Working in the yard I observed this small vehicle paused on 136th Ave East and taking notes for 2 or 3 minutes. The car then drove north out of sight. A few minutes later the same vehicle drove out of the neighborhood slowly and suspiciously. We will be watching.
The following POST is a meeting announcement requested by Wayne Reibold.
I wanted to see if anyone in Sunrise Terraces is interested in meeting with a Tehaleh rep and some SR162Traffic.org people this Friday 10 am at the Legendary Donuts in Orting. I attend meetings to represent Sunrise Terraces but cannot make the meeting this Friday.
The discussion is about trying to get Tehaleh to disguise the new FIVE LANE ROAD Tehaleh is building down the plateau from Tehaleh to SR162 to meet it at 128th. The road will go down the hill at a diagonal from south to north and be very visible from Sunrise Terraces homes that have views of the valley and Mt Rainier.
We have met with Pierce County who will be building the road to try and get them to include tall trees to try and disguise it, paint the tall street lamps green to blend vs silver, etc but so far the County says they can’t do special things like this, that they have a standard way of building roads. But that isn’t to say Tehaleh can’t help with landscaping since this road will be a main entrance to Tehaleh so they should want the landscaping to look nice. The road is expected to open within five years.
Anyone interested should contact Maxine at mherberthill@hotmail.com so we don’t get too many people showing up to the meeting.
Anyone is free to contact me at WynsWrld98@yahoo.com with questions as well.
Thanks,
Wayne Reibold
A problem occured with the Sunrise Terrace web site and BLOG the first week of July. This problem presented itself as the loss of our orange theme and loss of content format.
As of today, partial recovery was achieved and we continue to restore content to the site.
The availability of low cost residential IP (Internet Protocol) Cameras, Digital Video Recorders (DVR), and Network Video Recorders (NVR) has brought significant benefits to individual home security and monitoring at a distance.
Some of our BLOG users have purchased these devices. If you are participating in the Sunrise Terrace Snapshot Repository we have assured you that your personal network remains secure when using the outbound FTP transport configuration provided to you when you added your camera, DVR, or NVR to the Sunrise Terrace Repository site.
Most of these IP devices are capable of additional methods of content sharing and remote access that may have already been activated by the manufacturer as part of a vendors “plug and play” or “out of the box” automatic usability features.
In this BLOG POST I review five basic network configuration settings essential to maintaining the security of your personal network and the IP devices attached to that network. Making changes to your userID & password pairs, DDNS settings, remote access protocol, and router logs varies depending out your router make and model. Most of these changes can be accomplished using your routers GUI interface and will not be difficult. Consult your router operating manual for specific instructions.
The first suggestion (1) and best way to protect your IP devices from intrusion is to change the manufactures default administrative userID and password, or better yet disable the vendor administrative userID and create your own access credentials!
Suggestion two (2) is to disable DDNS service on your IP device unless you are using a DDNS service for your own remote access to IP cameras, DVR’s, or NVR’s on your network.
Suggestion three (3) is to change IP device remote access service to a non-standard port. The standard (well known) ports for some protocols are HTTP:80, RTSP:554, HTTPS: 443, and Server:8000. Choose a port different from the well known ports and one above 2000 if possible for the operating systems of your camera.
Suggestion four (4) is to monitor your Internet Router activity. Keeping your router visible so you can and monitor the router LED’s for transmit and receive activity is an indication of a possible attack.
Suggestion five (5) is to check the router log periodically or when you observe continuous or unusual router activity. External access attempts to your personal network will appear in the router log (if you have activated logging) and you can use that data to filter or deny unwanted traffic to your personal network.
The five suggestions above are easy tasks and are the basis of good Internet security for IP devices on you network.
I hope this BLOG POST has been helpful in securing your personal network.
Footnote: IETF RFC-1918 private network ranges start with the IP Addresses: 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, & 192.168.0.0.
This byline was sent to me by a friend. It’s a stark reminder for me as the perpetrators in our neighborhood incursion were discovered and arrested in Orting!
Below is a link to Camera System Recommendations by Dav Eide, one of the mainstays of our Neighborhood Camera Project.
2016 Fact Sheet about our camera snapshot repository:
Thanks to the efforts and past actions of members of the Sun Rise Terrace HOA, the SunRise Terrace Snapshot repository, Web Site, and BLOG pages are migrating to a new and more appropriate domain name.
On our about March 15th the current domain name at id-systems.us will be discontinued and the already active domain name of sunriseterrace.org will continue to be domain name used to access our neighborhood Internet services.
If you have saved the SunRise Terrace server IP Address of 67.40.184.198 in your browser the same IP Address will continue to work. Currently, we have no plans to expand or augment existing domain services. As such the IP Address will continue to appear in your browser regardless of how you access our neighborhood services. This URL resource behavior is normal on the site today and will continue.
Thank you.
A picture of a Bear in the vicinity of 144th in Orting Valley.
Graphic provided by courtesy our intrepid neighbor Alan!
A mysterious plant appeared in my garden and the beginning of spring. I was unable to identify the new arrival until last week when on the plant hosted a large number of striking black and yellow caterpillars that I could not ignore. As it turned out the plant was worse than the caterpillars which turned out to be the Cinnabar Moth imported from Asia in 1960 to combat the Ragwort plant in Washington State. I thought you gardeners might like the details on this shrub (or weed) that I found so interesting.
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