Let's try and get 1,000,000 replies to this post

Mostly the TFF video/song, aside from that, not too much. n00b flood. I was able to redirect it to Madness, which should stem the tide.
There's a girl at work who's first name is Tesla. She was named after the rock band, not the guy who invented AC/DC. The electricity type, not the rock band.
 
LooseCannon said:
I was able to redirect it to Madness, which should stem the tide.
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Yes, I noticed that.  Over 20 members and over 60 guests viewing the TFF wait thread?  Is it always like that nowadays?
 
Yeah, and they were just cranking up their post count. I think someone is over there feeding them the piss on a leak now.
 
LooseCannon said:
There's a girl at work who's first name is Tesla. She was named after the rock band, not the guy who invented AC/DC. The electricity type, not the rock band.
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That is AWESOME, so many references possible it almost made my head explode. It hasn't helped that the history channel has been showing the Tesla bio over and over. Sad that he went mad towards the end there, but his Death Ray idea lives on! Not to mention electricity and the Tesla coil... and the bands Tesla and AC/DC...
 
Hey guys...I've got my hands on Satellite 15.

And yep! I started making the jokes but she didn't get it. That made me sad.
 
Dammit, that horrible limbo that is "ok." So it is tolerable with slight annoyance... Glad we straightened that out, now I can sleep soundly tonight.
 
Always happy to prevail.

PS, did you hear that it hits today? That thing we've been waiting for?

The Kovalchuk Decision
 
Zare said:
You cannot install something on somebody's computer just like that.
The way that Bomgar does it (and so does enterprise version of Ultra/RealVNC) - it uses domain administration credentials to initiate a remote installation via Windows Installer service. Of course, the target system must be a domain member, therefore it's enslaved by domain controller.

Again - someone typed that admin credentials in. Therefore, i see no security issue there. We use a similar product called VNCon. I just enter the computer name / IP address on the domain, and it installs VNC server on that computer + initiates session. I've read a wiki entry on Bomgar, it seems that they've based whole product around centralized administration - the client part is probably just an executable that serves as event/graphics server. Which is nice.
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I may not be making my point clear here, sorry. What the security risk I am referring to is not the actual installation of the product (for reasons you gave, there is no real issue - I mean, I can't Bomgar to any PC I want, it has to be on our LAN). What the problem is is that it will install it, initiated by me, without the end user's knowledge and they can't stop it. From that, I can jump on to their desktop and view their screen without their consent. Yes, I can be immediately kicked off, but what confidential document/email were they looking at when I jumped on. For example, our company now does payslips on-line. Anyone in our offices and shops (I work for a retail company) can log on to the site and view their payslip. What if my boss was doing this, I jumped on and - "Does he really get paid that much?"

We only use Bomgar whilst supporting them at the time, but I have in the past jumped on to a PC that I did not intend to jump on to. I was given the wrong machine name.

The tool we used previously (Remote Assistance, I think it was called) prompted the user to allow us to view their screen. If they did not allow it, we could not see it.
 
LooseCannon said:
Always happy to prevail.

PS, did you hear that it hits today? That thing we've been waiting for?

The Kovalchuk Decision
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yeah, been refreshing the site just to see if the headlines change.
 
I pity the man to have to moderate the "The Official Waiting For The Final Frontier And I'm About To Pop My Clogs Thread" topic. That has gone plain mental.
 
Albie said:
I pity the man to have to moderate the "The Official Waiting For The Final Frontier And I'm About To Pop My Clogs Thread" topic. That has gone plain mental.
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I told him almost the same thing 5 minutes ago...
 
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