Posts made by marcinozga

If I ever get these, usually by email, I just open them on iPhone.

Linuxserver.io images are safe and very well maintained. Some are safer (Plex for example) and better documented than official images. And since all their sources are on Github, it's easy to verify them. I run their Unifi controller at work and at home.

@scottalanmiller said in So You Lost Your ERP MSP?:

@marcinozga said in So You Lost Your ERP MSP?:

Most software have help -> about menu option and it should list software vendor.

If you can log in

But we know the ERP is Oracle NetSuite. But like everyone, they went through a reseller and lost the more important contacts.

How about Oracle directly? They might have reseller info. Our previous ERP was from Sage, we bought it through reseller, but Sage had all the info too, ours, resellers and relationship between involved parties.

@scottalanmiller said in So You Lost Your ERP MSP?:

ERP sucks

Yup, all of them, with no exception.

no one in the company who knows who the ERP vendor is or how to reach them. Or the MSP that supports them.

Is this something that was written just for this customer? Most software have help -> about menu option and it should list software vendor.

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@marcinozga said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

It probably is bricked. The same happened to my ER-X when firmware 2 came out. I got it booted eventually over serial cable, and if I remember correctly it displayed something about internal storage.

I noticed others have had the same issue in the past.

I just saw the serial connection setup. Did you just use the USB-TTL device to connect?

The part that bugs me is I had check the storage issue prior to upgrade. Had 58% free so I figured I would be ok.

I used this cable:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QT7LQ88?psc=1

I didn't bother with recovery, I just wanted to see what the issue was. I bought another ER-X and kept it on 1.x firmware.

It probably is bricked. The same happened to my ER-X when firmware 2 came out. I got it booted eventually over serial cable, and if I remember correctly it displayed something about internal storage.

I had 2 of ER-X, first one was bricked with 2.0 firmware update, 2nd I left at 1.9 if I remember correctly. The throughput numbers mentioned above just don't look right, this router will handle 1Gbit/s with some caveats. You need to enable hardware offload, and it kind of behaves like half-duplex. I constantly had download speeds exceeding 900Mbit/s, but if my upload spiked, download suffered.

@dashrender said in KVM or VMWare:

MS just killed Hyper-V so I get why it's not there.

Do you have a source of this claim? Because abandoning free Hyper-V server is not the same as killing Hyper-V. Server role is still there.

@eleceng said in Local Administrator Accounts Security:

On the various server VM's the customer wants a local admin account in addition to the domain admin account.

For security though should we disable the administrator account and create a different named local account with admin privileges instead?

Are we gaining a lot of security by doing this?

Thinking of using LAPS for these also.

Security through obscurity. Yeah, no. You're better off implementing some form of 2FA.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/23444/kb5005565-windows-update-error-operation-failed-with-error-0x0000011b-related-to-printnightmare-kb-driver-installation

It's most likely the same issue. Print nightmare update or something along these lines. I've had the same issues, I went with registry workaround.

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

But the software doesn't have the ability. We're going round in circles.

But it does, Apple themselves said that it does. It scans the whole device looking for whatever third party non-profits (and the government) tell it to search for. They could not possibly be more up front and clear about that. They aren't hiding this. You're claims don't seem to be that Apple won't do something bad, but that Apple is lying to make itself look bad. Why are you taking a stance that Apple is a good company, but lying? It's a very weird position to take without any reason to do so.

You are saying that the government could force Apple to provide them with data held on my phone. Apple can't do this, they don't have access to the data that this software gets and holds privately on my phone. The scan results are private (until uploaded to iCloud). Apple simply don't have the means to access the scan results.

That's my last post on this, I can't discuss with someone who just calls me weird.

How do you know they don't? Because they said so? Lol. Apple explicitly stated that this software will upload results to iCloud, so there you have it. Conditions that trigger the upload are irrelevant at this point, the fact that it can upload anything is. Scott above explained perfectly that single warrant will force them to fork any data over.

