@zachary715 said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

My next question being if you believe there's a possibility this could be true, how does this affect your decision-making for future projects where you would previously have gone Ubiquiti without hesitation? Will you now look elsewhere or stick to them until more info arrives?

I will continue to use it because nothing is tied to their continued existence.

Yeah future support may be gone, but one of the points of Ubiquiti gear is that there is no support beyond a 12 month warranty in the first place.

The hardware is good. The management for the hardware is solid and not tied to the company continuing to exist.

Also, if the company goes down financially, they will likely be forced to sell of assets. It will be entirely possible the core business gear will continue to exist under a new owner.

@WLS-ITGuy said in ZeroTier Question:

Just a curiousity question. Is it possible to install ZT on VMWare servers? I have three vsphere servers and it would be nice to be able to connect to those via vsphere client but it is just a "want" more than a need.

ESXi is a unique microkernel and no longer (since VMWare 4.X?) a Linux kernel.

@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch What do you do to stay awake? We drive I80 east to Chicagoland twice a year, and IL even beats out NE for sheer boring.

Well the Illinois run from Chicago to St. Louis is definitely pretty boring. Typically I annoy people by sending messages via Siri

@scottalanmiller said in Quad9 DNS Malicious Domain Blocking Service:

@jaredbusch said in Quad9 DNS Malicious Domain Blocking Service:

While this is a great concept, I do not trust that this:

"Anyone anywhere can use it," said Phil Rettinger, GCA's president and chief operating officer, in an interview with Ars. The service, he says, will be "privacy sensitive," with no logging of the addresses making DNS requests—"we will keep only [rough] geolocation data," he said, for the purposes of tracking the spread of requests associated with particular malicious domains. "We're anonymizing the data, sacrificing on the side of privacy."

will remain true because of this:

The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA)—an organization founded by law enforcement and research organizations to help reduce cyber-crime

Emphasis mine.

I agree. The very people we worry most about both from their tendency to act as criminals, and their general abject disconnect with common sense and security. Not a group of people I'd trust with security decision making.

I fully believe the DNS blocking bits of the service will work as advertised. Because the lists they aggregate from are coming form the 3rd party. It is the not tracking all my DNS queries that I do not believe.

I have zero problem accepting Strongarm.io for this, because they are a for profit company that will cease to be if they do something wrong.

@Dashrender you pretty much nailed it.

Just hung up FaceTime call with the girls. They are headed to school this morning.

Were ISP services truly competitive, @Kelly is correct that there would never be a need for net Neutrality laws. People would simply select the carrier with the feature set they desired.

Most people do not give a shit about this one way or the other and will simply pick the product that costs them the least. Whether that carrier is neutral or not.

But the entire ISP industry is nothing but semi regulated monopolies. More monopoly in some places than others, and more regulated in some places than others.

There is no true choice and there is no true competition. So there is certainly a need for laws of this type as has been proven by the existing ISPs over time as they have restricted user access to services.

Unrelated to your actual question, but gods, throw that router away. Buy real equipment.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I think @aaronstuder posted a utility program that blocks windows 10 updates. Anyone using that or something similar to stop this madness?

Stopping Windows 10 is the same problem we had with people sitting on XP for f[moderated]ing ever. Move on people.

@brianlittlejohn said in Quad9 DNS Malicious Domain Blocking Service:

@rojoloco said in Quad9 DNS Malicious Domain Blocking Service:

Got Damn.... this whole thread needs to realize that the police are always out to get anything they can on anyone, anytime. Don't play into their game. Don't feed the beast.

That is why I turn my phone off whenever I get pulled over so it requires a password to unlock instead of my fingerprint. No need to give them any information that is not required by law.

Someone else is as familiar with that law as myself I see...

@wirestyle22 said in Recovering Archived files via .OST:

@MattSpeller said in Recovering Archived files via .OST:

@wirestyle22 said in Recovering Archived files via .OST:

Any idea why we don't have PST files? Is there any reason to move them to a different default destination? Is there another way for me to recover this?

