* Posts by sproot

42 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2008

Are you the keymaster? Alternatives in a LogMeIn/LastPass universe

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Re: Compromised host tolerance?

I don't see how that could work, you need to access your password store, however many passwords you want out of it. Once you've typed that password into a compromised host you're toast, all your stored passwords are then available.

You can access KeePass on your phone and do a manual copy / paste onto the bad host. You're only risking one password then, I don't really see any other way.

Another question for the techies: SpiderOak's Android client (last time I looked) fails their zero knowledge bit because it doesn't do local [en|de]cryption. How does Encryptr manage this?

Unconfirmed PayPal 0day auth flaw lingers after XSS gets fixed

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And yet

I've recently started getting spam to my PayPal address, which is several years old. Wonder where it was leaked from, I don't think it's made available to sellers and I've never given it to anyone so they could send me money.

Cisco gobbles UK mobe mast maker - you know where this is going

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Big Brother

Awesome!

No you can choose who monitors you, you're not just stuck with the Chinese. Choice is good, right?

Samsung chucks 'free' Galaxy S III at dragon sketcher

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Pint

Samsung Canada are probably wetting themselves at the thought of all the kit they'll be supplying across the border when the Apple ban hammer comes down, guess this was just to let the yanks know they exist.

Apple: I love to hate, and hate to love thee

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Pirate

I took an 18 month old macbook air with a faulty screen in (there's a line down the middle, one side is a different shade to the other - common enough fault if you search), £380 please sir. Fuck you, I'll see you in court.

They'll never see another penny from me.

Vodafone loses access to punters' records in IT cock-up

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FAIL

Ho Fucking Ho

"By 11.30am Vodafone's spinners said that the issue had been largely resolved."

Well that's funny, it's 2pm by my watch and the billing website *still* isn't working, can't get copies of my previous bills.

Vodafone silences punters in mini-mast upgrade bungle

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Holmes

Question

Why, instead of flogging femtocells, don't they just give you a VoIP client and run a gateway?

Since pretty well everyone with home broadband has wifi, it would seem to be a no-brainer. Those without wifi could be sold a wifi access point instead.

Oops - just realised the answer to my own question: dumb phones won't be able to run VoIP clients. Would still work for the new generation of smartphones though, surely?

Why GM slammed the brakes on its $10m Facebook ads

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WTF?

Are you sure?

"Think about most banner ads: they have rich media and flash or video. These are all the things that would compel someone to want to click on an ad"

This is a joke, right? Those are the things I installed AdBlock and NoScript for.

Ten... smartphone survival accessories

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Femtocells

Given that they need a bb connection to work, is it just me that finds it weird Vodafone don't just provide a VoIP gateway and a client for smartphones?

I know that wouldn't work for archaic mobiles, but they're nearly all Nokias and can probably get a signal anywhere anyway.

Cellco execs lay into Nokia's Lumia

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Holmes

What if?

Nobody's mentioned Blackberry OS on Nokia?

What's not to like? Nokia's reputation for hardware (if it hasn't died already), BB's corporate integration and appeal to the kiddies (something only RIM and Apple seem to have managed to any degree).

Marriage made in heaven?

Dot-word TLD registration closes tonight, maybe for many years

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Unhappy

ICANN

Are ICANN trying single-handedly to pay off the US national debt? What with the .xxx scam, increasing .com prices and now this, it seems that their role as overseers is being redefined as overchargers.

parasites, the lot of 'em.........

UltraViolet: Hollywood's giant digital gamble is here

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It'll be cracked within a year, don't worry about it.

Nokia is past its best-by date, warns analyst

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Facepalm

Yes, really

I'd guess (and no, I'm not going to rtfa) that they said it sold faster than any of their previous *smartphone* models, which frankly wouldn't be too difficult now, would it?

And as for 'Know your Mobile', part of Dennis publishing who do about ten PC magazines, want to guess where most of their ad revenue comes from?

All the videos on skyscrapers in the world won't save Nokia from the Chinese copies.

How to stay out of big trouble from little devices

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@r76

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mobile+me

Although you really want android lost, which is free

Huawei outs 'first' Android 3.2 7in tablet

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Meh

Dsiplay

If the screen's 7" then with the ratio in the pic and the pxel density stated the display looks to be about 1280x820. Not earth shattering then.....

No Gingerbread snack for Desire owners, says HTC

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So?

Custom ROM, FTW!

Google rolls out fix for Android security threat

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Big Brother

Unfortunately Matthew

They know who you are because you're in my contacts, linked by your phone number, and listed with your address and other email addresses.

There is no escape.

Nationwide customers find online front door shut

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Go

Easier Online Banking

@AC

First Direct, for the moment at least. Their phone service speaks English too .............

Acer: tablets will replace netbooks

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Joke

How long

'til they add a flip out keyboard to a tablet, like they do on some smartphones?

Whatever will they call it?

Keira Knightley, Jessica Biel eye Batman

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FAIL

Pics

Thread is useless without .............

