Posts by Evil Auditor

Re: Browser differences

[coding discipline] AND [web interface] = 0

But probably that's just my limited and aged perception as I left the trade a little while ago.

Re: @ bazza

@bazza

Well you trust the phone network when you call up your bank don't you?

Partially, I do. I know my account manager reasonably well and - for now, still - I identify her by voice and vice versa. Even so I don't initiate external transactions on the phone. For these I rely on end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication and transaction verification.

If you come up with a feasible network architecture that is inherently secure: I'm game! I doubt that it will do without encryption though. Encryption is much older than our data networks; the objectives remain the same, i.e. privacy and non-repudiation.

Re: MS killed skype

Well, to my taste, skype always had a crap user interface. And since it requires IE to work (WTF?) eventually it totally killed itself for me. That is after it died on my dated mobile for lack up upgradeability.

R.I.P.R.I.H. skype

_{(Rot In Hell)}

Re: automatic facial recognition goes live in the UK

Facial recognition is nothing new, indeed. The first time I came across this was more than ten years ago.

@unwarranted whateverism, I have no feckin idea what you're smoking, sniffing or droppin. But I need this stuff. Now!

Re random biology

Maybe the females lost interest in the boring males and tried to hump the aircon instead?

Re: They might be the right temp

Someone needs to go there and have a look.

And nuke the entire site from orbit...

Re: Improbable @Omgwtfbbqtime

In my garage too, I have a 32A supply (@400V), which I could even upgrade to about 70A if needed. But it's rare to find those in office spaces, powering some PCs.

Re: Carrier pigeon? Oops.

What killed the pigeon within reach of ElReg's beak?

It read the message.

Re: Dont' name and shame persistent offenders

Sack them may be part of it. The article, although put into the context of IT security, is mainly about organisational behaviour and how to (de-)motivate staff.

It's basics. People are usually intrinsically motivated to do a good job - as long as certain hygiene factors are present. For example, tolerating incompetency will demotivate the competent people. Dealing out silly petty cash for good behaviour will be looked through for what it is: silly - and demotivate. And so on.

Re: Oh my GUI

<OK> <APPLY>

Contemporary UIs don't need old-fashioned <OK> and whatever buttons. A single drop-down menu is all there is: you select an item -usually an unintended one- and it will be applied/executed/entered immediately. The paradigm is to hide the sought-after function behind several layers of a vast variety of different but equally confusing dialogue forms with the underlying basic idea that if you surprisingly managed to find said function you surely know not to mishandle it. Welcome to the Brave New UI.

Re: Missed opportunity

Totally agreed! I was waiting for this one.

Somehow that reminds me of a distant past, or rather of a former life entirely. And encountering a person (or should that be plural?) who was so massive that they had their own zip code for their arse cheek. A separate code one for each.

Re: PBKAC

Most people, maybe... Printer indicates "no paper". User who sits next to that printer phones me to let me know that she can't print. That moment, more than 20 years ago, I gave up hope on users. And soon became one myself. With the occasional twist of knowing more than the IT support guy - that was before Windows 10/Office 2016 though. Now we're all back to stupid. And probably not long before I myself will try to click away a post-it note stuck to the screen. When that happens, someone please shoot me.

Re: As I read it

There's certainly no "I" in this "AI". I don't quite agree with algorithmic in your comment though. It's probably some sort of artificial neural network trained to recognise what it has recognised before. Pretty stupid, but... since it's hardly understood what happens within this neural network, they call it intelligent.

Re: How I always remembered it

I was quite disappointed to discover that they were not nearly as secure as I had assumed.

They look pretty insecure to me in the first place. Before trying any combination you'd rather crack open the whole lock. If you can't figure the combination from the dirt on the right keys, that is.

Anyway, those locks are not really made to secure anything. They are rather there against accidentally opening the wrong door.

Re: The Big 4

I've got experiences with several member firms of the Big 4 networks. And I've seen both work done badly and work done very well in most of those firms. It mostly depends on individuals, whether they do their job well, and hence shows a lack of quality control. (QC is even less sexy business than the bread-and-butter stuff known as audit.) It's just right that both the company and the audit engagement partner get fined.

Regarding the £1.8m, this shouldn't be compared to EY's global revenue of $31.4bn. For a more meaningful comparison the £1.8m should be put in perspective to EY UK's revenue. It's still not going to ruin EY UK as in 2016 it was somewhere north of £2bn.

Re: Never Used Them

a yank lurker, I'm with you - no cc or more sensitive data on my mobile either. And no Uber etc. But what do you do when you need a lift in a town like San Francisco? There are hardly any taxis left. No chance of simply waving at the next cab. Unless you are blessed with extreme patience.

God may use DOS 6.3 or DolphinDOS - no one really cares except god. But I know for a fact that god wants us to use OS/400 on any mobile phone for god itself designed specifically for that use.

Re: Apple has redrawn the poo emoji

What were they thinking?!

When I first heard of an emoji film I thought it was a bad joke. Then missus assured me that it is actually a real thing. Which sane person would want to watch this? So, animated poo seems less of a surprise now.

Re: WTF?

tins of bear - those Aussies..