[Doofrat]

He has some great info that people shouldn’t just listen to, they should be doing it (like two step authentication), and I think maybe his scare mongering is used to get peoples’ attention. I don’t see why or how anyone would use a cyber attack against infrastructure when a conventional attack is much more effective.
People should be more scared that there is a key logger on their system logging their every keystroke, or they should be scared that they use the same username and password on their bank account as they use on a blog site. It’s nice to see someone talking about this part of the threat which is very real.

[Doofrat]

That’s what off site backups and Disaster Recovery are for.

Take a brokerage firm or a health care organization. They can protect themselves through several means. One is to simply have off site backups. Your average company probably backs up all their production data at least once a week and then all changes and additions to data once a day. Many now have what are essentially on the fly backups on top of this. These tapes are sent out every day. See those Iron Mountain vans driving around? Those are tapes going back what I like to think of as being something akin to the NORAD facility in “Wargames”. I know they’re probably just going to some warehouse in Mira Mesa, but don’t burst my bubble, O.K.?
User wipes out the data on a server, put in a request to Iron Mountain and the next morning you’ve got a tape in hand to restore from.
On top of this, your brokerage should have at least one Disaster Recovery site located in another state where they may have any level of data replication.

Now the catch to disabling trains and blowing up pipelines and damaging the electrical grid is that you can’t really do all these things at once. To even get one of them, you have to get access to the system, attain the proper rights, and figure out how to run the system. I’d guess that most of these systems don’t allow you to smash trains together no matter what your rights are, but taking over the system can be done theoretically , but it has to be done quickly after the access has been gotten before you are detected. Once the cyber attack is detected, it’s likely the operators just switch to a manual system or shut the system down if you’re smashing trains together somehow.

Zombie/botnet networks are quite common actually. With the use of load balancers and such you can defend yourself to a point. At some point, if you’ve got a million infected systems hitting you up every second, you’ll be down, but these attacks are old and common. Companies have been dealing with them for years, and there are lots of countermeasures available.

The loss of personal and classified information is a definite threat though. I’d be worried about that if anything.

[Doofrat]

That’s what off site backups and Disaster Recovery are for.

Take a brokerage firm or a health care organization. They can protect themselves through several means. One is to simply have off site backups. Your average company probably backs up all their production data at least once a week and then all changes and additions to data once a day. Many now have what are essentially on the fly backups on top of this. These tapes are sent out every day. See those Iron Mountain vans driving around? Those are tapes going back what I like to think of as being something akin to the NORAD facility in “Wargames”. I know they’re probably just going to some warehouse in Mira Mesa, but don’t burst my bubble, O.K.?
User wipes out the data on a server, put in a request to Iron Mountain and the next morning you’ve got a tape in hand to restore from.
On top of this, your brokerage should have at least one Disaster Recovery site located in another state where they may have any level of data replication.

Now the catch to disabling trains and blowing up pipelines and damaging the electrical grid is that you can’t really do all these things at once. To even get one of them, you have to get access to the system, attain the proper rights, and figure out how to run the system. I’d guess that most of these systems don’t allow you to smash trains together no matter what your rights are, but taking over the system can be done theoretically , but it has to be done quickly after the access has been gotten before you are detected. Once the cyber attack is detected, it’s likely the operators just switch to a manual system or shut the system down if you’re smashing trains together somehow.

Zombie/botnet networks are quite common actually. With the use of load balancers and such you can defend yourself to a point. At some point, if you’ve got a million infected systems hitting you up every second, you’ll be down, but these attacks are old and common. Companies have been dealing with them for years, and there are lots of countermeasures available.

The loss of personal and classified information is a definite threat though. I’d be worried about that if anything.

[Doofrat]

That’s what off site backups and Disaster Recovery are for.

Take a brokerage firm or a health care organization. They can protect themselves through several means. One is to simply have off site backups. Your average company probably backs up all their production data at least once a week and then all changes and additions to data once a day. Many now have what are essentially on the fly backups on top of this. These tapes are sent out every day. See those Iron Mountain vans driving around? Those are tapes going back what I like to think of as being something akin to the NORAD facility in “Wargames”. I know they’re probably just going to some warehouse in Mira Mesa, but don’t burst my bubble, O.K.?
User wipes out the data on a server, put in a request to Iron Mountain and the next morning you’ve got a tape in hand to restore from.
On top of this, your brokerage should have at least one Disaster Recovery site located in another state where they may have any level of data replication.

