Not any bank I've ever used. They don't send a letter; they correct your mistake and go about their day. If you're lucky, they'll note it in the monthly bank statement.
Actually Tivo, Inc. could cause a huge stink between NBC and their advertisers. They can tell you exactly how many views NBC lost from that little stunt. They know exactly how many tivo's refused to record those shows. If I were an NBC advertiser, I would be demanding money back.
Exactly. However, what they are doing is giving you "xxx" and then intentionally breaking the connection as a means of reducing throughput. Imagine if your water company decided to do the same thing... instead of reducing usage by reducing flow (i.e. water preasure) they start injecting air into the line; you get the same water preasure, but effectively less water.
By any other definition, what they are doing is a man-in-the-middle attack. And it is 100% inescapable. They can break any TCP connection they want.
What part of monopoly don't you grasp? No matter how much money you have, you will not be allowed to string up your own cable network to compete with whomever is already there -- it'd be cheaper to buy out the existing competition. Verizon gets away with this because they are the existing phone company; they're running fibre along side the copper (and then ripping out the copper our tax money subsidized.) If I wanted to do the same and run my own fibre network around the city, I'd spend the next decade in court before I was ever allowed to crank the backhoe.
What ever happened to those cities that had plans to roll out their own (free) municiple wi-fi networks? Right, they dropped it after years in court.
WiMax is not available, well, anywhere. Satellite isn't technically broadband. Dialup never has been broadband; and in fact, is useless for over 99% of the internet today.
Face reality. There are natural and artificial limits on who can and does provide physical internet access. Only one company owns the coax cable in the ground. Only one company owns the copper phone wires in the ground. Very few companies license the radio frequencies traveling through the air around you. Even in the most tech savy parts of the country, your choices are very limited. Back in the golden days of dialup -- long before dsl and cablemodems -- you had dozens of choices of ISP; anyone could be an ISP. Today, choices are limited and it's nearly impossible for new players to enter the field.
I can understand the logic of the count room's "back door"... they can get out of the room if there's any problems in the casino.
As for simple security errors, those can be attributed to low paid, and otherwise unskilled, workers doing the work without oversight. The vents on our server room door were installed backwards (screws outward), plus there's nothing to stop you from climbing over the drop ceiling. We've had need to climb over the wall several times in several offices after people lock their keys in. It helps to have those lovely "handicapable" lever door handles.
(And fixing any of that would be useless as the guys who robbed our office pried the doors (and file cabnets) open with a crow bar.)
Btw, safes -- arguablly the toughest things we make -- are rated by the number of hours necessary to break them open. And we're making better tools every day:-)
You do for it to actually work. Every ISP I've worked for or dealt with in the last 10 tens implements AS AND prefix filters. You can only announce the address space you actually own or that of your customers -- with written authorization from said customers.
Looks more like honest ISPs should terminate all peering with Cogent and anyone else seen announcing 134.17/16. Having had part of my network stolen over a decade ago ('95-96), you do not want people like this on the internet. (in our case it was claimed to be a typo, but it still took the entire ISP off the net for over a day.)
Actually, my experience is from Gentoo. ReiserFS is one of the hundreds of reasons I'll never use gentoo again.
It has gotten better over the years. However, there are still numerous "naturally occuring" means to corrupt reiserfs in ways the tools will detect but never fix. It's a reasonable filesystem, but the tools are complete crap.
The point is to take "clones" off-site. If you lose the on-site tapes, you still have all the data in the second set off-site. And vice versa. As for fire, I used to keep the off-site sets in "fire boxes" to cover that nagging "what if your house burns down" issue. (rated for 1000F for 4 hours, it's insanely heavy for tansporting a half dozen tapes.)
Ulitmately, your house is just as insecure as your car. Off-site storage companies typically have large, climate controlled warehouses with cameras and armed guards. Tapes getting stolen from the warehouse is rare and almost always an inside job.
Plus, most modern CPU's can handle encryption/decryption at speeds exceeding the streaming rate of the tape drive. However, modern drives are pushing that, but then they have hardware encryption built into them.
I grew up in the sticks, so I remember the doctor's office being >50% file room. We used to do everything on paper. Today, everything is done on computer. "x-ray's" aren't even done with film anymore... (granted, those aren't actually x-ray's.) We aren't quite to the point where nurses and PA's are walking around with tablet computers, but that day is coming. (I've had my order taken at McDonalds by a kid standing the parking lot with a wireless tablet:-) That place had a dual lane drive thru for a while.)
EMC/Legato Networker doesn't, or didn't for many years -- current versions made in the last few years might.
