Well, you'd better hope some small phone shop employee doesn't decide to transfer your SIM to someone for a cut, or your SIM isn't talked into being transferred through social engineering by a hacker via your mobile network provider helpline, and other 2FA tricks. Deffo read articles at The Reg regularly, well worth it. And Krebs On Security - he has a mare trying to find anyone to host his site, because he's such a hated figure among hackers they're always attacking it.
Aren't you better off backing that onto ROMs or tape and keeping it in a safe place? Ransomware can't encrypt your ROM backups, or airgapped tape backups. Or back up fast onto at least two multi-TB removable hard disks, archive later onto other media. Backup and verify. But each to their own.
no, there is no need to burn more electricity with duplication. I like MS stuff, it's well organised and efficient. Take the shadow copy service in windows. It's been in use since 2000 and still not many cases of virus attack. Before, it was a chore to back up open files and retrieve previous versions.
That chore is your best and most energy defence against viruses and ransomware etc. - entities of all types don't like it because time costs money, but IMHO it's better than this newfangled and overhyped Swiss-cheesed energy hungry cloud replicated business. You could power your backup process using solar panels?
That'll be tricky if it's running an old Windows server OS, good software firewalls will not install anymore, and if you find an old version, it likely won't be secure and almost certainly not updated. You could use network firewall hardware. Perhaps you should do what the Microsoft/Intel/AMD hegemony want, and buy all new hardware and software? Write it off against tax?
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the backup is a VM, so not much of an overhead in electricity other than the small 3W-5W that my 2.5" Seagate SSHD that I use for backup consumes. The drive is seen by the host PC as offline so unless it is hit by a virus specifically crafted for it, it will be safe. You can configure the VM virtual switch to map the subnet anyway you like so other computers on the network can't normally see your VM, even the host machine. If you want further security, you can always isolate the host PC and don't use it for anything else.
Even if your VM isn't detectable using port scans etc. I'd pop it into a hidden encrypted container file on a removable drive, which you can mount as an apparent hard drive, to load your VM as needed: ransomware encryption somewhat thwarted. But I'm extremely paranoid when it comes to computers. In fact, I wouldn't have even mentioned that I was running Windows Server 2003 on any network I owned, not on an open thread available to view by the entire internet. Some agent of chaos moonlighting as an admin somewhere along the line could trace your ip address back. I'll delete this post, if you delete the post where you mention Windows Server 2003. You should hire a penetration tester sometime, trouble is if you choose the wrong one you'll be besieged by black hats.
I am not paranoid but careful. You can overcomplicate things. I have known cases where someone has protected his laptop with bitlocker and the hdd died. The data recovery company admitted defeat because the decryption key is missing from his MS account. I don't think win2003 does the job of backing up any worse than more recent versions. I have MSDN subscription until a few years ago so have licenses for most of MS stuff.
Yep, that's a nightmare, I'd use containers using Veracrypt or something similar, plus keep an encrypted regular backup process in place for the VM. I'm glad in not in the business of securing networks and PCs these days.
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I've been planning to use my old Canon 650D as an action camera with a F1.4 lens in very low light, temporarily, just to see how it performs in comparison - F1.4 is magic in very low light. I've got all the camera attachments for the bike (or me: body or helmet), but it'd have to be a very smooth road regardless.
I'll buy three for a tenner in 10 years
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I thought the BBC showed some early pictures from the JWST. The rendering is artificial because they are not in the visible spectrum but just for comparison, the images are a lot clearer for obvious reasons.This is about computers and stuff... in spaaaaace. Can't wait for the pics.
James Webb Space Telescope damaged by meteoroid
Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried
By then clouds will have coalesced as dreams, which you can buy in chunks using pennies.it all goes in the bin and bet the new ones will cost 55k buy then
I haven't followed the James Webb too closely, it'll be calculated/false colour. Astronomy is fun, but I wouldn't buy a telescope when I can rent and use one online. And it's all a massive subject.
