Do you have any idea what you're talking about? I am actually curious. Do you have a replacement for the "abstractions" of TCP/IP. The internet will continue on because of us network engineers implementing IPv6 in the core and extending it to the edge. The internet routes around "everything" because of science and engineering. It isn't a political statement or new age concept.
Look at the comments from Dana Hom (former COO of DTIS) on this Wired story.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/former-san-fran.html
He adds some insight into how the SF government operates and convinces me that this guy is getting railroaded.
It reminds me of a fired sysadmin that we had to investigate for "hacking" when all he was doing was changing permissions on his folder structure. Suddenly the PHB didn't have access to other users folders on the network and assumed there was something malicious going on.
There are ways that he could lock himself out. If he disabled password recovery and setup command authorization on the enable command, that could do the trick.
From the way this article reads, I find this plausible. Imagine that he setup the AAA server in a very common way. He ties it to AD or whatever external directory and adds himself into the group that has access. He is fired and his account is disabled or deleted. Now they can't get in because they think they are authenticating to the router. Now he doesn't just need to give them the password but explain how the whole system works. To the people that put him in jail after firing him. That is my 2c wild speculation.
I also think it's unfair to blame him for the lack of knowledge transfer. It sounds like he was the only one who had any chance of being able to understand how this network worked. Designing complex MPLS networks is not easy and I don't blame him for not spoon feeding configs to junior admins. If the city wants redundant brain power, they can pay for it. Maybe they should have thought about having more than one network engineer of his caliber. That is all.
Exactly. This can be done, but it's not by Google. They might be capable, but their entire business model screams against this. I have dealt with various EMR systems and there is no way that they are ready to offer data in an open way. They all operate off of non-standard databases and their developers are worth a shit. This is big PR bullshit. They are no way ready to start doing this. It might as well be flying cars.
"that doesn't mean you didn't make the wrong decision to defend yourself ofcourse"
Of course.
My brain hurts. Aside from that wonderful sentence, are you actually saying that it's not OK to kill someone in self defense. How about in defense of others?
Actually, you can. 10GBASE-T does this. 10GBASE-CX4 can also handle it. Although with CX4 you would have to replace your cables, and 15m is not long enough for desktop cable runs. You would have to replace your switches and NIC's in either case. It works for data centers and is much cheaper than fiber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_gigabit_Ethernet#Cables/
Michael
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Do you have any idea what you're talking about? I am actually curious. Do you have a replacement for the "abstractions" of TCP/IP. The internet will continue on because of us network engineers implementing IPv6 in the core and extending it to the edge. The internet routes around "everything" because of science and engineering. It isn't a political statement or new age concept.
The site is slashdotted before the first comment rolls in.
I don't seem to have any problem with the 53 buttons on my HTC phone... they do make slide out keyboards now.
Look at the comments from Dana Hom (former COO of DTIS) on this Wired story. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/former-san-fran.html He adds some insight into how the SF government operates and convinces me that this guy is getting railroaded. It reminds me of a fired sysadmin that we had to investigate for "hacking" when all he was doing was changing permissions on his folder structure. Suddenly the PHB didn't have access to other users folders on the network and assumed there was something malicious going on.
There are ways that he could lock himself out. If he disabled password recovery and setup command authorization on the enable command, that could do the trick. From the way this article reads, I find this plausible. Imagine that he setup the AAA server in a very common way. He ties it to AD or whatever external directory and adds himself into the group that has access. He is fired and his account is disabled or deleted. Now they can't get in because they think they are authenticating to the router. Now he doesn't just need to give them the password but explain how the whole system works. To the people that put him in jail after firing him. That is my 2c wild speculation. I also think it's unfair to blame him for the lack of knowledge transfer. It sounds like he was the only one who had any chance of being able to understand how this network worked. Designing complex MPLS networks is not easy and I don't blame him for not spoon feeding configs to junior admins. If the city wants redundant brain power, they can pay for it. Maybe they should have thought about having more than one network engineer of his caliber. That is all.
I know he's not a politician but here you go. http://www.ktvu.com/news/14793841/detail.html
Exactly. This can be done, but it's not by Google. They might be capable, but their entire business model screams against this. I have dealt with various EMR systems and there is no way that they are ready to offer data in an open way. They all operate off of non-standard databases and their developers are worth a shit. This is big PR bullshit. They are no way ready to start doing this. It might as well be flying cars.
"that doesn't mean you didn't make the wrong decision to defend yourself ofcourse"
Of course.
My brain hurts. Aside from that wonderful sentence, are you actually saying that it's not OK to kill someone in self defense. How about in defense of others?
Actually, you can. 10GBASE-T does this. 10GBASE-CX4 can also handle it. Although with CX4 you would have to replace your cables, and 15m is not long enough for desktop cable runs. You would have to replace your switches and NIC's in either case. It works for data centers and is much cheaper than fiber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_gigabit_Ethernet#Cables/
Michael