Cent's oral surgery went very smoothly (took no more than 15 minutes), and she rested at my place to recover for the remainder of the day; I dropped her back off at home an hour or so ago. :)
EDIT: Also, per Cent's semi-incoherent pantomime-and-gurgle request and my own gratitude, I give massive thumbs-up to Dr. Engle of East Valley Oral Surgery and his office staff. They have been absolutely awesome from the word go and managed a very frightened patient with total professionalism and genuine care.
ALSO EDIT: Cent wanted me to post this again. So I did. Because I do shit like that in exchange for hilarity like I witnessed today.
The trick is to keep Lynn and Acantha from getting too curious and following Dolly into the other room. Now would be the ideal time for Ceci to spring the M word and leave them too shocked to move, focusing all attention on her. I have a feeling Ceci already knows who the repair person is.
Would that pun have to do with a dragon/human hybrid saying "Mommy"?
Or, if "Mommy" is Dolly, would it be a dragon cyborg saying it?
What would the proper term for a dragon/android hybrid be? "Dragroid" sounds like a cross dresser on steroids, or painful skid marks (drag racing + hemorrhoids)
Well, whichever it is, I'm guessing your pun consisted of adding a space to "Dragonrider means 'Mommy'!!" As in "Dragon rider means 'Mommy'!!" (which would make for a very interesting ohana)
she is well aware she does not have the loyalty from Ceci she had. She knows that to Ceci right now she is a means to an end and she trusts her like she trusts Cent Comm, in other words about a far as she can throw the Rocky Mountains. Quite sure she is figuring out if she can safely reach the kill switch to shut Ceci down, possibly one reason she is trying to meet the repair Guru to obtain assistance.
Not necessarily. Right now, Ceci would be one of their only means of protection if things go horribly wrong. Letting Lynn open the door, frees up Cecl to make sure they aren't ambushed by a rogue repair bot, etc.
That brought to mind the image of 20 Cent-comm dolls stacking crates into a pyramid, then dancing a Rockettes style chorus-line as the door smashes them...
Except that TeeDee would get to the manual controls for the door while they were still stacking them, DLK. Then with a gleefully howl TeeDee would drop the door on the dolls. The crates would be collateral damage. :-D
I'm thinking TeeDee would enjoy it more if she caught them by surprise (again) Rose. Especially if CentComm was tied into them and got the feedback. :-D
Well, Cent might be able to squish storage units with a door, but Ceci could crush them between her knees! (Her design was modified from that of a standard pleasure model)
Always post someone on watch when in hostile territory. They are in hostile territory. The people Dolly trusts to keep watch (because of sufficient familiarity and military indoctrination) are herself and Ceci. There's nobody else to ask.
I thought that they would have moved on from that as well. In fact we have already moved on from that. It's normal now for things to be manufactured with a different strong password for each unit (at least for routers).
I hate to break it to you but routers come with the same default passwords. Having a manufacturer's backdoor now that's definitely a no-no. The real key is if the "Field" account is visible in the login credentials if it isn't then it's a major fail on the manufactures part.
Depends on the manufacturer. I used to work on a technical helpdesk supporting people with internet connection problems for an ISP. When they brought in the new system, if the customer needed to access the router we had lots of "fun" explaining how to callers how to find their default password, what the password standards were (because, before you could do anything you had to change the password when you first logged in) and then we would talk them through sorting out the problem they called us for in the first place.
Sadly, it's also truth-in-television; some major mainframes had that manufacturer-default login account active throughout their service life. I threw it in as an obscurely nerdy in-joke. :)
If changing than slowly.
Humans will always be humans and as such as lazy as they can get away with.
Also several politicans these days demand backdors for government access in security relevant systems. Now take a guess how hard these would be for the bad guys to figure out.
An Italian company manufacturing a trojan program for police and intelligence services to be used in investigations has been hacked and afterwards issued a warning that their program must not be used anymore. Because whoever hacked them would now be able to get access to any system the program has been and will be used on.
Yes, that means that the company is able to access any such systems as well, obviously.
Just do a Google search for the most commonly used passwords, and you'll find that 12345 near the top of the list. What beats it? It's 123456, of course!
The PW on a server that holds over a million medical records for an insurance company. My brother was the new IT/Admin and that was the FIRST thing he changed when he took over.
The worst one I can remember offhand is, "login," and, "password." No, no punctuation. The top few weakest passwords I'm familiar with (in no particular order) are, "fuck," "bullshit," "password," "no," and, "forget."
Lynn is going to flip out. Whether she flips out and goes to hug him... or flips out and tries to KILL him, I'm not sure HiFranc. I'm betting on the latter though. I mean, Lynn DID watch Kyle die (stupidly).
