I automated antivirus and patch distribution on the servers. I installed firefox to all the users. That way they dont mess with IE.
There's a excellent point here.
With your the sole geek in an organization, you have to eliminate as much of the support B.S. as possible. One thing I would suggest is that you lock down your desktops, both in terms of software installed, and security, so that you can drastically reduce the potential for user initiated destruction/aggravation.
Have a sit down with management and determine exactly what software would be needed, making sure that you're trying to anticipate some future needs (i.e., web development, CRM, databases, etc.). Build up a machine with everything needed (not everything wanted), lock down user privileges, then buy some imaging software like Ghost, and clone it. Both the cloning and the lockdown will severely reduce or eliminate support "surprises" like rogue installations and spyware.
"Ms Warwar believes that the rise in internal security attacks has come about because outside criminal gangs realise that recruiting or tricking employees to hand over insider knowledge is less expensive and traceable than other forms of cybercrime."
When approached for comment, Mr. Warwar replied, "Claudia can think its terrorists and criminals all she wants. I know it's that pervert Jason in accounting!"
Let me lock my credit report down so that it reports only "CREDIT REPORT LOCKED BY OWNER"
You can already kinda do this (in the U.S., anyway). Just call the credit reporting agencies and have them place a fraud alert on your information. Anyone, or any business, requesting information on your credit or credit history will be denied access to that information until you specifically authorize it. As a side benefit, doing this also automatically removes your name from a pile of mailing lists.
You: "Yeah, I just got an offer from Bank X for a credit card with "Y" as the interest rate, which is much lower than what I'm paying you now. I'm wondering if you could lower my rate to be more in line.
Credit rep: "Sorry, no. We can't do that."
You: "Oh well, looks like I'll have to cancel your card and go with these guys. Pleasure doing business with you."
Credit rep: "Oh wait, I just got authorization from my manager and he says changing your rate won't be a problem. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"
...it's ten years later and Ms. Abdala is sitting across a small table, staring down rather sheepishly at her formerly well-manicured nails:
Bar Representative:Are you aware, Ms. Abdala, that this is your second time in front of this board for accusations of malpractice?
Ms. Abdala:Yes, but you have to understand . . . I really didn't want to talk to my client. He's soooo boring . . .
Bar Representative:Regardless of your opinion of his personality, you did, in fact, take money from him?
Ms. Abdala: Well, sure, but . . .
Bar Representative:Blah, Blah, Blah, Ms. Abdala. This board finds you guilty of malpractice. Effective immediately, you are no longer licensed to practice law in this state. Have a nice day, brat.
Yes, thanks to congress' Al-Qaeda Bill Of Rights...buncha liberals...:/
You do remember that Congress has been under conservative control since 1994, and that all three branches of government are now in conservative hands? Can't really blame the liberals any more . . . now it can only be a conservative's fault.
Melvin Sembler, youth cult leader, appointed to Amabassador to Italy.
WTF?!? I completely missed this one when it came out!
Thankfully, it looks like Sembler's been replaced by someone with deeper pockets. Probably a good thing, too. Sounds like Mr. Sembler's "organization" was a little on the sick side.
What exactly are you up to which you dont want us to know about?
I'll bite.
It's not a question of what someone is or is not up to. But a question of whether or not their personal behavior can be defined as threatening enough to merit the elimination of basic freedom.
As a society evolves, so does its definition of acceptable and unacceptable behavior. The definitions of right and wrong are never "carved in stone". Today, pedophilia is frowned upon, and we demand that pedophiles be tagged and tracked. But how would you feel if, tomorrow, being a Democrat or Republican was frowned upon and you were subsequently tagged and tracked for that?
This is "slippery slope" in a nutshell. Ask yourself what liberties you would be willing to surrender to a group that hates everything you may stand for.
The way I understand it (IANAL, but am married to one), IP telephony and PBX calls can be recorded without notification to the person you are talking to, as they're still defined, rather loosely I'd say, as voice traffic. Now, whether or not this remains the case once elected officials start looking more closely at IP telephony due to the screams and howls of their well-funded telco lobbyists remains to be seen. I have a sneaky suspicion that the people who are most likely object to one-way recording are going to be large businesses trying to prevent accusations/lawsuits of abusive or intentionally obtuse customer service reps.
