you're kidding, right? $200K is a drop in the bucket of possible spend on security.
Stateful firewalls can cost more than that if you need to support a decent number of users at wire rate. Add mail filters and the need for beefier servers to handle the crypto overhead compared to what you could have used without crypto...
My previous employer spent *at least* $200k/mo on security in IT. Of course they were protecting IP that led to $34Bn profit on $55Bn gross...
Or you don't subscribe to anything that fails the "too good to be true" test...
Seriously, I use cloud storage for what I want high availability for. I pay $2/mo to google and I get 100 gigs. That's a good deal for me, and a money making (even if only barely) price for them.
Sure I have TB of storage and such at home, but I make off-line backups and store them in a deposit box at my bank. I don't presume that TB of on-line space with good fault tolerance will be accessible to me for multiple reasons, one of which is cost.
As to the Amazon offering: I wonder how many people used TIF files of simple pictures and loaded data into the file? or the ZIP/JPG trick?
Only a heavily duck-taped illusion of a Federal gov't is keeping the US from becoming a dozen or so separate republics with radically different ideas about everything from gun ownership to religious rights.
That is a true statement, but what sets Clinton apart is that her actions had a *direct* impact on national security. She doesn't get the choice of shadow IT. End. Of. Story. -nb
Actually,
Classified or not doesn't matter. The legal requirement is that all State business be handled on government owned infrastructure.
So, by that measure, even if the server in question was entirely non-sensitive information (note that this is different than unclassified, which can still be sensitive and just hasn't yet been subjected to the classification process), it *still* was a violation of the law. -nb
The agreement in question was that I agreed to binding arbitration; the moment they said sue they lost that.
As to the rest of the story, since people asked...
I had a *sizable* life of loan deal with them at 2.99%. (about $30K, rolled a car loan, student loan, etc. into it). When the banking crisis hit no one wanted to carry these low interest loans with long payoffs, and no one would buy them from the lenders either. Since the agreement was for "Life of loan" they were stuck on the interest rate, but the loophole they found was that the minimum payment was not locked in. They jacked the minimum payment with only 15 days notice by 250%. Naturally I (and many others) was unable to pay so the account went delinquent. Now that the account was past due they could jack the interest to 29.99% APR. That is $750/mo in interest up from $75/month. I should mention that the day I received the increase notice I tried calling and saying to close my account and that I did not agree to the new terms, I was informed that option was not being made available in this case.
As the account slipped further and further behind I tried an idea based on the common practice of companies like this sending out a check "cash this to enroll in our credit monitoring service" or whatnot.
I drafted a repayment agreement at 0.000% (I did borrow the money, I should pay it back, but by their actions I decided they forfeit being able to earn any money from me) and wrote a check for the first payment.
I looked up their business office (*not* payment office) and mailed the letter and check (both referencing the other and acceptance of terms by cashing check) attention: Account Manager.
They cashed the check, so when I got my next bill showing the payment was made, but the terms not modified I called to inform them of the billing error. Hilarity ensued.
It took nearly a week of back and forth, but finally they threatened to sue me and I replied with my dare.
A brief silence was followed with "please hold on a moment" and a very unhappy but authoritative sounding person basically accepting my offer (they countered that they wanted the balance paid in 5 years, I was offering 6... since they agreed to the 0% interest I agreed to the 12 month acceleration).
That's how I resolved my dispute with Chase bank when they did some seriously underhanded sh!t. I told them that they were trying to get blood from a turnip as I would rather burn my money and go insolvent. They threatened to sue me, and I replied with: "Please do, I dare you to find a jury that will take your side on this".
After that my interest rate was 0.00000% till my balance was paid.
I would largely agree with you, but the whole sending to Ex partner to incite jealousy is simply too stupid. Even in "The before time" something such as this would have made it around to all the gal's friends. The ex easily could have duped it and handed it out.
Look I feel bad for the gal, but: she sent a video of herself having sex to some friends, including her ex-boyfriend, to make him jealous. Has nothing to do with file encryption or security best practices... It is *common sense* not to do something such as this. Sending someone what is effectively self destructive in an attempt to anger them is literally begging for retaliation, while providing said ammo.
