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Been a Plex user for years. Love it!

A story from the Veeam weekly newwletter email.

https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089

I'm not a big fan of necro posting and I realize this wiki question comes up often in forums but this seemed to really be on point when I saw this ML thread.

I'm in need of a wiki to serve similar function with security features at the very top of the list, to allow clients to look at their own documentation but no access to others, good search capability...etc. I've looked at options like Alfresco, MediaWiki, DokuWiki and I think I'm leaning towards DokuWiki however, this comment on their site makes me rethink this...

"DokuWiki's ACL feature has been included for some time and should be pretty stable. However, if you are concerned about the risk of unauthorized users accessing information in your wiki, you should never put it on a computer accessible from the Internet."

This could be a simple CYA statement but I will need this wiki to be available to many clients online and I would like to hear if people's recommendations have changed.

@scottalanmiller Did you land on an ideal solution?

@mike-davis said in I can't even:

I came across this at a client site today . I was so impressed I had to stop to take a picture. Looks like they were going for water tight flexible conduit.

Now that's thinking outside the box!

Wasabi is my go-to provider for Synology backups to cloud. Best pricing out there and recovery is super-easy. This is built into their Hyper Backup application.

Not IT specific (Louis Pasteur was credited with this quote in 1854) but absolutely applies...

"Fortune favors the prepared mind".

Ubiquiti (Cameron Crum) just sent an email to dozens of people with an invite for an airMAX deployment at a client site where they entered everyone's name and email address in the CC field.

Unfortunately, there is no WTF category so Water Closet it is. I've removed the majority of the personal data they didn't manage to do themselves.

MOD Comment:
Likely the WC is the place to leave this - just add tags.

https://linuxsecurity.com/features/features/nextcry-ransomware-targets-nextcloud-linux-servers-and-remains-undetected

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Lab Project: Building a Linux Jump Box:

So a Jump system can be about smoothing access to make it faster. Or it can be amount making access more secure. Or both.

It is, in many ways, about eliminating the free for all of access that is common with a VPN where you traditionally have many peers all able to access each other making access difficult to track and control.

Which is why large shops traditionally use a jump box even on a LAN. So even if you had a VPN, you might still have the jump box.

I had started typing out an entirely different response with scenarios comparing VPN and jump box and wasn't until the end that I saw where the jump box approach may be much simpler. It avoids having to manipulate multiple systems to provide a similar level of control (if I understood this correctly) over accessibility. Manage a single jump box instead of VPN, firewall, entity/authentication management...etc.

Noticed that my Roku devices are becoming extremely chatty. 27k hits last week and suddenly, >10k attempts today so far.

https://know.bishopfox.com/advisories/connectwise-control

Don’t know who Bishop Fox is or whether they’re reliable and accurate but thought I’d share since many of us use the ConnectWise products.

@coliver said in Xfinity data limits:

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@JaredBusch said in Xfinity data limits:

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@JaredBusch said in Xfinity data limits:

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@JaredBusch said in Xfinity data limits:

I also have Crashplan to reseed. So I should make sure I get it all in this month.

I'd love to keep using Crashplan but their upload speeds are abysmal!

What are you doing that uploads speeds from the CrashPlan side are a constraint?

Backing up photos, music and home movies. About 4TB. Best up speed I can get is around 10Mbps.

4TB total, but what kind of change rate? I never have any problem with a 10MB uplink.

Initial seed.

That's going to take forever.

I was going to include my full movie collection but that would have brought it up to 28TB. At 10Mbps it estimated a little over a year for that seed. Lol

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Netflix testing ads.

In other news, RojoLoco is testing Pi Hole with a big middle finger pointed at advertisers and Netflix.

My guess is that Netflix serves them in such a way that they are just another show.

They're not ads in the sense we think of with ad blockers. They're inserting a few seconds of previews for Netflix programming during the 15 second countdown between episodes when you binge a series.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Bottom line, if Google Project Zero discovers a vulnerability, and chooses to hide it from me, and I get compromised because they were complacent (or whose), I think that there is criminal culpability. If they research the software that I am running, that's fine. If they find a vulnerability, though, telling me makes them innocent, not telling me makes them guilty. If you are going to do security research you have ethical responsibilities and, hopefully, criminal ones as well.

What's the legal statute that you are referencing when making this statement about criminal culpability?

Truly asking.

C'mon, it's only a Russian domain. What harm could there be in clicking the link

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Behind the Curve a fascinating study of reality-challenged beliefs

The documentary tracks how people form and maintain bizarre beliefs.

There's a scene somewhere in the middle of a new flat Earth documentary that acts as a metaphor for so much that surrounds it. Two of the central figures of Behind the Curve are visiting a spaceflight museum that pays tribute to NASA, an organization that they believe is foisting a tremendous lie on an indoctrinated and incurious public. One of them, Mark Sargent, sits in a re-entry simulator that suggests he should press "Start" to begin. He dutifully bangs away at the highlighted word "Start" on screen, but nothing happens.

I loved this one! Highly entertaining.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google tries to allay Fitbit-deal privacy fears

Google has completed its acquisition of Fitbit and tried to reassure users it will protect their privacy.
The search giant bought the health-tracking company for $2.1bn (£1.5bn) in November 2019 but faced questions from regulators. Following a four-month European Commission investigation, it agreed not to use health and location data from Fitbit devices for advertising. The deal was then approved by authorities in December. In a blog, Google said the acquisition "has always been about devices, not data". "We've been clear since the beginning that we will protect Fitbit users' privacy," it added, promising the commitments given to the commission, which it must keep for 10 years, would be implemented globally.

Bahahaha. Google + protect privacy = Annihilation. This is like matter and antimatter in the same space.

Unless the UPS is sized to handle the printer along with everything else, that can kill your UPS. And 750VA is much too small to connect even the smallest of desktop laser printers to.

@nadnerB That is such a dad joke lol

@MattSpeller said in CloudAtCost Turning to Extortion:

@Dashrender said in CloudAtCost Turning to Extortion:

@scottalanmiller said in CloudAtCost Turning to Extortion:

@Dashrender said in CloudAtCost Turning to Extortion:

In cases like this it's challenging, because it's not just a thing in your presence, it's something you're using that 100% depends on someone else to manage/maintain it.

Only challenging in that you have no physical recourse, you are left only with the court system. It's clear cut that you bought and paid for a service and they chose not to deliver the paid for service after they took off with the money.

It's it hosted in Canada? which makes it just that much harder to sue over.

I have a truck, a baseball bat, spray paint etc and I'm willing to drive long distances to... express frustration... for a fee

Could have a bidding war for those services. They are practically in my backyard