* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos

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Sun rule

As a kid we operated by the sun.

Up at sunrise, out of the house.

Dusk to sunset, back home.

We had a national park at our doorstep to explore!

Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit

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Devil

Your face, your ass

What's the difference?

Turns out it's £££

How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens

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Devil

Wrinkleface!

Find your friends when you forget their names!

Dixons hits back at McAfee's £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn't work on Windows 10S

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: McAfee Vs Symantec

"It's like picking your favourite terminal illness."

New keyboard please.

'Hey Google, remind Greg the locks have been changed, and he should find a new place to live. Maybe ask his mistress?'

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Flame

Burn them

Burn them all with fire

We checked and yup, it's no longer 2001. And yet you can pwn a Windows box via Notepad.exe

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Devil

No problem

Plenty more where that came from...

Alexa, can you tell me how many Chinese kids were forced into working nights to build this unit?

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Big Brother

Dystopian future, here early

Sweatshop factories

Forced child labour

Forced overtime

Bugging devices for the masses

We have always been at war with Oceania

It's Friday lunchtime on International Beer Day. Bitter hop to it, boss'll be none the weiser

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Pint

Fosters

Kangaroo piss

Australian's don't drink Fosters.

Horrid stuff.

In the UK now, off for a pint of local.

Cybercrooks attempted credential-stuffing banks 3.5 BEEELLION times in the last 18 months alone

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Joke

3.5 billion cred-stuffing attempts you say

Banks response: Implement a £1.50 transaction fee....

Cambridge Analytica didn't perform work for Leave.EU? Uh, not so fast, says whistleblower

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Devil

Brexit

The endless shit sandwich.

Now with added Boris!

City-obliterating asteroid screamed past Earth the other night – and boffins only clocked it just 26 hours beforehand

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Mushroom

Specials when lit

Galactic pinball.

Backdoors won't weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he's right. They won't – they'll fscking torpedo it

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Childcatcher

Spinning straw into gold

And other fairy tales

'Cockwomble' is off the menu: Uncle Bulgaria issues edict against using name in vain

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Devil

Katie Hopkins and Boris Johnson had a baby

Cockwomble

It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

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Stuck in the middle with you

Jokers to the left of me

Clowns to the right

BT boss warns 16-min walk from current HQ to new London base 'just the tip of the iceberg'

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Devil

Hot desking

One of the reasons I accelerated my early retirement.

As for management consultants, [EXPLETIVE DELETED].

You'll never guess what US mad lads Throwflame have strapped to a drone (clue: it does exactly what it says on the tin)

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Devil

Just like a traditional Christmas again

All the young kids playing outside with their new flying flame throwing drones...

Incognito mode won't stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle

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Trollface

But

I only read the articles

UK government buys off Serco lawsuit with £10m bung. Whew. Now Capita can start running fire and rescue

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Ahhh privatisation

Fail writ large with bells on it.

Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee

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As soon as we have collected everyone's bio ID, then we'll make a law. Thanks for your patience.

It just wasn't meant toupee: Bloke nicked at Barcelona Airport with €30k of blow under wig

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But Officer

It's not cocaine it's just a bag on dandruff...

Train maker's coder goes loco, choo-choo-chooses to flee to China with top-secret code – allegedly

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Devil

The good thing about Chinese spies

Miss one, and there will be another along very soon..

Oh, lovely, a bipartisan election hack alert law bill for Mitch McConnell to feed into the shredder

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McConnell always reminds me of...

...what is wrong with US politics right now.

Jodrell Bank goes full UNESCO while Dundee awaits the decomissioners

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Alien

£4 parking fee

Steep, yes. But the facility is well worth it. I originally went for the Dr Who reference and stayed for the amazing science.

Serious Fraud Office fines Serco £22.9m over electronic tagging scandal

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Devil

Nothing to see here

Move along now. especially YOU.

We're tracking YOU!

More households invite creepy smart speakers indoors: Arch-slurper Google top dog for Q1

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Big Brother

Orwell imagined the State installing Telescreens

I don't think he imagined that the people themselves would voluntarily buy and install the bloody things.

