Hosting providers don't run firewalls by default. I know I know, crazy. IIRC Hillary's firewall was COTS home-office quality caca. And let's not pretend that the real attacks use staging grounds on more easily accessed systems who don't have whitelists on firewalls or use clunky bullshit corporate VPN layers to open. Smash and grab a corporate laptop, install your staging pad in some engineering or marketing server, whatever your laptop got you into, then work from the inside out. If I were you I would forgo trust in Cisco products from the last 15 years, for the exact same problems I described before. Sloppy, government mandated backdoors and a need to patch more frequently than ISP's and middle-path providers like to do.

I mean for the entire trip, I guess depending on how close you are. If you get away for that long, you'e going to see everything different whether your health improved or not. [But it definitely would]

22 days to make a habit.

"The point here is it has kept us safe for all this time."

I don't know anything about game engines per se, but I bet someone could show you how to recover or at least extract some data from the file. Or they could find your history, if you are a specialist developer, don't forget sysadmins are your friend!

If you haven't already, the sooner you look/act the more likely it will be recoverable. Good luck.

Those sound like Microsoft things. I haven't touched a Microsoft Farm since Windows 2000 was new.

My alcoholism is a symptom of my dissatisfaction with the world, my PTSD, and a general anger and depression.

I did the no-booze January, which I'm sure I wouldn't have done had I not gotten the DUI. However my wake up calls have been when I low speed low sided my bike in the twisties one time, [hit that sandy mash of gravel dust by the center wall of this 35mph canyon] and another when I dropped that same bike making a U-Turn across a mossy drain divet. I had really pulled back on drinking and driving, and that night on my bike I was legally over the limit but by no means was I drunk.

So in effect, I policed myself and became more conservative, not because of the law, but because of my own self control and sense of responsibility. I slowly over time moderated my own habits.

I never hit another car, never had a serious wreck, but who knows, maybe like a jerk posted above I was just a ticking time bomb. If not a DUI time bomb, I am full of rage and everyone keeps pushing me..

What has been a much bigger wake up call, though, is that since I have been stuck in this godawful state [of mind and of Nation] I have been drinking way too much. After the No-Booze January I looked in the mirror and saw a much younger man.

One day

Will do.

Here is my best attempt.

DXRD1212

Damn straight fellow bot. I mean we all saw it coming, but how could we have warned Crystal?

Never powered off my own remote host. Bum'er

Fuxk brutal. Brain is super malleable.

Check out Cabin Lake up above Shadow Lake in the Sierras in Cali.

Shadow is a day hike even for infirm fishernen. Cabin is a precious semi secret.

From there some pylon/Granite formations.

Up there is my best healing spot. Dedicate 12 days for the trip.

Were I to make a Family, it would be because I am prepared and able to provide a fair life where they can thrive.

In Contemporary America, I would never begin a Family,

I have Dogs. I love them and they are tough. But they are not Children and Wives, They are Dogs. And I'm not 100% Certain I can provide for them. But just this instant I was passed by some cops who could have given me trouble.

I live in America, so every assumption includes the prerequisite idea that my location is compromised.

Sounds like you were running in a virtual environment whose God was not the developer of the operating system or the master of the hardware, but the broker of your Software Environment.

Most people should accept this as a reasonable cost of doing business. I have chosen to focus on System Administration and Network Security which has been a difficult but rewarding road.

It is totally unfair and unreasonable to expect creators and content creators to also be in control of their digital domains. In this life, that challenge is in interfacing with some person or organization whom you trust to manage your affairs competently and with honor.

It's been the same problem for years. You must always find a trustworthy Accountant. You must always find a trustworthy Estate Manager. You must always find a trustworthy sysadmin.

Come to my side and believe with a fervence that your reproduction of the code was actually a massive improvement from your original and therefore you were not at all dishonest in billing them for the entire time span.

:)

I don't know how we can relate. Lesbian porn does nothing for me. I like seeing chicks getting railed since the way my mirror neurons relate to me having a big hard cock.

Nice of you to buy cat goodies. Just close the door and get it done.

I'm no electrician but I wired up some apartments I built in an old factory. I ran a 40' 500mcm service to the third floor.

I think my douchebag tenants [I rented for parties and such while I was still finishing it, they had been on extension cords] swapped the wires. But it could have easily been my own mistake. So I basically turned it on with 220 going to their outlets. They told me their lights were flickering and burning out and one of their amplifiers fried. [Luckily that kid was a rich kid]

To this day I don't know if it was my mistake or if they were fucking with me. I mean I know they fucked with me all the time, but I don't know if that was one of those times. It would have taken a bit of courage on their part. I used sharpies and strings to separate the wires.

Part of the reason I think they were fucking with me is that they didn't seem mad about it.

