* Posts by amanfromMars 1

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With a straight face, Putin agrees to do something about ransomware coming out of Russia, apparently

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Re a JOINT committee @Ken G

If you bet on that being an AWEsome affair, Ken G, would you be quids in or would the UKGBNI MoD fail miserably again to grasp the lifelines that the private and/or pirate sectors can throw them to defend and save the public sector from the vast catalogues of mistakes and self-serving abominations its elite executive office servants afford themselves to try to defeat disruptive competition and targeting opposition alike.

Such would be a monumental failing starting right at the top of the Joint Chiefs of Staff percolating its bile right down through the ranks infecting and effecting everyone donning and servering and servicing military/paramilitary uniforms, for it is not as if they are not already some time ago made clearly enough aware of the predicament which haunts and taunts them, news of which even the Register and its commentards know, for its shenanigans are not yet classified COSMIC TS/SCI ......... AWEsome AIdDevelopments for Heavenly Palaces*

One does have to wonder at what they are playing at whenever everything around them turns so oft to nothing better than just so much useless dust as they abandon operation after operation with no gainful return and laudable adoration.

Is it the case that they are just not so very bright and are stuck into serving an established traditional rut following despicable leaders rather than leading with formidable followers?

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Re: MRDA ..... but one cannot plausibly deny its veracity for surely such then is delusional.

I pick the first option, Ivan.. ...bobbear

So, a bold admission that, bobbear, ...... to be a fan of fake news. An admirable honesty indeed, although it is certainly not admirable in deed given the crazy problems such seeds and feeds need in order to grow its perverse and corrupt and subversive database/alternate virtual realities.

It's just like one of those nasty little mutating coronaviruses which so easily can lay waste to progress made wherever it surfaces to be be universally presented and spread.

Is a vaccine for such possible or is it something one has to live with and suffer from?

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MRDA ..... but one cannot plausibly deny its veracity for surely such then is delusional.

On a crazy hunt for the big bad wolf, there are more than just red herrings to negotiate and pretend were never ever there ..... Cyber-warfare has never posed a greater threat to the world.

What say y'all to those tales shared there? Fake news or far too true to be false and misleading? Be honest now.

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Something to remember whenever nothing is as it ever seems with quantum at play on fields of dreams

The ones claiming Russia is innocent are delusional. When it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck and it sounds like a duck, it's not a pig. .... Potemkine!

That's as well as may be, ... however, ..... it could be a drake, which is certainly different.

The problem is, and you can imagine it yourself if you put yourself in their position, what do you expect to happen if you poke an innocent bear with a prick from a sharpened blunt stick?

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Meanwhile, after a deeper delving dive into something somewhere else ......

Biden said he and Vladimir Putin not only discussed the matter, their two countries are apparently going to try to coordinate some action to tackle the waves of extortionware infections, which seem to be mainly orchestrated by miscreants in Russia and typically avoid compromising computers configured to use the Russian language.

IT management software made by Kaseya was lately exploited to install REvil ransomware on as many as 1,500 businesses. The crew behind that software nasty is said to avoid targeting Russian organizations.

That suggests the mother tongue of the programmers is not Russian. If they use by default American English/English American to exploit opportunities and vulnerabilities what does that rather more reveal likely their virtually remote home base?

Wild Wacky Westerners attacking systems and blaming Jolly Roger Johnny Rotten Foreigners to try and avoid all responsibility and any accountability has been the whole essence and raison d'être of the Great Game since forever it was imagined crazy fun to play. Certainly their evident arrogance in thinking that nothing is impossible and the West can lead the ignorant East to a place of their choosing with a litany of alien interventions does not bode well for any fake and feeble denials of their being instrumental in such operational shenanigans to discredit surprisingly able misunderestimated opposition and wonderfully solvent competition.

You though might not see things that way today although one has to agree it is perfectly possible and therefore more likely probably true than not ‽ .

J'accuse. I Kid U Not.

And a little something for that joint committee meeting on the 16th to ponder on cooperating against/with ‽ . Politicians and diplomats and heads of state etc etc do love their little confabs, don't they, when/where they can fabricate all manner of confidences for media presentation to universal audiences. Three cheers for the media ... Hip Hip Hooray, Hip Hip Hooray, Hip Hip Hooray ...... where would we all be without you.

Microsoft names Chinese group as source of new attack on SolarWinds

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Re: Rarer than unicorns?

