Exactly!!! But now that the oil prices inevitably tanked, "please bail us out!!!" It's like that asshole friend who got a huge inheritance and blew it on blow and hookers is now complaining that they can't make rent.

I was born in BC, probably older than you and I am pretty sure I've considered what I say very carefully. My hyperbole to you is real concern. And increasing tanker traffic without ensuring there is a way to deal with mistakes (which of course never happen until they do) is very real. Read my above comments and read this as it explains why the lies currently being perpetuated https://www.nationalobserver.c... Some of us in BC actually care about the planet and about the industries that keep our province an amazing place now and forever and aren't willing to sell them out so Joe Bob in Alberta can have 2 four wheelers, a boat, a $100,000 pickup and a 5 bedroom house. Of course if Joe Bon knew about economics he would have realized his inflated oil economy salary wasn't something he should have banked on.

Not a lot goes over rail and what does is not diluted with chemicals that make it much more dangerous. See this https://altex-energy.com/econo... This isn't like Lac-Mégantic where there is a bunch of flammable liquid fuel. Instead the rail cars are filled with a solid mass, bitumen if you will. If it spills it's totally not good, but won't run into streams and creeks in the same way a tanker spill would of piped product, it would be like a coal spill. But compared to what bitumen with a spill with heavy bitumen in a diluting agent in a marine environment it's not even close to the same risk. We don't even know what it would take to clean up a bitumen spill in a ocean marine environment https://www.theglobeandmail.co... Yet the Canadian government and Alberta government are willing to put all this risk on BC. And people form BC are supposed to be cool with that?

It would certainly be a lot better if Canada would invest in building refineries adding Canadian jobs and using it's own oil to produce it's own gas. While many like to blame BC, there was a pipeline to the east that was stopped too. And in all the years Alberta was making making profits hand over fist they failed to ever build enough refineries that could turn their heavy oil into a profitable product they just gave tax breaks and ignored the inevitable ups and downs of an oil economy. Look at Alaska permanent fund or Norway's oil savings funds vs. Alberta's historical fund, there's differences, but end of day Alberta had a lot of money that it squandered for decades, and they didn't plan for the inevitable, and are playing the blame game, and BC is a great scape goat.

A pipeline that would be unprofitable and create a much greater risk of environmental damage due to increased tanker traffic just to sell discounted heavy bitumen at a price that is not sustainable. And all the risk would be on BC and all the profit to promote a dysfunctional Alberta oil industry and those have not provinces that would get equalization payments. But BC residents should shoulder all the risk. https://www.nationalobserver.c... While the above link is just an opinion piece, it is much more grounded in reality than the rhetoric being promoted by the the federal government in Canada and the provincial government in Alberta.

If your system is setup correctly you should at least check logs and do every thing you can to try and detect an intrusion whenever there is a possible vulnerability. This is part of a sysadmins job.

For instance, after the whole Debian SSL fiasco we checked over all of our logs for any odd or unknown usage and had everyone change their passwords and replaced all keys.

Of course the severity of the vulnerability dictates the actions that are taken.

Basically a good sysadmin will have detection measures in place and a plan to deal with intrusions because no system is completely secure. And a sysadmins job is to monitor all security issues that occur on software used by the systems that he is in control of. This must be in place so that we can remain reasonably safe and secure as can be expected.

So, absolutely yes, every time there is a critical security issue that could have affected your systems you should be spending some extra time to make sure the systems have not been compromised and cleaning up what you can. I wouldn't want a sysadmin working for me that didn't do his job completely as I have explained.