Re: I'm getting tired of this bullshit
"the main hacking threat is from China"
That is amazingly irrelevant to the choice of supplier. Actually it means that Huawei is probably better at defeating Chinese hackers than the EuroAmerican companies are.
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Why worry about cost of banning certain Chinese comms providers? Fire Huawei, says analyst
DoH! Mozilla assures UK minister that DNS-over-HTTPS won't be default in Firefox for Britons
Wednesday 25th September 2019 03:45 GMT 
Shifting what where?
As we previously reported, DoH is all about shifting domain-name queries – which try to match domain names with server IP addresses – over a secure, encrypted HTTPS connection to a DNS server, rather than via an unprotected, unencrypted bog-standard DNS connection.Not quite. It's about shifting domain-name queries from a DNS server that you or your ISP runs to one that some third party advertising site runs, incidentally encrypting the traffic. D'oh!, indeed.
You've got (Ginni's) mail! Judge orders IBM to cough up CEO, execs' internal memos in age-discrim legal battle
You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?
Rolling in DoH: Chrome 78 to experiment with DNS-over-HTTPS – hot on the heels of Firefox
Mozilla Firefox to begin slow rollout of DNS-over-HTTPS by default at the end of the month
Wednesday 11th September 2019 23:43 GMT 
If you think DoH is the work of the devil...
I believe that the way to disable DoH forever in Firefox is to set network.trr.mode to 5.
Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser
I just love your accent – please, have a new password
Friday 30th August 2019 22:55 GMT
Who needs the whole SSN?
I happen to have an American SSN because I was a US taxpayer for a while. And I had (past tense) some US shares held by a US bank. When I sold them (by on-line request) they phoned me to confirm the wire transfer. Good, I thought. "What's your social?" they said. As I was walking along the street, I didn't have that number with me. "I can only remember the last two digits" I said. "OK, tell me" they said. That worked fine and they sent the money. To me, fortunately.
Should they really have taken a 1% risk that I was just guessing or that it wasn't me?
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament
Friday 30th August 2019 05:34 GMT
Re: So, to sum up. . .
> drag out things Johnson said long ago
Yes, because he has been telling outrageous lies about the EC and the EU throughout his career.
> something entirely constitutional to honour the biggest vote for anything ever
As the population has been constantly increasing, more voters than ever is irrelevant. What is relevant is that only 37% of those voters voted for a change and they did it based on outrageous lies from Johnson and his rich, privileged friends. BTW it was not a decisive vote, it was only advisory; constitutionally sovereign power remains with Parliament. If anyone has behaved unconstitutionally, it is Johnson and his cronies, who must have put undue pressure on a 93 year old person in the process. She should have said no, which is certainly her constitutional prerogative.
RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81
Wednesday 28th August 2019 02:53 GMT
Re: Technically born in Palestine
Actually the British Empire never owned it. It was a joint British/French Protectorate under the League of Nations. If you can catch the "Sykes/Picot" documentary that Al Jazeera is running currently, you will be surprised by the complexity and duplicity of the British involvement.
I knew somebody (British) who specifically gave his birthplace as the Gaza Strip, during the time of that Protectorate as far as I know. The exact location probably mattered, in the small matter of obtaining a British passport. I also slightly knew Danny Cohen, who deserves all respect.
Cisco axes hundreds, shares tumble amid China cut-off – but we're winning the trade war, right? So much winning
We're not going Huawei even if you ban our 5G kit, Chinese firm tells UK
Here's to beer, without which we'd never have the audacity to Google an error message at 3am
Cloudflare punts far-right hate-hole 8chan off the internet after 30 slayed in US mass shootings
Tuesday 6th August 2019 02:33 GMT
Re: inspired by 8chan
"The murderer who killed people at 2 Christchurch Mosques passed all the checks..."
And Cloudflare failed to dump 8chan after the Christchurch massacres (although apparently they are now trying to rewrite that bit of history). That didn't count in the way that Walmart does (even though Walmart doesn't seem to be a Cloudflare customer).