Now the catch to disabling trains and blowing up pipelines and damaging the electrical grid is that you can’t really do all these things at once. To even get one of them, you have to get access to the system, attain the proper rights, and figure out how to run the system. I’d guess that most of these systems don’t allow you to smash trains together no matter what your rights are, but taking over the system can be done theoretically , but it has to be done quickly after the access has been gotten before you are detected. Once the cyber attack is detected, it’s likely the operators just switch to a manual system or shut the system down if you’re smashing trains together somehow.

Zombie/botnet networks are quite common actually. With the use of load balancers and such you can defend yourself to a point. At some point, if you’ve got a million infected systems hitting you up every second, you’ll be down, but these attacks are old and common. Companies have been dealing with them for years, and there are lots of countermeasures available.

The loss of personal and classified information is a definite threat though. I’d be worried about that if anything.

[Doofrat]

That’s what off site backups and Disaster Recovery are for.

Take a brokerage firm or a health care organization. They can protect themselves through several means. One is to simply have off site backups. Your average company probably backs up all their production data at least once a week and then all changes and additions to data once a day. Many now have what are essentially on the fly backups on top of this. These tapes are sent out every day. See those Iron Mountain vans driving around? Those are tapes going back what I like to think of as being something akin to the NORAD facility in “Wargames”. I know they’re probably just going to some warehouse in Mira Mesa, but don’t burst my bubble, O.K.?
User wipes out the data on a server, put in a request to Iron Mountain and the next morning you’ve got a tape in hand to restore from.
On top of this, your brokerage should have at least one Disaster Recovery site located in another state where they may have any level of data replication.

Now the catch to disabling trains and blowing up pipelines and damaging the electrical grid is that you can’t really do all these things at once. To even get one of them, you have to get access to the system, attain the proper rights, and figure out how to run the system. I’d guess that most of these systems don’t allow you to smash trains together no matter what your rights are, but taking over the system can be done theoretically , but it has to be done quickly after the access has been gotten before you are detected. Once the cyber attack is detected, it’s likely the operators just switch to a manual system or shut the system down if you’re smashing trains together somehow.

Zombie/botnet networks are quite common actually. With the use of load balancers and such you can defend yourself to a point. At some point, if you’ve got a million infected systems hitting you up every second, you’ll be down, but these attacks are old and common. Companies have been dealing with them for years, and there are lots of countermeasures available.

The loss of personal and classified information is a definite threat though. I’d be worried about that if anything.

[Doofrat]

That’s what off site backups and Disaster Recovery are for.

Take a brokerage firm or a health care organization. They can protect themselves through several means. One is to simply have off site backups. Your average company probably backs up all their production data at least once a week and then all changes and additions to data once a day. Many now have what are essentially on the fly backups on top of this. These tapes are sent out every day. See those Iron Mountain vans driving around? Those are tapes going back what I like to think of as being something akin to the NORAD facility in “Wargames”. I know they’re probably just going to some warehouse in Mira Mesa, but don’t burst my bubble, O.K.?
User wipes out the data on a server, put in a request to Iron Mountain and the next morning you’ve got a tape in hand to restore from.
On top of this, your brokerage should have at least one Disaster Recovery site located in another state where they may have any level of data replication.

Now the catch to disabling trains and blowing up pipelines and damaging the electrical grid is that you can’t really do all these things at once. To even get one of them, you have to get access to the system, attain the proper rights, and figure out how to run the system. I’d guess that most of these systems don’t allow you to smash trains together no matter what your rights are, but taking over the system can be done theoretically , but it has to be done quickly after the access has been gotten before you are detected. Once the cyber attack is detected, it’s likely the operators just switch to a manual system or shut the system down if you’re smashing trains together somehow.

