4.x, it's a real shame what's become of Novell.
Agreed. Netware "just worked". It was a pain in the ass to set up, but even that could be overlooked because the result was so solid. While they were the only game in town, the price for that performance was reasonable. Unfortunately, the marketing geniuses at Novell pretty much missed to the coming tsunami that was Windows networking. The effect was apparent after Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (the first one that actually sort-of worked) came along, causing an immediate dip in Netware sales. By the time NT came along, the die was cast and Netware's decline begun.
also good hardware not to fail in some way other that time. Did they hot swap UPS batteries over the years as well?
The batteries, obviously, needn't affect the operation of the server, but that's some impressive record for the utility service in the area. Unless the location had a backup generator, no outages longer than UPS run-time over a sixten year stretch is incredible. As for the disk space issue, I strongly suspect that the server was the platform for some specific legacy application that "just worked, and was thus never messed with, while all the actual file and print service duties were shifted to newer platforms.
Oh, but you are taking it on faith. You stipulate that there is no proof, one way or the other, and yet you choose to believe there is no god. Lighten up and use the agnostic label.
It's not the religion. It's the fanatical followers we hate. Atheism is teeming with them. The only thing more annoying than someone trying to sell you on his version of something he can't prove exists, is the guy trying to sell you on his version of something he can't prove does not exist. And that's saying something, because those holier-than-thou fake Xtians can be powerfully annoying.
Actually, I think they bend over the other way when holding up their end... of the deal. [rimshot] Thank you. I'll be here all week.
Seriously, you are quite right. The U.S. telco's are totally complicit in the buggering of our civil rights. All save the late QWest, that is.
RFI from GSM devices will inject itself into just about any susceptible analog circuit, including the headsets and intercom in the close confines of your private aircraft, but it is extremely dependent on proximity. You may rest assured that even the flight attendant in the forward galley could fire up her mobile phone without having the same effect.
No, NOLA is notoriously corrupt. the Mayor of New Orleans did not want FEMA, the Governor of the state did not want FEMA. They wanted to rake in all the juicy kickback money for picking who get's what contracts.
So yes, this was the agencies who purchased the detectors believing in "magick" [SIC].
It is also a fabulous example of how the misguided tools who think that they are libertarians should wake the hell up and realize that the mythical free market does not "magically" take care of shit like this. It was, literally, "snake oil" and the unfounded claims about it that brought "teh gubamint" into the business of regulating food and drugs. The consumers in a mass market can not be expected to be fully informed about everything in that market that they might want to purchase. And the "free market" assumes that such a state (fully informed consumer) exists.
Now, in this case, I'll stipulate that it would not have take much effort to become informed enough to know that this $41,000 do-hickey was snake oil. Then again, the government keeps buying the equivalent of the fabled "$400 toilet seat" from vendors like Haliburton, so we're probably buggered either way.
Price your stuff so it' not worth the hassle to pirate it.
Audio and video files? Your distribution costs are close to zero these days. Let your prices reflect that and watch your volume explode. Put down the buggy whip, already.
Software? That's a bit of a different story. Depending on the work, it's much more expensive to produce, though the distribution expense is here also trivial. Sell the current version of AutoWord-DB-Pro for what you think is fair. Sell the older one's for cheap. Dirt cheap. The people who actually need the latest and greatest features will gladly pay, the rest will pay for the older version and maybe even become paying customers of your current one. Meanwhile, you're still capturing revenue from your old versions.
Start thinking in terms of total revenue, not how much "a copy" is worth. You are not losing sale when someone pirates a $400 program. You most certainly are losing a sale when you don't sell a $20 program that would have met the pirate's needs and for which he would have paid.
No, it was not for the better. Nixon should have been hanged, as should Bush and Cheney be hanged. Allowing our leaders to get away with war crimes only ensures future war crimes.
Oh, shut up, you liberal weenies. Don't you know that war is good for business and business means jobs for you little peop... er, you citizens. Nixon was a hero.
Personally I think it is a great day for democracy. The people wanted this. They voted in a Government that did an independent enquiry and then actioned those recommendations. You can't get much more democratic than that.
You confuse democracy and civil rights; a common mistake. Asserting, however, that "the people wanted this" is patently absurd. Even setting aside the esoteric (for some) notion that civil rights can and should trump majority rule, I seriously doubt that most voters would have, if asked, been in favor of this monstrous affront to the freedom of expression.
Maybe every person in congress should be required to take a few lectures on how computers work and what the internet is?
Or maybe... people should stop voting for fools simply because the fool holds the "correct" view (take your pick) on abortion or gay marriage. The "issues" that decide elections these days are, by and large, not the ones that actually affect our lives. This is by design, a design crafted and paid for interests that are definitely not aligned with those of the electorate.
And yet the man was tried, convicted, and sentenced for crimes he did not commit. Surely you don't actually believe that 48 months in prison is suitable punishment for failing to exhibit "common decent behavior". If so, kindly tell us what statute you'd cite for that.
