I was at a Novell conference a decade or so ago. (God -- has it been that long??) Laura Chappell was hosting a session, and in it said that for a while she was hosting Kitty Porn and advertising on some nefarious sites. When someone interested would fetch her pics (no videos I guess) they got pictures of Kittens in (I assume) various sexual positions -- nursing, stretching their legs, licking each other, etc. With a caption of "Your IP address has been logged and will be turned over to law enforcement."
She remarked at the time about how many interrupted downloads she saw, but of course their IP address really had already been logged. No idea what ended up happening.
A friend of mine also at the conference said he thought she was "Technically Hot". (RIP Tim. Say "Hi" to Jay for me.)
ARE they hosting actual child porn (left in place from when they took over a system) or is it an innocuous file just named something funny?
Along those same lines, a decade ago someone was (but never did, or at least I never heard about it) was going to create a million MP3 files, all actually containing a content of "This Is Not A Music File!", name them all by current bands / albums / song names, and make them available for public download. The point was getting take-down notices and RIAA/MPAA claims against them when it was obvious the file contents were not infringing in the least and then objecting to the false claim of ownership.
With a 40TB user SAN system from years ago, to delete major files from users and groups I told them they were gone but actually moved them to a user inaccessible directory. Then I waited 3 weeks or so. If no one complained the next day (or the next week for vacations) then I was pretty much good to go.
I also -- being paranoid -- checked the time stamps to make sure no file access had occurred. Then again the users couldn't realistically find or access files from within an open and wet paper bag so I wasn't worried much, but I still checked. (Never mind the 4 hour snapshots, the daily incrementals and weekly full backups. They all worked but GOD were restores slow.)
I was originally going to say:../user1 but figured that would just be mean on rm/home/$user success. You could always try to make the script smarter but that just breeds more intelligent idiots.
Really!?!? So gla^H^H^H SORRY to hear that. Try Microsoft Edge -- it's blow Firefox out of the water. it's bigger, better, faster, and Edgier (See what I did there?) It's just so much better than ANYthing, even IE which we all know and love.
So try it, or else we'll perform another comprehensive update on your system. (You thought Firefox was slow NOW??? And we can tell if you do or not.)
which means he's humiliated a poor girl who had nothing to do with the theft.
Which means it should be easy enough for her to prove that to the cops. "Here's the receipt -- go see who sold it to the shop to begin with."
She might be the poor girl, she might be the thief. In any case she's in possession of a stolen computer. I wouldn't stop to stay "Excuse me , miss, you happen to be operating a computer of mine that has gone missing. Perhaps you would be so good as to inform me how you are in possession of such a thing?"
My first reaction would be she's the actual thief as well, which may easily NOT be correct. On the other hand she physically has a random computer which I *CAN* produce a receipt and a serial number for.
Possession may be 9/10 of the law, but not when it can call home and tattle.
Be careful with this -- don't forget to UPDATE those physical envelopes when necessary. And that still doesn't solve intentional breakage where someone changes then absconds with the new controlling credentials.
A stored-in-a-safe envelope is still a single point of attack, albeit good for emergencies. If you want to distribute the password and know you have time to recover it, see Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme or overview for how this would work. Basically: for T total users force a quorum subset Q of them to agree to use the password. A non-quorum won't work but it doesn't take all T users to recover it either. Personally, I'd use Multipar to generate the details.
And that's only good for passwords. It's better if you can create alternate groups and accounts with different rights (least privilege) and farm those out for daily use. At work in MS AD, we mothballed the original "God" Forest account and schema master and used other just-as-good proxies and groups for daily and special admin.
The idea was that way if anybody not in the original group successfully took over the tree/forest (or we managed to shoot ourselves in the foot!), there was one "hidden" unused account that still had overriding rights over everything that could be used for recovery. Also, "Administrator" was a false ID -- it didn't do anything and had auditing turned on for any failed attempts. No one used it, so if someone TRIED: something is definitively wrong.
I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. Good luck -- I'd try the "eat somewhat healthier and exercise more" bit, but *I* wouldn't (I _don't_!) overdo it.
Yeah. I think I'd rather die living my life than clutching for more days.
There is a great Pearls Before Swine comic strip from one Sunday. I *CAN'*T FIND IT even though I've looked on and off for years. It was a color two-row cartoon back in like 2010; the strip had beeen running for like 3 years.
