If prompted to do this, I'd tell the wrong number and insist they're typing it in wrong. After they show me what they are typing, I'll remember that PIN was for something else and "remember" a new one. After 10 attempts, my device will wipe.
I keep a backup online and restoring is trivial once through customs.
I don't have anything criminal on my phone, but it is none of their business.
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts.
When Sirius and XM radio merged, there was such scrutiny to determine whether that was an unfair narrowing of competition -- for satellite radio entertainment for fucks sake. Yet 5 years before that, the field hardly even existed -- and that was not viewed as a lack of competition!
Two reasons: 1. Because those services require the use of radio frequencies, which is considered public property. The FCC decides if the reservation of a frequency is for the public good or not when it is given to a private company. If the only way to use those services is through a single company, it may not be for the public good.
2. Monopolies are illegal-ish, because they stifle innovation. See AT&T
I somewhat agree, because "transparent" isn't exactly true. Popping a drive and putting a blank one in means a resync spike as the new one is filled. With multi-TB drives, that resync time isn't exactly trivial, and a drive failure during resync is certainly a possibility, as there is more activity.
Going with something that can handle multiple failures is helpful, such as RAID6, but you're still increasing risk just by performing your backup operation. In fact, part of the reason RAID6 exists is that there were enough cases of a RAID5 drive failure causing a second failure during the rebuild, and losing the whole array.
Using a removeable drive as a target for backup software, and treating is just like a tape, though, is a very effective solution and takes care of air gap concerns.
The parent post didn't explain any procedure other than a DC sync, which only protects against physical failure at the main DC.
Maybe this is an issue that actually has little to do with the President and is just a result of the general move across local, state, and federal government that we prefer less privacy if it *sounds* like it is making us safer.
using warp 9 at an almost daily basis (despite it being forbidden in TNG by starfleet)
In the spirit of Spock, let me make the pedantic point that the USS Voyager was not subject to the warp speed limit because it had what we would call today a "green" propulsion system. Those movable nacelles were part of it.
I forget the actual %'s and quote, and couldn't find it, but I remember one of the creators of the guitar game genre explaining that he and his musician friends wanted everyone to experience the fun of being a musician, but knew that becoming one takes a TON of effort.
So, the goal was to give a lot of the fun of being a real musician, but with a fraction of the effort.
Most people that like Rock Band or Guitar Hero don't want to learn how to be a real musician. They just want to have fun, and they do!
My point is, quit trying to point out that they should make it more realistic (real guitars, etc), because that defeats the whole point. If you already know how to play, go play! It will usually be much more fun than Rock Band. But, if you don't know how to play and don't want to spend years honing your art, just go have fun.
This is about the fact that US adversaries, today, as you and I speak, are using the EXACT SAME systems, networks, devices, services, OSes, and encryption standards and protocols, as you and I and innocent Americans and many others in the world. THAT is the issue...does this fact put those communications off limits?
That is because there is no evidence that those systems have a backdoor.
If a backdoor is mandated, so that everyone will be using one with a backdoor, everyone outside the reach of US law will fork their own standard without those backdoors.
So, in the end, it will only be used against Americans.
We know this software has been on Lenovo laptops since June, at the least. So the Oct-Dec statement is a lie. Three straight lies in a row.
Corporations don't lie. The spokesman was simply "mistaken" in those previous statements.
Simply put, you cannot trust this company any longer.
Is there one you can trust? I just prefer to trust none of them, buy the hardware that meets my needs, and nuke it from orbit when it comes in with the OS of my choice with 100% less crapware.
An electric truck is already a step up in efficiency and environmental responsibility from traditional internal combustion trucks, with a delivery cost to the shipping company of 30 cents per mile (compared to roughly a dollar per mile with diesel).
they're claiming a 70% cost reduction by going to an electric truck. Same driver, same parcel load, same mileage, ect...
+1 informative.
Which would imply that their Diesel fuel + Diesel specific maintenance costs them 70 cents per mile MORE than their electricity and electric specific maintenance.
If they can put that same driver in an electric vehicle and do the same deliveries for 30 cents a mile, I'm thinking that they are doing something really wrong with the Diesel vehicles.
Seems like they could just put a genset on the truck & use electric driven wheels and get a big cost reduction while still using diesel, if TFA is correct. I assume they're just burning a ton in the stop-start nature?
It doesn't even matter. NFC can send the number in plaintext for all I care. The Apple Pay app generates a one-time card number. After it hits the reader, it is useless. http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/...
Too many tourists? Double the room rates. Double the restaurant prices. Double the airfare. No, triple it! A new horde of US tourists surging demand in Cuba will just drive up prices.