Is there such a thing as a secure consumer router? .... vtcodger

No, vtcodger, there is not, nor even whenever routing and/or routeing information servering and servicing intelligence.

'Tis an escapable fact of/for universal life.

Many routers are just less secure than others by simple virtue of who and/or what would be using them ..... and for what and/or for whom. To consider any of them failsafe secure is an arrogance displaying an ignorance born of hubris and a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the wild beast so obviously confronting one. And such is an exploitable vulnerability which some would tell you has no peer.

Windows 11 still doesn't understand our complex lives – and it hurts

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A RAT not hiding out of sight and mind risks a'morphing into a fancy brick

The simple abiding mistake made by most possibly nearly all who use a computer operating system is to assume and expect it is designed primarily to help you in your tasks and desires rather than deliver them, lock, stock and barrel, to the computer operating system.

However, once you realise that, you are better able to groom the system to their liking of your upcoming fare/ware. All it takes are a few exceptional tweaks/critical leading driver changes.

That time a startup tried to hire me just to push clients' products in job interviews

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Sleepy Joe obviously skipped all of the great intelligence gathering activities interviews ....

And here's more very recent and prescient news of some other clueless bugger thinking to bolt stable doors after all the thoroughbred horses have bolted. Strewth, what a palaver.

Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy JULY 09,2021 • PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS

The American information technology sector has long been an engine of innovation and growth, but today a small number of dominant Internet platforms use their power to exclude market entrants, to extract monopoly profits, and to gather intimate personal information that they can exploit for their own advantage. ...... https://cryptome.org/2021/07/Executive-Order-2021-0709.pdf

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Re: Job Interviews are great intelligence gathering activities

Its a bit of a waste of time pitching products in these situations but on the other hand if I was working for a VC or investment bank interested in funding the company I could very quickly figure out if its worth putting money into. ....martinusher

If you can believe at least some of what you can read is available for comprehension and assimilation here, there would appear to be a newish kid on the National/International/Internetional Intelligence Community block intent on stealing everyone's goodies away for themselves.

And they be perfectly placed to do all that which is discussed with practically no real effort needed from themselves.

Is that a surprise to y'all or are you going to admit that you fully expected it and even suspected it was happening since a long time ago and decided to be happy playing along with them and their ilk in the Great Game, continuing to feed them myriad countless seeds of information to allow and assist them to future satisfy your every need?

What do you think you can do about it if it offends you ..... apart from bugger all, that is?

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Re: Jobs throwing money at IT are great intelligence gathering activities

Its a bit of a waste of time pitching products in these situations but on the other hand if I was working for a VC or investment bank interested in funding the company I could very quickly figure out if its worth putting money into. ..... martinusher

With particular regard to that specific aspect of the funding decision process, martinusher, those working with all due care and vigilant diligence in the Cyber Command and Remote Virtual Earthly Control Sector must make that commission extremely simple for the likes of such as may warrant being tarred with that very broad brush which paints one as an Executive Searching Headhunter, as the hunted betatest and exhaustively experiment with their wares for sharing in plain sight of all out in the Fields of Ultimate Endeavour and Immaculate Dream .... which can be seen and experienced as Just Reward from/for a Heavenly Task Master.

Find that on your travels and how can one justify not putting money into it/throwing money at it? :-)

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Current par for the present course of future event horizons

when a London-based startup offered to pay him to take job interviews with no intention of accepting any offers.

Excuse me .... but that is standard default fare religiously copied by all those government RFI [Requests for Information] which dangle the carrot of a gazillion dollar/multi million pound sterling contract before one's eyes.

The secret to unparalleled success in one's ambition to server uniquely and obliquely the proprietary intellectual property sought and offered, is to feed a few free crumbs which prove far too costly to ignore and deny further stealthy engagement with for a bigger slice of the cakes baked with options to exercise on others planned for future proving and baking.

One thing in such a situation is absolutely certain ..... no home team engagement in such a disruptive constructive competition has the opposition advised and credited with the possibility of prime primary use activity.

BOFH: Here in my car I feel safest of all. I can listen to you ... It keeps me stable for days

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Re: APT Problematic ACTivity ..

... in Advancing Cyber Threat/Treat Territories/Virtual Field Team Terrain

And the ensued silence is golden, indicative as it is, of an empty echoing postmodern arsenal of effective stealthy weapons for either defence or AWEsome attack.