OOXML and open clouds: Microsoft's lessons learned

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Gates Horns

Funny

10 posts, all saying the same thing. Where are the MIcrosoft apologists now?

Hanging their heads in shame, hopefully.

Her Maj gets Flickred up

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iPhone

NahTony, a onePhone, as in "One has a onePhone"

Android phones get free video calling

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FAIL

Desire

Video calling will be awfully impressive on my Desire, since it doesn't have a front mounted camera.

Oracle punts first VirtualBox x64 hypervisor

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Joke

You forgot the Joke Alert

Good use / Windows. It was a joke, right?

Foodies sue providers of hacked payment system

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FAIL

As acronyms go

the one for Point of Sale is really unfortunate, particularly in cases like this.

Tory plan for MS, Google, others to hold NHS records floated

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Big Brother

Open Gov?

I'd have thought "secrecy and lack of transparency" would be the most desirable bit. SSDD as it were.

Vodafone gives up on roaming charges

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IT Angle

When?

So when's it happening then?

Just after I get back from my hols, probably :(

Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali UK

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Flame

Shame

<quote>we know the business well and the fit with TalkTalk is perfect</quote>

Says it all, really. Two peas in a pod or, more realistically, two turds in a toilet. Pipex were great, I hoped Tiscali were going to burn for what they did to it.

And I wasn't going to feel even a hint of remorse for the Tiscali staff that got the chop when it went. They were the ones that were giving me the run around when I was trying to get my MAC to leave.

Bastards.

Mozilla mauls Microsoft on IE, Windows 7 bundle

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Jobs Horns

Bad Analogy Guy

All the posters with the car analogies are missing the point: Nobody cares that Ford put their own brand radios in their cars, Ford don't insist that radio stations broadcast in a format that only Ford radios can play.

Nobody gives a toss what crap runs on your Windows boxes, only that the internet is getting shafted because of it.

And @AC 14:03: Pot, kettle a bit doncha think?

The Netbook Newbie's Guide to Linux

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Linux

@ac

Have you tried calling microsoft support recently?

They're nice and friendly, provided you give them your cc number first.

You can call canonical with your cc number too, and get the same thing.

If you want it for free, ask for it nicely, and in this context that means trying to find out for yourself first.

I don't really think that's too much to ask.

And remember, you're not a customer, you're a user.

Customers get the friendly bit from Canonical / RedHat / Novell whoever. See note about *paying*, above.

2008's top three MP3 players

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@ac

And also the same rootkit for your PC too, presumably?

Brute force SSH attack confounds defenders

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Boffin

@Adnim

That's what key pairs are for, shirley?

Samsung Pixon M8800 8Mp cameraphone

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Search

@A Google is your friend. I found a comparative review of the Renoir, C905, INNOV8 and Pixon with sample pics. Interesting!

Bono bikini babe party pictures loose on Facebook

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Unhappy

Useless

Article is useless w/out pictures!

Pipex upgrade causes email snafu

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No sh.t, Sherlock

Since Tiscali bought them they're no longer a quality provider.

Samsung Innov8 i8510 eight-megapixel cameraphone

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@ Anton Ivanov

Page 2: plus Fring's VoIP and IM application</quote>

Granted, it doesn't say it *works*, but I think you can probably assume that ;)

OpenOffice.org overwhelmed by demand for version 3.0

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@ Chris Martin

I installed Mandriva 2009 recently, that came with OOo3 :)

Net shoppers bullied into being Verified by Visa

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Paris Hilton

SecureCode

After many failed attempts to use it I found that Mastercard SecureCrap is only supported on Windows + mac.

Since I would never enter any financial info into a Windows PC and I don't own a mac I sent my Mastercard back.

Perhaps if they'd hired some developers to produce it instead of a beancounter it would work properly?

Paris. Just because.

ISS toilet spares stowed and good to go

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@Mark

I think you have that backwards

Tiscali executes stealth LLU migrations

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@AC

Pipex wasn't a budget provider, until the parasites at ticsali got their feelers on them.

And does anybody care what ofcom think? Since they appear to have slightly less authority than ISPA? All bb contracts are carefully worded so that they can still bill you *even when you have no service* because your line is being unbundled. After all, 'no service' is just a point on a bandwidth graph.

Perhaps ofcom can explain why they haven't stopped that? No, thought not.

Anyone reading this who's still with Pipex: Leave now, and don't forget your coat.

MP calls for law to force online shops to verify customer age

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Coat

Solution!

ID Cards!

What a great idea, I don't know why anyone else hasn't thought of it..............

Tiscali hits 'undo' after bandwidth throttling chokes iTunes

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Unhappy

@ Luke

Some of us were with Pipex, and weren't aware they were a toy ISP.

Unfortunately, you're right: The only way to get Pipex type quality now is to go somewhere else. Something I wish I'd done when I first read (here) that ticali had bought them, would have saved me being without for four weeks while they found me a MAC code.