Posts by Mad Chaz

Infinite ikea

Oh the horror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcC-A3lG7yc

Surprised

Well, not really. I suspect the rational for most of the info sec was "we're in the middle of the ocean, who's going to hack us?". Nevermind that the people on the ship are the bigger risk. That would cost money to fix!

"Censorship is, as we in the West know, a feature of life under totalitarism regimes" There, FTFY

I think you will find it's not exclusive to communist regimes. More than a few democracies try to head that way too.

When I got my new cellphone number, I kept getting treatening calls for the previous owner of the number. Things along the line of 'pay up or we'll see you in court!'

That I told them said name didn't exist at this number wasn't working. So I basically told them to 'put up or shut up and I'd be happy to have my day in court'.

Somehow, that stopped them dead after the first try.

Axon doesn't need

to hide the tech is crap. Politicians and cops want it, so it works as far as they care

We did do it!

Got to love those spooks trying to get encryption backdoors. We did "do it". Except IT was making sure assholes like you aren't able to get said back door. THAT is the problem that got solved.

I love how they go "we didn't know they had it so we couldn't exclude it". To me, it sounds like it should be "you specify exactly what you want" not "let's get everything but this".

But IANAL

Bell Canada, where incompetence is the path to promotion

I had the misfortune to work for a Bell subsidiary in the past. The culture is basically "blame the underlings for the fact bosses can't even handle basic math like 2+2=4"

Boss didn't order enough material to do the job? Fire the poor guy doing the work for not finishing on time.

So not very surprising the security there is closer to Swiss cheese than brick wall. But I'm sure the person who made the decisions that led to this will find some poor smock under him to take the blame.

Not for everyone

But personally, I use pfSense. In my case, inside a VM on the computer I use as my home server. But any old/small/underpowered computer with 2 NIC can run it really.

It's just not the kind of thing most people want to use.

RDO and tripleO

Getting openstack setup is surprisingly easy now with the RDO project and the tripleO installer. If you have the hardware, using tripleO, you can have everything installed pretty much automatically, including a ceph storage cluster and everything else you need.

CIFS vs SMB

Not a mistake, but an update in terminologie.

SMB isn't the term used in linux/bsd for the OLD samba protocol. It is now called CIFS as that version of it had MAJOR performance improvements over the old SMB system. SMB3 is used for the latest version (windows 10 and familly)

Another good example of buisness avioding risk, this time shifting it to the employees. Why bother with properly managing the retirement fund when we can just have the employees get shafted if we did a poor job.

''These acts cause financial and reputational damage to businesses and rob their clients of the security they expect and deserve online.­''

Damage that is deserved if they didn't take basic security measures to ensure the security they expect and deserve online.

what if ...

What if I didn't wank milk in my tea? Can't exactly take it out. now can you?

only one thing to say

Ouch

If I drive about 10 minutes from my house, I could get fiber connection for a stupid high price that more or less as to include TV and phone and a data cap. At my place, I can barely get DSL from the phone network.

I could get cable, but then I would again be paying almost as much for just the internet as if I took phone and TV as well and have to pay extra for unlimited download.

Now I get DSL from a third party and get no fine when I download too much, just my connection getting downgraded in speed. Still crap, but it's honestly the best deal I could get. And it's not like it's just 1 or 2 houses on the street. It's all tightly packed all the way from the city center to my home.

"The industry-funded American Cable Association reckons the FCC's stipulation that Charter expand into underserved areas will bring competition that will hurt ISPs already in those markets."

You know they are a proper monopoly when the "big guy association" is scared of competition. They know they got no little guy left to compete with so it's all money out of big guy pocket. (Yes, I used singular, not plural)

I agree they should cancel that provision ... along with the entire merger. I think it's time to consider breaking them up again, not letting them re-fuse.