Zombie/botnet networks are quite common actually. With the use of load balancers and such you can defend yourself to a point. At some point, if you’ve got a million infected systems hitting you up every second, you’ll be down, but these attacks are old and common. Companies have been dealing with them for years, and there are lots of countermeasures available.

The loss of personal and classified information is a definite threat though. I’d be worried about that if anything.

[Doofrat]

I got one and I love it! The touch screen is very responsive and the interface is fast. What you saw on the commercial is pretty much how it runs.
It’s great for reading pdf’s and online articles as well as browsing the web. I’d say that it’s more “fun” to browse the web with the iPad than with a regular ol’ computer with a mouse because you can use your fingers to more easily manipulate the screen than with a mouse.
The few apps that are out specifically for the iPad which made use of the unique screen are really impressive. eBay, e*Trade, and Zillow did a good job. The mapping feature is really neat for some reason that I can’t figure out, you just have to try it. Maybe it’s because it’s so much faster than the one on the iPhone, I don’t know.
It also is a nice remote terminal and remote access device. I just forgot to close out something at work, so I flipped the VPN switch, typed my password and I was in. I could do that on the iPhone too, but it was so small it didn’t feel natural at all.
The battery life is crazy long so it’ll be good on trips.

The bad is that the screen gets too pixelated if you zoom your text out too far. I read a lot of PDF’s, and articles online, but I wouldn’t want to read a novel on this thing. The other bad is that the developers are charging waaaaaay too much for their apps right now and the pixel double feature only looks o.k. on about half the apps. $30 for a RDP client?!? Some developers are even charging for their iPad lite versions!

Disclosure: Doofrat is not an Apple fan boy.

[Doofrat]

I got one and I love it! The touch screen is very responsive and the interface is fast. What you saw on the commercial is pretty much how it runs.
It’s great for reading pdf’s and online articles as well as browsing the web. I’d say that it’s more “fun” to browse the web with the iPad than with a regular ol’ computer with a mouse because you can use your fingers to more easily manipulate the screen than with a mouse.
The few apps that are out specifically for the iPad which made use of the unique screen are really impressive. eBay, e*Trade, and Zillow did a good job. The mapping feature is really neat for some reason that I can’t figure out, you just have to try it. Maybe it’s because it’s so much faster than the one on the iPhone, I don’t know.
It also is a nice remote terminal and remote access device. I just forgot to close out something at work, so I flipped the VPN switch, typed my password and I was in. I could do that on the iPhone too, but it was so small it didn’t feel natural at all.
The battery life is crazy long so it’ll be good on trips.

The bad is that the screen gets too pixelated if you zoom your text out too far. I read a lot of PDF’s, and articles online, but I wouldn’t want to read a novel on this thing. The other bad is that the developers are charging waaaaaay too much for their apps right now and the pixel double feature only looks o.k. on about half the apps. $30 for a RDP client?!? Some developers are even charging for their iPad lite versions!

Disclosure: Doofrat is not an Apple fan boy.

[Doofrat]

I got one and I love it! The touch screen is very responsive and the interface is fast. What you saw on the commercial is pretty much how it runs.
It’s great for reading pdf’s and online articles as well as browsing the web. I’d say that it’s more “fun” to browse the web with the iPad than with a regular ol’ computer with a mouse because you can use your fingers to more easily manipulate the screen than with a mouse.
The few apps that are out specifically for the iPad which made use of the unique screen are really impressive. eBay, e*Trade, and Zillow did a good job. The mapping feature is really neat for some reason that I can’t figure out, you just have to try it. Maybe it’s because it’s so much faster than the one on the iPhone, I don’t know.
It also is a nice remote terminal and remote access device. I just forgot to close out something at work, so I flipped the VPN switch, typed my password and I was in. I could do that on the iPhone too, but it was so small it didn’t feel natural at all.
The battery life is crazy long so it’ll be good on trips.

The bad is that the screen gets too pixelated if you zoom your text out too far. I read a lot of PDF’s, and articles online, but I wouldn’t want to read a novel on this thing. The other bad is that the developers are charging waaaaaay too much for their apps right now and the pixel double feature only looks o.k. on about half the apps. $30 for a RDP client?!? Some developers are even charging for their iPad lite versions!

Disclosure: Doofrat is not an Apple fan boy.

