Category: Security

Bernard Lambert Moves To Bluesky

capitulation to the narcissist sickens the spirit

Follow on @bernardlambert.bsky.social. I left twitter(muskX) and facebook. I thought truthsocial was not truthful and was antisocial.

Financing elections with billions in order to influence outcomes and the capitulation to the narcissist sickens the society. The three despot organizations will make billions while the foundling neophyte chief executive squanders our nations credibility and allegiances the world over.

The Lunatic Is At Large!

On the first day of the latest presidential run the idiot tried to force his will on the government and the American people by withholding the check…an old method he used for decades in his failed businesses. This has forced millions of people into uncertain futures as the legal fight is on…..again a tactic the “one-man-show” tyrant has used for decades.

The concept of a large organization with well thought out means is foreign to the guy because he can only scope the work responsibilities with a one man perspective. Thus the legislature allocating funding is not his fund to tamper with. The followers/enablers of this are even pushing to control the payment system the government uses.

We have been suffering under DJ’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder even more lately. An artist named Seigreid Woldhek produced this succinct work.

Vote in November

The loser from the 2020 election wants back in to the Oval Office. Fellow insurrectionists and anarchists along with that loser are backing the prospect with layered lies, redirects of your attention from real facts, and sham trials. The Republican party is no longer representing their constituents, but are instead bullying contestants, defaming any opposing party or parties, refusing to abide by the constitution or their oath of office, and a general malaise when it comes to cooperating with anyone. Nothing has been accomplished by them for decades now.

These are not politicians willing to represent you as a citizen. These are racists, pedantic conservatives, and often religious zealots who cite scripture improperly to support their agendas. Please do not fold under the pressure they bring. They will try to get you to NOT vote by convincing you your vote does not or can not matter.

Please do not give in to this.

The Takeout on CBS with Major Garrett

The finding is that because the social media linking of these activities follows the clicking through these sites to generate ad income, the more activity (read clicking through) the more the message gets out…however false and misleading.

There was a very interesting show today with the guest Dan Patterson. He works with Major and CBS doing Fact Checking in a big way. He came by it as a technical guy given the job of hunting where all the misinformation and disinformation is coming from…you guessed it; the Internet! Here’s the link to the show:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/dan-patterson-on-the-takeout-12312021/

On Twitter he is @MajorCBS. See also: @TakeoutPodcast @TheDebriefCBS

The radio/podcast/streaming show comes on at 5PM Eastern Fridays and is repeated any time from CBS or CBSNEWS streams.

Dan Patterson is a CBS News Technologies reporter. On Twitter he is @DanPatterson. He also has written for many many technical, financial, and industry publications.

Today’s show on Disinformation was special as the guys got to drill down into finding from where these outright lies emanate. Dan has gone down all these rabbit holes to follow the “do your own research” links planted in these abundant social media websites.

The finding is that because the social media linking of these activities follows the clicking through these sites to generate ad income, the more activity (read clicking through) the more the message gets out…however false and misleading.

Concurrently there is a disincentive for the website selling the ad click-throughs; more clicks make more money. More controversy or “facts-that-fit-your-mindset” make more clicks. The participants in the media site are followed and recruited by the media peddler while the back end income from clicks is really what the site is peddling.

Pick a topic such as voting fraud and run it into the ground while raising money for yourself and your personal agendas. That’s been done to the point of Insurrection at the Capitol.

Technologists must realize as enablers of the modern tech that they also may bear some social responsibility as well. Good moral judgment must go into all vocation and professional pursuit.

Tech responsibly! Bernard Lambert – January 9, 2022 – @systemwrights

Troubleshooting Remote Syslog and Forwarding

https://systemwrights.org/wordpress/?p=444 Troubleshooting Remote Syslog and Forwarding

Sequence of checkouts that help troubleshoot log forwarding…..

Know the network addresses of the source and destinations. Ping them or traceroute them.

On Each System Do The Following:

Run netstat -tulpn | grep 514 <- insert the port you expect to see here

Run ps ax | grep syslog
or
Run ps ax | grep rsyslog

In either case you should see your syslog is running. Either listening or sending.

IF NOT:

On each system check /etc/rsyslog.conf and any includes found in the /etc/rsyslog.d/ subdirectory. They must include any mod load information so the ports are opened up UDP/TCP or socket. Try this command
rsyslog -d
to get a debug from the syslog daemon. It will show what worked and what did not. The port number and addresses of the source and destination systems should be double checked in these respective system’s configs. TCP port, UDP port, UNIX Socket, config numbers have to match up at both ends.

After Any Reconfiguration:

Hopefully one-at-a-time type changes are made and tests run to see the success of that try. Remember that services need restarted after any change so that it can be picked up and included in the application.

MY FAVORITE GOTCHA TODAY:
In the forward statement

*.*:@[ip|host] sends UDP

and

*.*:@@[ip|host] sends TCP.