Frankly, I'm surprised Georgia still allows one-way recording. I figured Bellsouth would be pretty much in the forefront of shutting it down. Maybe there's a reason they want it active?
The conference calls were probably setup from the provider (Vodaphone's) side
What's to stop Vodaphone from doing this with all of their phones? I imagine a few corporate executives would be looking long and hard at their mobile phones if they knew they were potentially tapped at purchase. The possibilites for corporate espionage are limitless, but perhaps the discovery of a few unauthorized corporate wiretaps is what it'll take to make people take a harder look at warrantless wiretapping in general.
ind out what IP blocks the provider has and look them up on various RBL's to see if you are going to have issues
If you haven't already found it, SenderBase is a handy site for determining the history of email traffic from a particular IP address or block of addresses. For the anti-spam crusaders out there, it also useful in determining if that originating IP is a consistent high volume mailer, or a recently hacked zombie.
I wonder where they got their sample of people to respond to this poll.
I'm not sure where they got the samples, but based on the interview I heard on NPR yesterday, I'm betting most of the "I'm glad he's wiretapping" responses came from the middle states. In the NPR story, one Nebraska woman said she thought it was OK for the President to authorize wiretaps because she felt "there's some people that we should be watching more closely, like in the Middle East".
It was one of the most racist comments I've heard in years - and growing up in Georgia, I've heard plenty.
It's kind of interesting to me that those most afraid of the "terrorist" threats seem to be those in the states least likely to ever experience an actual attack (beyond the obvious trauma of watching it on Fox News). The middle belt has about as much to fear from a terrorist as Mars does a March of the Penguins. It's incredible how deep the fear of terrorism has rooted itself in these states, and I can't help but wonder why this is so.
Guess the movie theatres will be pulling out of Utah then. Along with bookstores, half the prime-time television offerings, more than a few cable channels, and a handful of magazine publishers.
Now, at least, I know where not to go for a vacation...
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There's a excellent point here.
With your the sole geek in an organization, you have to eliminate as much of the support B.S. as possible. One thing I would suggest is that you lock down your desktops, both in terms of software installed, and security, so that you can drastically reduce the potential for user initiated destruction/aggravation.
Have a sit down with management and determine exactly what software would be needed, making sure that you're trying to anticipate some future needs (i.e., web development, CRM, databases, etc.). Build up a machine with everything needed (not everything wanted), lock down user privileges, then buy some imaging software like Ghost, and clone it. Both the cloning and the lockdown will severely reduce or eliminate support "surprises" like rogue installations and spyware.
When approached for comment, Mr. Warwar replied, "Claudia can think its terrorists and criminals all she wants. I know it's that pervert Jason in accounting!"
Heh heh. That freeedom thing is a real bitch, ain't it?
Sounds like a job for Schrodinger's Medic.
You can already kinda do this (in the U.S., anyway). Just call the credit reporting agencies and have them place a fraud alert on your information. Anyone, or any business, requesting information on your credit or credit history will be denied access to that information until you specifically authorize it. As a side benefit, doing this also automatically removes your name from a pile of mailing lists.
You're right, of course. Should have mentioned that you have to be prepared to pay off the outstanding balance.
Call them back.
You: "Yeah, I just got an offer from Bank X for a credit card with "Y" as the interest rate, which is much lower than what I'm paying you now. I'm wondering if you could lower my rate to be more in line.
Credit rep: "Sorry, no. We can't do that."
You: "Oh well, looks like I'll have to cancel your card and go with these guys. Pleasure doing business with you."
Credit rep: "Oh wait, I just got authorization from my manager and he says changing your rate won't be a problem. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"
Unfortunately, creationism is now enjoying a bit of a rise in popularity not just in the U.S., but Great Britain as well.
...it's ten years later and Ms. Abdala is sitting across a small table, staring down rather sheepishly at her formerly well-manicured nails:
Bar Representative:Are you aware, Ms. Abdala, that this is your second time in front of this board for accusations of malpractice?
