Really? Is it one of the type that's powered by a thermocouple heated by the pilot light? We had one like that when my parents bought their first house, but it didn't work well so they replaced it with a regular one a year or two later.
Since the utility owned all the poles they pulled fiber everywhere, so there wasn't any need for a VPN. Yes, I would agree that a (properly configured) VPN could be part of a private network. The only issue that I had with the security for their SCADA implementation was a link between an offshore island and the mainland that used Ethernet over Power Lines for comms, but since it just ran from one substation to another substation with no feeders anywhere else any risk was minimal.
African women are somehow different than women in the rest of the world? To my (admittedly limited) knowledge women are women everywhere, and breast feeding inhibits fertility.
And those are the people the US State Department and the Pentagon are arming and financing. I sometimes wonder if anyone in the DC area thinks more than one election cycle ahead.
Most women are infertile while breast feeding, which is why a lot of women, like my mother-in-law, have children every three years. Within a year of weaning one kid the next one is conceived, thanks to the Vatican convincing a billion people that birth control is the work of the devil.
I've met people dealing with the side effects of the polio they contracted 40+ years ago. There are a LOT more people with post-polio syndrome then there are people who have had deleterious effects from the vaccine, and a lot of them are going to die from PPS.
If the Pentagon can dig up corpses out of the Alaska permafrost to find samples of the Spanish Influenza strain then I'm not optimistic that we'll see a definitive end to some of these. The sick bastards are still working on creating new bioweapons today. When Commander-In-Chief Clinton directly ordered the Pentagon to stop work on bioweapons in the 1990s they just changed the name of the programs and moved the budget to another line item in the Black Budget. Didn't even move the researchers to different cubicles.
In many dioceses the Church also makes selling or giving away condoms a sin. Healthcare workers are also forbidden from recommending condoms for birth control. Marriages that cannot be "correctly" consummated, e.g. one partner has HIV so barriers must be used, are not considered valid.
It's not money and comfort, it's power that attracts many people to the priesthood. Power over parishioners in the case of the parish priest, or really enormous power over the political process affecting the lives of millions when they reach the position of archbishop or cardinal.
It's been so hot in Australia that they've had to add new colors to the weather charts. 50+ degrees (122 F), it's so hot that people can't use their iToys outside because they overheat and shut down.
Sorry, but none of that had anything to do with "the sun running in cycles", since solar output stayed pretty much the same throughout the entire period. Or did all the solar research labs of the 1970s conspire to hide the evidence? Go look at the data.
Stalin's secret police broke up hiking clubs and imprisoned the leadership of the country's largest amateur rocket club. It had nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with a group not sponsored by Stalin's political apparatus having meetings.
There's a big difference between being on a private network and being on the Internet. The utility's systems were networked, but unless you have physical access to the hardware you're not getting on that network. It's a SCADA **system**, not some stand-alone hardware controls. Agreed, you could break into the power dam control room, unplug something from the router, spoof that device's MAC address, plug into that same port, and then get on that network but don't you agree that's just a wee bit different than being able to attack something from the comfort of your living room? The SCADA system was air-gapped, not the individual devices.
Ken Alibek's team already came up with a real solution to our overpopulation problem, it's why Bush the Elected's administration gave him citizenship as soon as he defected and sent him to work at Dugway.
The SCADA systems that I have worked with were for electrical generation and distribution and water/sewer systems, and they absolutely were air gapped. Crossing that bridge with a cable was an automatic firing offense, and yes, they canned a manager who thought that no one would notice. That utility covered an entire very large and highly-populated county and tied into the larger national electrical grid. I'll guarantee that most of the SCADA systems nationwide are air gapped, as it's required by FERC and can generate hefty fines if they're not.
Wolves, African wild dogs, dingos, some hyenas and some jackals use both strategies, as will packs of domestic dogs gone wild. You're right, the prey doesn't "die of exhaustion", but it does stop running. You only need to keep the prey in sight until it is tired enough that it decides not to run any longer, then the tribe moves in with the spears.
Go stand in the sun near the equator for an hour, or run through elephant grass, or move through a thicket, and then tell me if you're still of the same opinion. Clothes are not only for the cold.
Prey animals don't run in a straight line, they tend to circle back where they came from. Hunted rabbits with beagles for years, and 90 percent of the time they will loop back towards the point where they were originally jumped up. Wolves will station pack members ahead of the running prey to turn it whatever direction is desired, early humans, with even better communications and planning skills, almost certainly did the same.
Do you think there is anyone in the entire insurance industry that has a clue? Having done physical security for a number of insurance company clients, as fare as I can tell the insurance industry is where IT talents go to die.