14 sailors die aboard Russian cable spy, er, ocean research nuke sub after fire breaks out

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Re: Nightmarish stuff

Good tip, thanks.

Now Chicago, that's miles from the sea right?

(Joke)

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Nightmarish stuff

I'd struggle being in a submarine in dry dock.

This weekend you better read those ebooks you bought from Microsoft – because they'll be dead come early July

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And people frequently laugh "who buys CDs?"

But I always try and get the actual CD or Vinyl waaay before opting for download/streaming.

Brexit: Digital border possible for Irish backstop woes, UK MPs told

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Re: The Brexit Horror Show

It's just a slither to the far right....

There's Huawei too many vulns in Chinese giant's firmware: Bug hunters slam pisspoor code

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Devil

Not a vulnerability

An opportunity (for the State)

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

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Facepalm

There's smart

And then there's too smart

Facebook won't nuke deepfakes? OK, let's tear up those precious legal protections from user-posted content, then

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OK I get it now

This whole "Trump as POTUS" thing is just one giant deep fake exercise.

I just knew it couldn't be real.

Church roofs? Nyet, say Russian scrap thieves, we're taking this bridge

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Devil

God needs to get the lead out

Crims, right there on the roof of his own house!

No booming voice

No thunder crack

No lightning strike

Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you

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Stop

Stop!

Just stop trying to make everyone as stupid as Trump Republicans are!

If you hear podcasting star Joe Rogan say something dumb, it may not be his fault – an AI has cloned his voice

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Re: If you hear podcasting star Joe Rogan say something dumb

^^^ This

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

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Big Brother

Orwell warned of the Telescreen

"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."

He never imagined to true scale of the surveillance state we live in just a few decades after 1984.

Crap band sues crap beer maker: Hair-metal rockers have an Axl to grind over Guns N' Rosé

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Trollface

Sounds awful

Both

Veteran vulture Andrew Orlowski is offski after 19 years at The Register

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Alert

You ain't no El Reg commentard until blocked by Mr O

Never understood the comment blocking, seemed over zealous.

Regardless, you always made us THINK!

Hardly a bad thing.

Owner of Smuggler's Inn B&B ordered to put up a sign warning guests not to cross into Canada

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Stop

A better Warning sign

Democracy ahead

Social medicine

Protection for the poor

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

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Cheers

From Captain Morgan!!

Who's using Mueller Report Day to bury bad news? If you guessed Facebook, you're right: Millions more passwords stored in plaintext

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Re: Prison for the execs

Cold showers

Cold porridge

Cold cells

London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange

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Devil

Hooray!

Lock a part of him up in the UK

Another part in Sweden

And the rest in the US

Sorted.

Make America Infringe Again: Trump campaign video pulled over Batman copyright

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Alert

New Batman villian?

"The Black Hole"

America is definitely circling the drain under the influence of Trump.

Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi

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Airbnb?

No chance

Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen

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America

Off limits until Trump is ditched.

Are you sure you've got a floppy disk stuck in the drive? Or is it 100 lodged in the chassis?

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Flame

Letters to Santa

Sheila probably also put letters up the lum to Santa as a kid.

Boffins may have found something more salty than Brexit Brits' tears this week: Underground pools of water on Mars

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Trollface

One way trip you say?

That bunch of duffers in the House of Commons sound just like the crew we need.

After all, leave means leave, no?

Office Depot, OfficeMax, Support.com cough up $35m after charging folks millions in 'fake' malware cleanup fees

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FAIL

Same method as used by phone scammers

Hello, my name is Colin (thick Asian accent)

Your computer is infected.

Let me add some software.....

At least these corporate scammers got caught, somewhat.

Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clink

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A clouded judgement

The sentence seems light, albeit in keeping with current UK laws.

If this was America, he'd get 3 life terms + 100 years for any offspring.

Stop us if you're getting deja-vu: Uber used spyware to nobble dial-a-ride rival, this time Down Under, allegedly

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I dislike using taxis

But I'll never use an Uber.