Rat's at the doctor's office. Not good news, too fat, out of shape, the standard bit. Rat says "So I should start eating healthy?" and the doctor agrees. Rat adds more excitedly "and I can start eating broccoli and exercising more and live longer so that I can eat still more broccoli ?" The doctor now wholeheartedly agrees.
The final pane shows Rat on the couch watching TV and eating chips. "Well that was an easy decision."
I suspect the description's not QUITE as I remember else I'd have found it by now. But that's the jist, and it's still funny even if I've botched the joke somewhat.
I am glad I do not hear that VHS tapes provide a more reliable image and have a soul
Don't worry I am sure you will soon.
No you won't -- VHS tapes are awful. You need to obtain the VHS audiophile TUBE system to actually enjoy the entire experience. The sound is so much warmer and entertaining compared to those old hard, cold plastic black boxes that the awful stretchable plastic tape came in.
And the NOISE? All that clicking and whining and whirring? Tubes are quieter, warmer(!) and just so much better!
Seems like you could just as easily replace these CEOs with a magic 8 ball and get similar results.
And now here you are, trying to automate away the jobs of CEOs. You evil creten! Just think of the terror their wives will have to endure -- down to only 2 summer houses. How long do you expect them to endure this punishment?
It's over. Mr. Trump is someone else's POTUS. But not mine.
Sorry to inform you, if you're a citizen of the US, then he's gong to be your president unless something extraordinary happens. Period, full stop, the end.
You might not have voted for him, you might hate his guts and politics and wish him ill, and until he takes to oath of office he ISN'T your president -- but once he does, he is.
*I* didn't vote for Obama and didn't like a lot of things that he did (and didn't do.) But looks like his hopey changie thing is finally working itself out.
Then again, if you really don't want him to be your president, you can always renounce your U.S. citizenship and pick exactly who you'd like. Once, anyway. I suggest you move to Canada like these people AREN'T. Or you could join Cher, I'm sure she's going to be lonely on (in?) Jupiter.
And by the way, I'm curious: are you on either coast? I'm in flyover country. (Well actually not, I'm not even that close to the aerial lanes.)
Here's what would happen if they found one on an actual collision course, administration be damned. This is a very good story, but if you're in a hurry, find: "brusquely". I doubt that Bruce Willis could actually do that much.
The premise is different obviously, but the human panic and destruction would be similar. Nature would provide much more fireworks than humans though. Maybe those SHTF bunkers might be useful after all!
Oh, and if you're in the dark already and can't read: here.
Get Comcast Business. I've got it, and the infrequent calls to tech support (maybe once a quarter, usually because someone's had an instant desire to move a telephone pole) are a breeze.
They answer the phone in a few rings, they're nice, succinct, and knowledgeable. They know pings, traceroute, and IP addresses and won't ask you to off/on your device, and within 5 or so minutes can tell if it's you or them and can indicate some type of fix window (although for upstream-to-me issues that once require a physical device replacement they give the standard "here's the window" line. OTOH it broke on a freezing early Saturday morning and was fixed mid-Sunday.)
No consumer "between 8 and 5 sometime next month" issues here.
I'd have to look, but I pay like $70 for a 20 MBit unlimited line where I *CAN* run a server. Not cheap, but it works and having reliable tech support IS worth something.
Next month AT&T is activating 1 GBit fiber, consumer-level I think. I need to look into that, but uptime and support is still a non-significant factor. Doesn't matter how fast it goes if it's broken.
Yes, that's exactly correct and all, but you're being pedantic and missing the point: The cloud is an aberration of responsibility.
By using the cloud, you compartmentalize the information component of your company: user access and control, encryption, backup, up-time, security -- all of that hard stuff over time is placed in a nice little box with a bow on top. Oh, and a monthly bill for services rendered. Which you of course had better pay since your data is hostage, but you're the one asking them to do it. They didn't extort you -- YOU extorted you.
That's great and all when everything is working correctly -- there's literally nothing to complain about. It's when the s**t hits the fan that the responsibilities and realizations start.
"But we can't be down / be exposed via a hacked / completely lose all of our data. I have a contract that says so! Right here -- right HERE, damnit! See??? I HAVE A PIECE OF PAPER!! What do you mean they're not answering the phone and that I'm important to them? Or that they know and they're working hard and they have a lot of other customers in the same boat? I don't care and I HAVE A PIECE OF PAPER IN MY HAND THAT I'M WAVING."
