pheleven

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by pheleven 5y ago
Yes, it's definitely a economic decision. They're going to run this type of software on their own fleet and want it on everything connecting to the network. If you're willing to run it on your own device that saves them the h
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by pheleven 5y ago
Enforcing/auditing sane security settings on the device. Very much required for compliance, zero trust, protection of IP, and foundational to a reasonable security plan.
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by pheleven 6y ago
I don't see this as drastically different than the extreme push to force migrate everyone to SaaS on most software. Most business plans appear to be migrating to rent seeking.
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by pheleven 6y ago
Some of my local restaurants are doing this - effectively becoming concierge grocers who will break down bulk quantities for their customers. Call an order in and pick it up in ~24 hours. They have and can get almost anything the grocery st
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by pheleven 7y ago
This actually isn't all that strange a failure mode. We have several large ZFS arrays in service and replace 1-2 failed disks every month. About 90% of the time the first warning you get is exactly this - a message from the CAM control
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by pheleven 7y ago
And non-unique MAC addresses and lower stability, at least when we tried to use them a few years ago. Bought 3 and they all had the same MAC.
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by pheleven 8y ago
Sure. First and foremost, do you have permission from your customers who you're researching and reporting on here? If you do, great, ignore me. If not you'd be breaching (my) trust if I was one of them. The data is not yours and
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by pheleven 8y ago
Not to support his fairly trashy post in particular, but I believe his comment has utility. As an infrastructure person this post was concerning; this company is collecting a lot of data and has a lot of access, which I wouldn't trus
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by pheleven 8y ago
I would argue there are several sections in the GDPR that appear to allow for a 3rd party to request data on behalf of the data subject. For example: A20(2): In exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, the da
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by pheleven 8y ago
Honestly, it's not my call to raise prices or not, but it doesn't seem like they intend to hide it, should it happen.
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by pheleven 8y ago
Yes, it's being considered.
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by pheleven 8y ago
I was thinking a solid new business plan is to register gdpr.me (or whatever) and offer a service. $40, fill out a form, and I will send a GDPR request to every company in the world on your behalf. The data coming back is then offered back
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by pheleven 8y ago
If this is the sort of enforcement we can expect, this could suck: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/sse-energy-... (there are several others, this one is just interesting because it's a very
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by pheleven 10y ago
I got a pair of odriod's based on price/performance to act as NTP servers and have since removed them from service. They both had the same MAC address on the NIC, which was not impressive and more importantly have about a .5% (con
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by pheleven 13y ago
It was many years ago now but I was living in an apartment complex that sold a shared connection on a wireless backhaul to a regional ISP - the ISP handled everything from building wiring to billing. My friends and I were in college and tak
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by pheleven 13y ago
It reminds me of the old short "The Parlor": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmDPdCzCfFM
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by pheleven 14y ago
They don't accept lower case - if you have capslock on you'll still be logged in. I don't think they accept all special characters either.
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by pheleven 14y ago
My sister (several years ago) was flying United solo (minor, 17, first solo flight) from CA to ME, connecting in LGA. Her flight came in late and she missed the connecting flight (late at night). There were no United employees on staff (at
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by pheleven 14y ago
If they can't do simple math, yes. In their "debunking" they forgot that a day is not equal to an hour, and most of it is nonsensical.
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by pheleven 14y ago
Most of them get the fingers pointed at China (PLA or otherwise) or Russian Mafia.
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by pheleven 14y ago
They have a 'security department' within their company, which is a security/analyst company. They have Richard Bejtlich running their network defense and policy.