At one place I worked we had a deep discussion on password change periods. We all sort of agreed on once every six months. But then we did a password audit and the results were horrifying.
E-Rock: I have your answer. Nope - even in emergencies the cell network rides over the Public Switched Telephone Network of PSTN. In times of peril both wireline and wireless are pretty much useless.
However there is another thing, get your amateur radio license - it's inexpensive and the tests pretty easy multiple choice. Plus there is no longer a requirement to learn Morse code like I did, but that's beside the point. Then pickup a sub $100 VHF/UHF/DMR/D-Star/whatever radio. Those ALWAYS work so long as you keep them charged.
Because the Bell System never thought they'd have to let EVERYONE use SS7., the child of CCISS. They thought hey, we're connected to other Bell/AT&T resources so we don't have to include any security.
A couple years back I did the math. I was paying close to $200 a month for internet, tv and phone. Told them to leave the net service (which is now $88 a month because $15 is the modem rental)
It was stupid to have the phone ant tv when everything can be found on the net these days.
Well yeah but look at it this way. A standard voice channel is roughly 64kbps then multiply that time the number of people they tapped, and possible durations of calls and you've got one hell of a data store.
It's been going on even before that. The metadata of a call is of course calling, called, date, time, duration and in the case of mobile phones location. You can put together a fairly comprehensive case with just those.
Which is to train people in COBOL again. I learned it during my time at university. It isn't a difficult language to learn. I've just never used it since.
So for mothers day we got the MIL a set of black cultured pearls - necklace, bracelet and earrings. Retail it would have cost about $150, on Amazon the whole kit was $85.
And bed sheets - seriously good pricing on those too.
I worked for a certain state agency. They used QMAIL and if you don't know all mail is stored as a flat file. So on occasion we'rd have to manually edit that mail file to snip out something that would cause POP and IMAP clients to freak out. One day our Admin Director is having email troubles so I go back to my desk and she tags along. She was aghast that I could read her email. I explained there was way too much integrity among IT staff and we'd never disclose what we saw.
On cars for decades. They're variously known as parking brakes, emergency brakes, etc. It's a metal cable that runs from the pedal/lever for the brake and triggers the rear calipers, drums etc. The thing is the cable runs UNDER the car so it's exposed to all the crap on the roads and rots out over time.
That I have with advertising is that it misses the mark entirely. I don't want to see feminine hygiene ads, car ads, etc. Don't care.
And it goes for brick and mortar types too, BJ's Club - I scan the card every time I shop there but the emails I get are for people who live in suburbia. I live in a city and have no use for most of what they try to hawk. But you'd think, they know my purchasing history right? How hard could it be to target ads based on that?
I recently purchased a TYT MD-380 DMR handheld transceiver. It's Chinese of course, even the manual is in Chinglish. But I looked up it's FCC ID and I note they viciously try to protect the block diagram and schematics for the unit. A bit of googling turned those up though.
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Until you find out that MS is using bing to upload all the stuff. Then you just block bing on a firewall and goodbye!
How UK police work but in the U.S. all the cops have is charge data.
Which runs completely counter to the message of Christ - to give up your family and goods and follow him.
Than the rotaries our not so bright Governor put on Route 1/117 - the rotaries themselves are OK but without signage it gets fun.
And she hates it and is sorry she bought it.
At one place I worked we had a deep discussion on password change periods. We all sort of agreed on once every six months. But then we did a password audit and the results were horrifying.
It's what you get when all the commissioners are lawyers instead of being interspersed with technical people. I
E-Rock: I have your answer. Nope - even in emergencies the cell network rides over the Public Switched Telephone Network of PSTN. In times of peril both wireline and wireless are pretty much useless.
However there is another thing, get your amateur radio license - it's inexpensive and the tests pretty easy multiple choice. Plus there is no longer a requirement to learn Morse code like I did, but that's beside the point. Then pickup a sub $100 VHF/UHF/DMR/D-Star/whatever radio. Those ALWAYS work so long as you keep them charged.
Ha ha ha. Good one. WE have two cell phones in the house so when someone can't find theirs I just call it.
Because the Bell System never thought they'd have to let EVERYONE use SS7., the child of CCISS. They thought hey, we're connected to other Bell/AT&T resources so we don't have to include any security.
A couple years back I did the math. I was paying close to $200 a month for internet, tv and phone. Told them to leave the net service (which is now $88 a month because $15 is the modem rental)
It was stupid to have the phone ant tv when everything can be found on the net these days.
Well yeah but look at it this way. A standard voice channel is roughly 64kbps then multiply that time the number of people they tapped, and possible durations of calls and you've got one hell of a data store.
Well I do. For example there are certain apps that do not play well with Systemd.
Well that would be one epidemic down, a few others to go, or need I mention herpes.
It's been going on even before that. The metadata of a call is of course calling, called, date, time, duration and in the case of mobile phones location. You can put together a fairly comprehensive case with just those.
This whole default browser thing smacks of anti-competitive activity. Microsoft should have ceded the broswer war years ago.
Which is to train people in COBOL again. I learned it during my time at university. It isn't a difficult language to learn. I've just never used it since.
So for mothers day we got the MIL a set of black cultured pearls - necklace, bracelet and earrings. Retail it would have cost about $150, on Amazon the whole kit was $85.
And bed sheets - seriously good pricing on those too.
I worked for a certain state agency. They used QMAIL and if you don't know all mail is stored as a flat file. So on occasion we'rd have to manually edit that mail file to snip out something that would cause POP and IMAP clients to freak out. One day our Admin Director is having email troubles so I go back to my desk and she tags along. She was aghast that I could read her email. I explained there was way too much integrity among IT staff and we'd never disclose what we saw.
On cars for decades. They're variously known as parking brakes, emergency brakes, etc. It's a metal cable that runs from the pedal/lever for the brake and triggers the rear calipers, drums etc. The thing is the cable runs UNDER the car so it's exposed to all the crap on the roads and rots out over time.
Nice job on that.
That I have with advertising is that it misses the mark entirely. I don't want to see feminine hygiene ads, car ads, etc. Don't care.
And it goes for brick and mortar types too, BJ's Club - I scan the card every time I shop there but the emails I get are for people who live in suburbia. I live in a city and have no use for most of what they try to hawk. But you'd think, they know my purchasing history right? How hard could it be to target ads based on that?
I recently purchased a TYT MD-380 DMR handheld transceiver. It's Chinese of course, even the manual is in Chinglish. But I looked up it's FCC ID and I note they viciously try to protect the block diagram and schematics for the unit. A bit of googling turned those up though.
Longer battery run time but the great big security hole that is Edge no thank you.
Get a foreboding vision of SkyNet out of all this?