Here's a real world example how badly AI can screw up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/orumrn/tesla_autopilot_keeps_confusing_moon_with_traffic/

If Tesla thinks Moon is a traffic light, what are the odds of AI on your phone mistaking child in a bathtub for actual porn image?

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

I was planning on getting an iPhone and this is definitely enough for me to go look at Xiaomi again who, by the way, has SO MUCH BETTER cameras anyway.

I might actually go back to flip phones. Once Apple implements this, Google and others will follow in no time.

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

If you don't use iCloud I don't think you have anything to be concerned about. They cannot access your phone.

The claim of the news release is that they are accessing the phones. That's the entire set of concern. If the entire thing is fake, then of course, it's fake and it's not a problem. The concern is not Apple scanning data that THEY host, it's scanning data that WE host.

Not fake, confirmed by Apple, https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.*

and further

Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. Instead of scanning images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices.

@dashrender said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@marcinozga said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@marcinozga said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:
And said software will upload results to Apple without your consent. And it just goes downhill from there.

I don't think it will.

Did you bother to read the article? If a match is found, it will be uploaded to Apple for manual verification. This alone should creep you out. Some random person looking at your pictures deciding if it's child porn or not. And then passed on to some non-profit setup by government. Zero transparency, no way to audit the whole process. What could possibly go wrong there?

I wonder why apple is doing this? why now?

Child porn is horrific - but damn.. any time anyone wants to trample on your rights, it's the first thing they trot out - We gotta save the children... /sigh - Is child porn really this prolific?
I say the same thing with gun violence.... more people still die from car crashes every single day - why isn't the gov't mandating driverless cars, the rate won't be zero, but would be significantly less than it is today. ok that was a tangent.

It always starts with children. And it's really not about that, because now that it's out, any pedophile that has 2 brain cells will simply stop using Apple devices.

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

I don't think so. I don't think Apple are too bad with privacy since their business model is still based on selling hardware rather than selling data. I trust them more than others.

If you don't use iCloud I don't think you have anything to be concerned about. They cannot access your phone.

Again, read the article. You will get the software on the phone in iOS 15, and it will phone home. And unless you cut off internet access completely, there's not a thing you can do about it.

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@marcinozga said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:
And said software will upload results to Apple without your consent. And it just goes downhill from there.

I don't think it will.

Did you bother to read the article? If a match is found, it will be uploaded to Apple for manual verification. This alone should creep you out. Some random person looking at your pictures deciding if it's child porn or not. And then passed on to some non-profit setup by government. Zero transparency, no way to audit the whole process. What could possibly go wrong there?

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@jasgot said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

The issue is that they are looking at your data stored on your device. This is where the line gets crossed.

No they're not, unless I've misunderstood. Apple are not looking my phone. The data is private until I upload it to iCloud. My phone is analysing the data, but my phone and Apple are not the same thing.

Not your phone, a piece of software written by Apple. And said software will upload results to Apple without your consent. And it just goes downhill from there.

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@marcinozga said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

The difference is you don't have to upload the photos to the cloud. You could also encrypt them before uploading. Now your photos will always be scanned on YOUR device.

Scanned, but the info is private. Apple explicitly don't have access to the data until it is uploaded to iCloud. That's my point.

Now they do. Do you really think they will only scan images that are being uploaded to iCloud? How many pedos are that dumb to upload pictures to 3rd party cloud service? They will scan pictures on the phone, otherwise this entire surveillance framework is useless.

Actually, this is all useless already. Everyone knows about it, so real pedos will simply not use Apple devices.

Ok, here's a real life example that caused me to lose quite a few nights of sleep.
Couple of years ago my son had an ear infection, we were in doctors office, my wife took a picture of him to send it to her parents while he was undressed. I was chatting with a friend on discord, who just had her own baby. I tried to send that picture to her, but discord would constantly delete the upload, not because picture was too big. My guess was because my son's nipple was visible. I was really scared and was ready for feds to knock on my doors. I spent hours with discord tech support and kept screenshots of the chat with my friend just in case I was flagged for sending child porn.

Now with Apple scanning all images, it's easy to imagine false positives will happen quite frequently, and some will have their lives ruined.