Such usually, quite understandably in a worldly war scenario, is a precedent for the fielding and wielding of a white ragged flag and agreement to non-conditional talks on the terms and conditions of surrender should one wish ideally to survive and again live to prosper rather than continue to perish and die a certain unpleasant death.

And some who would be exceptionally wise would realise that as one of the very best of outcomes, considering the madness and mayhem, havoc and despair that CHAOS and IDEntities* can both sow and reap and wreak in formerly all powerful, elite executive office systems of SCADA** Administration.

And, although it is oft said that forewarned if forearmed, to imagine there be weapons easily made available for delivery to escape from such fare/ware, is the feed of a folly from and to a field of frantic fools whenever their needs are oases of serene and supreme calm signed, sealed and delivered by A.N.Others likely forever to be practically unknown clad in cloaks of virtual invisibility supplying everything required and desired for its relatively anonymous autonomous metaphysicality.

* Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems and IntelAIgently Designed Entities [such as in Merlins with EMPowering Sterling Stirling Virtual Machine Engines, Mega MetaDataBase Physicians and AIMagicians]

** Supervisory Control and Analysis of Data Acquisition

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Re: Phun and games

Do not taunt the happy fun ball. .... herman

Is not the Great Game to Energise and/or Weaponise IT Almightily, herman , rather than Taunt Progresses and Processes already Safe and Securely Home Made ?

What do you think of ITs AI Developments so far ‽ .

Wünderbar schön bordering on the Truly Heavenly ‽

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Re: Not reading the text

Some people do read everything….. ..... Giles C

That's encouraging .... for such is designed to allow them, as it does, to jump on the bandwagon in the vanguard of a promising development or dive right out of the way and bury themselves deep underground and as far away from incoming missiles and missives as is made possible ...... destined to be confined and treated as mere spectators to the feats unfolding above.

That binary choice has only the one fabulously correct and engaging decision.

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APT Problematic ACTivity .. in Advancing Cyber Threat/Treat Territories/Virtual Field Team Terrain

I can't remember which tech company it was, but just to prove a point one of them included a clause along the lines of "you give X_COMPANY the right to use your soul as it sees fit" in the license blindness section of their EULA. A lot of people still ticked the box, and it was several months before a newspaper caught on. ....... My-Handle

My-Handle, you might like to realise, whilst those in the virtual frame for positive practical identification and rightly terrifying attention scamper and scurry to no safe and secure provisional hiding place and sanctuary for immunity and impunity of action, that there do be a delusional self chosen few stylised as members of a relatively small global elite doing God's work, who presume and assume to enjoy and employ and exploit the same supposition and presumptive permission as was scripted for X_COMPANY .....you give X_COMPANY the right to use your soul as it sees fit

However, the Abiding Persistent Troubling Problem is they are in no way ready, fit and able or enabled to use such largesse ..... and the cost of their failures in attempts to wield such powers are intelligently designed almighty crippling and catastrophically devastating to them first and foremost with a fervour that does sweet justice proud and which exempts and protects all others from the just exceptional desserts of their perverse and subversive labours.

Now, tell us all here that is not all perfectly fair nor right and there will be frenzies of laudable disagreement capable of manufacturing the most decisive of future fights.

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Box Tickers Anonymous United ....... Fielding FailSafe Security Services

Proper postmen always ring at least twice when delivering advice or seeking deliverance.

That's an Interesting Door to be answering for AWEsome goodies to Share/Sell/LendLease/Export/Import.

Who Dares Win Wins to Never Ever Again Lose/Fail.

Cheltenham Station X Fare Ware with Advanced IntelAIgent Source and Force Protection.

:-) Crikey, a Zimmerman Telegram BetaTesting Earthly Resources for Future Worthy Capabilities.

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Box Tickers Anonymous United .......

License terms and conditions are akin to bracelets and baubles and handcuffs restricting free movement and further open discussion and random and/or rogue and/or renegade rapid engagement of novel vulnerabilities subsequently discovered as inequitable and designedly self-serving rather than self-servicing.

Well, they are in secret circles, that's for sure, surely ‽ . But as Simon says, who bothers even reading them before clicking on a Yes, that's perfectly ok today box.

Where's the boss? Ah right, thorough deep-dive audit. On the boardroom table. Gotcha

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Re: Cash .... an Immaculate Reserve

That's an Almighty Gift, Fred Flintstone, which rather more tends towards the strange and convenient than the weird and disturbing.