The only thing that should be "in the cloud" is data that you don't care about to begin with. Using offsite backup might be nice As Long As you encrypt your data before it leaves your control and assume someone is hammering away at your encryption the second it leaves, if not actively trying to obtain the decryption password.
It's your data, it's only secure under your direct control.
My new girlfriend(!) and I have hooked ourselves up to this. It's moderately useful in that I get a ding when she leaves work or arrives here, or if I check I can see how far away she is -- 5 minutes or 35. It'll also ding on entering/exiting selected places as well.
Purchasing it *WILL* track history, so I can see exactly where her phone has been for the last month. And vice versa. (And so can the company. And Google. And the cell company. And the shadow PI following me. And my CC breadcrumbs. Whatever, I'm not that interesting. But not 4square or facebook though.)
I don't care if she knows where I go / went. I've shown her how to remove her entry or even the entire app so she can disappear if she wants, I'll leave myself plugged in. After all, if I wanted to be nefarious and disappear I'll just run on a alternate (or burner) phone, leaving the GPS tracker at home. Or "shudder" be like 1980 and go naked withOUT one.
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PropOrNot says Zerohedge is a Russian shill. Therefore everything ZH says is wrong, therefore this must be a good thing.
It's amazing how technology can be used to help me decide what to read, think, and what's true. I can now safely ignore my Critical Thinking classes from High School and College -- that's a relief, as I only remember 2 phrases from my 2 years of Spanish.
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I was at a Novell conference a decade or so ago. (God -- has it been that long??) Laura Chappell was hosting a session, and in it said that for a while she was hosting Kitty Porn and advertising on some nefarious sites. When someone interested would fetch her pics (no videos I guess) they got pictures of Kittens in (I assume) various sexual positions -- nursing, stretching their legs, licking each other, etc. With a caption of "Your IP address has been logged and will be turned over to law enforcement."
She remarked at the time about how many interrupted downloads she saw, but of course their IP address really had already been logged. No idea what ended up happening.
A friend of mine also at the conference said he thought she was "Technically Hot". (RIP Tim. Say "Hi" to Jay for me.)
ARE they hosting actual child porn (left in place from when they took over a system) or is it an innocuous file just named something funny?
Along those same lines, a decade ago someone was (but never did, or at least I never heard about it) was going to create a million MP3 files, all actually containing a content of "This Is Not A Music File!", name them all by current bands / albums / song names, and make them available for public download. The point was getting take-down notices and RIAA/MPAA claims against them when it was obvious the file contents were not infringing in the least and then objecting to the false claim of ownership.
A perv, a con man and a fascist walk into a bar. The barman says: "What'll that be Mr President?"
Sorry, but that'd be Mrs instead. And Hillary didn't win so it's not that funny.
Not 100% sure about the fascist though, but I'd be willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
With a 40TB user SAN system from years ago, to delete major files from users and groups I told them they were gone but actually moved them to a user inaccessible directory. Then I waited 3 weeks or so. If no one complained the next day (or the next week for vacations) then I was pretty much good to go.
I also -- being paranoid -- checked the time stamps to make sure no file access had occurred. Then again the users couldn't realistically find or access files from within an open and wet paper bag so I wasn't worried much, but I still checked. (Never mind the 4 hour snapshots, the daily incrementals and weekly full backups. They all worked but GOD were restores slow.)
Or you use scripts. somescript user1 user2 user3
Certainly: somescript . /user1
.. /user1 but figured that would just be mean on rm /home/$user success. You could always try to make the script smarter but that just breeds more intelligent idiots.
I was originally going to say:
Signed: Bobby Tables
No, Raphael's works ... The canvas painted in solid color can be interesting, but it's on a lower level.
Yes -- the floor.
Even for the well educated, there's no good way to tell apart a bad device from a good one.
Sure there is -- the well educated will have the not-so-well-educated use a cable on their device first.
Really!?!? So gla^H^H^H SORRY to hear that. Try Microsoft Edge -- it's blow Firefox out of the water. it's bigger, better, faster, and Edgier (See what I did there?) It's just so much better than ANYthing, even IE which we all know and love.
So try it, or else we'll perform another comprehensive update on your system. (You thought Firefox was slow NOW??? And we can tell if you do or not.)
which means he's humiliated a poor girl who had nothing to do with the theft.
Which means it should be easy enough for her to prove that to the cops. "Here's the receipt -- go see who sold it to the shop to begin with."
