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The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Post by spac »

rheophile wrote: post #153
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #112

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>he was tracking the movement data of the boss to avoid him whenever possible. Wow, imagine hating your boss so much you go to so much creative and illegal lengths (that can backfire against you) to track him, instead of using same skills legally to finding a better job. I just don't get, something doesn't feel right about this being the true reason. To me it looks more like he wanted a covert backdoor in the company…

what if this guy is just a hell of an introvert who is more comfortable rigging something like this up than with interacting with this boss. If this kid was in his early 20s I'd probably slap his wrist and impress on him the dangers of screwing with the company network closet. If he is an adult he really ought to know better

just came here to say that while I understand the sentiment, people in their 20s can vote, and should be considered adults, not kids.

Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Post by asteroidp »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #154
asteroidp wrote: post #117

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File that under "not this companies problem"

It is possible the perpetrator acquired some embarrassing evidence about the company owner and was blackmailed. We’ll never know.

In the extremely unlikely chance he did, so what? He can face legal issues then

Most private and embarrassing stuff rarely ever matters anyways. This isn't a movie

Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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geek_at wrote: post #3

Author of the article here. Since I first published this blog post I was getting messages from people asking how it ended. Sadly it's pretty anticlimactic as the owner of the place had a meeting with the guy who put the Pi there (without me as he didn't want the Pi-dropper to feel ambushed) and in the end decided not to escalate it to legal and just basically told him to pack his things and get out. So no legal after…

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Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Post by jaywalk »

ianai wrote: post #146
ianai wrote: post #143

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Can that (1) be done with windows/Mac clients?

Answering myself: yes, is industry standard, definitely a little odd to not have it configured on a corporate network past a handful of employees.

There's a decent amount of infrastructure involved in getting 802.1x authentication up and running in an efficient manner. While it does provide very good security, it's not widely used because of that.

Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Post by ianai »

jaywalk wrote: post #164
ianai wrote: post #146

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Answering myself: yes, is industry standard, definitely a little odd to not have it configured on a corporate network past a handful of employees.

There's a decent amount of infrastructure involved in getting 802.1x authentication up and running in an efficient manner. While it does provide very good security, it's not widely used because of that.

Any idea on a good, at-home or small network alternative?

Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Post by emteycz »

myself248 wrote: post #102
xwdv wrote: post #66

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“Gifted” individuals are selected at early ages to run through rigorous education programs that greatly push them ahead of their peers. It is a pipeline to create intellectual elites and captains of industry. Gifted kids are widely accepted as the most intelligent kids of a school and held up as the finest examples of the school’s educational abilities.

Wow, that's a warped description if I ever heard one. I always felt like "gifted" was a label given to kids who were out-of-place in a normal classroom, to justify having special education so they were less likely to disrupt class or kill themselves out of boredom.

Yours is the warped one. Gifted student programs are very common, and while they are sometimes used for what you say, it's not the designated purpose.

Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Post by nitrogen »

ianai wrote: post #166
jaywalk wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a decent amount of infrastructure involved in getting 802.1x authentication up and running in an efficient manner. While it does provide very good security, it's not widely used because of that.

Any idea on a good, at-home or small network alternative?

Having a list of allowed MAC addresses, enforced per-port by a managed switch (or at least by the DHCP server and router), is a first step, though naturally it's easy to spoof a MAC address.

Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Post by andygroundwater »

Was working with a NOC technician who was responsible (along with some others) for a pretty large EMEA mobile network, with many millions of subscribers. There was an RFP to update their SMS/MMS system and a certain Israeli company came in to do a site survey, or installation or something in the network data center.

Anyway the long and the short of it was one of their technicians was caught with the previous vendor's SMS-C prized open and some USB device insert into it. Similar response to this, a lot of hollering and hair pulling, but ultimately no contractual or legal implications.

I guess it happens higher up the food chain too.

Re: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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Post by ukyrgf »

myself248 wrote: post #102
xwdv wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Gifted” individuals are selected at early ages to run through rigorous education programs that greatly push them ahead of their peers. It is a pipeline to create intellectual elites and captains of industry. Gifted kids are widely accepted as the most intelligent kids of a school and held up as the finest examples of the school’s educational abilities.

Wow, that's a warped description if I ever heard one. I always felt like "gifted" was a label given to kids who were out-of-place in a normal classroom, to justify having special education so they were less likely to disrupt class or kill themselves out of boredom.

Hm, for me it meant I mostly stuck with the same student peer group throughout grade school, I think we got to skip some standardizes tests, and I was able to get a school bus to the bigger schools even though I was way out in the sticks. I had to go through an aptitude test and even though I was only like 7 I still remember sitting in the car after and being mad at myself for missing a question about "another word for water" being H20.
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