[picard102]

I mean you could air gap them, but that's not really practical in these kinds of environments.
At my work the data is on infrastructure so old that only IT knows how to access it, and thus no one ever uses it. So I guess that's some kind of protection.

 

[turbanplanner]

Sadly having dealt with this sort of stuff in person, there are so many different ways they can get in. Ironically very old equipment is almost less of a risk according to the consultants I dealt with.

 

[allengeorge]

1. Someone in a position of authority or that you know
2. Urgency
3. Call to action

Three flags to watch out for. It can happen to us all. When in doubt, slow down and try reach out to (1) before taking action.

 

[allengeorge]

I mean you could air gap them, but that's not really practical in these kinds of environments.
At my work the data is on infrastructure so old that only IT knows how to access it, and thus no one ever uses it. So I guess that's some kind of protection.

Yeah - air-gapping would make a lots of people’s jobs ridiculously harder. If you were annoyed about slowdowns before, imagine what would happen if you could only access email on a separate computer, and had to transfer things explicitly to a production computer/system. It’d be nutso.

I suspect the best we can do is more automated flagging, and really drilling into people that if you get an urgent ask from someone unexpected…reach out to that person out-of-band and confirm. That’s why banks tell you that if you get a text from them, call the number on the back of your card, for example.

 

[turbanplanner]

Yeah - air-gapping would make a lots of people’s jobs ridiculously harder. If you were annoyed about slowdowns before, imagine what would happen if you could only access email on a separate computer, and had to transfer things explicitly to a production computer/system. It’d be nutso.

I suspect the best we can do is more automated flagging, and really drilling into people that if you get an urgent ask from someone unexpected…reach out to that person out-of-band and confirm. That’s why banks tell you that if you get a text from them, call the number on the back of your card, for example.

1. Someone in a position of authority or that you know
2. Urgency
3. Call to action

Three flags to watch out for. It can happen to us all. When in doubt, slow down and try reach out to (1) before taking action.

Doesn't even need to be an urgent ask, outside facing positions like accounting or receptionists, heck even HR if they publicly list their emails for application resumes can all have a legitimate way of receiving a payload

 

[nfitz]

Doesn't even need to be an urgent ask, outside facing positions like accounting or receptionists, heck even HR if they publicly list their emails for application resumes can all have a legitimate way of receiving a payload

After hours?

In the old days, you'd just phone someone at home. Now they make impossible.

 

[drum118]

Pedestrian dead after collision involving streetcar near Parkdale​

 

[Towered]

Pedestrian dead after collision involving streetcar near Parkdale​

Just how does one manage to get hit by a large, slow, lumbering, highly visible streetcar that travels on a predictable path??

 

[drum118]

Just how does one manage to get hit by a large, slow, lumbering, highly visible streetcar that travels on a predictable path??

Slow walker who doesn't look to see if it is safe to close the street and thinks streetcars can stop on a dime. Some of those slow, lumbering, highly visible streetcar that travels on a predictable path are speedster and unable to stop on that dime. Without knowing all the facts, its only guessing as to what took place for this to happen.

 

[CapitalSeven]

Don't forget that 10 and as many as 30% at times of folks on urban main streets these days are perceiving the world through a haze of very hard drugs, untreated mental illness, or both.

 

[T3G]

Can you provide a source for that, please?

I know that a drug problem is rampant, but suggesting 10-30% of the people you meet on the street are on hard drugs, mentally ill, or both, is a staggering allegation, and it certainly does not seem to reflect the reality as I see it.

 

[nfitz]

Don't forget that 10 and as many as 30% at times of folks on urban main streets these days are perceiving the world through a haze of very hard drugs, untreated mental illness, or both.

Which area of the city are you seeing that?

Perhaps pre-Covid outside a homeless shelter, when they used to kick everyone out in the morning - or when there used to be line-ups for methadone clinics; though I personally never witnessed a real problem at either of those locations.

 

[Towered]

Can you provide a source for that, please?

I know that a drug problem is rampant, but suggesting 10-30% of the people you meet on the street are on hard drugs, mentally ill, or both, is a staggering allegation, and it certainly does not seem to reflect the reality as I see it.

Perhaps he meant in the immediate area in which this accident occurred, in Parkdale, where those numbers might not be that far off

 

[picard102]

Perhaps he meant in the immediate area in which this accident occurred, in Parkdale, where those numbers might not be that far off

I'm sure they can provide a Parkdale specific source for that made up statistic then?

 

[drum118]

TTC overhead system or tracks had a fire last night at Queen and Spadina or it could have been the hydro lines
Source unknown