Stijn!!

[flipper35]

So David, do you have to hold your thumb in front of the camera in different positions for them to diagnose it?

Richard, you will be without power all day after you sell the generator. Just like washing and detailing will almost guarantee it rains next time you drive.

[Porsche-poor]

I opted to wait.

[GH85Carrera]

Yep, you got a generator, and an hour later the power comes back on. It is like the Snow Tires I bought for my El Camino. I swapped to the snow tires every winter, until they were worn out. We did not have snow for those several years. I changed to regular tires, and it was snowing like mad. I told the folks I worked with they need to throw in $25 bucks per head to the snow prevention tires fund, and none would. Screw em all, we had record snow that year.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

dodged a bullet today. was going into the doc for my thumb. they called to see about a virtual appt. cause the providers could not come into the office..... covid I bet

I can tell it has to be hitchhikers thumb from all those hitchhiking trips into the office. Just get a doctors note that you have to go on a paid sabbatical to recuperate from the pain and suffering.

[GH85Carrera]

I went to get my haircut a little while ago. The sun is mostly out, just partly cloudy, 50 degrees and the traffic was NUTS. I guess everyone wanted to get out of the house.

As I approached the intersection where I needed to turn left I noticed the left lane was backed up for over 3/4 of a mile and traveling at 15 MPH. I figured it was some left turner up ahead and people would go around and we would continue. It slowed to a stop, and I could see a solid line of cars in the left lane for over 1/2 a mile. It took 10 minutes to move the 1/2 mile yet the right lane was going through. It is a royal pain to go further north and then turn left on R-66 (2nd street) so I stuck to the left lane. Finally I got close enough to see the church on the corner had opened for early voting. They were limiting people from pulling in until someone left and that was blocking the road. The good news is the other lane was open and I got around the early voters. It must be a mega turnout if it is that bad this far out from vote day deadline.

[Porsche-poor]

We dropped ours a week ago. I'm about to tell all the "GO VOTE" folks on FB to pound sand cause I have now go away.

[GH85Carrera]

Whooo wheeeee we are having fun. I was allowed to play Paul Bunion (not to be confused with Paul Bunyan) for three and a half hours. We got most of the back yard cleared, except for some big branches leaning on the 8 foot Stockade fence. Possibility of injury is about 10% chance, so screw it let the pros handle it. Old geezer here ready to let a pro show me how to do it. It will be way cheaper than a ER visit.

We have one 12 or 15 foot long pile out by the curb. The good news is we have a wide front yard along the street. We will need it. The front yard starts tomorrow and all weekend likely.

The new chain saw is of course not here, but my trusty 35 year old 8 inch electric chain saw is still a real cutup. So far I have been cutting mostly Crape Myrtle and Lace Bark Elm. Both are pretty soft wood. The lace bark elm that is in our neighbors yard dropped a lot of limbs. It is really amazing how much a small limb covered in leaves and packed FULL of seeds weighs. Astonishingly heavy.

[GH85Carrera]

The wife rousted me up and out of the house to make a fruit run to Sam's. Got that done. Once it warms up a bit I suspect we will be back at the tree trimming.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Another day off so off to do chores.

[flipper35]

Last time I had a workday off I ended up answering a bunch of calls from work.

[GH85Carrera]

Brent, I see in the news that medical facilities seem to be a target of ransomware. It has to be a challenge to get the idiots to never click a link in an email but there must be more that cam be done.

I don't doubt that you have lots of other protections in place. I assume there are terabytes of data in any hospital or medical facility. How often is it practical to make full backups? I presume the ransomware looks for backup and tries to corrupt them.

And as usual the administration likely does not want to spend the money to have a high level of protections.

It must be a fun time now for those IT wienies.

[flipper35]

We have terabytes of data and the software we use has a separate account to the storage to help prevent those backups from getting corrupted. It is for disaster recovery and not really backup/restore and is more of a hybrid than what would normally be a full backup and incremental then repeat.