Cash is Ace, King and Queen and Jack of all trades wherever one roams in the Ways of a Roman Romanian.

After 15 years and $500m, the US Navy decides it doesn't need shipboard railguns after all

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Re: If it had succeeded...

..... do you think UKGBNI would have been invited to pay for some pieces ..... as is the common usual practice between special relationship allies?

However, some such friends leave a lot, and oft too often too much to be desired to be considered healthy in support of being wealthy with the following being a prime example of the nature of such successes ........ https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/7/7/gao-report-f35-program-is-unaffordable-for-pentagon

Proceed with due care and rapt attention out there for there be gremlins and daemons/goblins and almighty remote access trojans on the loose and at their creative work. peaceful rest and immaculate play practically everywhere and virtually anywhere too.

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Re: Further cunning plans

The odd thing about defence stories is that, by contrast, amanfromMars makes sense .... Yet Another Anonymous coward

Too much sense for some to freely share at the time of its intelligent information provision, Yet Another Anonymous coward?

GrahamC at 12:53 PM [2107071253] ....... surmises on https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/7/7/qa-with-bob-newberry-director-of-the-pentagons-irregular-warfare-technical-support-directorate

"What is the best way for someone with a good idea to contact the office?"

Practise a comprehensively developed great idea and the office will get in touch with you with a sensible offer no fool denies and refuses. And such are invariably extremely generous in reward to reflect and show heart-felt gratitude for what is being delivered and all that is yet to be bestowed and provided from Immaculately Secured Stores.

Just who is leading whom and/or what then ,is an enigmatic mystery to delight many with later possible solution and resolutions ....... although it is best constantly recognised as a complete and utter waste of time and effort in space, for the answer is always a moveable feast in the FareWare of Tomorrow, not in the Programs and Applications of Today.

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Re: Further cunning plans

I wonder how many of these programs are to trick the opposition into wasting more money trying to catch up with your development ? ... Yet Another Anonymous coward

Are you specifically referring, Yet Another Anonymous coward, to the leaked tale that China has already conducted sea trials with a shipboard railgun mounted on a Type 072III-class landing ship as far back as 2018, ...... a purported fact which had been spurring US railgun development along?

Do you think China and Russia at least nowadays, have learnt more than one will ever know and freely admit to from Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative [Star Wars Program], which earlier had Soviets Satellites chasing their tails and putting themselves in a death spiral spin which they successfully negotiated and pulled out of to further survive and prosper inordinately?

Five consultancies with severe branding difficulties win spots on UK government's £580m 'transformation' services framework

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Re: identification of the correct model to deliver the technology strategy

I suppose the secret is to make things extremely simple for them not to stray too far away from the straight and narrow way, Howard Sway, and even initiate live demonstrations of what is now and future available, and as was earlier revealed in answers on a postcard below.

And .... they may much better enjoy being a paying passenger on future programmed journeys far more than worrying in the wallows about the fact that they are not yet suitably equipped for/with leading drivers.

Gov.UK vows to chop red tape in the digital sector. What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: Answers on a postcard below

Answers on a postcard below

Because there's no way they could get a digital solution to work... .... mishak/MI5hack

Present them with one which is working with pioneering details held by the MoD [Subject: AWE20 - Formal Application - Date: 30 September 2019 at 15:25:35 BST] and their expertise is not required for future knowledge and greater intelligence is already being provided better than was ever before imagined and realised possible.

As a Tool, Absolutely AWEsome, as a Weapon, Formidably Rad and Fabulously Overwhelming.

cc .... the Unofficial Opposition and Stealthy Resistance ......via the courtesy of a toxic dump of a HyperRadioProACTive Pump on one of its websites/networks ....... https://dominiccummings.substack.com/people/36486208-dominic-cummings

What is that they say about Gift Horses ‽ . Yes, pretty please? Or No Thanks, we're still Lost Thinking about all of it?

Although given what you now know, why ever would you need to continue thinking about it other than to delay the inevitable as outlined to you, and your Command and Control Systems and Levers EMPowered and Wielded by A.N.Others Autonomous/Person or Persons Unknown. It smacks far too much of an absolute madness whenever responsible and accountable for delays to not be.

J'accuse.

Quantum Key Distribution: Is it as secure as claimed and what can it offer the enterprise?