This woman was stupid on an epic scale.
Star wars kid, tron guy, etc. all silly and sure, embarrassing, but not actually damaging nearly at the level of a sex tape.
I think they missed a golden opportunity: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... Why they didn't concoct some really misleading information and send that out I don't understand...
I don't know why you got a troll mod, you could have made the point better, but it is a valid point...
Fact is, I'm voting for him not for his strengths, but because I believe 4 years of Johnson will globally amount to a no-op, while (IMHO) Either Trump or Clinton will cause our country vastly more harm than good on the international stage.
The US already has a black eye and smells funny to the rest of the world, "going away" for a bit and regrouping is what our country needs. Libertarian ticket is basically "remove thumbs from pies and go home." -nb
It also happens to be illegal in California. Primarily because when you're working for the company in a non sales role (i.e. closing books and count for the night) you're incapable of earning commission, and thus are drawing. It screws the employee. If the person is *only* sales and you have someone else doing the ring up/booking.etc. then I believe this is legal, but that is because the salesperson's only job is selling, so they are never "forced" to draw.
I was one of the highest performers in the store I worked in, and my store was the highest performing store (adjusted for staff and inventory level) in the district. Why? Because I merchandised the store such that *anything* with a low commission was effectively unseen by customers (but if they asked for it we could sell it) and I outright hid the items with zero or negative commission. "Sorry, we're out of stock on that."
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you're kidding, right?
$200K is a drop in the bucket of possible spend on security.
Stateful firewalls can cost more than that if you need to support a decent number of users at wire rate.
Add mail filters and the need for beefier servers to handle the crypto overhead compared to what you could have used without crypto...
My previous employer spent *at least* $200k/mo on security in IT.
Of course they were protecting IP that led to $34Bn profit on $55Bn gross...
-nB
Or you don't subscribe to anything that fails the "too good to be true" test...
Seriously, I use cloud storage for what I want high availability for. I pay $2/mo to google and I get 100 gigs. That's a good deal for me, and a money making (even if only barely) price for them.
Sure I have TB of storage and such at home, but I make off-line backups and store them in a deposit box at my bank. I don't presume that TB of on-line space with good fault tolerance will be accessible to me for multiple reasons, one of which is cost.
As to the Amazon offering: I wonder how many people used TIF files of simple pictures and loaded data into the file?
or the ZIP/JPG trick?
-nb
that's the in!
They need to create an HOA who's sole item is broadband internet.
That *should* work for the end-run of it not being run by an external municipality, and the target area being unincorporated.
-nb
Only a heavily duck-taped illusion of a Federal gov't is keeping the US from becoming a dozen or so separate republics with radically different ideas about everything from gun ownership to religious rights.
not the worst idea...
That is a true statement, but what sets Clinton apart is that her actions had a *direct* impact on national security.
She doesn't get the choice of shadow IT.
End. Of. Story.
-nb
no, that's pretty much what the bible says to do...
Actually,
Classified or not doesn't matter. The legal requirement is that all State business be handled on government owned infrastructure.
So, by that measure, even if the server in question was entirely non-sensitive information (note that this is different than unclassified, which can still be sensitive and just hasn't yet been subjected to the classification process), it *still* was a violation of the law.
-nb
thank you. I thought so too. Trick was "attn: Account Manager"
The agreement in question was that I agreed to binding arbitration; the moment they said sue they lost that.
As to the rest of the story, since people asked...
I had a *sizable* life of loan deal with them at 2.99%. (about $30K, rolled a car loan, student loan, etc. into it).
When the banking crisis hit no one wanted to carry these low interest loans with long payoffs, and no one would buy them from the lenders either. Since the agreement was for "Life of loan" they were stuck on the interest rate, but the loophole they found was that the minimum payment was not locked in.
They jacked the minimum payment with only 15 days notice by 250%. Naturally I (and many others) was unable to pay so the account went delinquent. Now that the account was past due they could jack the interest to 29.99% APR. That is $750/mo in interest up from $75/month. I should mention that the day I received the increase notice I tried calling and saying to close my account and that I did not agree to the new terms, I was informed that option was not being made available in this case.
