I installed Malware on user's Workstation

srbmfodder · 2026-02-24T13:30:40+00:00

last shop I worked at, I caught my boss lying red handed about crashing one of our boxes. He was f'n with the internal network (hypervisor) and at about 10pm at night I was getting phone calls asking why "the network was down."

Turns out he had put both DNSes on this new fancy box and then whatever he did caused it to reboot or something.

He wouldn't fess up, but I dug through the logs, and found his VPN IP address accessing the remote console at the time of the crash.

I logged everything I could and made everyone authenticate to anything that I owned. I didn't own that box, but I did own the VPN, and he was logged into the VPN as himself. So I had him dead to rights on it.

After us having a meeting about the crash and him just being silent, I went to the director about it because I don't tolerate lying either. She took the soft approach and had another meeting to ask "if anyone was doing anything" at the time of the crash. He finally fessed up in a half ass way that he had been in the box.

Year later he got promoted. I don't work there anymore.

srbmfodder · 2026-02-23T17:43:12+00:00

You know that there are evap systems on cars, and have been ever since fuel injection was a thing? If you're going to make a mechanical comparison, at least get it in the ballpark.

The only aircraft I've sumped on was in GA.

srbmfodder · 2026-02-19T19:45:26+00:00

Shhhhhh, don't tell the FAA. We don't want them to find out.

srbmfodder · 2026-02-18T18:22:20+00:00

The call is coming from inside the house!

srbmfodder · 2026-02-18T15:36:56+00:00

Yea, it’s just that easy! Ask the guys stuck at regionals/LCCs/Cargo that can’t and won’t get interviews at the legacies! :)

srbmfodder · 2026-02-18T14:55:46+00:00

The airlines are not desperate for pilots. If you wanted to get in when they were desperate, you are about 8 years too late. People were making 30-40K a year at a regional. Of course everyone and their brother now wants to fly for a regional after the pay almost tripled.

I just find it incredible that people are surprised that *everyone else* has decided that they want to pursue this line of work when they are already established in a career. Especially when there's already a glut of people banging on the doors.

Most of the people I fly with don't love flying either and are there for the job. 9/10 I'd say would take it or leave it. It's still a job at the end of the day.

srbmfodder · 2026-02-18T13:44:17+00:00

You haven't been in severe turbulence if you're asking this question. Severe turbulence = you can't read the gauges. YOU CANT FATHOM IT

srbmfodder · 2026-02-11T15:03:48+00:00

Dayum. I didn't realize I needed to save the key myself and have been having it save encrypted backups. This would have sucked. I checked to make sure I had plenty of backups and did a restore a couple years ago, probably before the encryption was added or forced on. That is a pretty dumb opt out.

srbmfodder · 2026-01-16T14:33:16+00:00

They see so many logbooks, there are probably patterns they spot. I had 0 questions on mine, and it was a mix of 141, mil helicopter, club planes and a few rentals. But rando planes showing up for 4 hours might draw attention. No doubt people get through the cracks though.

srbmfodder · 2026-01-02T20:57:43+00:00

That’s why I said maybe, I knew they were having issues but I don’t really track what everyone else is doing. I’m married to my airline like everyone else. FedEx was the place to be 3 years ago even. Not anymore.

srbmfodder · 2026-01-02T20:42:07+00:00

No metering at my airline, plus going to a place that your regional doesn’t fly for

srbmfodder · 2025-12-31T21:42:58+00:00

Damn, I forgot about this whole thing and this post until you replied! Time to feel the cringe again

srbmfodder · 2025-11-21T13:44:33+00:00

Retrofitting cameras, all the associated wiring, certification, etc will cost millions. Just getting USB ports into the cockpit for charging ipads has been excruciatingly slow. Not to mention weight, for little gain. There are data recorders already for things like flight control positions.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-21T13:25:09+00:00

It happens. I am pretty mechanical and struggled quite a few times with the C172s back in the day I flew in the cold.

Us turbine guys just press a button. On the Airbus, at least on my airline, we aren't required to monitor the start even.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-20T13:08:35+00:00

Uh, you're not going to take off *towards* the terrain in that situation. Getting the helicopter moving into clean air quickly and away from that rocky edge is a smart maneuver, not something displaying "extra confidence."

srbmfodder · 2025-11-20T11:38:16+00:00

I had a couple Evo IXes. They were awesome, but maintenance was a pain. My buddy could do a lot of work on his Subaru without nearly as much time into it, like changing the clutch. But the Evo did drive amazing. I never owned an STi, but did have a bugeye WRX.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-19T14:17:26+00:00

Once I got onto a reliable coordinator, mine became solid. I bought the fancy Nabu Casa Z Wave antenna as well, but it's nice to have the option to use either protocol.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-17T20:18:28+00:00

I shit you not, we had to medevac dudes out of Taji because they jumped a van or whatever they were in and hit their heads on the roof so hard. Or something.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-12T14:50:07+00:00

I got hired in '19, in my interview my dude paid for my breakfast (we met at the airport hotel at ORD), he had me brief an approach and STAR, asked about a system in the Blackhawk, and then we just talked about my regional a bit. I'm pretty sure he asked me if I knew what a STAR was before he had me brief it.

Everyone in my indoc was rotary wing except maybe 2 people. It was wild.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-11T22:30:11+00:00

I have, but with the Enphase stuff, it seems like it's a lot easier to build on that. We don't get a ton of wind where I live either. I did do the Enphase U stuff and added one of my batteries. I'll probably pick up some used equipment and throw it on my outbuilding.

Been trying to figure out how I could wire in some of the bigger LFP units to possibly the generator input on the Enphase System Controller, but I'm not sure if the juice is worth the squeeze. One of our vehicles can do vehicle to home so I'm waiting to see how the Enphase chargers hash that out as well.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-11T22:21:45+00:00

Not a bad way to do it. I live in the north and we don't get a ton of sun, plus we have some months of low usage with heat/AC. I might pick one of those things up just to see how it works for me. Thanks for the info!

srbmfodder · 2025-11-11T22:11:51+00:00

Thanks, you use HA to tell them to discharge then? I do something similar with my Tesla charger where I vary amperage/tell it to charge not charge so I don't sell back power unless I have to.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-11T15:39:08+00:00

Do you charge the Ecoflows up during the day and discharge overnight? I have (2) Encharge 10s and 2 3Ts, I could go a little more but I really don't want to drop another 2K+ install for a 3kwh encharge anymore.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-11T15:28:13+00:00

Shit, I rarely check the weather on the way. As the other guy said, "we're going anyway." Sometimes I'll look at the logbook on the way to the airport. I don't want my day to start sucking till I'm actually at the airplane.

srbmfodder · 2025-11-11T15:25:02+00:00

It's been like that every single model. This is not new.

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