14 years ago the answer was Oracle Linux, based on what I was told by my boss who left us to take a job at Apple
not sure what flavor / distro they use nowadays but almost certainly Linux and almost certainly one with an Enterprise Support agreement.
There's a whole list of codenames for different scenarios - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_incident_terminology
mine is Pluto Nash. I offer no real defense for the movie, it's a hot mess, but I've always enjoyed it for some reason.
Does the flavor change throughout the month or anything? Or is it just a large salami that you eat throughout the month? Either way, I want one!
Exactly. Most cloud virtualization providers you just take a snapshot of the virtual disk and provide that when requested and the customer never has a clue that is happened. I'd get contacted by our legal department, told that my boss was only to be told that I was working for them for now and no other details, and then directed on what they needed a copy of and how to send it to them.
Honestly? The only thing that comes in the mail is bills and ads. I can't remember the last time I mailed something, and it's very rare that something I care about is coming to me by mail. Why do I care if the ads I'm about to sort through and throw away took 2 days or 7 days to get to me? I don't want them either way.
If it's housed in its own case, it's a power brick.
This is a line lump, the alternative to the wall wart. Both were slang terms, it just sounds like only one of them stuck around.
That's what gets me. This feels like an attempt to pass responsibility on and deflect away from the fact that the authorities were alerted and involved and did nothing to stop it.
I don't know of a way to determine an SSID over the internet from just an IP, no. I'd either need to sniff traffic from your machine or run software on your machine to get the information to then lookup in one of the maps/databases.
It's far from the only source of this data, and yes it can be used to geolocate you: https://hackers-arise.com/osint-tracking-the-suspects-precise-location-using-wigle-net/
I can't find a link now, but I remember seeing an article in the past about watching for what networks someone's laptop checks to see if they are available (saved networks it auto-joins) and using them to determine likely physical locations it is commonly located in.
Because they have the equipment and are always looking for an excuse to use it to justify the cost and training. And because the more they use it, the sooner they can get more of it.
It makes zero sense to a normal person, nor does their justification for needing the equipment in the first place, but once they have it they'll use it any chance they get.