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I don't call that junk
I didn't call it junk either?
but yeah I'd say they've been staying on VMware, HyperV, and physical backups for so long that they missed the advent of other rising hypervisors, or things like hardware-specific OSes and so forth.
The more I think about it, the more I'm concluding that they sort of got caught with their pants down, since they could have spent a lot more time developing a wider net to capture more types (OSes, applications, hypervisors) of things instead what they appear to have done: a better net to more smoothly capture the things they were already doing.
Like, I'm all for process improvements and so forth, but I think they've come out with a new version with new features (or at least a major update with new features) every year for like 7 years?
How about tell the dev team to chill out on that, and instead go figure out a way to make proxmox backups work? Looking online, it seemed that later updates of 9.5 were really stable, so... if they could go back in time, I'd tell them to make v10 basically just 9.6 with less emphasis on new shit, freeing up what...half the dev team(?) or something to be working on a wider net. Delay every major release by like a year so this year instead of gearing up for v13 they'd be about to release v11, but that v11 would include the entire list of top5 hypervisors.
I'm not deep in either software development or in how hypervisors work so maybe I'm missing something here, but I really agree with you: they had the resources and the time to cast a wider net, and they didn't.
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important to note, too: you don't have to limit your vocabulary so that they can understand you.
On the one hand, there's a lot of meaning they can easily pick up from context.
On the other hand, they will have an opportunity to expand their vocabulary to match your own years before they would have done so otherwise.
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my 8 year old (3rd grade) is reading about 2 books intended for 5-6th graders a week.
my 4 year old is envious, and has asked for help learning to read. I give her little micro-lessons every day or two where we sound out a word.
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lol I bring this up everytime someone says that.
I lived out in bumfuck pennsylvania for a few years while in highschool.
To get to my house, you went to the end of a dirt road and you keep going. Into a ravine. And then up the other side.
In winter, we would sometimes get a foot of snow in a single night. Drifts on the ravine road were easily 2-3 feet deep sometimes. We didn't have a reasonable vehicle to traverse a foot of snow on a 30 degree slope, so we walked. Full distance from the house to the "civilization" side of the ravine was about a 1/4 mile.
Then it was another 1/4 mile out to the main road, where the bus stop was.
THEREFORE
"When I was in highschool, I had to walk half a mile just to get to my bus stop. In snow that came up to my knees or my waist. Uphill both ways!"
It was also downhill both ways, sure. But holy shit I hated living there. Got a little better when we realized that we could sled down the near side, drag the sled up behind us, and leave it for when we returned.
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I am in the backups part of the IT world, and it's considered a vital part of IT security.
Because backups, by design, need to touch every part of your tech infrastructure, when a customer has a problem, I get to see nearly every part of their infrastructure.
therefore I've got some fuckin opinions on the state of IT security in the modern age.
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AMAZING: IT Security companies, and the US military at sensitive sites.
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If a security company doesn't have a good reputation, they vaporize in a matter of months. So if you know of one, their security is good because their brand reached you.
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The US military has more money than god and knows how to hire good admins. When they need a blacksite secured, they fucking do it right, even if they need to have internet accessibility.
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BEST: medium sized companies that have recently seen financial success, and US federal gov't stuff.
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enough cash to get proper hardware, an IT team that isn't overworked, and a small amount of exposure to threats, because the company isn't that huge yet.
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also more money than god, but they can't pay like the military can, and more exposed. Usually quite good though.
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GOOD: extremely large companies that have been hacked recently, state level governments.
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the government is breathing down their neck and threatening audits, so they throw their huge amounts of money at the issues, and are willing to hire good admins - but there's still a lot of points of exposure.
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States have enough money and know they need good IT teams. Not as much money though.
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FINE, I GUESS: large and extremely large companies without a recent breach. Major City Gov't.
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they've got the money, but it often has to be pried from their hands. Usually they realize why they need to spend it, but it takes a good admin team and good management to use it well - plus they have a lot of exposure.
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NOT FINE: bad companies. You know the ones. Usually large, and always in court, always doing some shlocky ad push to get positive attention going their way. Usually led by the worst humans imaginable. County level gov't.
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No budget. Owner's cousin does IT because he's a gamer.
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most counties outside of major cities (so...most counties) have gov't infrastructure could be breached by an 8th grader with a can of monster and an internet connection. This is because they don't have the money for good admins or good hardware, so IT is actively looking for other jobs.
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BAD: small companies that suddenly hit on some viral thing and now they have to expand faster than their IT can handle.
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they don't know who to hire, so they hire people bad at their jobs. These people don't know how to set it all up. Combined with a shitload of new employees, their exposire to threats is also huge. they will have a breach, and it will be soon.
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BREACH IMMINENT: tech bros that started a company because of their Awesome Idea (TM).
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they don't have money, they think they can do the tech, and really they are just going to suddenly get big and have money...but no they aren't. They have no plan.
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THE FUCKING WORST: the sheriff's department way out in the country.
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not kidding. if there's a sheriff in your community and you live more than 50 miles from a city with a population of at least 100k, Your data might be literally plastered up on a signboard outside their building right now.
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I don't know what it is about these guys. Just holy shit it's like they are paid to ignore IT security. And their "IT guy" is some old lady that used to be a secretary for the county gov't, lost that job because she couldn't juggle the shifts with her Local Diner (tm) job, and now does IT under the table for the sheriff's office. Or maybe there's literally a horse doing IT. IDK.
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they always have a bad fucking attitude about it, too. Like, dude calm down I'm trying to fix your shit, shut up.
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there are days in the summer months where I go out the back door just to throw the dreaded Ball of Doom at the coop so that whoever has been going for fucking 20 minutes shuts the fuck up!
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FUN FACT:
Yeah they totally do, with hormone changes and everything.
Like, severe hormonal changes. So severe that their body starts acting a lot more like a rooster's. They don't crow or anything (I think the equipment for that is developed during adolescence, can't grow it later), but they do start being more territorial and they grow spurs.
Source: My old hen named Rocky, who is a badass old curmudgeon that was already the 'soldier' of the flock before henopause, and now has a fucking 1.5 inch knife on the back of her foot to really fuck up some raccoons.
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slotting in every random chip, shard, and braindance I can find on these filthy fucking streets, without thinking twice whether I should do even basic security evaluation about it.
I mean, sure there's Johnny - I had no idea what that chip would end up doing to me.
But also there's the Infected BD mission. No hesitation, just fire it up, choomba.
I've zeroed an entire facility because I wasn't sure if the chip across the way I scanned was a unique one or not.
Just gimme them viruses, inject them right into my braincase!