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That really IS bad! I was unaware of that one, and I've forwarded it on to my boss, requesting he forward it to our Security Manager. The specialist in this article It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment | WIRED was an employee of ours, who's since gone on to bigger and more secure environments. He had some great…

Please expand on item #2, where a Help Desk Application can automatically assign and route tickets. How is the application configured so it "knows" which assignments are appropriate for each technician? Do organizations create an evaluation test for techs to pass, and then their supervisor checks off their capabilities…

Back To The Future was a childhood movie? Oh dear . . . My childhood movies were slightly more primitive than that.

The article supposedly showing how the Corona virus reveals how broken America is . . . It's a bit inflammatory, a bit in-your-face, a bit aggressive, and hard to verify/validate. Things could be better in the States. Some places probably have some better ratios or conditions than the states. But the overdramatic last…

I knew a fellow who was "recruited" by the CIA while he was in high school. I don't know what a person does to get that kind of attention while still a teenager, but he ended up with an impressive level of security ratings and clearances. I hope to never come under that agency's scrutiny, but it's great when a business can…

I can smell that bacon. Hear it settling slowly down, crackling, dripping grease. I love a few bites followed by a nice sip of pulpy cold orange juice. Then repeat. Until it's all gone or until I regret my actions. Maybe both?

Apple & Google in bed for $9B--at our expense? Surprise!

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Sadly, that's the result of not teaching people the Golden Rule, not training people to behave with altruism, and not emphasizing empathy as important.

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I saw that happen to one of my site's WAN links. I called up the Service Provider to report the outage, heard a few immediate hems & haws, and was put on hold. A minute later the service was restored. Happily, the provider is one with a reputation for honesty & coming clean; they told me they had a worker at the location…

Thank you, DanielleH​. If nothing else, it proves at least one of us is reading the fine print.

Reducing passive-aggressive phrases in e-mail? That's sort of a passive-aggressive problem sentence all by itself. How about simply teaching and requiring efficient and effective human communication instead? And automatically strip advertisements from any electronic communications like e-mail? Please?

He's quite an entertainer from the '60's and '70's. You MIGHT have heard him sing a song about a certain smoke-able herb: "Wild Wood Weed". If you haven't heard it, it's a hoot. On the other hand, he has significant guitar skills. Combined with his humor, he put on quite the show, and he wasn't afraid to write wry and…

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Nicely imagined! And it might NOT just be imagination . . . that could have happened and we'd never know, would we? Unless we're running some pretty useful QoE and well-monitored and well-configured APM from within NPM and DPA and SAM. Maybe we don't want to know . . .

Then appeal to an authority. Push the designer/contractor to prove that you won't need more bandwidth tomorrow, and won't have to replace their CAT5 with CAT6. Show them where their design contradicts BICSI's Green Field recommendations. Make them give current examples of sites that contravene the ANSI/TIA 942 standard. If…

Ransomware: I agree with the process and reactions presented. But I'll up the ante on you: Identify the causes for people creating the ransomware and eliminate those causes. Yes, it's a huge problem, probably insurmountable without a quantum shift in the moral center of humanity. But maybe, just maybe, we'll find some…

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Hmmm . . . our president claiming something that makes him look better & sound like he's intelligent, yet it turns out his claim is false? His track record prevents me from being surprised. And his statements bring stress and misinformation to good people? Again, this is a repeating pattern. And no surprise.

I like the topic. Particularly when earlier Thwack stories have had the slant that syslog is antiquated and obsolete, and should be replaced. Syslog plays a very valuable role in my organization.

Only goodness and networks shall follow us for the rest of our lives . . .

HPOV NNM--I can't imagine using it instead of SW. I don't have the staff for OV's demands and complexity. And I know--I bought HP OV twelve years ago and discovered the hard way it wasn't the product for my environment. SW is.

There are days when I wish top administration and bottom access users could be prevented from being exposed to new technologies and new ideas. Simply from the fact that sometimes they rush to adopt things that are not compatible with our present security requirements, or infrastructure designs, or servers / apps…

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Maybe not ALL Elon Musk projects immediately turn to gold, but I'm still betting on the man and his ideas. He inspires, he dreams big. It may be that many of his ideas flop. But those that succeed are beneficial and interesting!

I have access to the products, but not the time to work with them. Need a job? We're hiring!

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