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Should check the records for accuracy, but looks like my DSL connection lasted like 6-7 years this time. It’s a new record! That was around the last time we changed ISP’s, IIRC. It’s still going, I’m just not using it. I suspect it was hacked, dunno. Time-wasting forensics foregone, I decided to re-architect things with Comcast. I had a couple ideas for better ways of doing this with some upgraded hardware anyway. Michelle’s Dexter® business needs carved out of my network nonsense. Centurylink® will be upstairs Internet, going forward.

Things arbitrarily stopped forwarding for some reason on or about 15 MAR, returning failed reset and configuration attempts for a few days. WiFi stayed online during troubleshooting, but Internet access eventually dropped, leading to a factory reset on the 18th, restoring connectivity. Not sure what’s going on with Centurylink®, but the service level dropped noticeably in the past year, with regularly expected congestion periods during evenings and weekends. Once again, a network change seemed called for.

New modem arrived two days later, but I waited until the following weekend for a full dynamic diagnosis with the DSL monkeys, so as not to interrupt Michelle with the swap-out. That Centurylink® reset really resonated, but their awful tech support disappoints. Now Comcast® has to deal with me for awhile again, and I have a network diagram update to do. First came a new switch upgrade, including all-new re-loads in everything live on the wire with a chip in it. Here’s one reason why I no longer trust any-body or any-thing.

Interesting 1st blush Comcast observation belies similarly brain-dead tech support, underlying a much bigger, faster network, with all the same ne’er-do-wells prowling around. Sticking my toes in gingerly, surprised to see upwards of 90% of traffic visits pulling 404’s pointing to the WordPress site. I thought online docs were the most popular, at least according to Google analytics. Looks like everything’s cached everywhere.

Sorry for focusing on the cybercrime while offline. I was one of the OG cybercops. The ongoing online list for why anybody gives a shyt about the Internet resumes here now.

Beautiful Dream -World Party

Better Off?

Cliff Dweller

New Mansions in the Neighborhood.

FSK Bridge from the Right-Wing Perspective

Chinese hackers running free.

Not-So-True People Search

Putin and his regime have weapons, but they can’t sit on them and they can’t eat them. They’re good for killing Ukrainians and jailing Russians, but they can’t save a regime from its fatal flaws.

Favorite toons saved here to mark Stuff’s offline time…

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New Mansions in the Neighborhood

Well, not exactly. This is about three miles away, on the other side of Firestone, near the river. Somebody’s making some bank. There’s still new development sprouting all over, making me wonder about the real estate market, with many older homes in the area recently coming up for sale. Maybe they are upgrading these days…

Right by the river – couple $mil, at least.
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Not So True People Search

The truth is that these people-search companies will continue to thrive unless and until Congress begins to realize it’s time for some consumer privacy and data protection laws that are relevant to life in the 21st century.

Good luck with that.

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Think They Realize It Yet?

MAGA ≈ NAZI? Been sayin’ it and doing the appropriate Photoshopping with the Gimp myself for quite awhile.

On Monday, Trump ads were being served up at the beginning of a new Rumble video by the reactionary broadcaster Stew Peters. In that video, Peters touts Adolf Hitler as “a hero” for the horrific Nazi book burnings of the 1930s, calling the violent display of cultural erasure “awesome.” Peters even advocates a modern reenactment of the fiery Nazi spectacle, seeking retribution against what he falsely paints as a Jewish-led conspiracy to “make us surrender” to LGBTQ acceptance and sexual “degeneracy.”

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Code Monkeys Gettin’ Antsy

Like 9-11, when we couldn’t find the Shanksville jet because all the radars were pointing in the wrong direction?

“This is a reminder that any organization can be affected by a cyber vulnerability and having an incident response plan in place is a necessary component of resilience.”

In-house guy who forgot to check those boxes, right?
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Search for Boeing

Just On Stuff. Been talking about it since before I retired from USAF. Been writing about it for at least a couple years. The last conversation I had with a Boeing employee was standing in front of a comm rack at the SBIRS facility in Boulder. We’d been waiting for the new links to go live for a few hours when I decided to go check on them. He was in the middle of swapping out a crypto module when I walked up looking over his shoulder and jokingly quipped you guys know what you’re doing? IIRC he replied simply saying “I’m competent.” I stuck around and helped him key the box, but detected a little eye roll as if to suggest maybe all four of that particular gang here that day weren’t.

Having been exposed to both sides of the customer/contractor fence in DoD aerospace contracting from the purely military perspective, I shudder to think what shenanigans go on in the private sector. The human factor always looms large. If I had a nickle for every time I had to ask who was the last one touched it… Try doing that job as a COMSEC inspector.

Lawsuit says seat belt saved passenger after door blowout.

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Tik Fucking Tok My Ass

Money for Nothing -Dire Straits

If there’s one thing the Chinese are really good at, it’s imitation. We been through it already with Zuckerboy, Musky, et al, busily evading responsibility for exploiting social media’s dark side since forever. I guess the government only gets really worried about it when the threat becomes existential to themselves.

In Small Part…

Mandiant Threat Intelligence reported in June 2019 that the People’s Republic of China created a network of hundreds of inauthentic multilanguage accounts across social media, including on TikTok, and attempted to “physically mobilize protesters in the U.S.”

As part of this campaign, short videos on TikTok and other platforms discrediting Chinese dissidents and U.S. officials were created and promoted to the feeds of U.S. citizens. Many of the videos provided the targeted individuals’ contact information and home addresses, Mandiant said.

In 2021, the PRC sponsored a campaign that targeted Asian Americans with thousands of posts urging them to protest the profiling of Asians in the U.S. on April 24 in New York City. The posts, illustrated with a large wrist smashing the “whites,” urged Asian Americans to “fight back.” Mandiant observed later reports saying that the protest was “successful,” with other minority groups joining the Asian Americans.

There’s no end to the options and opportunities out there if you need an Internet platform to advertise some product, good or service. Free access to a big user base certainly is valuable, but free is never REALLY free. Just figure out what it’s worth to you, personally.

Free Ride -Edgar Winter
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Bob Hur: MAGA Cockpig

I can see why people might not want the job, but this is getting ridiculous…

Hur’s testimony an exercise in 2024 political messaging.

Accusations of cognitive impairment were launched by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle against the other party’s presidential nominee.

The only impairment evident to me in the U.S. government is the group-think, power-hungry lunacy demonstrated by some of the elected officials inhabiting it.

Hard Up Case -Walter Becker