Ms. Abdala:Yes, but you have to understand . . . I really didn't want to talk to my client. He's soooo boring . . .
Bar Representative:Regardless of your opinion of his personality, you did, in fact, take money from him?
Ms. Abdala: Well, sure, but . . .
Bar Representative:Blah, Blah, Blah, Ms. Abdala. This board finds you guilty of malpractice. Effective immediately, you are no longer licensed to practice law in this state. Have a nice day, brat.
You do remember that Congress has been under conservative control since 1994, and that all three branches of government are now in conservative hands? Can't really blame the liberals any more . . . now it can only be a conservative's fault.
WTF?!? I completely missed this one when it came out!
Thankfully, it looks like Sembler's been replaced by someone with deeper pockets. Probably a good thing, too. Sounds like Mr. Sembler's "organization" was a little on the sick side.
Or . . . the presidency? ;-D
You mean they're not already?
I'll bite.
It's not a question of what someone is or is not up to. But a question of whether or not their personal behavior can be defined as threatening enough to merit the elimination of basic freedom.
As a society evolves, so does its definition of acceptable and unacceptable behavior. The definitions of right and wrong are never "carved in stone". Today, pedophilia is frowned upon, and we demand that pedophiles be tagged and tracked. But how would you feel if, tomorrow, being a Democrat or Republican was frowned upon and you were subsequently tagged and tracked for that?
This is "slippery slope" in a nutshell. Ask yourself what liberties you would be willing to surrender to a group that hates everything you may stand for.
From TFA:
So punish the harassers . Blizzard should sprout a pair and teach that intolerance will not be tolerated.
The way I understand it (IANAL, but am married to one), IP telephony and PBX calls can be recorded without notification to the person you are talking to, as they're still defined, rather loosely I'd say, as voice traffic. Now, whether or not this remains the case once elected officials start looking more closely at IP telephony due to the screams and howls of their well-funded telco lobbyists remains to be seen. I have a sneaky suspicion that the people who are most likely object to one-way recording are going to be large businesses trying to prevent accusations/lawsuits of abusive or intentionally obtuse customer service reps.
Frankly, I'm surprised Georgia still allows one-way recording. I figured Bellsouth would be pretty much in the forefront of shutting it down. Maybe there's a reason they want it active?
For the curious, here's a list of how each of the fifty U.S. states handle tape recording of telephone calls.
What's to stop Vodaphone from doing this with all of their phones? I imagine a few corporate executives would be looking long and hard at their mobile phones if they knew they were potentially tapped at purchase. The possibilites for corporate espionage are limitless, but perhaps the discovery of a few unauthorized corporate wiretaps is what it'll take to make people take a harder look at warrantless wiretapping in general.
Marty? Marty McFly? Time to come back from the future. Friday is February 3rd.
If you haven't already found it, SenderBase is a handy site for determining the history of email traffic from a particular IP address or block of addresses. For the anti-spam crusaders out there, it also useful in determining if that originating IP is a consistent high volume mailer, or a recently hacked zombie.
Yes.
Beautifully said.
I'm not sure where they got the samples, but based on the interview I heard on NPR yesterday, I'm betting most of the "I'm glad he's wiretapping" responses came from the middle states. In the NPR story, one Nebraska woman said she thought it was OK for the President to authorize wiretaps because she felt "there's some people that we should be watching more closely, like in the Middle East".
It was one of the most racist comments I've heard in years - and growing up in Georgia, I've heard plenty.
It's kind of interesting to me that those most afraid of the "terrorist" threats seem to be those in the states least likely to ever experience an actual attack (beyond the obvious trauma of watching it on Fox News). The middle belt has about as much to fear from a terrorist as Mars does a March of the Penguins. It's incredible how deep the fear of terrorism has rooted itself in these states, and I can't help but wonder why this is so.
Probably a better way is to find out which U.S. businesses have been tapped.
I'd be curious to see if the taps provided any "valuable" business data that was used to benefit a crony, or punish a rival.
Guess the movie theatres will be pulling out of Utah then. Along with bookstores, half the prime-time television offerings, more than a few cable channels, and a handful of magazine publishers.
Now, at least, I know where not to go for a vacation...