Which means that the owners of the resorts will get more money, which they will spend in the local economy, which means more money for the locals.
If your point is to stop employees from plugging in an access point they bought at Best Buy, this is quite effective.
If your point is actual security against a criminal, 802.1x with certificates is the only way to go.
Point is, at least stopping 1/2 of the problems is better than stopping none of them. Right or wrong, 802.1x security is seen as too complicated for most IT departments.
While I don't support regulation of drones outside of keeping them away from normal airplane traffic and outside private property, this is hardly a farce.
I speed all the time and I use Waze to know when to slow down.
Because Waze can't track police on the move (which have been how I've been caught speeding most of the time), I can't imagine it is a great system for this.
Just make sure that anything past your legal retention limit is only retained offline.
Do you think that because it is no longer required for you to keep certain documents, that it will prevent a subpoena from demanding them if they exist?
So, every time there is a lawsuit, you have to re-plug all of those air gaps archives to search for whatever documents the opposition deems relevant. There went February's IT productivity.
NO. As soon as you don't need it, delete it automatically. Make it a written policy. After X years, everything is deleted unless it is placed in a certain archive manually. That archive will be small and certain to only be used to your company's advantage.
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Actually, IIRC the Xbox One controller uses WiFi direct, so it should be just a matter of connecting over wifi from the PC.
If prompted to do this, I'd tell the wrong number and insist they're typing it in wrong. After they show me what they are typing, I'll remember that PIN was for something else and "remember" a new one. After 10 attempts, my device will wipe.
I keep a backup online and restoring is trivial once through customs.
I don't have anything criminal on my phone, but it is none of their business.
Unplug the network
Not enough. Quoting Spaf:
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts.
http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/...
When Sirius and XM radio merged, there was such scrutiny to determine whether that was an unfair narrowing of competition -- for satellite radio entertainment for fucks sake. Yet 5 years before that, the field hardly even existed -- and that was not viewed as a lack of competition!
Two reasons:
1. Because those services require the use of radio frequencies, which is considered public property. The FCC decides if the reservation of a frequency is for the public good or not when it is given to a private company. If the only way to use those services is through a single company, it may not be for the public good.
2. Monopolies are illegal-ish, because they stifle innovation. See AT&T
The GUI is still the primary way to do things.
Not if you're running a core install, which is happening more.
I somewhat agree, because "transparent" isn't exactly true. Popping a drive and putting a blank one in means a resync spike as the new one is filled. With multi-TB drives, that resync time isn't exactly trivial, and a drive failure during resync is certainly a possibility, as there is more activity.
Going with something that can handle multiple failures is helpful, such as RAID6, but you're still increasing risk just by performing your backup operation. In fact, part of the reason RAID6 exists is that there were enough cases of a RAID5 drive failure causing a second failure during the rebuild, and losing the whole array.
Using a removeable drive as a target for backup software, and treating is just like a tape, though, is a very effective solution and takes care of air gap concerns.
The parent post didn't explain any procedure other than a DC sync, which only protects against physical failure at the main DC.
No tapes, we just have another data center like this one and a big ol pipe and XYZ data backup solution attached to the disks at the other end."
So, you're not protected against malicious destruction of data? Pretty sure that requires an air gap.
Stingray was already being used by LAPD in 2006:
http://www.laweekly.com/news/l...
Maybe this is an issue that actually has little to do with the President and is just a result of the general move across local, state, and federal government that we prefer less privacy if it *sounds* like it is making us safer.
using warp 9 at an almost daily basis (despite it being forbidden in TNG by starfleet)
In the spirit of Spock, let me make the pedantic point that the USS Voyager was not subject to the warp speed limit because it had what we would call today a "green" propulsion system. Those movable nacelles were part of it.
From http://www.startrek.com/databa...:
Voyager's folding wing-and-nacelle warp drive system allows the starship to exceed the warp 5 "speed limit" without polluting the space continuum.
I forget the actual %'s and quote, and couldn't find it, but I remember one of the creators of the guitar game genre explaining that he and his musician friends wanted everyone to experience the fun of being a musician, but knew that becoming one takes a TON of effort.
So, the goal was to give a lot of the fun of being a real musician, but with a fraction of the effort.
Most people that like Rock Band or Guitar Hero don't want to learn how to be a real musician. They just want to have fun, and they do!
My point is, quit trying to point out that they should make it more realistic (real guitars, etc), because that defeats the whole point. If you already know how to play, go play! It will usually be much more fun than Rock Band.
But, if you don't know how to play and don't want to spend years honing your art, just go have fun.
