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  1. 31 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    I worked in VZ for over 15 years. I worked for another small telecom company who was a supplier to the big 3 (4 at the time). Mostly companies "want" to be good at cyber security, up to a point. I don't think you can ever build Fort Knox around a network. There are just way too many points of entry from switches, routers, corporate spies, to Joe Blow clicking on a phishing link. Maybe Fort Knox can be built, but it'll be expensive as fuck. But even then it won't protect you from the threats which have already been installed and lay dormant.

    Cyber security is all cost. You can't market and sell that you spend $200M a year on protecting your network, knowing that's not going to be enough. That dictates the smaller guy's attention to it.

    But having government regulations requiring something will at least make some companies spend money on cyber security. The leadership at the small company did not want to do anything. We were mandated by our customers (the big 3). Even then it was the least amount (cheapest) effort possible.

    I did some SOC/DFIR consulting at Verizon in the past. Without going into the details, I will say that the type of monitoring that they were implementing was far beyond what most of my other customers were doing. In my experience I would say AT&T has there shit together too.

    Agree with the last part. A mandated framework will not only make the unwilling responsible but it will provide guidance for the smaller organizations. A security framework work and standard controls forces organizations to remove all the low hanging fruit. 

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  2. The cybersecurity requirement under the Biden administration was a response to the Chinese hacking campaigns. The declaration was not prescriptive and amounted to "do something!" Which is fine because that's how these things get started. 

    The evolution of NERC CIP over the last twenty years is a good example of how this things are supposed to work. CIP started off as a "do something" declaration and initially rolled out a "best effort" requirement similar to the FCC one. Overtime a framework and standards were established based on NIST until eventually a mature security framework was established. 

    From what I understand, CSRIC was following the NERC process by utilizing NIST to build industry specific guidelines and standards. USTelcom has also been pushing the FCC to adopt NIST standards but for some weird reason the whole thing is being thrown in the trash.

    I've seen NERC CIP evolve from a vague guideline to a very prescriptive and mature framework and I do find the maturation process pretty impressive. There are regular iterations of more prescriptive controls and guidelines to adapt to non-standard situations but this took a couple of decades to accomplish. Really, things didn't pick up speed until the last 12 years. It took a long time to lay the ground work.

    You don't scrap an effort like this without an alternative plan. These things really do take years to be developed, by ending the cybersecurity declaration Carr is putting the U.S. behind schedule when it's already way behind schedule. 

     

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  3. 15 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

    At my apartment in college I often had black things hold me down while I was sleeping. I could never sit up straight. Always figured they were some sort of demon until I read something about sleep paralysis.  It never happened anywhere else but that house though. 

    Classic sleep paralysis. Being pinned down, shadow people and the old hag at your bedside are the most common ones. I've experienced the shadow people several times. My ex-wife was haunted by the old hag sleep paralysis dream. 

  4. One summer, I briefly worked at the old Bexar county jail when it was a document storage facility. I did database stuff and was stationed on the top floor. Just me in an office and nobody else on the floor. 

    The first week, I worked there I kept hearing people shuffling around and questioned what they were doing because I was supposed to be the only one up there. Around the middle of the week I heard the people shuffling around again and realized I never saw them come or go. They would have had to walk past my door at some point. 

    Out of curiosity,  I got up and walked to the room next door to see who was there and found an empty room. Freaked me out a little but figured it was my mind messing with me.

    Two days later someone comes upstairs to ask me some questions while I am walking out of the office. We are standing in the hallway where all the old jail cells are still in place.

    I am facing this other person in the hallway when some dude walks out of one of the old jail cells into one across the hall.

    I immediately ask the guy I am talking to "did you just see that?" He said he did and we both walk down the hall and find both cells empty.

    The only explanation I could come up with was that it was a shadow or something. 

    All of this occurred before I knew the history of the building. 

     

    https://ghosttourtx.com/blog/murder-and-ghosts-of-the-old-bexar-county-jail-haunting-the-holiday-inn-in-san-antonio/

     

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  5. 2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Aren’t you the person from the other thread that doesn’t even believe in aliens?

    1. Regarding ghosts, I started off by saying I don't believe in this kinda stuff. 

    2. As far as aliens are concerned, it isn't a matter of belief. I just think it's very unlikely given the size of the universe that earth has been visited by extraterrestrial life forms. I think it is highly probable that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. 

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  6. It's about to be Halloween, so I figured it would be the time to ask, have you ever encountered a ghost or the supernatural?

    Personally, I don't believe in that shit, but I have seen and encountered a few things that have freaked me out. 

    Please share your encounters with the supernatural.

  7. On 10/29/2025 at 1:10 PM, Pescado_Rojo said:

    They get sold by Nvidia to "Briskettexan's pretty good AI Data Center and taqueria". Then Nvidia leases space in Brisket's DC and buys services equal to the amount Brisket paid for the GPUs. Then both of them claim the revenue and line goes up! 

     

    The ole double Dutch rudder. 

  8. My daughter recently asked for one of these and I said no. She already has her older brother's Yamaha YZ250F which runs like a dime and a Polaris 570 which are more than enough for our area. For the Texas Hill Country I would avoid e-bikes but if you live in a city, I guess yeah that makes sense. Hauled both down to Matagodra Bay last spring and had a blast.  

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