There is bureaucratic fight between the NSA and the White House (DHS is a cabinet position) over who gets unfettered access to ALL government networks in the guise of security.
The stories of power grid and SCADA control breaches, the F-35 leaks and nameless Chinese hackers are FUD originating from the NSA to scare other government entities into surrendering full control of their networks to the NSA.
The first place to start reading up on this fight over network control should be the National Cybersecurity Center former head Rod Beckstrom's resignation letter to the head of DHS.
In his resignation letter he states that "NSA effectively controls DHS cyber efforts through detailees, technology insertions, and the proposed move of NPPD and the NCSC to a Fort Meade NSA facility. NSA currently dominates most national cyber efforts. While acknowledging the critical importance of NSA to our intelligence efforts, I believe this is a bad strategy on multiple grounds. The intelligence culture is very different than a network operations or security culture. In addition, the threats to our democratic processes are significant if all top level government network security and monitoring are handled by any one organization (either directly or indirectly). During my term as Director we have been unwilling to subjugate the NCSC underneath the NSA. Instead, we advocated a model where there is a credible civilian government cyber security capability which interfaces with, but is not controlled by, the NSA."
You can buy a hard drive that will store 1000 CD's for about $100. Buy a 2 or 3 and use some form of raid and you should never lose any data for as long as you tend to the rare disk failure now and then.
This thread should be about making a cheap home raid array for backup and the best methods for doing so.. how often to scrub the array, etc..
Reminds me of a colleague that wanted to buy this expensive tape backup system, robot type that auto-mounted tapes.. when we had this awesome, unused netapp sitting in the data center.. wtf?!
Not that it was a bad thing to remove the entry.. it did say I was a fashion designer that lived in Ohio or some such nonsense. I just wish I would have known that Jimmy could have rewritten my page to say that Chuck Norris was my Protege.
Easynews kicks the crap out of GUBA and is cheaper. We have a better global search, carry over 100TB, bigger/faster gigE pipes, even unrar and thumbnail your svcd's!!
Same thing happens at my building in Phoenix.. The State of Arizona has quite a few offices in my building, and they use a shredding service.
The shredding service parks large bins outside my datacenter while they take each one outside to the truck. These bins spend the majority of their time unattended and I've had more than a few opportunities to read what's in the bins.
It's amazing the amount of personal info I could walk away with if I was malicious. A lot of personal information related to child support payments and the like.. crazy the amount of stuff that is mishandled.
My thoughts exactly.. you pretty much nailed what my thoughts were as I read through the site -- and to top it off, the performance stats are really too good to be true for any folding design.
I don't see how they can list a price if they don't even know how long it will take to assemble -- woudln't you need to know something basic like that to be able to price it out?
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There is bureaucratic fight between the NSA and the White House (DHS is a cabinet position) over who gets unfettered access to ALL government networks in the guise of security.
The stories of power grid and SCADA control breaches, the F-35 leaks and nameless Chinese hackers are FUD originating from the NSA to scare other government entities into surrendering full control of their networks to the NSA.
The first place to start reading up on this fight over network control should be the National Cybersecurity Center former head Rod Beckstrom's resignation letter to the head of DHS.
In his resignation letter he states that " NSA effectively controls DHS cyber efforts through detailees, technology insertions, and the proposed move of NPPD and the NCSC to a Fort Meade NSA facility. NSA currently dominates most national cyber efforts. While acknowledging the critical importance of NSA to our intelligence efforts, I believe this is a bad strategy on multiple grounds. The intelligence culture is very different than a network operations or security culture. In addition, the threats to our democratic processes are significant if all top level government network security and monitoring are handled by any one organization (either directly or indirectly). During my term as Director we have been unwilling to subjugate the NCSC underneath the NSA. Instead, we advocated a model where there is a credible civilian government cyber security capability which interfaces with, but is not controlled by, the NSA. "
I think that is the excuse posited when the cable gets a visit from the USS Jimmy Carter.
You can buy a hard drive that will store 1000 CD's for about $100. Buy a 2 or 3 and use some form of raid and you should never lose any data for as long as you tend to the rare disk failure now and then. This thread should be about making a cheap home raid array for backup and the best methods for doing so.. how often to scrub the array, etc.. Reminds me of a colleague that wanted to buy this expensive tape backup system, robot type that auto-mounted tapes.. when we had this awesome, unused netapp sitting in the data center.. wtf?!
I think you mean Frank Luntz.
I made a personal donation of $10,000 to wikipedia only to have my personal wikipedia entry removed shortly afterward!
Not that it was a bad thing to remove the entry.. it did say I was a fashion designer that lived in Ohio or some such nonsense. I just wish I would have known that Jimmy could have rewritten my page to say that Chuck Norris was my Protege.
type in 0.0005 X X =
then keep hitting = to again multiply the result by 0.0005
the number should get smaller and smaller. However, at some point, the number becomes VERY large.
give it a shot. some type of bug.
Dude.. we know who you work for.. really.
From the looks of things, Easynews beat the slashdot team
in results returned, points generated and run time yesterday.
Come on folks.. re-gain the #1 stop.. or we'll (Easynews) keep
whipping your a$$.
What's up with this ad for GUBA??
Easynews kicks the crap out of GUBA and is cheaper. We have
a better global search, carry over 100TB, bigger/faster gigE
pipes, even unrar and thumbnail your svcd's!!
So I ask, what's up with this ad?
-- godzilla
Easynews rulez the world!
Why should your employer buy something that you
would have purchased anyhow?
You're a freakin' geek like the rest of us.. you
can't live without broadband.. and they know it!
-- gozilla
Same thing happens at my building in Phoenix.. The State of Arizona has quite a few offices in my building, and they use a shredding service.
The shredding service parks large bins outside my datacenter while they take each one outside to the truck. These bins spend the majority of their time unattended and I've had more than a few opportunities to read what's in the bins.
It's amazing the amount of personal info I could walk away with if I was malicious. A lot of personal information related to child support payments and the like.. crazy the amount of stuff that is mishandled.
My thoughts exactly.. you pretty much nailed
what my thoughts were as I read through the
site -- and to top it off, the performance
stats are really too good to be true for any
folding design.
I don't see how they can list a price if they
don't even know how long it will take to
assemble -- woudln't you need to know something
basic like that to be able to price it out?
-- godzilla