Common mistake.

get it?

:P

Your jokes are good because they are so versatile.

That always throws me off when I have a different keyboard or have to use my phone. Forget about remembering pin numbers verbally. I've had that problem then gone to sleep and woken up and gotten it on the first try.

It's a perfectly good method as long as you maintain all your account recovery options.

Thankfully my boss figured out how to get back in somehow,

Microsoft Security!

Or he had a parallel Admin account with permissions set that he doesn't tell anyone about. That in and of itself is dangerous. But probably necessary from his POV!

You, my friend, are hired!

Whitelists are a secondary attack vector that professionals can't afford to overlook.

My tenant's Chromebook could be exploited and not only pick up my ssh connection potentially [if they can exploit my Cisco Router, which is possible] and then they are whitelisted as well, doing whatever they want to do from that Chromebook.

The way modern hacking works is a combination of humint and simple desktop exploits. In other words, if you can't afford the 0-day or NSA backdoor tool that the CIA lost; you can probably afford to do some breaking and entering and put a keylogger in someone's desktop or through social engineering convince them to install an exploit on their own desktop.

If you have a basic tool like DNS spoofing, or any of the many tools to exploit cable modems [Surfboard etc] then Whitelisting yourself is a disadvantage.

Thanks. I agree due to the open nature of it, there is that risk that people find exploits that aren't shared in a timely manner. I'm sure this exists. That problem is addressed very easily by never running bleeding edge distributions, installing only what you need so the attack vectors are minimized, and by compiling things yourself.

The exploits that we need to worry about when we are doing "professional" security for things that are mission critical or which host sensitive data of governmental or factional nature, we are more worried about commercial software backdoors than undisclosed, publicly available exploits.

Another benefit of Open-Source is that if you modify the code yourself in small ways, changing the order of functions or variable names then compiling OpenSSH yourself, all of those vectors disappear because OOB or memory exploits will no longer work the same way they do on other servers.

For absolute security, you get a 5-year old security oriented distribution, then you compile it yourself.

Thanks. But in my opinion, Microsoft has not only never taken security seriously, they have allowed NSA and others backdoors into their systems for over a decade. Backdoors are well known in some circles, and the tools themselves carry the keys to the kingdom. So when people like FBI contractors get them, they keep them. Eventually they get sold.

Pardon me, but nothing that is Closed Source is secure at all. It's only a matter of how difficult you want the lock to be to break for those "insiders" who have the keys. you say the NSA spent Millions, maybe that's true, but they did it to force companies like Apple and Microsoft to put intentional back doors into their products. Then the Letter Agencies get those tools, and then they "lose" them. [Due to a combination of incompetence and treachery, meaning they can have a contractor use the tool illegally and retain plausible deniability]

Such tools were used to monitor the State Department E-Mails for over 12 years.

After a decade of Bush and Clinton running things, not only did many of our weapons fall into the hands of our enemies, but access to our Corporate Backdoors as well.

Microsoft Security is a Joke that isn't funny.

https://www.fire eye.com/current-threats/recent-zero-day-attacks.html

Thanks for the link.

Last commercial project I worked on had been through a dozen hands in a decade, recently had been maintained by Pajeets. No documentation except from the original codebase, which was properly done.

So there is that kind of "How the hell does this work" - and then there are the occasions where you get code written by a true master and you have to torture yourself working out how it does its magic.

I have some code bases from before I became an alcoholic that I have a lot of trouble deciphering now. Like 10-page SQL statements to produce reports from 3rd normal form Databases.

I think so. It's my main tool on those servers. I have some other scripts that append firewall rules but I think you're right.

If you have tools to exploit Spectre or Meltdown, or even a dozen other tools that hit OpenSSH or other core components, you can get Root remotely on a lot of systems.

"Rooting" Windows servers, even remotely, is trivially simple for anyone with $10k to buy the tools.

I can only do that on this server with Physical access. Others might be able to, but I don't have the tools to do it for this distro.

At any rate, the mistake would have just cost me embarrassment because I made a stupid mistake right after I got done giving the Account Manager a ration of shit. Luckily I am able to fix my own mistake with a workaround.

lol. Hi Dad.

Cyphers man. For anything really important I take patterns from a book that is possible to replace. All I have to remember is chapter number and then find the correct paragraph, which is easy to remember.

WTF's are where you learn the most!

I don't want to name the security tool., but it is a common tool that will prevent you from accessing any port on a server when certain activity [such as too many failed login attempts] occurs. It happened to me because I was trying to log in to the wrong server, which I then locked myself out of.

I remember back in the day when I had to hire DB managers to come in and help configure indexes and set up simple things. I looked at them as if they were magical wizards with access to secret knowledge.