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I mean, they might grab something that looks like a PC. But my physical security is only secondarily about burglary, the primary concern and reason for the backups is actually fire. And, well, it's on a rack because all of my equipment is on racks. :)

Mine is in a rack with only servers and storage, unlabeled, and headless, so good figuring out which it is, or uncabling it all to move it, a machete doesn't go through SAS interconnect wires. And it's screwed down and the removal tool isn't near it. Should that fail, by the time they're at...

I've actually shot the Sigma Art side by side with the new basic Nikkors, and the Nikkors wipe the floor with Sigma Art in performance. It's been a common theme of late, Nikon moved to a mount that's gigantic and close to the sensor and they're putting out really high quality lenses (they are a...

I mean, they're both fine? Also you're leaving out the Z7 II or Z8 that are in the same market space. The Sony has about a 15% increase in linear resolution above the Canon or Nikon, but in reality you're not going to resolve without jumping through some hoops to get really good glass on it...

Forums with easy sign-ups are used as bot training grounds nowadays. Once they're released into the wild they game the algorithms and generate traffic, to undermine an adversary. Information warfare at its finest...

Motorola has a whole document on it, and while with RF and coax you want an independent ground, tie to your main ground (just grab the nearest ground pin). The surge protection on twisted pair primarily protects the switch, not the cameras - so long as the camera itself isn't grounded, it...

Nah, you're thinking Juniper!:rofl:

That device is rated for 75C/167F continuous, if your attic is that hot continuously you have bigger problems. And of course you don't find many customer reviews, it's not a consumer device! You can check the whole lineup at Amazon though, they all work fine and are basically the same...

Such switches exist and they're not even very expensive. Example link, but the same company sells 24 different models that will work in an attic: 8-Port Industrial Gigabit PoE+ Wall-Mounted Front Access Switch - Front Access Switch - TRENDnet TI-PG80F And depending on your climate and PoE...

It's an 8.9, not great not terrible - basic scope is full compromise of the camera using HTTP commands. If you have your NVR (BI or otherwise) without a firewall between it and the cameras but no access beyond the NVR (and assuming your NVR is up to date), you should patch soon-ish but it's not...

For a bit of clarity, there was a tracking device, and the Marine ejected because a bunch of avionics were acting up - including, apparently, the transponder and tracking bits that are up in/around the cockpit. After that, it appears the jet did what it says on the label ... did stealth things...

I found Blue Iris to be far cheaper than a dedicated NVR. Partially I have a fair amount of cameras, so being able to use its advanced features to cut down on storage and power needs was a good thing. Nowadays you don't even need a full power CPU, tiny 10W models with a $250 Pentium tiny...

You don't have to, the computer just has to flag it as suspicious for a human to look at it, and they can recognize it as electrical tape and the shape underneath it. Edit: I should mention that there's a huge chasm between the performance of a typical LPR camera, and an ILC set for trap focus...

It means 160W real power or 250W apparent power (apparent power = real power + reactive power) - if actually wiring a fire siren or similar system to run though the NVR this sort of spread between apparent and real power is pretty normal. Realistically though, you should wire it to a relay that...

This only works at the older gates, modern gates are using effectively a DSLR in a housing with a proper flashgun - they get you every time.

And all of the adapter options also cost money. That said, decent cable also costs money, though not as much. Depending on the room layout, I've done some weird runs to get things where I want them before. One trick that's cheap is to get a trim puller and route a small channel behind the...

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, but do you have antenna or cable TV coax running through the walls? If so, use MoCA instead of anything powerline - they use the coax already in your house and are substantially more performant than anything powerline. To add even more performance...

I've found there are some cameras that do H.265 well, Axis P and Q series for instance, but it requires significantly more processing power and software development on the camera itself. If your storage requirements are years, you can see how even a 10% improvement makes spending double or...

The best NIC to get is an i350 based server pull, if you can manage it. I perfer the HPE ones myself. eBay is flooded with the things, but virtually everything on Amazon that says i350 is a fake.

I mean, I had a couple that I had to recycle recently that were Intel that weren't Win10 compatible. They do indeed exist, they just have to be really old. :)

BitLocker has been enabled out of the box on all Win10 Home devices since 2016 or so, once you're connected to a Microsoft account. It's generally a good thing for most consumers, and the key is backed up. iOS and Android have done the same thing for even longer, but while Windows has a...

For a Windows Home edition, the OEM really doesn't pay much if anything anymore. They do pay for Pro, and if you have a VLSC-level agreement with MSFT you also pay a significant amount over time.

My favorite method is to use an unattend.xml or otherwise automate setup. As much as I don't like it, the vast majority of users should use a Microsoft account as the logon on their primary system. The security is much better, aside from AAD that underpins it being more secure than almost...

Oh definitely. Lightning is no joke! You'll notice though that the fried devices you mentioned were all externally powered and not line powered, so there was a path to ground through the device (even if only the neutral wire). It's why when you lightning protect PoE Ethernet devices you're...

Not oddball, just old school. I use a lot of RS-485 in my alarm panel as well - refuses to die. :)

Nothing proprietary, it's certificate authenticated HTTPs with full symmetric keying using a TPM-like device. As such, it's as secure as a VPN using the TPM in your device, and more secure than almost all traditional VPNs. With no payment processing and almost no surface area, their back-end...

The ZW is Z-Wave local control (bring your own controller), the WF is Wi-Fi cloud control (App). Resideo was a spin-off of Honeywell residential products into their own company so the main company can concentrate on things like turbines for the M1 Tank.

That's not just correct of Ecobee, but of Nest, Resideo, and all of the other easily obtained residential thermostats; they use a token/certificate based modern auth and open a stateful connection to a cloud service for remote management, and have zero local control and zero ports to open. This...

Just responding to this part: yes, 100%, unless your single box is overpowered. HA runs in a Hyper-V VM just fine, so that part would be easy enough, but BI can spike the CPU for certain operations, and that leads to issues with HA, which is surprisingly CPU and memory hungry for what it does...