Y2K, Windows NT4 Server and Notes. It's a 1990s Who, Me? special
Tuesday 6th August 2019 02:18 GMT
Sticky labels help unless...
This isn't about labels on servers, but labels on network sockets. Yes, they're essential. Unfortunately nobody told the painters, who in order to do a neat professional job removed all the tiny bezels on all the sockets before repainting the walls. Which also removed the labels. And they left tidy heaps of labelled bezels on the windowsills. So, back to trial and error to discover which sockets connect to which VLAN.
Get ready for a literal waiting list for European IPv4 addresses. And no jumping the line
Thursday 1st August 2019 04:17 GMT 
"Remind us again why the IETF didn't make IPv6 backwards compatible"
Because, for the Nth time, IPv4 was designed with no provision for forwards compatibility. The address length was set at 32 bits, and that's all. So from the very beginning, longer addresses required a new version. (Actually, of course, there was a version number in the first place. So you could say that the version number is the forwards compatibility feature in IPv4. But it doesn't solve the problem that 32 bits is 32 bits.)
IPv6 wasn't designed by theoreticians. It was designed by people working with IPv4, DECnet Phase IV, Novell Netware, and Appletalk, to name but four. Plus people working with OSI and DECnet Phase V. Plus people working with IBM SNA. It couldn't be backwards compatible because of the design flaw in IPv4, so the model from the beginning was co-existence. That's still the model, and it works well, except that now the plan is to provide IPv4 as a service over IPv6, when needed. (Except that isn't a plan, it's deployed already by various ISPs.) Anyway, 25% of the Internet is now IPv6, and most users don't even know it. Apparently most of the commenters here don't know it either.
I don't really understand why people bleat about the issues with IPv6 (yes, of course there are issues, but there are plenty of issues with IPv4+NAT) instead of just running it and making it work.
It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory
Literally rings our bell: Scottish eggheads snap quantum entanglement for the first time
Saturday 13th July 2019 23:04 GMT
Re: The filtering is done BEFORE the Bells test
"NOT a magic force over an extra dimension propagating across space and time."
That's a wonderful strawman to attack, but sadly for your somewhat tangled argument, it isn't in any way shape or form anything that Bell proposed.
I'm possibly the only commentard here who actually met John Bell, and even sat in on a meal with him and Roger Penrose. Not that this, and a physics degree, qualify me to have an opinion. The point is that Bell proved a consequence of quantum mechanics that could be tested experimentally, which experiment showed that entanglement is an actual property of the universe we live in.
There's no suggestion of a magic force. And nobody yet claims that string theory, which does posit extra dimensions that we can't perceive, is anything more than theory - unlike the Alain Aspect experiment that was the first test of Bell's theorem, there isn't (as far as I know) a proposed experiment to test even one of the many variants of string theory.
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” [Richard Feynman] But that doesn't make it false, because experiments tell us it's true, including entanglement.
Can you trust Huawei... or any other networks supplier for that matter?
Friday 12th July 2019 05:20 GMT 
Well, let's do some fact checking...
"The report makes the case that Huawei is effectively government controlled, and that its 98 per cent ownership by a trade union committee..."
Funny that, since the employees believe that employees own all the shares. Let me see, who do I believe? Chinese people who actually work there and claim to own shares, or some committee of blimps in England who claim to know better?
This major internet routing blunder took A WEEK to fix. Why so long? It was IPv6 – and no one really noticed
Thursday 4th July 2019 01:04 GMT
Re: "If anything, it is a demonstration of how robust IPv6 can be in the face of such mistakes."
"if you are using v6 with wifi and have 4 addresses in the header, its starting to become a serious overhead."
Try again. You may have 4 MAC addresses in the WiFi header, but you will never have 4 IPv6 addresses (unless you decide to tunnel IPv6 inside IPv6, of course, but that would be a bit silly).
You're Huawei off base on this, Rubio: Lawyers slam US senator's bid to ban Chinese giant from filing patent lawsuits
Monday 24th June 2019 03:37 GMT
Re: US or China?
