Posts posted by F250
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Legalizing weed is supposed to make the populace mellow but not these Colorado parents. They must have opted for the Four Loko on this day.
"Parents and coaches were unhappy with a call made by the 13-year-old umpire during Saturday's game, according to the Lakewood Police Department. They then stormed the field and began punching each other as the 7-year-old players looked on."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/us/parents-brawl-little-league-baseball-trnd/index.html
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1 hour ago, Zavala said:
Well I'm not a lawyer, but using taxpayer dollars to pay off criminals that are holding your data hostage doesn't seem like a very legit move.
The city council voted on the matter and the payment was covered by insurance, it's legit.
1 hour ago, Zavala said:Thing is, aren't they supposed to be, you know, competent? If they are incompetent, how are the tax payers on the hook for their major fuck ups?
City employees are paid pennies. You get what you pay for when you pay below market rates.
1 hour ago, Zavala said:I don't think paying them was the right move. That sets a horrible precedent for paying off criminals who hold data ransom. It funds their work. It encourages more of the same. Finally, how are they so sure they are going to get a legit decrypt code after flushing 600k down the crypto toilet to these people? Are they foreign actors or domestic? Could the city be held liable for funding them? Say they take that 600k and do something more horrible than data theft..
The precedent was set years ago when organizations started paying the ransom. The situation is a very complicated prisoners dilemma, everyone would win if no one paid the ransom but everyone's data has various degrees of value and the ransom is less than the cost of not paying.
If the keys didn't work then people would stop paying ransom so the perpetrators have a big incentive to ensure the decryption keys will work.
These are usually foreign actors outside of the reach of U.S. law enforcement. These are criminal organizations of course they will do bad stuff with the money.
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10 minutes ago, Zavala said:
Hm. Seems like it's a horribly setup system if the backup data was also vulnerable. I don't understand how it's legal for them to pay criminals ransom.
How would it be illegal?
11 minutes ago, Zavala said:What an easy inside job setup for someone to accidentally type their info into a phishing email then squeeze the tax payers for $600k. If this is the new normal I'd be curious how close attention the investigators are paying to the people in charge there.
It's a bit more complicated than someone engaging in a phishing scam. There also must be a series of technical fuck ups along the way before a critical system can fall victim to ransomware. Its SOP to determine why all layers of security failed or didn't exist, usually it's simple incompetence.
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2 hours ago, swraith said:
^^ because that is how the legislative process works. Making sausage is messy.
True. The School House Rock explanation was theoretical and meant for children not yet exposed to reality.
2 hours ago, swraith said:Amash would never get a committee to vote on this by itself.
Yep.

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1 hour ago, Blotto said:
That may be the case, but at least in the info posted by Anastasis, the amendment Amash was pushing in 2018 was to be attached to a bill dealing specifically with FISA. That makes a hell of a lot more sense than sneaking equivalent language into a spending appropriations bill. The practice of ramrodding legislation through by attaching amendments to completely unrelated bills pisses me off. I admit I don't have a well thought out alternative to the status quo, but that won't stop me from angrily shaking my fist at the clouds.
Yeah, I hate when Congress ramrods legislation like this because it is usually screwing over the American citizens.
In this case, bitching about Congress using this method to return some of our civil liberties is like complaining about Christina Hendricks pushing her boobs into your face. Some things just don't warrant criticism.
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On 6/19/2019 at 4:08 PM, Fozzz said:
holy shit this article. just shut the whole fucking thing down already.
After reading the article this is more of an indictment against Cognizant than Facebook. This doesn't surprise me considering some of the Cognizant sweat shops I've come across over the years.
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6 minutes ago, Zavala said:
I get it, they are "involved", but I'm curious how the city still pays $600k ransom.
Are these federal agencies advising to pay the blackmail?
My thought would be that if the normal city services couldn't be performed, the feds take over and provide assistance, instead of allowing the city to pay criminals to get back into their computer systems.
The Feds are involved in the forensic investigation not the incident response side of things. The feds don't have the ability to get involved at the response level. In reality they are pretty useless in these situations.
If the ransomware has encrypted an organization's data with ransomware they often will do the same to the backups making restoration impossible. Either you build from scratch or pay the ransom.
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1 hour ago, Rougarou said:
Also, it appears, being able to laugh and mock the other side is powerful status and currency. Someday we will have enough distance and time to look objectively at this era and new psychological theories will emerge.
New theories? This type of behavior and political discourse has been occurring within democracies going back to Athens.
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3 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:
Maybe they fuck a lot at night and need another in the morning. Or maybe they fuck in the shower, 3 or 4 times a day. I'd need pics to verify.
LOL
I was going to mention that but given the average age here, I doubt most posters are worried about stinking like Frenchmen at work.
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14 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:
Ever sit next to an FOB Indian or Pakistani crew and their cloud? Yeah, they don’t think they stink either.
Yeah, I am familiar with that stink cloud. It's not as common as it used to be, many seem to be familiar with deodorant these days.
Back in the old days that BO cloud caused acid rain.
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