Always Guess Power
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- Terry wonders about why someone needs a VPN and we wander into web privacy using Privacy
“When you say ‘interesting’ you mean catastrophe”
“If You Have to Guess….Guess Power”
“Stand and Salute (the service of the 25 year UPS)”
TECH BATTLE PLANS
dDOS attack
Flooding a network or a server with so many bogus requests that actual traffic fails to connect.
Surge Suppressors
“Fuse boxes” for electronic equipment. Stop many small power spikes or one large spike from damaging equipment plugged into them
UPS
Uninterruptable Power Supply. Batteries that keep equipment power for a few minutes for orderly shutdown when the main AC power fails.
Double Conversion / Continuous
Duty/Online
A type of UPS that always powers equipment from the battery which is continuously charging.
VPN
Virtual Private Network a secure encrypted tunnel from your device to an exit location of your choosing. Good for public wifi and nosey Internet Service Providers (ISP)
TOR
The Onion Router a system that masks your location and identity by hopping around the internet before going to special private sites.
CNAME
Part of a websites Domain Name entry that is sometimes used as an alias and now abused to allow third party tracking even when it is blocked.
Fingerprinting
Using information about the browser settings and computer capabilities to identify a user.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets are a way of formatting web pages.
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May 18, 2021
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