That the defendant did not "break in". He did not circumvent any system or other contrivance designed to secure sensitive information. Those systems and contrivances simply did not exist. The worst that can be said of what he did was that he was irresponsible in sending the clearly sensitive information to someone else. The right thing to do, of course, would have been to contact AT&T. Had he done that, there wouldn't even be a case for restitution, unless maybe it was to compensate the defendant for doing the work that AT&T failed to do.
Not unlike propaganda in the US made the majority of americans think Sadam Hussein was behind 9/11...
While I share the apparent sentiment that this is a sorry state of affairs, the sad fact is that most of those idiots believe the way they do because they choose to. The truth is out there, readily available, with spin or without. One need only have the will to watch, listen, or read. And still, the largest single block seems to get their "truth" from Fox News. I take it back; that's not sad. It's plain fucking scary.
Perhaps, but I suspect that it's really because the percentage of users that use ad-blocking software is so small. For that group, the ads are generally nothing more than an annoyance anyway, so it's not a demographic with a significant conversion rate. Nothing is really lost there. Now, have a major ISP offer something like that by default and listen to the howls of outrage from the advertisers.
Country of origin is irrelevant. If you still feel it is, remember, StuxNet came from the US government.
Yes, it did, which rather proves that state-sponsored cyber attacks are very, very real. Given that, the notion that routers manufactured in the PRC might come with back doors as standard equipment (we're looking at you, Huawei) is hardly a stretch.
Im not sure its entirely accurate to call Peter the "first pope". The office as such did not exist, and the specific role of "pope" was never acknowledged by Peter or anyone else at that time.
So..., you're saying..., that there might be some... confusion creeping into the collection of mythology and folk-tales that, over time, often becomes "religious truth"? Oh_my_gawd. So how are we to know when the end is actually nigh, so we can, you know, confess our sins and get our "get out of hell free" card?
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The hospital's network is responsible for the security of the ENTIRE network. If the "independent" practice is connected to their network, they fall under security's purview.
Perhaps, but probably not. Unless there are specific contractual terms spelling out who is responsible for what on which network, the network that is owned and operated by the private practice. It is their network, not the hospital's. Period. As others have already pointed out, it is not cool to pen test somebody else's stuff without a prior agreement that this will be happening. Simply having a "business relationship" between the two entities does not imply any right to perform things that are criminal in nature absent any specific consent. Now, if there is such contractual language, it's almost de rigueur to not inform those admins responsible for the target network, lest they assume a posture (blocking IP's) that would not reflect the day to day status of that network. That may be the case here, but considering it's doctors and hospitals, not likely.
I want CERN working in my Bitcoin mine.
In the part of the U.S. where I used to live, power is provided, almost exclusively, by public utility districts. These are governmental organizations that are beholden only to their rate payers. In the almost 40 years I lived there, I could count on one hand the number of outages that would have run-out a typical server-class UPS. Such a record is virtually non-existent where I live now. The grid, and the companies that do business on it, are private, for-enterprises, beholden only to their stock-holders. It shows. Repairs, and more importantly, maintenance, are prioritized according to how much an outage would affect the bottom line, which is to say, until it does, the work doesn't get done.
Only as the willing bag man of corporate influence.
Put that old war horse down easy, it did it's duty and then some, it deserves some respect.
I loved Netware and worked on 2.x, 3.x and 4.x, it's a real shame what's become of Novell.
Agreed. Netware "just worked". It was a pain in the ass to set up, but even that could be overlooked because the result was so solid. While they were the only game in town, the price for that performance was reasonable. Unfortunately, the marketing geniuses at Novell pretty much missed to the coming tsunami that was Windows networking. The effect was apparent after Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (the first one that actually sort-of worked) came along, causing an immediate dip in Netware sales. By the time NT came along, the die was cast and Netware's decline begun.
16 years and they did not run of space on it?
also good hardware not to fail in some way other that time. Did they hot swap UPS batteries over the years as well?
The batteries, obviously, needn't affect the operation of the server, but that's some impressive record for the utility service in the area. Unless the location had a backup generator, no outages longer than UPS run-time over a sixten year stretch is incredible. As for the disk space issue, I strongly suspect that the server was the platform for some specific legacy application that "just worked, and was thus never messed with, while all the actual file and print service duties were shifted to newer platforms.
Oh, but you are taking it on faith. You stipulate that there is no proof, one way or the other, and yet you choose to believe there is no god. Lighten up and use the agnostic label.
It's not the religion. It's the fanatical followers we hate. Atheism is teeming with them. The only thing more annoying than someone trying to sell you on his version of something he can't prove exists, is the guy trying to sell you on his version of something he can't prove does not exist. And that's saying something, because those holier-than-thou fake Xtians can be powerfully annoying.
Actually, I think they bend over the other way when holding up their end... of the deal. [rimshot] Thank you. I'll be here all week.
Seriously, you are quite right. The U.S. telco's are totally complicit in the buggering of our civil rights. All save the late QWest, that is.
RFI from GSM devices will inject itself into just about any susceptible analog circuit, including the headsets and intercom in the close confines of your private aircraft, but it is extremely dependent on proximity. You may rest assured that even the flight attendant in the forward galley could fire up her mobile phone without having the same effect.