[Doofrat]

I got one and I love it! The touch screen is very responsive and the interface is fast. What you saw on the commercial is pretty much how it runs.
It’s great for reading pdf’s and online articles as well as browsing the web. I’d say that it’s more “fun” to browse the web with the iPad than with a regular ol’ computer with a mouse because you can use your fingers to more easily manipulate the screen than with a mouse.
The few apps that are out specifically for the iPad which made use of the unique screen are really impressive. eBay, e*Trade, and Zillow did a good job. The mapping feature is really neat for some reason that I can’t figure out, you just have to try it. Maybe it’s because it’s so much faster than the one on the iPhone, I don’t know.
It also is a nice remote terminal and remote access device. I just forgot to close out something at work, so I flipped the VPN switch, typed my password and I was in. I could do that on the iPhone too, but it was so small it didn’t feel natural at all.
The battery life is crazy long so it’ll be good on trips.

The bad is that the screen gets too pixelated if you zoom your text out too far. I read a lot of PDF’s, and articles online, but I wouldn’t want to read a novel on this thing. The other bad is that the developers are charging waaaaaay too much for their apps right now and the pixel double feature only looks o.k. on about half the apps. $30 for a RDP client?!? Some developers are even charging for their iPad lite versions!

Disclosure: Doofrat is not an Apple fan boy.

[Doofrat]

I got one and I love it! The touch screen is very responsive and the interface is fast. What you saw on the commercial is pretty much how it runs.
It’s great for reading pdf’s and online articles as well as browsing the web. I’d say that it’s more “fun” to browse the web with the iPad than with a regular ol’ computer with a mouse because you can use your fingers to more easily manipulate the screen than with a mouse.
The few apps that are out specifically for the iPad which made use of the unique screen are really impressive. eBay, e*Trade, and Zillow did a good job. The mapping feature is really neat for some reason that I can’t figure out, you just have to try it. Maybe it’s because it’s so much faster than the one on the iPhone, I don’t know.
It also is a nice remote terminal and remote access device. I just forgot to close out something at work, so I flipped the VPN switch, typed my password and I was in. I could do that on the iPhone too, but it was so small it didn’t feel natural at all.
The battery life is crazy long so it’ll be good on trips.

The bad is that the screen gets too pixelated if you zoom your text out too far. I read a lot of PDF’s, and articles online, but I wouldn’t want to read a novel on this thing. The other bad is that the developers are charging waaaaaay too much for their apps right now and the pixel double feature only looks o.k. on about half the apps. $30 for a RDP client?!? Some developers are even charging for their iPad lite versions!

Disclosure: Doofrat is not an Apple fan boy.

[Doofrat]

They don’t have any visible source of income, so they can’t buy anything that will leave a trail for the Feds to follow (boats, cars, houses, travel, etc…). If you show no income and purchase a $400,000 sports car, at some point, the Feds will come looking for you. They won’t bust you for the source of your illicit activities if they can’t find it, but no worries, they’ll bust you for tax evasion.

If you’re making half a million a year from that pot farm in Fallbrook, buying non traceable things gets old after awhile (furniture, drugs, hookers, etc..) well maybe it doesn’t get too, but you probably get my point.

You need to legitimize this I’ll gotten gain by basically showing a source for it and paying tax on it.

You can run it through the casino because there’s no record of how much you spent, only a record of how much you won over a certain amount (at least at the track where I used to work, I don’t know about casinos). You run $100,000 through in a weekend and keep $50,000, that’s $50,000 you can spend on a car or house without getting busted cause, hey, you won it at the casino, you must a been lucky.

Another thing is you can start a misc. Appliance repair shop, or even a laundromat. If all your transactions are cash, then it’s really hard to track how much business you did. You just dump your drug money and claim it came from customers, get taxed on it, and buy a house, sports car, boat, whatever.

The SDPD helicopters that they just replaced had come from a drug kingpin who had a bunch of assets including those two helicopters, but no job or source of income. Had he had a vacuum repair shop, he’d probably still flying them around.

