Evolv-ing Thread

[dwcraig1]

Looks like I'll be a "Coors' man in the near future.

Beer scarce in Tijuana as COVID-19 crisis halts production

 

[Alexander Mundy]

Risk assessment is not just about finding vulnerabilities within your software/OS that can be exploited. It's about looking at the grand scheme of things and assessing what financial losses you may incur should something fail. A failure could be identified as an exploit, hardware failure, software corruption etc. How dependent is your business on this software? Can you operate without it? Should a failure occur, regardless of it’s cause how quickly can you recover – and if you can not recover, what plans do you have to replace?

Again, I do not know what type of hardware you are running. Your server could be as simple as a desktop computer running server type software. Or it could be something proprietary/specialized for your application. Hard drives are a dime a dozen, what about the other components within the server?

We also can not run on the notion that a hacker would have no interest in your business because you feel there are no gains for them. There are no boundaries to hacking. Could be for financial or information gains, or just to be destructive and take you out of service. It could come from organized Cyber crime, or the neighbourhood snot nosed computer geek testing out some skill’s he just learned off the web. You have inventory (product) work/purchase orders. Again I do not know the nature of your business, but can you be compromised, product shipped elsewhere based on clients credit? Any product, be it tooth brushes or nuclear warheads has value within black markets.

Large corporations are sinking billions into cyber security. This poses a higher challenge to those within cyber crime who many are redirecting their efforts toward less secure small business. 2018 saw an 400+% increase of cyber crime toward small business over the previous year. And out of those who have been compromised, the majority have gone belly up because they could not recoup their losses.

I keep 5 days worth of local and FTP backups of data. Hard copies of all the software itself are stored locally, FTP, and in a fire safe. I can reinstall on a client computer and run standalone as I did when previous hard drives died on the archaic server. I don't ship or retail sell any material as my company is service based. My NAT on the server doesn't respond to anything from the WAN that isn't requested from the private network side. After 5 min of no traffic it automatically gets a new public IP. Webservices are not set up, my website is hosted off site. Any attempted intrusion into my honeypot (which hasn't happened in 5 years now) sends me an email. Don't really know how I could make it any safer, aside from physically removing the WAN nic card. GM was much easier to hack into back in 80 via dialup. Young stupid me didn't realize the computer held military contract files, as the 2 men in suits with badges told me as they warned about my phone number ever showing up again. No law broken back then as I didn't access any classified data, but as a 20 year old phone phreaking, TAP and anarchist cookbook reading, subscriber to a few tech hacking news circulars I can't remember the names of, Libertarian, NORML, High Times subscriber that was enough to scare me, as I figured I'd probably just disappear.

 

[dwcraig1]

Here's a pic of an Ebay kit with free DNA200 board with kayfun v5 styled on top. Only about 3500 puffs on this "relic
No, the board wasn't from Ebay, a friend RMA's one and had already built another so he gave it to me.

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[BillW50]

 

[dwcraig1]

 

[mikepetro]

 

[awsum140]

Now that's the right size for a coffee cup! Or she's really tiny.

 

[mikepetro]

Something is very BROKEN with our Prescription supply chain:

"For example, production costs are estimated to be $0.28 per day for Lopinavir/ritonavir (used for treating HIV) and $0.28 per day for hydroxychloroquine (used for treating malaria and rheumatoid arthritis). However, these and similar drugs retail for up to $510 per course of treatment in countries like India and Pakistan where drug costs are strictly controlled -- and up to $18,610 per course in the U.S. where price controls are lacking."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infect...042920&utm_term=NL_Daily_Breaking_News_Active

 

[CMD-Ky]

That is amazing, greed is an awful vice. I am not a price control kind of guy but, since there appears to be no self-restraint, I could be convinced to get on board. I don't know how long ritonavir has been on the market so there maybe a rational claim for recovery of research costs. But hydroxycloroquine has been around long enough that development costs have long been recouped many times over.

Something is very BROKEN with our Prescription supply chain:

"For example, production costs are estimated to be $0.28 per day for Lopinavir/ritonavir (used for treating HIV) and $0.28 per day for hydroxychloroquine (used for treating malaria and rheumatoid arthritis). However, these and similar drugs retail for up to $510 per course of treatment in countries like India and Pakistan where drug costs are strictly controlled -- and up to $18,610 per course in the U.S. where price controls are lacking."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infect...042920&utm_term=NL_Daily_Breaking_News_Active

 

[Steamer861]

Something is very BROKEN with our Prescription supply chain:

Hate to say it Mike, but I don't think it's the supply chains! It's more like strong lobby groups funded by Deep Pockets, who may not have the average persons best interest in mind

 

[dwcraig1]

My son's car radio is SirusXM capable and that company has been hounding me for 10 months now. They at least stopped calling on the phone. While their service may be something worth while my so has no interest with it. The price for the 1st year is down to $5 per month with free activation and free Echo Dot. I have even told them that even for free I don't want it. These days I only receive letters from them as I unsubscribed from their email. They remind me of bill collectors.

 

[Steamer861]

My son's car radio is SirusXM capable and that company has been hounding me for 10 months now. They at least stopped calling on the phone. While their service may be something worth while my so has no interest with it. The price for the 1st year is down to $5 per month with free activation and free Echo Dot. I have even told them that even for free I don't want it. These days I only receive letters from them as I unsubscribed from their email. They remind me of bill collectors.

I never thought it was worth having a sat radio, unless you were an over the road trucker what would be the point? Radio should be free! With unlimited cel phone data plans being so readily available & cheep now, Spotify is a better choice, your phone can play music any were
My son got a year of XM free with his car, they kept on bugging him also, they are willing to reduce their price down to all most nill if your willing to extend your service

If you subscribe to sat radio & want to get a better deal, just call them & say you want to cancel your sub, they will bend over backwards to keep you subscribed

 

[BillW50]

I never thought it was worth having a sat radio, unless you were an over the road trucker what would be the point?

I've subscribed from time to time. Commercial free is nice and they use higher quality DJs.

Radio should be free!

Who's going to pay for those commercial free stations? Those 50k watt transmitters use a lot of electricity.

If you subscribe to sat radio & want to get a better deal, just call them & say you want to cancel your sub, they will bend over backwards to keep you subscribed

You bet, even as much as 8 months free or more.

 

[TrollDragon]

When I was traveling 3 hours a day to work in the city, SirusXM was great just for channel XM38.

 

[BillW50]

 

[dwcraig1]

I first ran across this mod in the ECF classifieds and got to wonder if it was a DNA60 board. So I start looking around for some review and vendors and nobody mentions that it is a DNA board. In fact the review I'm posting here the guy says it is not. Well I say it is. Perhaps because it can't be connected to EScribe is the reason for being mum about it. And why can't it be connected to EScribe...well for starters it has no USB port.


Ambition Mods Easy Side 60W Box Mod by Sunbox.R.S.S

 

[dwcraig1]

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[dwcraig1]

I think I rathar like the 22 mm version of the Kayfun v5 better than the 25 mm version for my style of vaping, I just wish it held more juice.