No, I don't have it anymore. I kept it around for 3 or 4 years, trying various methods to revive it, then threw it away when I took a job in New Zealand, hoping to move there for good. Well, that didn't work out and I came back after a few years, but the drive (and many other things) were lost in the process.
Also: the drive was absolutely dead, it wouldn't power up. I even tried to change its controller - I took it off another Conner drive, installed it on the deceased one - and nothing happened. On that occasion I realized that, even though they were the same model/capacity, Conner had used different electronics for different batches.
Ironically, the drive was built like a tank: never again I saw a hard-drive with a casing that thick (looked like cast iron).
Same here. Thirty years later, I'm still reeling from the loss of an inestimable trove of software created between the late Seventies and the early Nineties (many now-defunct operating systems, extremely rare programs and so on). All that on a 800MB Conner drive, which I had installed as a secondary (non-boot) drive in my system. The drive died on me with absolutely no warning signs, something that was unusual even for that period of time - it simply disappeared from the OS/BIOS, less that a year after I bought it.
which uses Google maps/location services, places me in my correct location. Asking Google Search "what is my current location", places me in Eastern Europe.
You're right, a new IP from their pool should take care of this issue. Thing is, I'd like to know what could've possibly made Google think my current IP is in EE? what did I do to make Google Search - and ONLY Google Search think that?
Again, it's a major ISP, and I've been with them for the past 20 years. They've been using the same allocated IPs since the early Nineties - and EVERY detection services correctly assigns those IPs to my ISP, in my region.
> any chance your traffic has recently seen a major change,
> from Google's PoV? Especially, might one of your devices have
> become a TOR entry/exit node, part of a VPN, or something similar?
Absolutely not. I'm not even using a VPN or any other method of tunneling into some remote server.
I found on the internet a few similar complaints, like someone in the Netherlands who was suddenly detected as being in Israel; he couldn't find any remedy, but mentioned that "the situation returned to normal in a month or so". But, as I already said, for me it's become more than a curiosity and a minor annoyance, as it's now interfering with my ability to shop online.
Forgot to mention: asking Google "what's my IP" shows my correct IP, but the bottom of the page places it in Eastern Europe. Every other service linked on the results page locates me correctly i.e. in Canada.
Also: in my Google account, "Where you're signed in" shows my Air, my iPhone, my Pixel and my Chromebook in the correct location (Canada, $MyCity).
Zero competency in cryptography, so your explanations are much appreciated.
Q: Does this mean that encrypted data (stored files, communications via messengers etc) can be scanned for keywords, without the need to decrypt the entire file/message?
Actual title is "“EchoSpoofing” — A Massive Phishing Campaign Exploiting Proofpoint’s Email Protection to Dispatch Millions of Perfectly Spoofed Emails", but HN rejected it for some reason.