Just because your data is "encrypted" doesn't mean it's safe. The encryption could be laughablly weak even when the company claims it's AES. Your password(s) could, eventually, be guessed (or stolen as well.) Etc. Etc. Bottom line, your data is never safe forever.
That has yet to be proven. If the tapes are encrypted and thus unreadable outside the university, why is the theft even being announced? The data is no more at risk today than last week. Publicity? Scare tactics? Bad press for the off-site storage company? An attempt to shame the theives into returning the tapes?
Actually, I bet they're on eBay right now. LTO/SDLT tapes will net a tidy sum -- even for a half dozen tapes. And the case could be worth hundreds -- nobody has given a detailed description of the "transport case"; it could be a 20$ plastic turtle case. It's almost impossible to track down a stolen data tape. (raise your hand if you record the serial numbers of your tapes.) The data on the tapes will almost certainly be unrecognizable junk, assuming the theives have one of the $2k drives (stolen?) necessary to read them at all.
Then they aren't very good experts. Spotting chinese fakes isn't impossibe. None that I've ever seen are 100% exact knock offs of genuine cisco hardware. There's always something out of place... unlabeled blackmarket chips -- every chip used by genuine cisco hardware has part and serial numbers on them, serial number labels in odd locations, odd looking serial numbers, unregistered serial numbers (yes, cisco has a database of every device they've ever made -- I've looked up AS-51's), no holofoil, etc., etc. Granted, it's rare for them to be so bad at making fakes that you can take one look at it and immediately know it's a fake. (if it's that obvious, they fix it in the next batch.)
Bull***. It's "superglue". It'll take more than a hair dryer and razor blade, but it is indeed removable. (I've had to remove similar bonded metal tags from decommissioned equipment before -- they have to be removed before they're "destroyed" (aka thrown in the trash) or donated, lest they be seen as stolen.)
Bottom line... if you don't want your laptop stolen, don't buy a laptop - period.
#1... it doesn't matter where you put it. Theives will look in places you didn't even know you had.
#2... this guy's laptop was in his locked f'ing house. That's about as far from "where strangers wander around" as it gets without hiring armed guards.
#3... *hah* You've obviously never been robbed. A file cabnet/desk drawer is nothing to them. Even locked doors won't slow them down much. When our office was hit (among many offices in the building and along the parkway), every locked door was pried open; every desk drawer and file cabnet was pried open -- except the accounting cabnet which is made of heavy 12gauge steel.
#5... Negative. The CEO and CTO's laptop were stolen from the trunk of their car in CA. Just because nobody sees you put stuff in the trunk doesn't mean nobody will be willing to pop the trunk looking for stuff. (Simply being a rental car is enough of a reason.)
#6... Your only words of wisdom. I'm surprised people don't realize the battery in their laptop is often worth more than the entire laptop.
The reason the police don't put a lot of work into hunting down these theives is that it's far more expensive to hunt them down than to replace what was taken. That goes double when your insurance replaces what was stolen.
Seeing as POP3 is a mail retreival protocol, it stands to reason nothing would ever "bounce mail sent from a POP3 client." Yes, NMS is/was a buggy pile, but IMAP (or POP) was never the reason for messages bouncing or being rejected. I've seen (and fixed) Cyrus refusing messages... because they contain malformed headers that cannot be processed via IMAP. (some lame spammers put nulls in their headers.)
Communigate, Cyrus, uw-imap, *cough*netscape messaging server*cough*... I've used IMAP since 1996 and never "randomly lost email". In fact, my mail server, that's been in near continuous operation for 5+ years with over 10GB of mailboxes on it (100's of TB's have moved through it), has never lost anyone's email.
Negative. The best they'll see is a hostname if it's provided in the client hello -- which is a recent addition to the SSL protocol to allow name-based SSL virtual hosts.
You forgot about SAS channel bonding... up to 4 channels == 12Gbit.
The real difference... SCSI drives have a long standing, proven record of reliability. SAS is still two new to tell. However, SAS drives are built in the same factories with the same processes as "cheap crap" SATA drives. So, I really doubt they will have the same quality and reliability we've come to expect from SCSI hardware. Only time will tell.
And that single SATA drive will last about 18mo, on average. On the other hand, I have SCSI array's that are a decade old and still going strong.
Say what you will about why, but SCSI hardware lasts much, MUCH longer than cheap IDE, ATA, SATA crap. Just becase Seagate, WD, etc. give a 5 year warantee on the drive doesn't mean it'll last that long -- I've not seen one out live it's warantee yet. I have a Maxtor SCSI-1 drive that's now 15 years old and still running perfectly. (yes, it's only 213MB. I did say it was 15yrs old.)
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Not any bank I've ever used. They don't send a letter; they correct your mistake and go about their day. If you're lucky, they'll note it in the monthly bank statement.