More like - Acantha: I wanted to do that!
CentComm: Get in line!
And like in Airplane, there is a line winding out of sight of those wanting to do Kyle in! (including one toe nibbler named, Sheela) :-D
Wow, good catch! My brain filtered the model number right out of the text because it being a webcomic about the future. Of course the 8250 only lasted until the early 90's. Communication protocols were changing quickly then, almost asvfast as Moore's Law for processor growth.
Didja know you could do file transfers over the old parallel ports too ? It was faster than floppies, but got beaten into oblivion by proper network cards.
That takes me back to my college days. 8085 and 68HC11 processors, 8250 and 8255 chips for I/O, EPROM programmer, 4x20 character LCD...
That was way before this generation of kids, spoiled with their Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. ;) I bet they've never programmed an EPROM manually, one byte at a time, setting the address and data lines with DIP switches.
(Ok. Fine. Raspberry Pis are fun. I'll probably get an Arduino, when I can scrape up enough loose change)
Ah, the back door. All these years into the future and they are still leaving back doors. ;)
I read a book over the break about this very thing going on in the 1980s and how East German spies were using them to hack into the military network. So this was a fun page to read.
Hell, I've used administrative back doors in the modern era to fix problems I wasn't technically supposed to be able to access. Moral of this story: if you don't want people to be able to get in: change the passwords to the back doors into things. It's usually a pain but also usually possible.
Is anyone else thinking that after all this Lynn won't want to be a pilot anymore? And maybe she'll want to sorta help her friend Acantha by becoming Aeneas new IT/Admin?
And Cent, I'm very glad you are no longer in severe pain.
Seriously ?
I have no idea what you're talking about, I'm guessing that Miss Direction is at play again.
*is fed a treat off-camera for not making a bad pun*
Or, if "Mommy" is Dolly, would it be a dragon cyborg saying it?
What would the proper term for a dragon/android hybrid be? "Dragroid" sounds like a cross dresser on steroids, or painful skid marks (drag racing + hemorrhoids)
Well, whichever it is, I'm guessing your pun consisted of adding a space to "Dragonrider means 'Mommy'!!" As in "Dragon rider means 'Mommy'!!" (which would make for a very interesting ohana)
*honk* *honk*
:D
If the backdoor is that big, why even have the lock? Letting CeCi in is looking more consistent with the security provisions, now. *shiver*
Very disturbing indeed...
Very important thing to do, y'know ?
(see comment above)
Stay in there, dammit! >:(
Humans will always be humans and as such as lazy as they can get away with.
Also several politicans these days demand backdors for government access in security relevant systems. Now take a guess how hard these would be for the bad guys to figure out.
Yes, that means that the company is able to access any such systems as well, obviously.
Unix:
Account: root
Pasword: password
VMS:
Account: SYSTEM
Password: MANAGER
Of course, this is done from memory so I may have misremembered that.
Password : 12345
It was real, on an actual mainframe, I kid you not.
dark helmetblack hat hackers try.Login: Open
Password: Sesame
The PW on a server that holds over a million medical records for an insurance company. My brother was the new IT/Admin and that was the FIRST thing he changed when he took over.
Lynn : Oh noes!
:D
CentComm: Get in line!
And like in Airplane, there is a line winding out of sight of those wanting to do Kyle in! (including one toe nibbler named, Sheela) :-D
Great to hear, Cent. I hope you are feeling better soon...
Didja know you could do file transfers over the old parallel ports too ? It was faster than floppies, but got beaten into oblivion by proper network cards.
If they disconnect Kyle from Aeneas, will Acantha get mad, and have them deported?
Will Lynn and Kyle interface their faces? Will they have a ceremony, where they vow to maintain interfacing exclusivity?
Will they get a room and mate their Male and Female I/O connectors, and use handshaking to simultaneously reach maximum baud rate?
Will Kyle send a burst transmission of DNA data? Will Lynn merge that data with her own, in a child process?
Or, will Dolly issue a priority interrupt, to block their connection?
Don't touch that modem! Log in next page, to see Data Chasers dial-up the heat!
That was way before this generation of kids, spoiled with their Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. ;) I bet they've never programmed an EPROM manually, one byte at a time, setting the address and data lines with DIP switches.
(Ok. Fine. Raspberry Pis are fun. I'll probably get an Arduino, when I can scrape up enough loose change)
Glad to hear your oral surgery went well. :D
Also, the password is always swordfish...
I read a book over the break about this very thing going on in the 1980s and how East German spies were using them to hack into the military network. So this was a fun page to read.
And Cent, I'm very glad you are no longer in severe pain.