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    Not a naive question - you can reinstalled a known, good firmware but you have no idea what other areas on the hardware they may have left a backdoor. They could have installed a firmware that reflashed a chip that normally doesn’t get modified during a normal update. Reflashing the network gear to a known good will fix part of the problem but not the secondary chip they also reflashed/hacked. The reality is they probably didn’t do that but you can’t be certain & because these are classified networks, you have to assume they left a backdoor. So out comes all the network hardware. And they may even have to replace server hardware since they could have also gotten the credentials to manage the server firmware.
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    Actually- there is serious talk that if you got breached, you may also have to replace all your networking hardware. I believe the Solarwinds install required admin privileges to the networking gear (and if not required, a lot of admins gave it to them). With that access, you could install your own customized firmware. At this point, the hardware can’t be trusted & you have to pull it out & replace. I believe the majority of government agencies will go this route, if not also large enterprises that were known victims. As for Solarwinds, there was already talk pre-attack they were going to split up into two different companies. My guess is that this split is expedited, the spin-off gets all the good people and money while “Solarwinds” eventually gets shuttered.
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    A few comments on this impending train wreck: A challenger seems to always have an advantage in a runoff, especially since their supporters are more likely to to make the effort to come out & vote. Just look at Cruz defeating Dewhurst. Once she made the runoff, she had a very real chance of winning. No one should be surprised about the Statesman’s shitty reporting. Armybrat might be the only one here who can remember when they last had any journalistic ability. I think she is an awful candidate & will likely do more harm than good for District 6 & Austin but she is a direct result of the Austin City council’s kumbaya, tone-deaf policies. For decent a summary of her past internet history, including her Shaggy posts, a reddit poster linked to the following blog archive (may have been posted in this thread earlier): https://archive.is/ivW52 2020 - the gift that just keeps on giving.
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    Her new campaign song:
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    Looks like chocolates?
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    Video of the collapse:
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    Here is an aerial picture of the telescope: More pictures here: https://www.noticel.com/galeria/20201201/imagenes-aereas-exclusivas-del-colapso-del-observatorio-de-arecibo/
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    I'm sure this is not related at all: https://kvia.com/news/crime/2020/11/14/several-people-believed-shot-as-gunfire-rings-out-in-central-el-paso/
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    Nate Paul getting a write up in the Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/07/nate-paul-ken-paxton/
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    Here is the official site on Google 2GB: https://fiber.google.com/2gig/
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    In case you missed it them moving the van from Rush to Judas Priest:
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    Heads up - Mars Perseverance launches aboard a ULA Atlas V tomorrow morning from Cape Canaveral at 6:50am CDT: https://www.space.com/mars-2020-perseverance-rover-how-to-watch-webcasts.html This is the Mars helicopter drone mission.
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    I got the MLB refund email around 11am CDT this morning.
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    This should get interesting: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/Judge-orders-Baylor-to-turn-over-Pepper-Hamilton-15311670.php
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    Take a look at https://www.tractorhouse.com/ - you can post your tractor for sale. Then if needed, the buyer can use https://www.uship.com/ to have it picked up.
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    And the first stage landing:
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    Tour of the capsule:
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    It is very common for the live video feed to cut out when the first stage lands on the ship due to interference. SpaceX usually releases the video of the complete landing later on. Doesn’t take away from the crappy network broadcasts. I should have watched the NASA/SpaceX stream.
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    From Glavin’s POV from when he was a player’s rep for the union the during the last strike: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29198196/tom-glavine-players-risk-taking-blame-baseball-season-called-off
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    Best picture yet:

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