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skooma512 posted:I usually grab e-waste. I scored a mechanical keyboard and Microsoft Wheel Mouse Opticals this way. They work, they just don't want them. Also an XP era machine I want to use for old games. My dad works for a company that makes UPS's for businesses. Every time a working one gets returned for any reason, it can't be resold because *business reasons* so they let employees just have these $10,000 UPS's for free. I have one made to run an office for 24 hours. It can run my house for over a week.
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I know a guy that ran a $5k Cisco switch in his living room. Why he would live with a drat jet engine next to his TV for years instead of just dropping a hundred bucks on a decent Netgear was a completely different question though.
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Dec 25, 2014 22:38
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A former colleague was given 5 NIB LTO6 tape drives.
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Dec 25, 2014 23:07
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A ticket came in just now, one of our customers decided to spent Christmas spamming their customers and they are angry because they got caught by multiple spam filters. Gonna make sure this ends up at back of the line.
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A ticket came in this morning for a client's server running out of space. I'm on call this week so I fire up the remote tools and sure enough C:\ grew over 200gb today alone. Turns out someone was bored working overnight on Christmas and decided to install Steam, syncing his entire library. How he had access to the server root drive is beyond me, though from other notes it looks like that client "handles their own security policies," which is a constant source of revenue for us. My boss and I chuckled, told the user to to install games on his own workstation if he were going to do that, and went back to hoping nothing of actual import breaks today. Merry Christmas, goons
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Dec 26, 2014 00:31
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I once took home a fusion io drive that was "not working" any longer according to the Sys Admin. It still runs fine in my computer, and those things are like $10000 or what?
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Dec 26, 2014 02:16
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BabyFur Denny posted:I once took home a fusion io drive that was "not working" any longer according to the Sys Admin. It still runs fine in my computer, and those things are like $10000 or what?
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Dec 26, 2014 04:45
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BabyFur Denny posted:I once took home a fusion io drive that was "not working" any longer according to the Sys Admin. It still runs fine in my computer, and those things are like $10000 or what? A fusion IO card would be a sick toy to own. That's quite the score. How big is it?
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Guys I think I'm developing PTSD from my lovely IT job and my lovely boss who freaks out about everything because he knows nothing. I swear to god I'm living a real life Groundhog Day. I'm so tired of treating the symptoms and not the disease. There's so much red tape and politics and institutional resistance to any suggested improvement. It's maddening.
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Chickenwalker posted:Guys I think I'm developing PTSD from my lovely IT job and my lovely boss who freaks out about everything because he knows nothing. I swear to god I'm living a real life Groundhog Day. Kick back, relax, set your effort level to 'Zero Fucks Given', and watch the world burn. Spend time searching for a new job instead of trying to come up with solutions that no one in charge wants, or study for some new certs.
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m.hache posted:We're a small shop so anything that plugs in is my problem. Help, I am stuck in a well!
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Kick back, relax, set your effort level to 'Zero Fucks Given', and watch the world burn. Spend time searching for a new job instead of trying to come up with solutions that no one in charge wants, or study for some new certs. You can also try the "Nero Fiddling" effort level, when you really want to make a point that it is indeed possible to give a negative quantity of fucks about the situation.
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Funny: Someone actually fell for the lost-thumb-drive-private_pictures.zip.exe thing. Not funny: They tried it on three more computers before they gave up. Back around to funny: "Can we call the cops and see if they can identify the hacker based on who's in the pictures?"
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sfwarlock posted:Funny: Someone actually fell for the lost-thumb-drive-private_pictures.zip.exe thing. I feel like belligerent ignorance like this should be a fireable offense.
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Dec 26, 2014 20:22
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sfwarlock posted:Funny: Someone actually fell for the lost-thumb-drive-private_pictures.zip.exe thing. Is this just littering some drives near the site you want to hack? That's a very clever attack!
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Is this just littering some drives near the site you want to hack? The more I think about it the more I am impressed. Flash drives are stupidly cheap now so you could easily put malicious code onto a few hundred and then casually leave them on business countertops and blanket a broad area in a few days. Granted, it puts you at risk of being identified by surveillance camera, but I'd be surprised if the rate of people plugging them in to snoop around wasn't greater than 25%. People are nosy as all hell, and what's the harm in looking right? Man that'd actually be a really interesting experiment to run with non-malicious code just to see the response rate of that kind of social engineering attack.
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Dec 26, 2014 20:33
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I want to do it in my own company with code that notifies me when they plug it in and again if they run an exe on it. Edit: Put it on a loop of string connected to some lipstick.
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Dec 26, 2014 20:38
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Mo_Steel posted:The more I think about it the more I am impressed. Flash drives are stupidly cheap now so you could easily put malicious code onto a few hundred and then casually leave them on business countertops and blanket a broad area in a few days. Granted, it puts you at risk of being identified by surveillance camera, but I'd be surprised if the rate of people plugging them in to snoop around wasn't greater than 25%. People are nosy as all hell, and what's the harm in looking right?
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Dec 26, 2014 20:43
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Agrikk posted:A fusion IO card would be a sick toy to own. That's quite the score. We've been using these for a couple years now and I've been trying to get my hands on one. My manager already has one at home, so I know I can snag one eventually. Would give me an excuse to re-build my home lab with better hardware!
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Agrikk posted:A fusion IO card would be a sick toy to own. That's quite the score. 600 GB. Enough for everything I need.