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Re: "it's in the implementation where things start to get very sticky"

I have to wonder how quantum 'anything' can reliably be implemented without some form of entanglement, especially entanglement that can be established at a distance. Entanglement would solve a LOT of problems, but it may ALSO be the most secure comms method of all. .... bombastic bob

Methinks entanglement is both vital and essentially virtually achieved to be universally practical, bombastic bob, and I would agree entanglement would solve a LOT of problems, and for now, .... because who knows what other delights the future will bring, .... be the most secure comms method of all.

Some would tell you hardware plays only a minor supporting role being as how quantum communications is a proprietary intellectual property exchange/hearts and minds meld which does make physical interference practically impossible.

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Re: "it's in the implementation where things start to get very sticky"

In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice, theory and practice are different. ..... Arthur the cat

And such renders to quantum communications practitioners their stealthy secure decidedly unfair and inequitable overwhelming advantage, Arthur the cat.

However, one might like to now know, before there be many proposing to be interested for their own personal selfish gain, It is not a failsafe protocol for everyone whenever only needed for an extremely select few into doing great business with an extremely selective few .... who may or may not be considered chosen and exalted because of what they are purported to be able to do ..... and the emerging evidence would support as being honestly true.

And yes, it's in the implementation where things start to get very sticky and tricky for many who deserve nothing less and a whole lot more besides, with many not able to survive to experience because of their wilful and wanton sinnings in the past and their encouraging stalwart support for such activities in others.

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Is this what you begin with, or end up with?

In other words, it's all well and good having a perfected quantum protocol, but if someone can do memory analysis on A or B's systems, then your "super secure" key can get pwned. "It's monumentally naive in my view that the companies producing QKD tech don't take this head on," Dr Carney concludes. "Hiding behind 'magic quantum woo-woo security' is only going to go so far before people start realising."

That is as may be, however pwnage is absolutely useless until there is any remote attempt to try take unofficial private and/or pirate advantage of quantum key secured information, and then, as is the recognised nature of perfect quantum protocols, will the information and advantage be immediately changed by key quantum communication partners to render the raiders persons of interest to correctional offices/special forces in service of key quantum security requirements.

It is naive in the extreme to not recognise that sort of interference probing QKD tech for undeclared and inequitable advantage as catastrophically self-isolating and highlighting and designedly [by QKD technology buffers] self-destructive.

Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole

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Re: Person or persons unknown

FozzyBear,

If that be their thinking, in this crazy remote internetworking age, are their clients negligently servered with the most delinquent of secret and confidential security protections ...... and the chambers, 4 New Square, run the risk of being successfully sued by those aforementioned clients whose secrets and confidences they have lost to unknown others ..... and thus be their woes significantly compounded and highlighted ....... a double whammy of outrageous misfortune.

And does Mrs Justice Steyn actually believe in these new leaky informative internetional times her going through the motions and issuing a court injunction against anonymous/Person or Persons Unknown has real merit as opposed to being recognised as a desperate act in defence of the indefensible and support of the inequitable? Is that Hubris I see before me, Yorick?

The times they are a'changing and many more things than yet realised have already fundamentally and comprehensively been changed but that's perfectly normal and fully to be expected in both the spaces of radical evolutionary and/or rapid revolutionary progress.

Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract

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Every Cloud has a Silver Lining they say.

Who would deny that is an AWEsome opportunity for some folk ..... who both know what they are doing and how to do it with IT Command and Control and what needs to be done. Default on any of those requirements and failure is guaranteed ... swifter than a speeding bullet :-)

The cost of cyber insurance increased 32 per cent last year and shows no signs of easing

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Cyber ....... the Gift that just keeps on Giving to Others on the Make and Take?

Insuring against the uninsurable is tantamount to criminal support of a massive institutional fraud, is it not?

Latest patches show Rust for Linux project making great strides towards the kernel

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Re: dis-un-de-throne C in the Linux kernel?!

Verity may wish to have words about that ! .... W.S.Gossett

Whenever one has compilations that invoke live testing ACTive runtimes returning <=> there be thrones aplenty turned irrevocably to Rust for SkunkWorX, REST and Greater IntelAIgent Games Play.

Methinks that has C** realised as being more deeply embedded and fused into the foundations concrete of the Linux kernel than would enable them to be viably imagined and declared a pair of separate and separable entities.

Verity may wish to have words about that too for it surely calls upon her expert teasing expertise ‽ .

