FBI ‘Drive-By’ Hacking Warning Just Got Real: Here’s How This Malicious New Threat Works

[firstone]

On 2/11/2020 at 11:22 AM, Teken said:

 

I know this question wasn’t addressed to me. But can affirm doing the very same as apostolakisl.

This is probably a little over the top for many here but this is what you do when you’re dead serious about your infrastructure.

Just a small sample of one of the four racks.



 

 

OMG. I thought I was going into overkill with my 3 12 port patch panels. 

Why do you need 1500 ports when you're using like 16 of them?
 

[larryllix]

16 minutes ago, firstone said:

OMG. I thought I was going into overkill with my 3 12 port patch panels. 

Why do you need 1500 ports when you're using like 16 of them?
 

Part of the save energy program.  

[Teken]

2 minutes ago, firstone said:

OMG. I thought I was going into overkill with my 3 12 port patch panels. 

Why do you need 1500 ports when you're using like 16 of them?
 

That picture was taken when pre-staging was happening just to confirm VLAN settings for various drops. I obviously don't need all of those ports but also keep in mind there are several things happening with this infrastructure.

There are six patch panels which are configured to support various I/O such as USB, HDMI, Coaxial, Fiber, IR, Audio / Video. The infrastructure is also designed for extreme fail over and redundancy so some of the duplicate hardware is to allow such hardware support. As noted up above one of the racks has been designed and deployed in a closed loop manner where its only meaning in life is to provide force protection of the entire homes superstructure and perimeter. 

That server rack is completely isolated and independent of any other system(s) in the home and is also serviced by island protected power at all times. I probably took this whole concept a little over board but like I said: Don't smoke, drink, drugs, gamble, no more fast woman & cars.

Can't golf worth a Sh^t ~ Trust me I tried and my nick name is *Turf Killer*.

This is just my personal hobby, obviously on a much larger scale than most. But hope this inspires others to consider what can be done and should be done at their own level with respect to security of the home. Most of this is driven by being involved in supporting hundreds of data centers from concept to deployment so I try to implement some of those best practices in the Enterprise world in my humble abode.

Regardless, don't let all the fancy gear seen here ever lead you to believe I am all tech!

When people I trust ever come into my home the first thing they see and realize is how stealthy and low tech the home *Appears* to be. Despite popular belief it takes way more effort to make things blend in where the average person does not see, hear, or can touch something that does X vs Y. Case in point it has taken considerable effort and planning to make Enterprise hardware fit and shoe horn into a short depth server rack which isn't designed to do so.

Being able to configure four massive racks and have them installed in a manner which blends into the decor / environment takes lots of planning. It should be noted this forum and many others have taught me more about random things I would never have considered. All I have done is scaled it much larger in its topology and enforcing the principle of:

Power of 3 . . .

That is, anything that I feel is important there is never less than 3 ways to do it, support it, or provide it. Like many here I wasn't born into money and certainly haven't won the lottery in my life time. But, have been very active in the last 25 years in buying things via the Internet where the world is literally your oyster! Case in point 25 years ago it wasn't even possible to know the Government was going to sell off surplus hardware without being some kind of registered vendor / recycler. I was extremely lucky many years back to have won the virtual lottery for those eight 120-240 VAC APC Symetra UPS systems.

People can freely see how much just one unit APC costs ($100~150K) a piece.

That is $800, 000 USD dollars (low side) which in Canuk talk is $1,040000 CDN.

Now, don't even ask how long and how many people it took to move thousands of pounds of batteries and those APC UPS racks. 

          

[Mustang65]

I am very surprised that you have not contacted Elon Reeve Musk to see if he could possibly put communications satellite in orbit for you. Microwave communications  next? And I feel good having a 3Tb NAS server with all my data on it (ISY on/off controlled for security). I still have a 56K modem in my desk. Don't ask why.

[larryllix]

2 minutes ago, Mustang65 said:

I am very surprised that you have not contacted Elon Reeve Musk to see if he could possibly put communications satellite in orbit for you. Microwave communications  next? And I feel good having a 3Tb NAS server with all my data on it (ISY on/off controlled for security). I still have a 56K modem in my desk. Don't ask why.

MY earmuff modem coupler is a little slow but very reliable. It is getting hard to get a handset that fits though.

[Teken]

40 minutes ago, Mustang65 said:

I am very surprised that you have not contacted Elon Reeve Musk to see if he could possibly put communications satellite in orbit for you. Microwave communications  next? And I feel good having a 3Tb NAS server with all my data on it (ISY on/off controlled for security). I still have a 56K modem in my desk. Don't ask why.

This is one of the future solutions to offer an extra layer of fail over and redundancy: https://www.canadasatellite.ca/Thuraya-WE-Satellite-Hotspot-p/Thuraya-WE-Satellite-Hotspot.htm  So if there is major disaster I won't have to rely on a fixed infrastructure or if the home is compromised: https://youtu.be/lnkgHKdGUXM

[Mustang65]

1 hour ago, larryllix said:

MY earmuff modem coupler is a little slow but very reliable. It is getting hard to get a handset that fits though.

Check the attic! These 8 old tech items could be worth a lot of money

https://apple.news/Abtq4DaQnSUarTSXAsgt6Dg

I have the Commodore and Atari things, Commodore, printer, data tape player, sketch, modem, and hard drive. A box of Atari games and the Atari unit in the attic.

 

[Teken]

37 minutes ago, Mustang65 said:

Check the attic! These 8 old tech items could be worth a lot of money

https://apple.news/Abtq4DaQnSUarTSXAsgt6Dg

I have the Commodore and Atari things, Commodore, printer, data tape player, sketch, modem, and hard drive. A box of Atari games and the Atari unit in the attic.

 

Yeah, just checked and all there is - is a easy bake oven. 

[larryllix]

6 minutes ago, Teken said:

Yeah, just checked and all there is - is a easy bake oven. 

Those have been obsoleted by LED bulb technology and won't make Apple pie anymore.