@Dashrender said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@MattSpeller said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@MattSpeller said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

I'm not convinced it's necessary. Both iOS and Android have sandboxing features that prevent malicious code from running. Android, of course, lets the user run it anyway if they give that app permission. I think iOS has something similar but they have a pretty decent app store that prevents that type of thing, unlike Google.

I am an Android guy by the way.

I'm not convinced it's necessary either, but I believe I was infected and now I'm all paranoid.

One security research firm (I don't remember the name I'll have to look) went through the Google App store and downloaded as much malicious stuff as possible. They found that unless the application is given permission, which means a user has to allow it, then it really can't do anything on the system. If the user allows it then, obviously, the malicious code was able to execute and do it's thing.

That's exactly what creeps me out about Android - why does everything need permissions to stuff you wouldn't expect it to use. I fear the answer is "to slurp your data". Which is garbage. However the app won't run without it.

Example: "Samsung Briefing" which is a news aggregator - asks for permission to save to disk, phone, etc etc

The newest version of Android took a cue from iOS and now lets you be more judicial with app permissions. Haven't been able to play with it yet.

in what way? I don't see a way to prevent, for example, Skype from using my camera but allowing it access to the network and microphone.

Do you have Nougat? I could have sworn that was one of the selling points. Where you give permissions like that on an as needed basis. So you could very well prevent skype from accessing the camera but allow it to access the microphone. It may not work as expected but...

What made you look at Budgie?

@Mike-Davis said in ever see a ping like this?:

It's a Zebra GK420d label printer. I can ping any other device on the LAN with pings <1ms.

Change the cable and go from there.

@Dashrender said in CenturyLink Level 3 November 22 2016 Outage:

@scottalanmiller said in CenturyLink Level 3 November 22 2016 Outage:

All three, Qwest, CenturyLink and Level 3 are the same company. Qwest is the "parent" but used CL as their name.

OK there we go... I didn't know that QWest, CenturyLink and Level 3 are the same company.

One big, crappy company that is always offline, apparently.

@scottalanmiller said in Secure access:

Yup, I'd say this would be the most common case. Basically I'd not be surprised either way. Totally understandable that he would have run into that before, but very common not to have.

yeah, I realized I felt the same way as I was writing the post, but posted it anyhow.

@Dashrender said in Identifying CAT 6 Connections:

LOL I was looking for the timestamp on the post he quoted...
was thinking that was long before his account was banned.

Yeah, he didn't leave until pretty late yesterday.

@JaredBusch said in ML and Browser issue:

You can adjust the height of the reply box to fix that.

Grab the arrow and drag up. My tablet sometimes gets messed up like that.

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had not noticed that previous. but I see that now. Thank you.

Two days without tickets. Getting to be a little bit of a problem. We've gone to email, but that's not a good alternative.

I might put this on my project list one of these days.

@Dashrender said in SpiceWorld London Canceled:

b) that people would be willing to spend their own money to come to the US for this conference - unless they just happen to like to vacation in Austin at the same time.

But they do that in droves already. And many, like @katie and myself, pay to go to London (sometimes) too.

@Dashrender said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

So is it done? Does Matt understand and agree to the point that Scott was making?

Yes I believe so.

TL;DR attempt #1 #2 #3 #4 (counting edits)

RAID10 does not need hot spares

If you have spare slots you'd be better served by a larger array with more IOPS

The corner case (the one raised by the op's question?) is would hot spares reduce the risk of array failure. The answer is 100% absolutely yes it will reduce the risk of failure.

The disagreement (I think..?) was if that's necessary. We agreed that it isn't necessary to have any hot spares for RAID10 unless there's mitigating factors (examples: remote COLO with horrific access issues, extremely risk averse use case).

@DustinB3403 said in How Do So Many People in IT Not Know What a Database Is?:

Databases are magic that your throw data at and then it all just makes sense, right?

That part I would get... it's the not knowing that the OTHER thing is an application is what makes it so crazy.

@PSX_Defector said in Suggestion on Domino to office 365 Migration:

@Dashrender said in Suggestion on Domino to office 365 Migration:

I know NTG can handle migrations from Exchange to O365 (and from Rackspace). Don't know if they have any experience with Domino to O365.

Hopefully @Minion-Queen doesn't look at my resume and see all the Domino experience.....

I already knew that 😛 Your safe.

@wrx7m said in Anyone using storj.io?:

That reminds me of a similar tech but within the LAN. Some sort of distributed storage across clients and servers. I can't remember the name... argh.

ÆtherStore - https://aetherstore.com/

@Dashrender said in Java Suspected in Level 3 Outage:

But we are talking about something for the betterment of all, like the universal healthcare you are for - like that we should all want a safer, more secure internet. The only way we are going to get that is if the vendors are forced to provide it, as the consumer will never demand it.

Yes, so if you can define a standard level of effort and make it a regulatory thing, then by all means. But how will you do that without crippling small companies, interfering with security in bad ways, etc.?

@fuznutz04 said in Vitelity inbound calling is failing:

@JaredBusch said in Vitelity inbound calling is failing:

@fuznutz04 said in Vitelity inbound calling is failing:

@JaredBusch Good idea to manually down the trunk. However, I think you're right, Not sure if it would have done anything as the calls were coming into Vitelity but then not working 100% Such a random event.

I've had decent luck with Vitelity so far. Let's hope this is just a special case.

I quit using Vitelity because of these types of issues repeatedly happening a few times a year.

You typically use voip.ms right?

Yes.

I grew up with my father working as an internal consultant in engineering and they would call their clients customers, even when they were internal. Never users. It's not an IT thing, it's a standard "service department" thing. And was common by the 1970s for sure.

Have not tried this combination. I'm pretty confident it will work, but what the settings are.... no idea.

@fuznutz04 said in SIP registrations failing for 2 phones:

@hubtechagain said in SIP registrations failing for 2 phones:

their bridge mode isn't a true bridge either. just FYI

Right. I was reading up on that a bit. People seem to call it a "pseudo bridge mode."

That's why they call it "bridge mode" rather than bridging.

@Dashrender said in Android OS and tracking:

Unless she is willing to root it and put on her own firmware/ROM, I wouldn't use it if she's worried about that at all.

The built in ROM could easily restore any tracking, etc, software installed when you wipe the phone. Only way to be sure would be to not use it. Second best way, replace the ROM. I'm not sure you can actually update the BIOS to ensure nothing is hiding in there - remember LoJack - it can be in the BIOS and reinstall itself on a new OS install - just like the Lenovo BIOS thing of last year.

While it is possible that tracking is built into the stock ROM, I find that highly unlikely. Also, since this is a gaming device, there is no real need to use your main Google Account on this device if you are wary of it. If you just play the games on it and disable the GPS, I don't see much of an issue.

I do agree that rooting and putting a custom ROM on there is a good idea. However, I think the risk of tracking with the stock ROM is virtually non-existent.