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On iPhones, three ways to get rid of the keychain data of an app
1. wipe the phone AND you must not restore backups
2. jailbreak the phone
3. the app can wipes its own keychain (but apps don’t expose this feature generally)
Based on my reading, Apple’s cut of non-IAP purchase only applies if you sign up for the new StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement, and the cut only applies for purchases through the Entitlement link.
American drivers disregard those electronic signals almost as readily as they disregard unlit signs, stop signs and red lights; especially in rural farmland regions such as Gilroy. (Less so when it’s due to a train track, more so when it’s due to impaired visibility.)
Red light cameras are a somewhat effective solution for attentive drivers, so long as their car has a license plate (which is also not reliably enforced in the US). However, the inherent flaws of the scissor intersection, and the risks posed by inattentive drivers, are only addressed by replacing the scissor intersection with something else.
I also see at least one car without a plate every day I drive in my metropolitan area. Perhaps other areas are more rigorous. But certainly there’s also Portland (Oregon) or Berkeley (California), where the police no longer allow it:
The only time I was stopped for a missing rear plate in my ~week of waiting for new car plates a couple years ago, was once by the state police. I imagine it’s because I had a new car and they were confused about how I ended up without plates, which was definitely an unusual scenario.
I’ve seen two cars driving without plates within 5 miles of my house just this week.
Do you see police officers every single time you drive anywhere (or walk, bike, bus, whatever)? I know I don’t. And even if you do see one, they might have multiple reasons they’ll cite for why they didn’t stop X vehicle for Y infraction.
There are some really terrible UI choices in SwOS, like not labeling rows of checkboxes so users need to hover over each one with their mouse to see a tooltip.
Send them a bug report, they'll likely fix it. I'm not joking, they're not using Webfig often, so sometimes they can overlook these kinds of minor issues.
I have a mikrotik https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac3 that I bought as a sort of test and it's been working fine for my needs. the webUI isn't the best, but wiki docs were pretty straightforward and I've been decently happy.
There's a learning curve indeed, but it's also essentially just a thin wrapper around nftables (read iptables) so you learn about Linux networking by using them
I've been using unix and linux since the 90's and linux full-time on every system of mine, and Tik's still seemed entirely counterintuitive to me. I'd rather just deal with iptables and linux directly without the wonky cli.
Anyone using Mikrotik these days? Been Mikro-curious for awhile and always see them thrown around as a Unifi alternative. Yet to hear of any firsthand implementations though.
As a network engineer, I've considered them for my house, the price is right, but:
1) Their main push seems to use a thick client for admin which is a big no to me, otherwise the web ui in theory looks ok-ish.
2) Looking at their cli guide, it was cryptic as hell to me, and I deal with everything from cisco, arista, aruba, juniper, fortinet, pan, whatever from a cli or gui.
This was mostly confirmed a few weeks back, another old network engineer friend of mine hit me up asking if I've ever dealt with Mikrotik, and said no, but I knew where he was going. He'd screwed with it for a day or so supposedly just trying to make some L3 vlans, and finally a day or so later told me he'd made it work, but has never dealt with anything so terrible to configure from either gui or cli after having tried both, and he's another 20yr+ network engineer like me I trust not to be stupid.
That was all I needed to hear for future consideration.
Mikrotik has had WinBox for as long as they've been around and there's a lot of inertia around using it, but WebFig and the CLI are the only things I use (though I do have The Dude running through Crossover because it's useful).
Where you run into problems with 'tik gear is the differences that L3HW acceleration introduced into the mix. They didn't do what every other switch vendor does and limit features to what the switch chip supports and hide everything that the CPU can't handle away, so you have multiple ways of approaching most issues which threw me for a look as somebody who had been running JunOS gear in his lab for a while.
Once you get a feel for it then it's pretty straightforward to work with everything, though somebody used to an older generation of NOS like classic IOS (and associated clones) would have an easier time than me.
For sure, VLAN config is one of the most extremely "How and why did anyone end up designing it this way?" thought-inducing areas of Mikrotik config.