Hope this helps 🙂

[Doofrat]

They don’t have any visible source of income, so they can’t buy anything that will leave a trail for the Feds to follow (boats, cars, houses, travel, etc…). If you show no income and purchase a $400,000 sports car, at some point, the Feds will come looking for you. They won’t bust you for the source of your illicit activities if they can’t find it, but no worries, they’ll bust you for tax evasion.

If you’re making half a million a year from that pot farm in Fallbrook, buying non traceable things gets old after awhile (furniture, drugs, hookers, etc..) well maybe it doesn’t get too, but you probably get my point.

You need to legitimize this I’ll gotten gain by basically showing a source for it and paying tax on it.

You can run it through the casino because there’s no record of how much you spent, only a record of how much you won over a certain amount (at least at the track where I used to work, I don’t know about casinos). You run $100,000 through in a weekend and keep $50,000, that’s $50,000 you can spend on a car or house without getting busted cause, hey, you won it at the casino, you must a been lucky.

Another thing is you can start a misc. Appliance repair shop, or even a laundromat. If all your transactions are cash, then it’s really hard to track how much business you did. You just dump your drug money and claim it came from customers, get taxed on it, and buy a house, sports car, boat, whatever.

The SDPD helicopters that they just replaced had come from a drug kingpin who had a bunch of assets including those two helicopters, but no job or source of income. Had he had a vacuum repair shop, he’d probably still flying them around.

Hope this helps 🙂

[Doofrat]

They don’t have any visible source of income, so they can’t buy anything that will leave a trail for the Feds to follow (boats, cars, houses, travel, etc…). If you show no income and purchase a $400,000 sports car, at some point, the Feds will come looking for you. They won’t bust you for the source of your illicit activities if they can’t find it, but no worries, they’ll bust you for tax evasion.

If you’re making half a million a year from that pot farm in Fallbrook, buying non traceable things gets old after awhile (furniture, drugs, hookers, etc..) well maybe it doesn’t get too, but you probably get my point.

You need to legitimize this I’ll gotten gain by basically showing a source for it and paying tax on it.

You can run it through the casino because there’s no record of how much you spent, only a record of how much you won over a certain amount (at least at the track where I used to work, I don’t know about casinos). You run $100,000 through in a weekend and keep $50,000, that’s $50,000 you can spend on a car or house without getting busted cause, hey, you won it at the casino, you must a been lucky.

Another thing is you can start a misc. Appliance repair shop, or even a laundromat. If all your transactions are cash, then it’s really hard to track how much business you did. You just dump your drug money and claim it came from customers, get taxed on it, and buy a house, sports car, boat, whatever.

The SDPD helicopters that they just replaced had come from a drug kingpin who had a bunch of assets including those two helicopters, but no job or source of income. Had he had a vacuum repair shop, he’d probably still flying them around.

Hope this helps 🙂

[Doofrat]

They don’t have any visible source of income, so they can’t buy anything that will leave a trail for the Feds to follow (boats, cars, houses, travel, etc…). If you show no income and purchase a $400,000 sports car, at some point, the Feds will come looking for you. They won’t bust you for the source of your illicit activities if they can’t find it, but no worries, they’ll bust you for tax evasion.

If you’re making half a million a year from that pot farm in Fallbrook, buying non traceable things gets old after awhile (furniture, drugs, hookers, etc..) well maybe it doesn’t get too, but you probably get my point.

You need to legitimize this I’ll gotten gain by basically showing a source for it and paying tax on it.

You can run it through the casino because there’s no record of how much you spent, only a record of how much you won over a certain amount (at least at the track where I used to work, I don’t know about casinos). You run $100,000 through in a weekend and keep $50,000, that’s $50,000 you can spend on a car or house without getting busted cause, hey, you won it at the casino, you must a been lucky.

Another thing is you can start a misc. Appliance repair shop, or even a laundromat. If all your transactions are cash, then it’s really hard to track how much business you did. You just dump your drug money and claim it came from customers, get taxed on it, and buy a house, sports car, boat, whatever.

The SDPD helicopters that they just replaced had come from a drug kingpin who had a bunch of assets including those two helicopters, but no job or source of income. Had he had a vacuum repair shop, he’d probably still flying them around.

Hope this helps 🙂

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