I'm really confused by this and it might just be that I don't know how it works - could you please explain the problem again for me?

Received this e-mail: "My Archive folders are not on my file list. Can you find out where they are so I can access them."

I went to C:\Users%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook to recover from the .PST file but there is no PST file. There is only an OST file. Now, keep in mind this is the first place I've ever worked that has hosted exchange (If that matters).

the Archive folder IS a PST file saved someplace. Go find it. The OST is not an archive file. It is a cache of the online mail.

@JaredBusch said in Weekend Plans:

Will be doing Windows 10 upgrades at another remote branch office on Saturday.

@TechnicalAngel and I were onsite a solid 12 hours Saturday. Then a bunch of remote follow up work today.

Also time at another client this morning troubleshooting their Vega50 8 port FXO.

@coliver said in HP Possible pulling a Lenovo with Stealthy spyware?:

@rojoloco said in HP Possible pulling a Lenovo with Stealthy spyware?:

@guyinpv said in HP Possible pulling a Lenovo with Stealthy spyware?:

What is it doing that's harmful?

HP Spectres are pretty sweet.

It's siphoning off data without your permission. Totally unacceptable.

Not to mention borderline illegal.

FTFY

@aaron said in Xfinity (Comcast) is rolling out a metered connection trial in Chicagoland and I am part of it:

Comcast sells unlimited for $50 there?

Those fuckers have the most bizarre pricing schemes, it must be all based on zip code.

That is on top of the base bill. Not "just" $50.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well... Pops and I went through the house with a find toothed comb. We can't figure out where all the smoke was coming from last night. Nothing smells like it was burning or anything.

We did find a bad circuit breaker but it's a chicken & the egg scenario... Did the circuit breaker blow and cause all the smoke... or did something else cause all the smoke and blow the circuit breaker... Found a couple of power outlets that needed to be replaced, and did that. Other than that, all is clear.

Wow...what a night.

Didn't find any burnt rodent or insect husks in the breaker or surrounding areas?

Does one of your kids have a chemistry set? I used to make some horrific aromas with mine, some with smoke, some without.

Nope. No dead rodents or pets or chemistry sets (yet). Best I can figure is the circuit breaker burned out and smoked up the place. The living room circuit tripped and was fine, but the one for the stove had to be replaced.

Humpty Dumpty has been back together for hours now and no worse for the wear. We don't know what caused it... But whatever it did definitely took out our stove's breaker.

Maybe the stove did something funky. Is it new or old?

Relatively new... (I'd guess 3 to 5 years due to the safety features on it). Gas stove with electric ignition and digital clocks timers, etc). When the power blips on it, it locks it self so the gas won't run at all until we unlock it.

No burn marks or smells anywhere we checked.

It's not a problem unless you can repeat it. Or so I tell my users anyway.

I tell mine it is not a problem because you never reported it to the helpdesk.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Telegram Zero Day Vulnerability
https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/

Patched prior to release of article. Telegram accepted the security researchers data and fixed the application.

@nadnerB said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@Breffni-Potter said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/11/technology/pokemon-go-coding-error-emails/index.html

You gave the company unrestricted access to your gmail account if you signed in with Google. Slow clap

According to some reports, it's only iOS... but... still not a good idea to keep the permissions active. I've given up "playing" it. This security issue is inexcusable.

It was the iOS app requesting the wrong access level. The game does not need or require it. They are patching it to request the correct access level.

https://games.slashdot.org/story/16/07/12/1123200/pokemon-go-was-never-able-to-read-your-email

Still have the key ring I carried. So let me know if you ever need into an alarm panel.

Canon cameras taken over in Japan because of default passwords.

@AshKetchum said in Missing drive:

@scottalanmiller we have s scheduled backup than supposed to save on Drive E but it failed since drive E is missing. we dont know if its an external drive, map drive or local drive that suddenly disappears. is there a log that we can see it? we have the backup log that shows the drive gone missing 10 days ago.

Forget finding your E Drive. Instead plug in a USB drive or NAS and get a current back up. your business has got no back up for 10 days right now.