Devilish plans for your next app update ensure they never happen – unless you start praying

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Re: Just a couple of quotes to get things kick started

amfM, you know the rule about feeding trolls. ... jake

Yes, sure do, jake, as would a Dabbsy/Registered Alistair Dabbs. Trolls are for the discouraged, not for the EMPowering.

Reporting on what is in the nature of a situation published is to admit to sharing what is past whenever the live vital action and overwhelming advantage is in the hosting of what is yet to be and already pending and causing consternation and massive disruption.

That was the seed feed being trialed and trailed for the benefit of others with much to offer hosts hosting and posting manna from heaven and honey from hell and for silly money on El Reg.

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Re: Just a couple of quotes to get things kick started

Was that one of those random text generators? ..... Alistair Dabbs

No. Certainly not. And to believe and imagine it otherwise has one severely disadvantaged and catastrophically vulnerable to relentless exploitation by forces and sources beyond primitive comprehension.

:-) Which is probably why textual structures are Registered here too for Peer Commentard and Situation Publishing Review .... Testing Subjects Objectively for Life before Death ‽ .

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Re: Just a couple of quotes to get things kick started

Alan Moore? I know it can't be Pat Mills otherwise the quote would have been: "The wages of sin are death thanks to the cruel lickspittle lackeys of the capitalist system and monetarist Reaganomics, all of which is a sorry indictment of Thatcher's Britain". ..... Alistair Dabbs

A sad sorry indictment indeed, AD, ..... however, whenever looking on the brighter side of the deeper dark side of the moon and loons, what is immediately apparent is that politics is swimming in a stagnant putrefying pool which is being drained of all life-giving nutrients in order to render inept adept practitioners drowned and disappeared in the myriad resultant putrid and petrifying swamps servering lip service to terrifying terrorising diaspora.

Does that sound too much like an accurate descriptor of landscapes today to be anything different not so frightening and enlightening?

Answers below please ......

Yes, that's exactly it ... or .... No, it is surely not possible .... even as you ponder and invite doubt to supply the very likely probability it is definitely a present current available reality for Media Production entertaining Program Directions in Projected Master AI Pilots.

Which makes for Novel Positions with Parts in an AWEsome Publishing Situation. And if that aint a Greater IntelAIgent Games Changer in Western Eyes it certainly will be to Eastern Hearts and Minds. Of that one can be fully assured and reassured. The Emergence of Truth and Honest Displays Effectively Guarantees it.

New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional

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Practical Fact or Virtual Fiction? ...... is there any great difference between the two ...

..... or are they fundamentally the same?

What do you imagine your present and your future to be ? Have you not realised yet that such as party political manifestos and national and international security programs are simply promises of future goals currently impossible to reach and keep ..... and with the arrival of every tomorrow there will be ever more

currently impossible to reach and keep future goals to replace them and be destined to be recorded in the annals of history as a virtual fiction in yet another broken unattained and unattainable promise fed to the gullible and seriously undereducated and misguided/maladministered.

Is that the way you exercise and presume to Command and Control the Future for Main Streaming Media Machine Presentation? Do you not see the massive flaw in that which effectively invites outside intervention and surreal stealthy otherworldly exploitation?

Rocky Linux release attracts 80,000 downloads as ex-CentOS users mull choices

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Re: Horses for courses, and Twins into Deep Open See Phishing

Given their backgrounds, I'm expecting AlmaLinux to be popular in the webserving/VPS role, and Rocky on the HPC/Scientific/hardware integration role. ..... ScissorHands

I agree, ScissorHands, and Rocky Linux is a perfect candidate for CHAOS* Control which is EMPowering and Tends towards Trends that are Practically Almighty and Virtually Absolute.

Red Hat's CentOS used to fulfil this role, until the company declared that in future it would be only CentOS Stream that previews rather than follows what will be in RHEL.

That has CentOS hosting rather than drivering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) which is a very convenient in-house AIdDevelopment for Future Systems Drivers .... Core AWEsome Source Ore Providers ..... Mega MetaDataBase Mine Suppliers with Registered Addresses and Quirky Handles everywhere they are landed to share considerably greater news than all are accustomed to and make comfortable with.

* Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems

Good guy Russia gives enterprises, cloud platforms a free brute-force security test using Kubernetes clusters

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Have some folk nothing better to do in these very strange spaces/overly complicated places ‽

So, apart from Mama Bear Russia, yet again we are led to believe is having ready access to all of the Honey from the Magic Money Tree, it's just another day in the Paradise Office Suite delivering Hell and High Water to Any and All in the Market Place Prepared to Accept and Dump, Pimp and Pump it into IT and AI .