Actually Tivo, Inc. could cause a huge stink between NBC and their advertisers. They can tell you exactly how many views NBC lost from that little stunt. They know exactly how many tivo's refused to record those shows. If I were an NBC advertiser, I would be demanding money back.
Exactly. However, what they are doing is giving you "xxx" and then intentionally breaking the connection as a means of reducing throughput. Imagine if your water company decided to do the same thing... instead of reducing usage by reducing flow (i.e. water preasure) they start injecting air into the line; you get the same water preasure, but effectively less water.
By any other definition, what they are doing is a man-in-the-middle attack. And it is 100% inescapable. They can break any TCP connection they want.
What part of monopoly don't you grasp? No matter how much money you have, you will not be allowed to string up your own cable network to compete with whomever is already there -- it'd be cheaper to buy out the existing competition. Verizon gets away with this because they are the existing phone company; they're running fibre along side the copper (and then ripping out the copper our tax money subsidized.) If I wanted to do the same and run my own fibre network around the city, I'd spend the next decade in court before I was ever allowed to crank the backhoe.
What ever happened to those cities that had plans to roll out their own (free) municiple wi-fi networks? Right, they dropped it after years in court.
WiMax is not available, well, anywhere. Satellite isn't technically broadband. Dialup never has been broadband; and in fact, is useless for over 99% of the internet today.
Face reality. There are natural and artificial limits on who can and does provide physical internet access. Only one company owns the coax cable in the ground. Only one company owns the copper phone wires in the ground. Very few companies license the radio frequencies traveling through the air around you. Even in the most tech savy parts of the country, your choices are very limited. Back in the golden days of dialup -- long before dsl and cablemodems -- you had dozens of choices of ISP; anyone could be an ISP. Today, choices are limited and it's nearly impossible for new players to enter the field.
I can understand the logic of the count room's "back door"... they can get out of the room if there's any problems in the casino.
:-)
As for simple security errors, those can be attributed to low paid, and otherwise unskilled, workers doing the work without oversight. The vents on our server room door were installed backwards (screws outward), plus there's nothing to stop you from climbing over the drop ceiling. We've had need to climb over the wall several times in several offices after people lock their keys in. It helps to have those lovely "handicapable" lever door handles.
(And fixing any of that would be useless as the guys who robbed our office pried the doors (and file cabnets) open with a crow bar.)
Btw, safes -- arguablly the toughest things we make -- are rated by the number of hours necessary to break them open. And we're making better tools every day
You do for it to actually work. Every ISP I've worked for or dealt with in the last 10 tens implements AS AND prefix filters. You can only announce the address space you actually own or that of your customers -- with written authorization from said customers.
Looks more like honest ISPs should terminate all peering with Cogent and anyone else seen announcing 134.17/16. Having had part of my network stolen over a decade ago ('95-96), you do not want people like this on the internet. (in our case it was claimed to be a typo, but it still took the entire ISP off the net for over a day.)
Actually, my experience is from Gentoo. ReiserFS is one of the hundreds of reasons I'll never use gentoo again.
It has gotten better over the years. However, there are still numerous "naturally occuring" means to corrupt reiserfs in ways the tools will detect but never fix. It's a reasonable filesystem, but the tools are complete crap.
The point is to take "clones" off-site. If you lose the on-site tapes, you still have all the data in the second set off-site. And vice versa. As for fire, I used to keep the off-site sets in "fire boxes" to cover that nagging "what if your house burns down" issue. (rated for 1000F for 4 hours, it's insanely heavy for tansporting a half dozen tapes.)
Ulitmately, your house is just as insecure as your car. Off-site storage companies typically have large, climate controlled warehouses with cameras and armed guards. Tapes getting stolen from the warehouse is rare and almost always an inside job.
Plus, most modern CPU's can handle encryption/decryption at speeds exceeding the streaming rate of the tape drive. However, modern drives are pushing that, but then they have hardware encryption built into them.
I grew up in the sticks, so I remember the doctor's office being >50% file room. We used to do everything on paper. Today, everything is done on computer. "x-ray's" aren't even done with film anymore... (granted, those aren't actually x-ray's.) We aren't quite to the point where nurses and PA's are walking around with tablet computers, but that day is coming. (I've had my order taken at McDonalds by a kid standing the parking lot with a wireless tablet :-) That place had a dual lane drive thru for a while.)
EMC/Legato Networker doesn't, or didn't for many years -- current versions made in the last few years might.
Just because your data is "encrypted" doesn't mean it's safe. The encryption could be laughablly weak even when the company claims it's AES. Your password(s) could, eventually, be guessed (or stolen as well.) Etc. Etc. Bottom line, your data is never safe forever.