We do training and if the users don't do the training they are not eligible for any bonus or raises. We also use a pretty good suite for software. Basically anything not whitelisted runs in a honeypot first to see what the behavior is. Lots of people don't like it because it inhibits them installing things like an advent calendar or whatever. I don't give a rats pajamas since it is a work machine it can run what we approve and don't care if they want something else.

We do have random testing often as well and anyone that fails gets additional remedial training as well. That training is 3x longer than the regular since it assumes they did not understand something with the original training and the remedial is much more in depth.

It is hard keeping up with all the threats. I get a ton of alerts every day on new threats from several security associations.

All that said, no one is invulnerable, we just mitigate as well as we can.

[RKDinOKC]

Saw where Ronda Rousy the MMA fighter is a serious Zombie Apocolypse Prepper. She has a farm, raises her own food and it's defendable against zombies.

Sure glad I do not do network/email security for the company I used to. They would not implement hack training and have gotten breached several times because of it.
Thankfull only after I was taken off firewall management. Funny how running oddball Mac firewalls didn't get hacked and cisco they replaced it with did.

Approved on 1st step of disability approval. Now the government gets to quiz my doctors. And my doc already wrote me a letter that I can not go to an office to work.
Hope it does not take a year like the lawyers say.

[GH85Carrera]

With everyone owning a cell phone, an Advent calendar or anything like that has no place on a business computer, put it on the cell phone. I know many people at work seem to think the computer they are using is "their" computer and they can do what they want. And of course they are wrong.

My wife said back when PCs were first taking over a the university where she worked things were fairly open since they were learning as well. At one seminar the instructor said to please understand, every single email you read or create and send is backed up forever. They are required to have full backups of all correspondence for every computer since it was the HR department. He said and further before you create and send something, just remember it is not just possible but reality that someday you might be in the witness chair in a courtroom under oath and the full penalty of perjury over you while asked "On this date and time did you type this from your work computer while under employment for the university"

She also refused to give out her cell number or personal email to anyone that was not a close friend, and the it was for personal communications only. No work related items were allowed. That was her rule.

[flipper35]

We tell everyong to use their personal network drive if it is confidential or their department group drive to share. Nothing else gets backed up. Then they get mad when their unit crashes and we go back to factory on it.

I don' t give out my home email even though they want it for our time clock stuff. I said it makes no sense to send it to my home email if it is work related because I don't check the home email. I someone submits for time off why wouldn't they want that to go to my work email right away?

All the executive team has my cell phone because I do not have a work cell phone.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, my wife refused to have a work cell phone. They did have our home phone, but they can't subpoena anything more than phone records of out home phone, and we never use it to place calls.

When her boss said they had to have her cell phone she simple said no, it is my personal property and unrelated to my job, and you have no right to it anymore than the right to enter my house.

They tried to give her a cell phone and she told them she will just leave it at the office when she is off work and not paid she is on her time, not theirs. She never turned it on and after a month they took it back.

[flipper35]

We did not have a home phone for the longest time.

[GH85Carrera]

I keep pushing to drop or home line. It costs me just $6 bucks per month but 99.4% of the calls are scammers or political calls. We NEVER answer it, if they don't leave a message, it was not important at all. I have the ringer turned off. If there is a message it sends an email to our cell phones.

My wife is reluctant to kill it as her doctors and some old friends still call it. They all have her cell number. Why they call the house number is beyond me. I told her if we kill it, they will figure out to call her cell.

[RKDinOKC]

I have no land line. It was Mom's and she outlived all her friends.

I provide private email for 20 people. It is very secure and is not associated with any company networks or servers and associated passwords. It is also non-standard Mac stuff. Would like to set it up with Multi-Factor Authentication, but that i expensive for not much real protection noadays.

Surprised my Brother, chairman of the board of the company that laid me off when I would not help him get his computer set up with company email. F em, me no work there no more.

[flipper35]

2FA can be easily spoofed unfortunately. A couple years ago we saw a demo. Guy asked for a volunteer and 10 minutes later had all the info he needed by spoofing 2FA with a MiM attack.