She might be the poor girl, she might be the thief. In any case she's in possession of a stolen computer. I wouldn't stop to stay "Excuse me , miss, you happen to be operating a computer of mine that has gone missing. Perhaps you would be so good as to inform me how you are in possession of such a thing?"
My first reaction would be she's the actual thief as well, which may easily NOT be correct. On the other hand she physically has a random computer which I *CAN* produce a receipt and a serial number for.
Possession may be 9/10 of the law, but not when it can call home and tattle.
Be careful with this -- don't forget to UPDATE those physical envelopes when necessary. And that still doesn't solve intentional breakage where someone changes then absconds with the new controlling credentials.
A stored-in-a-safe envelope is still a single point of attack, albeit good for emergencies. If you want to distribute the password and know you have time to recover it, see Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme or overview for how this would work. Basically: for T total users force a quorum subset Q of them to agree to use the password. A non-quorum won't work but it doesn't take all T users to recover it either. Personally, I'd use Multipar to generate the details.
And that's only good for passwords. It's better if you can create alternate groups and accounts with different rights (least privilege) and farm those out for daily use. At work in MS AD, we mothballed the original "God" Forest account and schema master and used other just-as-good proxies and groups for daily and special admin.
The idea was that way if anybody not in the original group successfully took over the tree/forest (or we managed to shoot ourselves in the foot!), there was one "hidden" unused account that still had overriding rights over everything that could be used for recovery. Also, "Administrator" was a false ID -- it didn't do anything and had auditing turned on for any failed attempts. No one used it, so if someone TRIED: something is definitively wrong.
Yeah. I think I'd rather die living my life than clutching for more days.
There is a great Pearls Before Swine comic strip from one Sunday. I *CAN'*T FIND IT even though I've looked on and off for years. It was a color two-row cartoon back in like 2010; the strip had beeen running for like 3 years.
Rat's at the doctor's office. Not good news, too fat, out of shape, the standard bit. Rat says "So I should start eating healthy?" and the doctor agrees. Rat adds more excitedly "and I can start eating broccoli and exercising more and live longer so that I can eat still more broccoli ?" The doctor now wholeheartedly agrees.
The final pane shows Rat on the couch watching TV and eating chips. "Well that was an easy decision."
I suspect the description's not QUITE as I remember else I'd have found it by now. But that's the jist, and it's still funny even if I've botched the joke somewhat.
Good luck to us all!
Bad people suck.
Good people swallow.
Sorry?? I thought good people just got screwed. I didn't realize they were actively involved in the process.
I am glad I do not hear that VHS tapes provide a more reliable image and have a soul
Don't worry I am sure you will soon.
No you won't -- VHS tapes are awful. You need to obtain the VHS audiophile TUBE system to actually enjoy the entire experience. The sound is so much warmer and entertaining compared to those old hard, cold plastic black boxes that the awful stretchable plastic tape came in.
And the NOISE? All that clicking and whining and whirring? Tubes are quieter, warmer(!) and just so much better!
Seems like you could just as easily replace these CEOs with a magic 8 ball and get similar results.
And now here you are, trying to automate away the jobs of CEOs. You evil creten! Just think of the terror their wives will have to endure -- down to only 2 summer houses. How long do you expect them to endure this punishment?
Another is a bank exposing credit card numbers in plain text.
Don't worry -- I'll check for you so you don't have to bother with it. Which bank was that again....? ;-)
It's over. Mr. Trump is someone else's POTUS. But not mine.
Sorry to inform you, if you're a citizen of the US, then he's gong to be your president unless something extraordinary happens. Period, full stop, the end. You might not have voted for him, you might hate his guts and politics and wish him ill, and until he takes to oath of office he ISN'T your president -- but once he does, he is.
*I* didn't vote for Obama and didn't like a lot of things that he did (and didn't do.) But looks like his hopey changie thing is finally working itself out.
Then again, if you really don't want him to be your president, you can always renounce your U.S. citizenship and pick exactly who you'd like. Once, anyway. I suggest you move to Canada like these people AREN'T. Or you could join Cher, I'm sure she's going to be lonely on (in?) Jupiter.
And by the way, I'm curious: are you on either coast? I'm in flyover country. (Well actually not, I'm not even that close to the aerial lanes.)
Here's what would happen if they found one on an actual collision course, administration be damned. This is a very good story, but if you're in a hurry, find: "brusquely". I doubt that Bruce Willis could actually do that much.