These sorts of things can easily be reduced, if not completely stopped, by having one person in the van at all times.
Having worked for the NCDOT I can tell you, the mere presence of another person is enough to quell the theiving instinct in 99.9% of people.
Actually, I bet they're on eBay right now. LTO/SDLT tapes will net a tidy sum -- even for a half dozen tapes. And the case could be worth hundreds -- nobody has given a detailed description of the "transport case"; it could be a 20$ plastic turtle case. It's almost impossible to track down a stolen data tape. (raise your hand if you record the serial numbers of your tapes.) The data on the tapes will almost certainly be unrecognizable junk, assuming the theives have one of the $2k drives (stolen?) necessary to read them at all.
Then they aren't very good experts. Spotting chinese fakes isn't impossibe. None that I've ever seen are 100% exact knock offs of genuine cisco hardware. There's always something out of place... unlabeled blackmarket chips -- every chip used by genuine cisco hardware has part and serial numbers on them, serial number labels in odd locations, odd looking serial numbers, unregistered serial numbers (yes, cisco has a database of every device they've ever made -- I've looked up AS-51's), no holofoil, etc., etc. Granted, it's rare for them to be so bad at making fakes that you can take one look at it and immediately know it's a fake. (if it's that obvious, they fix it in the next batch.)
Bull***. It's "superglue". It'll take more than a hair dryer and razor blade, but it is indeed removable. (I've had to remove similar bonded metal tags from decommissioned equipment before -- they have to be removed before they're "destroyed" (aka thrown in the trash) or donated, lest they be seen as stolen.)
Bottom line... if you don't want your laptop stolen, don't buy a laptop - period.
#1... it doesn't matter where you put it. Theives will look in places you didn't even know you had.
#2... this guy's laptop was in his locked f'ing house. That's about as far from "where strangers wander around" as it gets without hiring armed guards.
#3... *hah* You've obviously never been robbed. A file cabnet/desk drawer is nothing to them. Even locked doors won't slow them down much. When our office was hit (among many offices in the building and along the parkway), every locked door was pried open; every desk drawer and file cabnet was pried open -- except the accounting cabnet which is made of heavy 12gauge steel.
#5... Negative. The CEO and CTO's laptop were stolen from the trunk of their car in CA. Just because nobody sees you put stuff in the trunk doesn't mean nobody will be willing to pop the trunk looking for stuff. (Simply being a rental car is enough of a reason.)
#6... Your only words of wisdom. I'm surprised people don't realize the battery in their laptop is often worth more than the entire laptop.
The reason the police don't put a lot of work into hunting down these theives is that it's far more expensive to hunt them down than to replace what was taken. That goes double when your insurance replaces what was stolen.
Seeing as POP3 is a mail retreival protocol, it stands to reason nothing would ever "bounce mail sent from a POP3 client." Yes, NMS is/was a buggy pile, but IMAP (or POP) was never the reason for messages bouncing or being rejected. I've seen (and fixed) Cyrus refusing messages... because they contain malformed headers that cannot be processed via IMAP. (some lame spammers put nulls in their headers.)
Communigate, Cyrus, uw-imap, *cough*netscape messaging server*cough*... I've used IMAP since 1996 and never "randomly lost email". In fact, my mail server, that's been in near continuous operation for 5+ years with over 10GB of mailboxes on it (100's of TB's have moved through it), has never lost anyone's email.
Like getting credit card numbers is difficult? That's laughable to any high volume spammers. Any 5yo can use Google to find hundreds of CC numbers.
Negative. The best they'll see is a hostname if it's provided in the client hello -- which is a recent addition to the SSL protocol to allow name-based SSL virtual hosts.
You forgot about SAS channel bonding... up to 4 channels == 12Gbit.
The real difference... SCSI drives have a long standing, proven record of reliability. SAS is still two new to tell. However, SAS drives are built in the same factories with the same processes as "cheap crap" SATA drives. So, I really doubt they will have the same quality and reliability we've come to expect from SCSI hardware. Only time will tell.
And that single SATA drive will last about 18mo, on average. On the other hand, I have SCSI array's that are a decade old and still going strong.
Say what you will about why, but SCSI hardware lasts much, MUCH longer than cheap IDE, ATA, SATA crap. Just becase Seagate, WD, etc. give a 5 year warantee on the drive doesn't mean it'll last that long -- I've not seen one out live it's warantee yet. I have a Maxtor SCSI-1 drive that's now 15 years old and still running perfectly. (yes, it's only 213MB. I did say it was 15yrs old.)
That's not a SCSI issue. But, yes, USB storage sucks.