You're referring to Operation Paperclip, which is well documented. However, the main weapon was money: if you were a German scientist living in the ruins in 1945-50, and you were offered the choice between an underpaid job in Britain (also in ruins then) and an overpaid job in the US, which would you have chosen?
Also, as in the case of von Braun, the Americans were probably more willing than the British to overlook small details like hiring Nazi war criminals.
The Brits did get some technology though (I even studied some of it as a summer student intern in 1965 at an AEI research lab). The Russians simply took entire factories home to Russia.
Good old British 'fair play' is the answer to vexed Huawei question, claims security minister
Do you want a Kool-Aid with that, Huawei? You'll need one after watching boss chat to US mavens
Tuesday 18th June 2019 00:29 GMT
quietly lobbying
Let me fix that for you:
"[China's] major suppliers of US-made [anything are] quietly lobbying for the easing of the ban."
Donald doesn't understand international trade or the elementary fact that free trade made the USA rich. His trade policies, and not only with China, are helping to make the USA poor again. It will take firm action by the next US president to reverse all these disastrous decisions. Huawei is only one victim.
When customers see red, sometimes the obvious solution will only fan the flames
Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike
Friday 14th June 2019 05:17 GMT
Re: "pilot test of a mail service"
The interesting point is that they think that phrase is meaningful. It isn't like CERN hasn't been running mail services for the last 40 years. What they mean, indeed, is switching from Exchange. Which they switched *to* because the sendmail config was getting hard to maintain after about 1995. But mail to and from <user>@cern.ch has been working pretty well since the late 1990s. Before that it was <user>@<host>.cern.ch which was a bit harder to guess. Lookee here if you don't quite believe me.
No backdoor, no backdoor... you're a backdoor! Huawei won't spy for China or anyone else, exec tells MPs
Wednesday 12th June 2019 03:04 GMT
Re: No laws?
You mean the bit where it says:
the Cybersecurity Law states that network operators, which include telecommunications companies such as Huawei, have to provide “technical support and assistance” to government officesNo, Huawei is not a "network operator", and if the journalist who wrote that piece could make such an elementary blunder, I don't trust a word of the story.
When it comes to DNS over HTTPS, it's privacy in excess, frets UK child exploitation watchdog
IEEE tells contributors with links to Chinese corp: Don't let the door hit you on Huawei out
Friday 31st May 2019 05:16 GMT
Re: Ho hum
I don't know what you mean by that, but in any case international standards (for 5G) are out of scope; even the current US regime isn't quite that daft. The "Temporary General License" says:
BIS authorizes, subject to other provisions of the EAR, engagement with Huawei and/or the sixty-eight non-U.S. affiliates as necessary for the development of 5G standards as part of a duly recognized international standards body (e.g., IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force; ISO – International Organization for Standards; ITU – International Telecommunications Union; ETSI- European Telecommunications Standards Institute; 3GPP - 3rd Generation Partnership Project; TIA- Telecommunications Industry Association; and GSMA, a.k.a., GSM Association, Global System for Mobile Communications).
Friday 31st May 2019 05:09 GMT
Re: @Chris G not quite.
Motorola? Didn't they once make interesting products, back in history?
US industry doesn't like being beaten by cheaper, better products. Even companies that started out by borrowing intellectual property from, say, Stanford University to mention but one victim. And US industry is very good at lobbying the fools in Washington into anti-competitive behaviour and even a trade war that is damaging US trade quite severely.
That's just Huawei it goes, shrugs founder as analysts forecast sales slump for embattled biz
No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences
Friday 24th May 2019 20:26 GMT 
The entire purpose of an open Internet
That is to say, we may be headed toward nationalized technology stacks that don't interoperate and nationalized supply chains. This defeats the entire purpose of an open internet.
Huh? The open Internet (upper case please) is a result of open standards. Nationalised technology stacks can use open standards.
The threats to the open Internet are entirely political (cf. the Great Firewall of China, the UK pornography thing, etc.).
