Posted on 05/11/2021 5:46:06 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
This is crazy. I stopped for gas just now having no idea what was happening. It’s out. People here told me they’d been to other stations and found the same. pic.twitter.com/7LDVdUXPo4
Conspiracy thought of the day, there was no overseas Hackett, this was internal by Biden and fauci to keep people home so they can claim that they stopped a second wave of the pandemic and make people dependent on government handouts because this shortage will slow the economy again and Biden will give money away to make himself look good
how will TX do in this situation? Just tanked up 2 cars with no problems in Houston.
“Where’s their nightly backup?”
That isn’t done anymore. High Availability techniques no longer need to rely on nightly backups but on real-time failovers.
“they simply had inadequate security against external penetration”
What I’m wondering is if human error is the primary cause of “external penetration”.
“However, I can’t ship to much east of the Mississippi. No trucks will go there because they are not sure they can get back.”
Excellent point.
1973 odd number license plate, every other day 5 dollar max. Sound familiar? Welcome to Carter Days.
Backups are ‘not done anymore’?
That sounds great for losing your business...
Anyone who stores everything ‘in the cloud’, without local physical backups, is an absolute moron.
“””I still see empty RR tanker cars on storage spurs.”””
That is true. However, here is why those empty RR tank cars will not help.
1. What product did the RR tank car last haul? It probably needs to be cleaned before it can be used to haul gasoline.
2. There are almost zero RR tank car loading facilities at the refineries to fill a RR tank car with gasoline.
3. There are almost zero RR tank car unloading facilities at the pipeline terminals to unload a RR tank car with gasoline.
Throughout the United States petroleum products are shipped from the refineries via pipelines, barges, and ships to the terminals where trucks are loaded and haul the product to a gasoline station.
“The rumors also say that Colonial didn’t have proper backups and didn’t begin to have proper redundancy for the control systems”
Maybe, more like their Access Control Policies allowed the ransomware on upstream computers to encrypt downstream files. That is nothing short of incompetence.
Respectfully - I’m well aware of the status quo regarding cyber security....think your connected car is secure? Would you like me to remotely activate your airbags? I more than get that every other feature gets the bulk of the development budget and security suffers due to it.
That said...”ransomware” is an easy excuse and the lack of urgency shown by this admin is absurd. If true - I’m more likely to believe it is our OWN government vs. some shady dark web team.
“Nobody wants to pay for preparation and nobody wants to hear about it.”
That’s the money statement right there. Product managers want more features and rarely think about the security ecosystem needed.
“At least there will be fewer poor people on the road”
LOL!
Pensacola been shut down by EPA for breaking some rules. Heard it this morning.
They have washers to clean out the insides of the tanker cars. It is no problem to build a platform to load the. All they need to have is the will.
“The timing of it is remarkable. Right when Covid is fading off and right before labor day. An excuse to raise prices?”
Naa, it’s not a conspiracy to raise prices...doesn’t happen, don’t get fooled by the Left.
In my opinion, it’s a combination of the FBI trying to hunt down all of the insurrectionists, rather than looking at our real threats, and basic complacency - probably would have also happened under Trump. Really no different than 9-11, when the FBI had more important things to do than hunt down Arabs who weren’t interested in learning how to land an airplane - only how to take off and fly it.
Backups are risky. Backups rarely work, are never current, and take time. Businesses lose millions per hour for downtime. Businesses need real-time failovers. Backups stopped being economically viable over 15 years ago. We now can afford failover systems instead.
I once spent three hours explaining to a Boomer company owner that his eight year old file server with a single drive was absolutely critical to his business, that without it, he didn’t *have* a business, and that he needed proper backup systems and plans in place. He refused to listen, said it wouldn’t ever be a problem and that they could just do business the old fashioned way if anything ever happened to it. He specifically refused to pay for any sort of backup system and ranted about how ‘you kids like to play it too safe, planning for failure is how you get failure, you’re just trying to pad your bill, blah blah blah.’
Three months later, I get a phone call one late afternoon. The server’s lone drive died and it turns out that no, you couldn’t run his business like it was 1975 any more. Funny that.
Fortunately, I had stuck an external hard drive on the server right after he had gone full idiot on me. So I actually could restore his data after I bought some new hard drives to replace the one that crashed. I made sure he paid out the arse for saving his business despite his idioting at me about backups.
I wish I could say that guy was unusual. Sadly, he’s not.
Not in my cyber security world. An interesting and funny character, but not a top-level expert.
I would like to see you try - I have a third gen Toyota 4Runner... And a 1987 Jaguar XJ6. Good luck doing anything remotely with those. :D Both do have upgrades to put them online and to add modern tech toys, but you’re going to have some problems getting outside the retrofits to the cars themselves.
Then this is a single point of failure! I deal with systems requiring safety certified code - it’s a basic requirement. Surely such a pipeline has functional safety - and respective security - requirements that would be mandated from a regulatory authority?
This isn’t Twitter...I know many businesses that do not rely purely on such techniques for this reason.
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