Also, this: http://www.xkcd.com/359/
This is about the fact that US adversaries, today, as you and I speak, are using the EXACT SAME systems, networks, devices, services, OSes, and encryption standards and protocols, as you and I and innocent Americans and many others in the world. THAT is the issue...does this fact put those communications off limits?
That is because there is no evidence that those systems have a backdoor.
If a backdoor is mandated, so that everyone will be using one with a backdoor, everyone outside the reach of US law will fork their own standard without those backdoors.
So, in the end, it will only be used against Americans.
We know this software has been on Lenovo laptops since June, at the least. So the Oct-Dec statement is a lie. Three straight lies in a row.
Corporations don't lie. The spokesman was simply "mistaken" in those previous statements.
Simply put, you cannot trust this company any longer.
Is there one you can trust? I just prefer to trust none of them, buy the hardware that meets my needs, and nuke it from orbit when it comes in with the OS of my choice with 100% less crapware.
An electric truck is already a step up in efficiency and environmental responsibility from traditional internal combustion trucks, with a delivery cost to the shipping company of 30 cents per mile (compared to roughly a dollar per mile with diesel).
they're claiming a 70% cost reduction by going to an electric truck. Same driver, same parcel load, same mileage, ect...
+1 informative.
Which would imply that their Diesel fuel + Diesel specific maintenance costs them 70 cents per mile MORE than their electricity and electric specific maintenance.
If they can put that same driver in an electric vehicle and do the same deliveries for 30 cents a mile, I'm thinking that they are doing something really wrong with the Diesel vehicles.
Seems like they could just put a genset on the truck & use electric driven wheels and get a big cost reduction while still using diesel, if TFA is correct. I assume they're just burning a ton in the stop-start nature?
$1 per mile covers not only the stop-go-stop-go fuel costs, but far increased wear and tear.
Add to that the cost of the human that is driving (usually their highest paid non-management people), and now $1 a mile seems right.
NFC was first cracked on cell phones.
It doesn't even matter. NFC can send the number in plaintext for all I care. The Apple Pay app generates a one-time card number. After it hits the reader, it is useless.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/...
Too many tourists? Double the room rates. Double the restaurant prices. Double the airfare. No, triple it! A new horde of US tourists surging demand in Cuba will just drive up prices.
Which means that the owners of the resorts will get more money, which they will spend in the local economy, which means more money for the locals.
I don't know what the solution is. Clearly neither does google or anyone else.
There is a solution that doesn't require SMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is based off of RFCs, as well, so you don't even need to use Google's implementation.
That, combined with a sheet of OTP's that don't require a code tucked in a safe, gets it done.
As I said, very easy to circumvent
If your point is to stop employees from plugging in an access point they bought at Best Buy, this is quite effective.
If your point is actual security against a criminal, 802.1x with certificates is the only way to go.
Point is, at least stopping 1/2 of the problems is better than stopping none of them. Right or wrong, 802.1x security is seen as too complicated for most IT departments.
You're correct, but my point is that many people don't deploy 802.1x because it seems so complex and expensive.
port-security to 1 mac gives most of the benefits of 802.1x for no cost and very easy deployment.
Or, for even less complexity, limit the number of MAC addresses per port to 1. No need for central MAC database that way.
The scenario you have painted here is a farce.
While I don't support regulation of drones outside of keeping them away from normal airplane traffic and outside private property, this is hardly a farce.
This is a 4-lb payload drone that doesn't look more than 1 meter wide. There is even a video showing it dropping a small watermelon from 250ft.
A M18 Claymore is 3.5 lbs, so this drone could carry one without issue.
I speed all the time and I use Waze to know when to slow down.
Because Waze can't track police on the move (which have been how I've been caught speeding most of the time), I can't imagine it is a great system for this.
Until Google figures out a way to get around carriers on this...
Apple did this a long time ago. There is nothing to figure out.
All Google needs to do is require those that are going to sell hardware running their OS to allow Google to push the updates. Done.
If you don't like how we do things in Texas, you're free to not move here.
What if I like how you do things in Texas, but don't want to move there because the climate in Texas is about the as my boxers?
Just make sure that anything past your legal retention limit is only retained offline.
Do you think that because it is no longer required for you to keep certain documents, that it will prevent a subpoena from demanding them if they exist?
So, every time there is a lawsuit, you have to re-plug all of those air gaps archives to search for whatever documents the opposition deems relevant. There went February's IT productivity.
NO. As soon as you don't need it, delete it automatically. Make it a written policy. After X years, everything is deleted unless it is placed in a certain archive manually. That archive will be small and certain to only be used to your company's advantage.