No, NOLA is notoriously corrupt. the Mayor of New Orleans did not want FEMA, the Governor of the state did not want FEMA. They wanted to rake in all the juicy kickback money for picking who get's what contracts.
[citation needed]
So yes, this was the agencies who purchased the detectors believing in "magick" [SIC].
It is also a fabulous example of how the misguided tools who think that they are libertarians should wake the hell up and realize that the mythical free market does not "magically" take care of shit like this. It was, literally, "snake oil" and the unfounded claims about it that brought "teh gubamint" into the business of regulating food and drugs. The consumers in a mass market can not be expected to be fully informed about everything in that market that they might want to purchase. And the "free market" assumes that such a state (fully informed consumer) exists.
Now, in this case, I'll stipulate that it would not have take much effort to become informed enough to know that this $41,000 do-hickey was snake oil. Then again, the government keeps buying the equivalent of the fabled "$400 toilet seat" from vendors like Haliburton, so we're probably buggered either way.
Lawmakers fail to understand "the Internet".
UPDATE! - Sensational title deliberately conflicts with reality, as explained in TFA.
Film at eleven.
Price your stuff so it' not worth the hassle to pirate it.
Audio and video files? Your distribution costs are close to zero these days. Let your prices reflect that and watch your volume explode. Put down the buggy whip, already.
Software? That's a bit of a different story. Depending on the work, it's much more expensive to produce, though the distribution expense is here also trivial. Sell the current version of AutoWord-DB-Pro for what you think is fair. Sell the older one's for cheap. Dirt cheap. The people who actually need the latest and greatest features will gladly pay, the rest will pay for the older version and maybe even become paying customers of your current one. Meanwhile, you're still capturing revenue from your old versions.
Start thinking in terms of total revenue, not how much "a copy" is worth. You are not losing sale when someone pirates a $400 program. You most certainly are losing a sale when you don't sell a $20 program that would have met the pirate's needs and for which he would have paid.
No, it was not for the better. Nixon should have been hanged, as should Bush and Cheney be hanged. Allowing our leaders to get away with war crimes only ensures future war crimes.
Oh, shut up, you liberal weenies. Don't you know that war is good for business and business means jobs for you little peop... er, you citizens. Nixon was a hero.
So..., that's another word for "aimed at adolescent males", then?
"100 bucks says I can hit that little fucker with this shot from my five-iron."
Personally I think it is a great day for democracy. The people wanted this. They voted in a Government that did an independent enquiry and then actioned those recommendations. You can't get much more democratic than that.
You confuse democracy and civil rights; a common mistake. Asserting, however, that "the people wanted this" is patently absurd. Even setting aside the esoteric (for some) notion that civil rights can and should trump majority rule, I seriously doubt that most voters would have, if asked, been in favor of this monstrous affront to the freedom of expression.
Maybe every person in congress should be required to take a few lectures on how computers work and what the internet is?
Or maybe... people should stop voting for fools simply because the fool holds the "correct" view (take your pick) on abortion or gay marriage. The "issues" that decide elections these days are, by and large, not the ones that actually affect our lives. This is by design, a design crafted and paid for interests that are definitely not aligned with those of the electorate.
And yet the man was tried, convicted, and sentenced for crimes he did not commit. Surely you don't actually believe that 48 months in prison is suitable punishment for failing to exhibit "common decent behavior". If so, kindly tell us what statute you'd cite for that.
That the defendant did not "break in". He did not circumvent any system or other contrivance designed to secure sensitive information. Those systems and contrivances simply did not exist. The worst that can be said of what he did was that he was irresponsible in sending the clearly sensitive information to someone else. The right thing to do, of course, would have been to contact AT&T. Had he done that, there wouldn't even be a case for restitution, unless maybe it was to compensate the defendant for doing the work that AT&T failed to do.
Not unlike propaganda in the US made the majority of americans think Sadam Hussein was behind 9/11...
While I share the apparent sentiment that this is a sorry state of affairs, the sad fact is that most of those idiots believe the way they do because they choose to. The truth is out there, readily available, with spin or without. One need only have the will to watch, listen, or read. And still, the largest single block seems to get their "truth" from Fox News. I take it back; that's not sad. It's plain fucking scary.
Perhaps, but I suspect that it's really because the percentage of users that use ad-blocking software is so small. For that group, the ads are generally nothing more than an annoyance anyway, so it's not a demographic with a significant conversion rate. Nothing is really lost there. Now, have a major ISP offer something like that by default and listen to the howls of outrage from the advertisers.
Country of origin is irrelevant. If you still feel it is, remember, StuxNet came from the US government.
Yes, it did, which rather proves that state-sponsored cyber attacks are very, very real. Given that, the notion that routers manufactured in the PRC might come with back doors as standard equipment (we're looking at you, Huawei) is hardly a stretch.
Im not sure its entirely accurate to call Peter the "first pope". The office as such did not exist, and the specific role of "pope" was never acknowledged by Peter or anyone else at that time.
So..., you're saying..., that there might be some... confusion creeping into the collection of mythology and folk-tales that, over time, often becomes "religious truth"? Oh_my_gawd. So how are we to know when the end is actually nigh, so we can, you know, confess our sins and get our "get out of hell free" card?