Pre-Internet the control systems often had their own modem and serial ports. Frequently one dialed into a serial port server, issuing commands at a prompt directly to the equipment. (A lot of the old equipment still have those RS-485/422 serial ports sticking out and only the oldest service techs know how to use them.) There were also telnet servers that would relay commands across a serial connection to the telnet server on the equipment. Starting with NT 3.51 you could set up RAS connections to standalone PCs, drop a modem on the box, and have a fairly secure terminal server (using VNC or something until RDP connections became available in Server 2000). I think you could do the same to OS/2 machines, Unix servers varied depending on the flavor and version.
Normally the SCADA systems **ARE** air-gapped from the corporate backbone, but until we start breeding better managers some idiot will occasionally pull a cable across that gap in order to produce a report or something.
Most of the endpoint devices that I've seen use either Linux (old, unpatched versions) or something akin to Tron or DOS. Management clients are often Windows, and they're unpatched and unmanaged because they're not on the normal Corp network so IT doesn't have access to them. The actual SCADA management system is normally hosted on some flavor of Unix, at least in the power and water industries.
Two really obvious possibilities occur to me. First, the photo could be entered as evidence after the statement, to rebut the defendant's testimony. The other is that public defenders (which is all most of these morons can afford) are far too busy to look through all the evidence for every one of the mountains of cases that are piled on their desk. (Overwhelming the defense with a mountain of last-minute evidence is a very old prosecutors trick.) Of course there's also at least one more possibility, that the defense attorney really believes society would be better off if this dirtbag were off the streets so throws the case, but that's fairly rare.
I haven't heard of the NSA informing law enforcement organizations of anything in years, probably since Ronnie Raygun's time. The CIA and DEA on the other hand make sure to point out which cars NOT to stop so that their "confidential informant" (i.e. buddy who is giving them kickbacks) is left alone.
Mafiosos used to be known for supporting orphanages, schools, the Catholic church (which some still think denotes a certain amount of class, for some reason), protecting children (until they were old enough to take or become hookers), and eliminating the street hoods that were the face of crime to the average citizen. The settled arguments between neighbors and groups who couldn't afford to go to court and hadn't gotten satisfaction from the regular authorities. So yeah, they did have some class, at least until the late-'70s/early-'80s when their society changed.
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Really? Is it one of the type that's powered by a thermocouple heated by the pilot light? We had one like that when my parents bought their first house, but it didn't work well so they replaced it with a regular one a year or two later.
Since the utility owned all the poles they pulled fiber everywhere, so there wasn't any need for a VPN. Yes, I would agree that a (properly configured) VPN could be part of a private network. The only issue that I had with the security for their SCADA implementation was a link between an offshore island and the mainland that used Ethernet over Power Lines for comms, but since it just ran from one substation to another substation with no feeders anywhere else any risk was minimal.
African women are somehow different than women in the rest of the world? To my (admittedly limited) knowledge women are women everywhere, and breast feeding inhibits fertility.
And those are the people the US State Department and the Pentagon are arming and financing. I sometimes wonder if anyone in the DC area thinks more than one election cycle ahead.
Most women are infertile while breast feeding, which is why a lot of women, like my mother-in-law, have children every three years. Within a year of weaning one kid the next one is conceived, thanks to the Vatican convincing a billion people that birth control is the work of the devil.
I've met people dealing with the side effects of the polio they contracted 40+ years ago. There are a LOT more people with post-polio syndrome then there are people who have had deleterious effects from the vaccine, and a lot of them are going to die from PPS.
If the Pentagon can dig up corpses out of the Alaska permafrost to find samples of the Spanish Influenza strain then I'm not optimistic that we'll see a definitive end to some of these. The sick bastards are still working on creating new bioweapons today. When Commander-In-Chief Clinton directly ordered the Pentagon to stop work on bioweapons in the 1990s they just changed the name of the programs and moved the budget to another line item in the Black Budget. Didn't even move the researchers to different cubicles.
In many dioceses the Church also makes selling or giving away condoms a sin. Healthcare workers are also forbidden from recommending condoms for birth control. Marriages that cannot be "correctly" consummated, e.g. one partner has HIV so barriers must be used, are not considered valid.
It's not money and comfort, it's power that attracts many people to the priesthood. Power over parishioners in the case of the parish priest, or really enormous power over the political process affecting the lives of millions when they reach the position of archbishop or cardinal.
It's been so hot in Australia that they've had to add new colors to the weather charts. 50+ degrees (122 F), it's so hot that people can't use their iToys outside because they overheat and shut down.
