Posts by Gordon Pryra

sought a legal perspective...

Which is probably the actual reason. After all, most of the content can easily be argued to be illegal, with few people willing to defend it (few people with a brain or career that is)

These kind of hosting companies really on get away with it on the sufferance of their Governments, go to close to the bone and they may go far enough to force the daily mails of the world to start shouting, which leads to legislation.

I don't know,I may be doing the CEO of this company a disservice, but he doesn't seem to give a rats arse for the content on the other sites that give him money.

Then again, this reads like I am against the service he provides, I am not, and I am fully aware that the West is as highly censored as China in many aspects, its just we don't want to see it.

He says he learned that there was nothing that could have been done to stop the attack

Who the hell is he listening to in his IT department?

Brexit

= jobs for the boys!

Even if the majority of the new jobs in Brexit land will be a pile of absolute steaming shitcake...

Got to admit he did a good job though

Least he spread the wealth around a bit :)

But think of the children!!

Nothing to hide then nothing to fear!!1

etc etc

Or the reality,

You CANNOT trust any .Gov department or organisation (NHS is a good example) with your data. From staff within the organisations making personal use of the data to it being given out to anyone (people getting databases of gun owners for their own personal use? Handing over medical records to Google?)

How about some more uncomfortable truth, the lack of protection for this data. Contractors walking around with clinical data on USB sticks, laptops not being correctly encrypted (or just not encrypted) to workstations and servers not being patched and running Windows Xp........

On top of that, as was mentioned in the article about mission creep. If the data is there, it WILL be mined and used in ways never thought possible even 5 years ago

None of this is levitation

What you need is a ton of brown rice, a nice empty cave up a mountain and an old bed sheet.

And 50 odd years practice......

Howash!!

Companies are starting to not want to pay for documentation or training of service desk staff.

No way they will pay for anything that costs more than the low-skilled wage drones.

And any automated system WILL cost more to buy, implement and support than a few humans

Looks like the Russian investment is paying off

Good old Trump.

Dunno what his day rate is to Rus.Gov, but hes worth every bit of it.

Hes managed to turn America from a word power with some respect into "Western Korea"

gg

Hardly the same as beating a human at chess or Go

Its hardly the same achievement as beating a human at chess or Go

A large component of DOTA is reflexes with the IO. Hand eye coordination and mouse/keyboard control.

Something the AI does not have to worry about.

I am surprised that players were able to beat the AI in the end. Badly written AI obviously

Is it worth a freedom of information request

To discover the ratio of successful hacks resulting from tools created/documented by our law enforcement agencies?

Maybe compare that list with the amount of attacks BLAMED on N Korea/Russia/"Anyone else not us" against government organisations who had not patched servers/workstations

For additional mathematical fun, maybe the % of organisations hit by tools created by our "defenders" with servers/workstations NOT patched but where budget had been provided to patch them in the past.

Final question would be how many servers/workstations that have had MULTIPLE budgets to pay for patching have been hit by viruses written by our own governments because they were not patched.....

Virgin users are screwed

Supplying your own router wont make a difference

The issue is the modem in the superhub

So before the interwebs gets to your router it gets slowed down by the system performing the various tasks using software rather than the hardware controls

Virgin don't give a shit because you can either take it or go to the competition. users who realise they are being shafted are a tiny % of their user-base.

Fucking Heresy

That is all I have to say on this.......

"Sacred bonds of trust between America and its citizens"

You know they are just taking the piss when they being out this sort of crap.

Did he keep a straight face when he said it?

The greatest leak of cyber space era is happening

As if this is in any way important.

Was there nothing better these 12 year olds could turn their l33t hAx04 skills towards?

More than £20m is being funnelled into projects

In an industry with a yearly turnover of £70 odd billion?

Taking it seriously then.....

Same as all ISPs

OffCom do nothing, they never really have done their job description. Then again, the entire MO of al ISPs is to scam the customer, so OffCom are in a hard place considering ALL the people they are overseeing are scammers.

Things are Ok while they are Ok, but if you have any problems and your only option is to dump them to go elsewhere.

That is the Telco business model, they really don't care about complaints, they expect 50% customer attrition

But they then expect the numbers to be returned from customers leaving their competitors

precise measurement of the length of the Saturnian day continues to elude us

NASA need to take a leaf out of the "English rules of Empire"

A day on Saturn is therefore the same as a day in England

El Reg playing a dangerous game here

After all, the conclusion to Brexit means china will be one of our main trading partners.

Which means rather than being the 51st State we will probably just be classed as a Province.

Be ready for the knock at the door if you ever come to the UK Kierian

it's thought the website was spammed out via email to these foreign students

Why is not made of the fact that somehow these people got a list of these foreign students details?

Or have I read this wrong?

As the author points out

It doesn't matter how long the support is for if none can be arsed to make use of it.

Easier to say "it was the Koreans" than say "we are managed so badly we sit around the table and laugh about it rather than patch anything"

Is it possible to get a list of the IoT "Shower Heads" out there?

Just for research purposes obviously....

Is this the ONLY benefit to Brexit that Gov.Uk can come up with?

Really?

All these ministers trying to think of a single benefit from Brexit that isn't "no more Wogs!" and this is all they could come up with?

Get behind Brexit and you can Vape at work!!1

Saddens me that this will work, maybe even the kids who voted for Labor and their "free magic unicorns for everyone" will get behind the Gov for this promise!!

"The potential downside of not getting this right is very serious,"

We are fucked then

I am still wondering why I am being called a "Re-moaner", I guess this is the adult equivalent of being laughed at for being in the A-Stream at school by the idiots in the lower streams.

It seems this country STILL laughs at people with more intelligence than them (I was going to say higher education).

We are not numbers. I'm not a statistic

Actually, we are, and sadly, we prove it over and over again.

Anyway, he forgets the big issue he has when going up against Google, they got where they are by giving people good products in return for their private data.

McAffee is crap and expensive.

Good luck with Sentinel...

Normally I say its the parents fault

But in this case the average parent has no idea how or what to look for.

Its the FBIs job to protect against this sort of thing, and unless one of Trumps businesses is selling them (or they come from Russia) then the FBI should be pretty safe in doing so

the company has already provided over 329,000 documents and 1.7 million-plus data points

Would it have not just been easier to give them the 8000 contracts?

or would these contracts say something different than the 329,000 documents and 1.7 million-plus data points........

Ironic

UK.Gov has no problems the NHS flogging off patient identifiable data to Google for cash but they cry when the same (amount) of private information is handed over to someone without them getting a cut

Dont they all do this?

Hardly news that contracts given out are down to bribes.

That is the Uk's ars trade modus operandi in Africa and I don't see people being too vocal about that.

Working for local government and councils and I see contracts being given to weird companies for twice the cost you would expect and you can only think this is down to the same reason of kick backs and presents..

Why single SAP out as being the bad lads when their product is actually not bad and doesn't kill kids in fields when they step on in

Ok, so France can't claim the tax cash

But why is it not being paid to Ireland?

It is settled that the French aren't owed anything on sales in Ireland, but the cash is still owed to someone?

Or is the Irish corp tax/sales tax so low that it works out they get something like 30 quid?