Posts made by marcinozga

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

Fundamentally, I don't understand why you think there is such a big difference between scanning a photo in the cloud, and scanning one on a device - in both cases the photo is getting scanned.

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.

On top of that, are you ok with their employees looking at pictures of your children in case there's a match with the database?

@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:

We just have to trust them on that, if that's even what they are saying. The concern is that they are putting something on your device that scans your data (any data, it has to scan everything to look for one thing) and then sometimes reports what it finds to the government.

So the concern is about Apple doing something that they have explicitly said they won't do rather than any concerns about what they are actually saying they are doing. You could get tinhat with every tech company in that case.

The concern is Apple is bringing 1984 into reality. This isn't happening on their devices (iCloud, Google photos, Facebook, etc.) anymore, your devices are being used as a surveillance tools against you.
If you don't see an issue in non-zero chance of you being locked up because some machine learning that can't tell the difference between a moon and a traffic light decided your pictures are child porn, then you're lost.
Government wanted backdoors in encryption, now they got one. From a company that championed end to end encryption and refused to create such backdoors in the past.

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

If I understand it correctly, it's still only notifying anyone when it is uploaded to iCloud. It's really just moving the processing of the images from iCloud servers to local devices, but the end result is the same. I'm not sure this is an issue.

It is because what's stopping them from scanning other things too? What if we elect someone like trump again and he/she decides to go after whistleblowers, journalists, immigrants, minorities, LGBTQ, muslims, jews, etc? And what if someone is holding a grudge against you and get a hold of your phone, when you're drunk in the bar for example, and downloads bunch of child porn on it. Good luck trying to prove that it wasn't you when they drag your ass to jail. What Apple is doing is a job for law enforcement, not a tech company.

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

@marcinozga That's terrifying.

I bet 100% of parents have pictures of their naked children. So now it'll be up to some biased algorithm to decide if content of such picture should be flagged, and if yes, it should be uploaded so some creep can compare it with pictures of actual child porn. I'm really discussed with that. https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

I was in the market for new Macbook Pro, I was waiting for 27" or bigger iMac update, and was looking to buy 3 new iPads, after this stunt the only thing Apple will get from me is middle finger.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/apple-plans-to-scan-us-iphones-for-child-abuse-imagery/

This is on a whole new level, they want to scan on your devices, not just what’s being uploaded to iCloud. Single false positive can ruin one’s life.

@dustinb3403 said in Linux Dig Finding cname records:

@eddiejennings said in Linux Dig Finding cname records:

@dustinb3403 Are you an admin of the DNS server itself? If so, maybe grep your BIND zone file for CNAME records or use Get-DNSServerResourceRecordon your Windows DNS server.

I'm am, but this is public dns records I was hoping to pull.

Not happening. I should have been more specific, you need to host DNS records for that domain on your own DNS server.

@dustinb3403 said in Linux Dig Finding cname records:

Okay so this may be a stupid question (I'm sure many of my questions are).

Shouldn't dig +nocmd domain.com cname +noall +answer give me all alias for my domain?

I'm getting no response back at all, just a blank return.

It doesn't work that way. You need to perform zone transfer to get all cname records. So unless you admin DNS server you try to query, you're sol.

@gjacobse said in Route SIP calls through VPN connection:

Won't move closer to the AP, or even plug in a cable to test.

I think at this point it stops being IT issue and needs management involvement.

I'm almost inclined to say it's Windows issue and Veeam resistance to releasing Linux version, or Linux based virtual appliance. I use Veeam agent for Linux and never had any issues there.

@dustinb3403 said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

To ask, have you had your case escalated with Veeam? If their T1 people can't help you, they are pretty good about getting you to someone who knows where to dig for details.

Without more info on your setup though, it sounds like an IOPS issue.

Yes.
It's not an environment issue, I have more resources to throw at Veeam that it could handle. 32 cores, 64G Ram, NVMe drives, 10Gbit dedicated ethernet, yet it still chokes at restores. Just to be clear, data transfer once restore starts is fine, just getting to that point is close to impossible.

@dustinb3403 said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

@marcinozga said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

@dustinb3403 said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

Now to ask are you only looking for paid solutions or are you open to all options?

All options as long as they offer support. Last thing I want is to end up where I am right now, but without support.

So are you not using a paid version of Veeam?

Support wasn't what I asked, because "getting support" could mean, "sorry we haven't seen that issue before, but good luck" from a free backup solution.

Or it could be GitHub/email type only support or something more.

I am using paid version. I'm talking about real support, where I can call a number and get an engineer on the other end that knows his stuff and speaks English without some weird accent.

@dustinb3403 said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

Now to ask are you only looking for paid solutions or are you open to all options?

All options as long as they offer support. Last thing I want is to end up where I am right now, but without support.

Daily. UPS Worldship used to work, but for some reason it wants admin now. ERP systems, probably every single one is broken in one way or another. Autodesk Vault has an utility to bulk upload files to Vault, but it doesn't work at all. And support will tell you the same and not to use it lol. I think the more expensive the software, the more broken it is.

@travisdh1 said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

@marcinozga said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

I've had nothing but issues with Veeam recently, and literally every time I had to restore a vm, I had to call support, because Veeam is unbelievably slow. If I got hit with ransomware, it would probably be cheaper and faster to pay than wait for Veeam to restore backups. Throwing more resources at it does nothing, Veeam just takes hours to do any restores. Backing up works flawlessly, but I can't rely on a product that simply fails when it's needed the most. My renewal is up in little over 3 months and I'm at the point where I'm willing to switch to another solution.

Any recommendations for image based backups for Vmware vsphere? Ideally with support for Wasabi object storage.

You might be able to change backup vendors, but with Veeam restores taking so long, I'd be checking my infrustructure first. Do you know it is an issue with Veeam and not iops/network/wan causing the slowness?

Yes, for sure. WAN is out of the picture as I'm restoring from local backups, and other factors would affect backups too, but they don't. It's just restores, Veeam just gets stuck at various steps and sits there for hours before even getting to actual restore. Veeam database might be an issue, but that's for Veeam support to sort out.

@scottalanmiller said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

VMware? eww.

I like ProxMox, the backup mechanism is built in and free.

Haven't dealt with Vmware level backups in quite a while. Normally using Duplicati when dealing with Vmware guests.

I'v used Duplicati in my home lab, at some point it just stopped working, so I don't have the best experience with it.
I'm not sure Proxmox would be an option here, I'd have to get management on board, and then convert or rebuild entire infrastructure. Not fun either way. And I don't think Proxmox backup integrates with offsite storage, like Veeam does with Wasabi. Our insurance requires us to have offsite backups.

I've had nothing but issues with Veeam recently, and literally every time I had to restore a vm, I had to call support, because Veeam is unbelievably slow. If I got hit with ransomware, it would probably be cheaper and faster to pay than wait for Veeam to restore backups. Throwing more resources at it does nothing, Veeam just takes hours to do any restores. Backing up works flawlessly, but I can't rely on a product that simply fails when it's needed the most. My renewal is up in little over 3 months and I'm at the point where I'm willing to switch to another solution.

Any recommendations for image based backups for Vmware vsphere? Ideally with support for Wasabi object storage.

You may have to clear browser cache to fully get rid of the nag. Mine kept coming back, clearing caches got rid of it.

@gjacobse
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I think that's the right technology when you want to recognize an employee.

https://hak5.org/ - anything from here. Although those devices are for pen testing, they can be useful in troubleshooting too. For scanning nmap and Fing on phone/tablet. What else, flashlight, multitool, a knife, crocodile Dundee size.

@mrwright4hire are you asking about software tools or actual tools, like cable tester?