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ClickOnyxDC Always on PlayStation®5, Always Rambling
Watch your back
It’s pretty hard to convince an individual to invest any time into a Personal IT disaster recovery plan. Even if they have experienced some IT loss, folk simply think their gadgets will continue working forever,
A visit to an Apple genius bar will see a constant flow of disparate anxious end-users who are there because of some kind of IT failure. As an engineer, it’s great solving problems and putting out fires but most incidents can be easily avoided.
Aiding and abetting is a standard crime in the physical world. The message is being pushed out strongly to Malware authors that if your tools are used in a crime you will be prosecuted. Security researchers face the same challenge but abide to ethical standards.
Taylor Huddleston was selling this tools for a bargain at 25 USD, it worked and naturally was a hit with all types of hackers. Read on
Why can’t this same approach tackle the rampant gun crimes in the US?
Ethically inappropriate?
It’s never gonna happen but when you are hit with a major digital failure it’s always good to where your data is.
Despite having a fairly robust set-up it’s really hard to stay focused and not succumb to the emotional inconvenience of an IT failure. It always happens when you are busy, traveling and distracted with real life. Individuals seldom practice the scenario and companies are on high alert standby to fleece you of any hard earning monies to fix the issue.
“everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. Mike Tyson
In my early career, the word redundancy used to strike fear into my well-being. Decades later it’s a place a comfort and represents resilience. Backing up the backup and testing the back-up routinely is an easy habit to adopt. Sadly. For many end users, they simply store all their precious data on a single device with unknown backup status.
A family member nearly lost over 5000 images because they critically failed to even grasp the relevance of backup or data management.
The strategy should always be protecting the data first and the end-point device second but unfortunately, we love our shiny phones way too much to think that way.
Zero gameplay or medication today
A flight leaves Heathrow at 13:00 on route to Paris, on the way it experiences fatal engine failure and crashes in the Channel. The flight carries 120 passengers 20 in first class.
How many survivors will be buried on the French side and how many in the English side?
It’s interesting to observe how people communicate differently on personal matters depending on the device and method. There are so many factors that impact the sender’s mental state and tone of the message (personal or work device, signed or unsigned, the speed of transport (instant or slow), public or perceived private.
Formal and personal – hard copy letter. Shows the sender put in some thought and invested some resources (print, paper, envelope, postage and time costs) before sending and serves as hardcore historical evidence.
Formal and less personal –
email unsigned from a personal mobile device
email unsigned from work or business device
Email digitally signed on mobile device
Email from workstation
Email from laptop
Email from browsers
Many end-users actually see this as cold and heartless as “no one” emails about personal stuff anymore.
Informal and very personal
Instant messaging
iMessage
VOIP phone calls
The method of choice for a vast amount of people. The user tends to speak from the heart whether angry, sad or happy. Data is sent with no regard of security levels and assumptive privacy.
Consequences can be catastrophic or a euphoric high.
Choose your method wisely
My first gym session of the year felt great last night and is the perfect antidote to my PS4 Withdrawal. Grinding my way every night through FallOut4 will have to wait for now.
One pretty bad side effect is my tendency to trigger real-world arguments to feed my Amygdala. There is nothing better than a “good” argument to say the things you normally keep to yourself. Of course, for me, arguments have an even worst side effect of sparking MG symptoms of sleepiness and chronic fatigue.
Leaving my PS4 in another country is pretty much the only way I could whine myself off my trophy hunting addiction.
So, the extra 20+ hours I week I’ll gain from no gameplay will be spent on watching Twitch, research study, Movies and exercise. Most of all I need to work on my Cryptocurrency portfolio. After the last quarters rise in Coin values, the average business person is acutely aware of the potential and looking for stables ways to make a big buck.
I came across a new breed of company a few weeks ago. Hash Power Service provider meets Network marketing is an interesting blend that makes it easy for anyone to buy-in but it seems these hybrid business models for Cryptocurrency try to paint too much of a pretty picture for the consumer. In the meantime, the Meltdown vulnerability makes it clear that hardware Wallets are probably the way to go in the long-term.
30 mins cardio yesterday…no meds