But I will say that the boxes of theirs that I bought about ten years ago are still going strong, never had a device fail on me, still receiving OS updates, still able to export and re-import my config to any of a wide variety of newer devices when the time comes.
Clearly they're not the right choice for everybody, but there are certainly up sides, if you're willing to grapple with the config.
Hmm, that looks like it must be centrally managed from the internet? Not saying it's not an appropriate replacement for Ubiquiti, but that seems like an opportunity for the same issues to show up… something that isn't remotely managed might be better instead.
I think the "InstantOn" functionality requires internet for setting up, but it seems like there is a way to manage it locally without the use of the "InstantOn" functionality:
Thanks! So it sounds like it may work, but it's very unclear it'll keep working. (Also I happened to be more personally interested in the APs rather than switches, and it's unclear if that also has a local management mode.)
I notice that the linked docs article doesn't get listed if you go up the breadcrumb and try to go back down…
Not sure if they sell it outside of EU, but Keenetic is absolutely awesome. Been using their routers for a while, have a wifi mesh configured in my home built on their devices.
China deploys plausibly deniable backdoors into internationally shipped network devices. Bugs that are remotely exploitable if you know they exist, but not obvious enough that they provide justification for the devices to be banned from import. These consumer devices are not exploited for intelligence gathering, but rather deployed as proxies that fall into one of two common buckets: acting as SOCKS proxies to relay attacks, and allowing a remote operator to scan for nearby wireless networks and bridge into them.
The NDAA blacklist was a happy compromise by the US government of banning the most egregious vendors that might find their way into sensitive facilities (Huawei, Hikvision, etc) while letting consumer focused brands that do the same (TPLink, Jetstream, Wavlink, etc) slip by so it didn't appear at face value to be a blockade of all Chinese made networking gear.
Taiwan on the other hand is less concerned about how China perceives their relations and bans all these vendors. They also ban Zoom.
First, [citation needed] w.r.r tplink and other consumer grade routers 'getting off easy'
Second, you seem knowledgeable about concerns w.r.t some supply chain attacks, at least from foreign actors, so do you have an alternative suggestion that isn't impacted by such concerns?
Ubiquiti is a non starter imo given their recent posture
"We are unsure how the attackers managed to infect the router devices with their malicious implant. It is likely that they gained access to these devices by either scanning them for known vulnerabilities or targeting devices that used default or weak and easily guessable passwords for authentication"
This implies the opposite of "the CCP has a backdoor to every device". Vulnerable devices from all manufacturers get exploited like this all the time.
I use TP link access points with my own cloud controller (running in docker container on my LAN) and a separate wired router. I don’t think there’s any concern with access points “phoning home” in this configuration.
I've had pretty bad luck with TPLink APs temporarily dropping connections and being just generally unstable. Even when you can put OpenWRT on them the hardware is just kinda buggy.
I think OP means the Omada EAP's, which are dedicated access points and not the routers. I have 2 EAP225's that have been better than the Ubiquiti it replaced.
Draytek routers are not perfect, the UI lacks polish, but I have never had one fail on me yet. Solid kit (even though you do need to keep up with the firmware updates to keep them secure)
Since 9/11, one cannot apply for a US visa if they’re in US. In the context of US immigration, “visa” grants entry, “status” grants stay. If you’re in US, and need to change “status” to a different category (business/leisure, student, etc), you have two primary choices: (1) apply for “change of status” in US, or (2) leave US, apply for a new “visa” in the new category, and enter US using that new “visa”.
Thank you! Many people comment without realizing this.
Your entry into the states (visa) and your stay (status) in the states are two completely different things. When you enter with a visa, the CBP officer note your status and its validity date on your I-94.
All a visa does is afford you the opportunity to present yourself at the port of entry and request to enter, it bears no guarantee nor right to enter.
A dental hygienist (those people who do maintenance cleaning at dentist’s offices) told me that saliva quality is key to cavity and periodontal health. The ability of keep all teeth moist prevents plaque/tartar build up. I don’t know how true that is, but this at least provide an alternative hypothesis to the two that you listed.
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