The premise is different obviously, but the human panic and destruction would be similar. Nature would provide much more fireworks than humans though. Maybe those SHTF bunkers might be useful after all!
Oh, and if you're in the dark already and can't read: here.
How on earth is software going to make a meter explode?
It ALL depends on how many exclamation marks you use. If you have 11 of them -- watch out!
#!/bin/bash
echo "Boom!!!!!!!!!!" # DON'T ADD ANY MORE BANGS
If I was a manufacturer, I'd be jumping all over this with the tag line: "Maintenance-free."
Sounds like they can add that check mark to their boxes right now without dong anything at all.
[isn't] the croissant technically free?
Depends if the supermarket locks the door behind you after you enter. Yes, the croissant is free. YOU, however ....
Get Comcast Business. I've got it, and the infrequent calls to tech support (maybe once a quarter, usually because someone's had an instant desire to move a telephone pole) are a breeze.
They answer the phone in a few rings, they're nice, succinct, and knowledgeable. They know pings, traceroute, and IP addresses and won't ask you to off/on your device, and within 5 or so minutes can tell if it's you or them and can indicate some type of fix window (although for upstream-to-me issues that once require a physical device replacement they give the standard "here's the window" line. OTOH it broke on a freezing early Saturday morning and was fixed mid-Sunday.)
No consumer "between 8 and 5 sometime next month" issues here.
I'd have to look, but I pay like $70 for a 20 MBit unlimited line where I *CAN* run a server. Not cheap, but it works and having reliable tech support IS worth something.
Next month AT&T is activating 1 GBit fiber, consumer-level I think. I need to look into that, but uptime and support is still a non-significant factor. Doesn't matter how fast it goes if it's broken.
Really?? I hate that.
Yes, that's exactly correct and all, but you're being pedantic and missing the point: The cloud is an aberration of responsibility.
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By using the cloud, you compartmentalize the information component of your company: user access and control, encryption, backup, up-time, security -- all of that hard stuff over time is placed in a nice little box with a bow on top. Oh, and a monthly bill for services rendered. Which you of course had better pay since your data is hostage, but you're the one asking them to do it. They didn't extort you -- YOU extorted you.
That's great and all when everything is working correctly -- there's literally nothing to complain about. It's when the s**t hits the fan that the responsibilities and realizations start.
"But we can't be down / be exposed via a hacked / completely lose all of our data. I have a contract that says so! Right here -- right HERE, damnit! See??? I HAVE A PIECE OF PAPER!! What do you mean they're not answering the phone and that I'm important to them? Or that they know and they're working hard and they have a lot of other customers in the same boat? I don't care and I HAVE A PIECE OF PAPER IN MY HAND THAT I'M WAVING
The only thing that should be "in the cloud" is data that you don't care about to begin with. Using offsite backup might be nice As Long As you encrypt your data before it leaves your control and assume someone is hammering away at your encryption the second it leaves, if not actively trying to obtain the decryption password.
It's your data, it's only secure under your direct control.
Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant
So do they include themselves in that HR pool? Or is it the Vision Thing that only special people have that makes them, well, special?
GPS Family Locator (GPS Tracker)
My new girlfriend(!) and I have hooked ourselves up to this. It's moderately useful in that I get a ding when she leaves work or arrives here, or if I check I can see how far away she is -- 5 minutes or 35. It'll also ding on entering/exiting selected places as well.
Purchasing it *WILL* track history, so I can see exactly where her phone has been for the last month. And vice versa. (And so can the company. And Google. And the cell company. And the shadow PI following me. And my CC breadcrumbs. Whatever, I'm not that interesting. But not 4square or facebook though.)
I don't care if she knows where I go / went. I've shown her how to remove her entry or even the entire app so she can disappear if she wants, I'll leave myself plugged in. After all, if I wanted to be nefarious and disappear I'll just run on a alternate (or burner) phone, leaving the GPS tracker at home. Or "shudder" be like 1980 and go naked withOUT one.
Just a happy user, that's all.
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PropOrNot says Zerohedge is a Russian shill. Therefore everything ZH says is wrong, therefore this must be a good thing.
It's amazing how technology can be used to help me decide what to read, think, and what's true. I can now safely ignore my Critical Thinking classes from High School and College -- that's a relief, as I only remember 2 phrases from my 2 years of Spanish.
Well, that and !Ay, caramba! from Bart Simpson.