Sorry, but none of that had anything to do with "the sun running in cycles", since solar output stayed pretty much the same throughout the entire period. Or did all the solar research labs of the 1970s conspire to hide the evidence? Go look at the data.
Stalin's secret police broke up hiking clubs and imprisoned the leadership of the country's largest amateur rocket club. It had nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with a group not sponsored by Stalin's political apparatus having meetings.
There's a big difference between being on a private network and being on the Internet. The utility's systems were networked, but unless you have physical access to the hardware you're not getting on that network. It's a SCADA **system**, not some stand-alone hardware controls. Agreed, you could break into the power dam control room, unplug something from the router, spoof that device's MAC address, plug into that same port, and then get on that network but don't you agree that's just a wee bit different than being able to attack something from the comfort of your living room? The SCADA system was air-gapped, not the individual devices.
Ken Alibek's team already came up with a real solution to our overpopulation problem, it's why Bush the Elected's administration gave him citizenship as soon as he defected and sent him to work at Dugway.
The SCADA systems that I have worked with were for electrical generation and distribution and water/sewer systems, and they absolutely were air gapped. Crossing that bridge with a cable was an automatic firing offense, and yes, they canned a manager who thought that no one would notice. That utility covered an entire very large and highly-populated county and tied into the larger national electrical grid. I'll guarantee that most of the SCADA systems nationwide are air gapped, as it's required by FERC and can generate hefty fines if they're not.
Wolves, African wild dogs, dingos, some hyenas and some jackals use both strategies, as will packs of domestic dogs gone wild. You're right, the prey doesn't "die of exhaustion", but it does stop running. You only need to keep the prey in sight until it is tired enough that it decides not to run any longer, then the tribe moves in with the spears.
Go stand in the sun near the equator for an hour, or run through elephant grass, or move through a thicket, and then tell me if you're still of the same opinion. Clothes are not only for the cold.
Prey animals don't run in a straight line, they tend to circle back where they came from. Hunted rabbits with beagles for years, and 90 percent of the time they will loop back towards the point where they were originally jumped up. Wolves will station pack members ahead of the running prey to turn it whatever direction is desired, early humans, with even better communications and planning skills, almost certainly did the same.
Do you think there is anyone in the entire insurance industry that has a clue? Having done physical security for a number of insurance company clients, as fare as I can tell the insurance industry is where IT talents go to die.
Pre-Internet the control systems often had their own modem and serial ports. Frequently one dialed into a serial port server, issuing commands at a prompt directly to the equipment. (A lot of the old equipment still have those RS-485/422 serial ports sticking out and only the oldest service techs know how to use them.) There were also telnet servers that would relay commands across a serial connection to the telnet server on the equipment. Starting with NT 3.51 you could set up RAS connections to standalone PCs, drop a modem on the box, and have a fairly secure terminal server (using VNC or something until RDP connections became available in Server 2000). I think you could do the same to OS/2 machines, Unix servers varied depending on the flavor and version.
Normally the SCADA systems **ARE** air-gapped from the corporate backbone, but until we start breeding better managers some idiot will occasionally pull a cable across that gap in order to produce a report or something.
Most of the endpoint devices that I've seen use either Linux (old, unpatched versions) or something akin to Tron or DOS. Management clients are often Windows, and they're unpatched and unmanaged because they're not on the normal Corp network so IT doesn't have access to them. The actual SCADA management system is normally hosted on some flavor of Unix, at least in the power and water industries.
Two really obvious possibilities occur to me. First, the photo could be entered as evidence after the statement, to rebut the defendant's testimony. The other is that public defenders (which is all most of these morons can afford) are far too busy to look through all the evidence for every one of the mountains of cases that are piled on their desk. (Overwhelming the defense with a mountain of last-minute evidence is a very old prosecutors trick.) Of course there's also at least one more possibility, that the defense attorney really believes society would be better off if this dirtbag were off the streets so throws the case, but that's fairly rare.
Or become bankers or lawyers.
I haven't heard of the NSA informing law enforcement organizations of anything in years, probably since Ronnie Raygun's time. The CIA and DEA on the other hand make sure to point out which cars NOT to stop so that their "confidential informant" (i.e. buddy who is giving them kickbacks) is left alone.
Mafiosos used to be known for supporting orphanages, schools, the Catholic church (which some still think denotes a certain amount of class, for some reason), protecting children (until they were old enough to take or become hookers), and eliminating the street hoods that were the face of crime to the average citizen. The settled arguments between neighbors and groups who couldn't afford to go to court and hadn't gotten satisfaction from the regular authorities. So yeah, they did have some class, at least until the late-'70s/early-'80s when their society changed.