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FYI this "lost usb stick" technique nothing new, at all. Question is: is your company being targeted and what kind of attacker is determined enough to prepare a usb stick and physically place it somewhere for one of your employees to find? Rather than sending a phishing mail which takes far less effort and risk.
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Dec 26, 2014 20:56
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Mo_Steel posted:The more I think about it the more I am impressed. Flash drives are stupidly cheap now so you could easily put malicious code onto a few hundred and then casually leave them on business countertops and blanket a broad area in a few days. Granted, it puts you at risk of being identified by surveillance camera, but I'd be surprised if the rate of people plugging them in to snoop around wasn't greater than 25%. People are nosy as all hell, and what's the harm in looking right? /Pics/HolidaySnaps/Barbados/Honeymoon/DirtyPics.zip.exe Should just open up a full screen message in rainbow flashing colours that reads "YOU'RE FIRED" while playing really loud music.
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Dec 26, 2014 21:10
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I want to do it in my own company with code that notifies me when they plug it in and again if they run an exe on it.
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Dec 26, 2014 21:14
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Mo_Steel posted:The more I think about it the more I am impressed. Flash drives are stupidly cheap now so you could easily put malicious code onto a few hundred and then casually leave them on business countertops and blanket a broad area in a few days. Granted, it puts you at risk of being identified by surveillance camera, but I'd be surprised if the rate of people plugging them in to snoop around wasn't greater than 25%. People are nosy as all hell, and what's the harm in looking right? Department of Homeland Security did this in their own parking lot with DHS-branded thumb drives. 90% of the drives were then plugged into agency computers. (Only 60% with drives without the logo. lol)
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spankmeister posted:FYI this "lost usb stick" technique nothing new, at all. Apparently it was found at the local subway station. (I work in something of a tech-heavy area.)
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Sirotan posted:Department of Homeland Security did this in their own parking lot with DHS-branded thumb drives. 90% of the drives were then plugged into agency computers. One agency started blacklisting all but approved models of hardware encrypted USB drives. IT published a list of blacklisted USB devices by frequency. It was mosty phones, but a decent amount of off the shelf thumbdrives.
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waffle iron posted:One agency started blacklisting all but approved models of hardware encrypted USB drives. IT published a list of blacklisted USB devices by frequency. It was mosty phones, but a decent amount of off the shelf thumbdrives. ... If they have a list of approved hardware, why not whitelist?
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They did that to us as well but it's only the really lovely overpriced Cisco thumb drives. So now I have a pile of like 20 1GB Cisco sticks that arbitrarily work / don't work on different routers. OpEx / CapEx is loving stupid when it's the difference between a robust TFTP solution and buying 100/ea cases of the shittiest thumb drives for twice as much.
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Dec 26, 2014 23:26
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If you haven't flashed a router using XMODEM you haven't lived.
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It's the day after Jewish Christmas and actually I have decided that I am going to compile a list of things I am thankful for: -That I traded my on-call rotation for the day after New Years. And uh....well, that's the only IT related thing on it.
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Volmarias posted:... If they have a list of approved hardware, why not whitelist? I thought the same thing when I read it. Maybe some misunderstanding of how the Windows driver model works or poor tools to manage a whitelist. Edit: This is an agency that buys Dell branded printers. Also I am convinced that regional districts have their own IT groups making independent purchasing/deployment decisions.
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spankmeister posted:If you haven't flashed a router using XMODEM you haven't lived. drat! I haven't used Xmodem since Zmodem came around.
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Crowley posted:drat! I don't recall, did any routers support Kermit? Kermit was the poo poo.
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flosofl posted:I don't recall, did any routers support Kermit? Kermit was the poo poo. cisco does xmodem and ymodem, not kermit iirc.
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Crowley posted:drat! I got into that stuff long after zmodem happened, but I think I tried xmodem a few times just to say I had. Ymodem-g was my jam though. I was willing to sacrifice any meaningful error correction for that ~10% boost in speed. I was an impatient child, and 2400 baud was quite the ordeal for me.
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A ticket came in. I was cleaning up unread stuff on xmas, so I could see if anyone I gave a drat about emailed. There was a note that my group has been assigned a ticket. Apparently someone decided to upgrade their work laptop to 10.9 on Christmas. And broke it somehow. So it got assigned to us to handle. First level said to replace their hard drive and give them a loaner. We're hardware repair. This is just so deliciously wrong. We'll probably help the poor person, but we're closed till the 5th, so...
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stubblyhead posted:I got into that stuff long after zmodem happened, but I think I tried xmodem a few times just to say I had. Ymodem-g was my jam though. I was willing to sacrifice any meaningful error correction for that ~10% boost in speed. I was an impatient child, and 2400 baud was quite the ordeal for me. After being a freshman with 24 300 baud lines, 12 1200 baud, and 8 2400 baud lines, 2400 baud seemed wicked fast to me at the time. I would even put up with 300 because "I'm remote! From my dorm! To campus computers!"
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People are so lazy. One of my favorite ones that came in was "my phone cord is tangled"
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spankmeister posted:If you haven't flashed a router using XMODEM you haven't lived. I've done this, god bless Cisco routers still having xmodem. Took a long-rear end time though. At least the latest ones have usb so if you have physical access it's not nearly as much of a pain in the rear end...
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jadeddrifter posted:People are so lazy. Ticket resolved: user given a pair of scissors.
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