Where there's a will, there's Huawei: US govt already eases trade ban with 90-day reprieve
Thursday 23rd May 2019 05:19 GMT 
My crystal ball says...
In 2 or 6 years from now, Trump will be a memory. Huawei may have a few tough years meantime, but they will come out of it stronger, and China will have vastly improved software and chip-making capabilities. So as with most Trumpian trade* policies, the result will be to make China great again.
*The 'security' aspect is fake news, of course.
Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away
Get out of Huawei, it's an avalanche of news from everyone's favourite Chinese bogeyman
Bloke accused of conning ARIN out of 750,000 IPv4 addresses worth $9m+ to peddle on black market
Saturday 18th May 2019 05:33 GMT
Re: Using IPv6
Sorry, that proposal is the FAIL. It has always been true and will always be true that an IPv4-only node can only handle 32 bit addresses. If you extend the address by one bit, let alone 32 bits, no unmodified node will be able to use it. There are mathematically only two solutions: a dual stack node that can handle either address length, or a translator that can magically convert a 32 bit IPv4 address in to a (say) 33 bit New IP address. And guess what? Those are the two solutions that work for IPv6.
Otherwise, how could more than 25% of Google users be on IPv6 when El Reg is still stuck on IPv4?
US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans
Thursday 9th May 2019 04:47 GMT
Who cares who leaked it?
Anyway, who cares who leaked it? There was no possible security reason to keep it secret; even Constable Plod reached that conclusion very quickly. So the reason was political (most likely to avoid pissing off Pompeo and John Bolton, who tell the Trump child what to think about such things). And leaking a political decision is very standard behaviour for politicians.
Huawei, Huawei. Huawei, Huawei. Feeling hot, hot, hot: US threatens to cut UK from intel sharing over Chinese tech giant
We've read the Mueller report. Here's what you need to know: ██ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ███ ██ █████ ████████ █████
Facebook: Yeah, we hoovered up 1.5 million email address books without permission. But it was an accident!
US firm wins Oz-backed bid to block Huawei from subsea Pacific cables
International Bullying Machine? Big Blue seeks exposure of corporate canary
Watch out, Bali! Big Bluers set to realign their chakras at Best of IBM event in May
Are you sure you've got a floppy disk stuck in the drive? Or is it 100 lodged in the chassis?
Huawei savaged by Brit code review board over pisspoor dev practices
Thursday 28th March 2019 23:54 GMT
And as for economic warfare...
...this redoubles the obvious: the Americans are waging economic warfare against Huawei, not because they are under Chinese government instructions, but because they're cheaper than Cisco.
Yes, they have security holes, just like everybody else. And they must fix them. But the economic warfare is nothing to do with security.
Ethiopian Airlines boss confirms suspect flight software was in use as Boeing 737 Max crashed
Tuesday 26th March 2019 03:04 GMT
Appalling software, it seems
There's a very specific Reuters story. It seems that
the MCAS system - which forces the nose downwards to avoid a stall, or loss of lift - will only operate one time for each event rather than impose repeated corrections like those believed to have pushed the Lion Air jet into a dive... MCAS will be disabled whenever two sensors that measure the ‘angle of attack’ - a parameter that determines how close a plane is to an aerodynamic stall - differ too much... a change from the previous set-up which only linked MCAS to one sensor at a time, ignoring the other, and which may have resulted in a single point of failure on Lion Air 610... Previously the “AOA disagree” warning would not have halted the MCAS software because the system was designed to focus on either the left or right sensor, alternating between flights. It was oblivious to whether readings from the sensors were aligned.
WTF? Alternating between sensors on alternate flights was terrible design and seems like superstition rather than science. And ignoring the pilot's repeated attempts to raise the nose (tens of times over) when the plane is at very low level soon after takeoff was obviously wrong. If I'd been involved in that software design, I'd be in despair. (In the Air France crash over the Atlantic some years ago, forcing the nose down against the pilot's mistaken reaction to a stall might have saved the plane, but that was at very high level in horizontal flight.)
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