As the account slipped further and further behind I tried an idea based on the common practice of companies like this sending out a check "cash this to enroll in our credit monitoring service" or whatnot.
I drafted a repayment agreement at 0.000% (I did borrow the money, I should pay it back, but by their actions I decided they forfeit being able to earn any money from me) and wrote a check for the first payment.
I looked up their business office (*not* payment office) and mailed the letter and check (both referencing the other and acceptance of terms by cashing check) attention: Account Manager.
They cashed the check, so when I got my next bill showing the payment was made, but the terms not modified I called to inform them of the billing error. Hilarity ensued.
It took nearly a week of back and forth, but finally they threatened to sue me and I replied with my dare.
A brief silence was followed with "please hold on a moment" and a very unhappy but authoritative sounding person basically accepting my offer (they countered that they wanted the balance paid in 5 years, I was offering 6... since they agreed to the 0% interest I agreed to the 12 month acceleration).
-nb
Facebook reminds me of early AOL...
Just waiting for someone to link FB Messenger with IRC O_o
actually it's much much simpler than this, I had a method to do it, but they didn't take me up on it.
Remember this phone was pre-secure enclave. ;)
-nb
That's how I resolved my dispute with Chase bank when they did some seriously underhanded sh!t.
I told them that they were trying to get blood from a turnip as I would rather burn my money and go insolvent.
They threatened to sue me, and I replied with: "Please do, I dare you to find a jury that will take your side on this".
After that my interest rate was 0.00000% till my balance was paid.
no, intentional suicide is a disqualification.
I would largely agree with you, but the whole sending to Ex partner to incite jealousy is simply too stupid. Even in "The before time" something such as this would have made it around to all the gal's friends. The ex easily could have duped it and handed it out.
Look I feel bad for the gal, but:
she sent a video of herself having sex to some friends, including her ex-boyfriend, to make him jealous.
Has nothing to do with file encryption or security best practices... It is *common sense* not to do something such as this. Sending someone what is effectively self destructive in an attempt to anger them is literally begging for retaliation, while providing said ammo.
This woman was stupid on an epic scale.
Star wars kid, tron guy, etc. all silly and sure, embarrassing, but not actually damaging nearly at the level of a sex tape.
What. Was. She. Thinking?
I think they missed a golden opportunity:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Why they didn't concoct some really misleading information and send that out I don't understand...
They could have had a field day!
-nb
yup.
Only question is just how popular are they?
I would have gone with "stomach churningly" but...
I'm quite aware, thank you.
I just enjoy the thought experiment. Every time one launches, all the way back to Skylab, I've had the same thought.
-nb
I've often wondered what prevents (aside from stupendous cost) someone from launching up to one of these and taking it over while it's not occupied?
At what point will this actually become an issue?
-nb
I don't know why you got a troll mod, you could have made the point better, but it is a valid point...
Fact is, I'm voting for him not for his strengths, but because I believe 4 years of Johnson will globally amount to a no-op, while (IMHO) Either Trump or Clinton will cause our country vastly more harm than good on the international stage.
The US already has a black eye and smells funny to the rest of the world, "going away" for a bit and regrouping is what our country needs. Libertarian ticket is basically "remove thumbs from pies and go home."
-nb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
to be fair, I had no clue either.
-nb
It also happens to be illegal in California.
Primarily because when you're working for the company in a non sales role (i.e. closing books and count for the night) you're incapable of earning commission, and thus are drawing. It screws the employee.
If the person is *only* sales and you have someone else doing the ring up/booking.etc. then I believe this is legal, but that is because the salesperson's only job is selling, so they are never "forced" to draw.
I was one of the highest performers in the store I worked in, and my store was the highest performing store (adjusted for staff and inventory level) in the district. Why? Because I merchandised the store such that *anything* with a low commission was effectively unseen by customers (but if they asked for it we could sell it) and I outright hid the items with zero or negative commission. "Sorry, we're out of stock on that."
-nb
better with TMobile than with any other carrier...
Still not good, but > 0 at least.
-nb
I'm voting for Johnson.
His campaign has basically become: Not Trump *or* Clinton