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"At one point he was concerned about the security of the FiberWAN routers in remote offices, so he had them set up without saving the config to flash. "If they go down, I'll get alerted, and connect up to them and reload the config." Great, except we have power outages all the time in this city, some of those devices aren't on UPSs, and what happens if you're on vacation? And what about the 15 to 60 minutes it might take you to connect up and reload? He eventually conceded and (ahem) decided that disabling password recovery was sufficient security."
After reading that would you reboot any of those routers? Source
All production system-level passwords must be part of the security administered global password management database.
In fact, if the passwords had been in that database, then he would A) probably never had been asked for them and B) would have been able to say "you need to request access from the security department"
Now HE may have thought they were "user" passwords because the system was his baby, but if you truly agree with that
Don't bankrupt the tax payers because PA residents pay school taxes by district
Ha, the school districts around here ALREADY do their damnedest to bankrupt the homeowners in their districts.
He was in custody Friday night, pending charges that could include criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration, Smith said.
And no i'm not new here.
So In July 09 it seems that the "count everyone" unemployment rate was 16.5% with the "official" rate was 9.5% That includes discouraged workers, Those who took part time job and anyone else classified as a marginally attached worker.
And how exactly do you pull off being exact and punctual while being sloppy and unable to figure out what time it is from being drunk?
Practice... lots and lots of practices. Speaking of which it's time for me to do some practicing.
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