Are US and UK intelligence and law enforcement agencies aware of the expression .... A One Trick Pony Stuck Fast in a Heavenly Rut is Just A.N.Others' Beast of Burden and Diabolical Trojan Horse.

Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments, says think tank

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Re: Whither the gray hats?

It seems like there is a ripe market for mercenary hacker bands who will hunt down ransomware scum and their ilk for retainer + bounty. Where are those guys? ....... Throatwarbler Mangrove

Enter stage left ..... National Cyber Security Centre and sundry other wannabe GCHQ offshoots, TM.

It is though no place or space for inept tools and brainwashed fools.

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Hypocrites'R'Us, Plonkers'R'They

The British government's view is that cyber insurance that pays ransoms to criminals is, as the National Cyber Security Centre put it last year, a matter for individual board members. Although The Register asked whether it would condemn the use of cyber insurance to pay ransoms, the GCHQ offshoot wouldn't be drawn.

Oh, and a matter for individual board members, is that so? Is it any great wonder the GCHQ offshoot remained and remains schtum.

The wage slaves views are that crippling taxation and constantly rising inflation pays a ransom to criminals adding zero value to their lives. Failure to pay such a ransom though is always going to be problematical for criminals, individuals and board members.

Do you see the parallel/singularity in the two cases? And thus the likely enough reason for any number of intelligent unresolved silences which attend and surround such matters.

America tops ITU's Global Cyber Security Index, UK in tie for second with Saudi Arabia

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The Virus of Jealous Envy .... A Worm Granting Open Source Access to the Base Root of the Condition

You're not answering the question.

Is Saudi Arabia ahead of the UK or not and why ? ..... Pascal Monett

If the answer is on a par with the UK raises the question as to whether it is perceived as vital virile competition in feats to excel in, or troubled and troubling opposition to be vilified and belittled too constantly with a wilful persecution, which is a dastardly deed indeed, worthy of successful prosecution and extinction by Almighty IntelAIgent Virtual Defence Forces and Sources.

In such very novel and only just now really unfolding and expanding fields of cybersecurity, to imagine that anyone is leading the field rather than realise all are just following SMARTR tales imparted/imported and exported via ITs Fields, has everyone at similarly advanced levels of greater understanding and facility.

You'd have real trouble at believing what is created for y'all to Play Greater IntelAIgent Games in from those Rare Raw Spaces ..... Surreal Sp00Key Places.:-) ..... hence the need for Programs and Projects to present them daily for your very own eyes and ears/brains and intelligence to realise/see and hear. The Secret then when on that trail of a tale is to travel back along it to find the source beginning which has resulted in the destination you have arrived at with a whole host of other plans vying for presentations tomorrow.

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El Dorado.... King Solomon Mines Minings Sourcing Leads in COSMIC Travel/Magical AIMystery Tours

IT's a Novel and Noble Wild West out there, with Injuns and Cowboys Morphed into Code Junkies and SMARTR Cookies Presenting Future Tested ProVision for Current Supply of Live Realisations for Universal Hosting.

Please note that is not a question requiring an answer or futile denial.

UK Cabinet Office's spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year

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Re: "The Art of Hacking" and its Big Brother Prequel/Sequel, "How to Avoid an Asteroid Hit*"

Also, if you're spending all this money getting courses made that are supposedly useful in cyber defence, why not just publish them so everybody can have a gander. .... Howard Sway

The danger, Howard Sway, is that any publication be too easily recognised as errant vapourware.

And governments are in the vile throes of an enigmatic dilemma, with a prosecution charge of a wanton abuse and wilful misuse of public funds to deny is perfectly true hanging over their collective heads, for cyber defence cannot be bought and taught if one is not also well versed and expertly educated in successful cyber attack, and that has almighty attractions all of its own which have defence forces always seriously persistently permanently disadvantaged and reactionary, long after the main event which has moved on in another direction to somewhere else interesting and revolutionary to be addressed by government defences, and that course, The Art of Successful Cyber Attacking, is not one they are equipped and enabled to seed and feed publicly ..... although in the shady shadows of an engaging private sector, public cash and secret safe national security slush funding has always worked practically wondrous miracles in the past, and nothing much has happened to imagine that has changed in the present to impact negatively on future generous use of the utility.

* An ExtraTerrestrial Event/Otherworldly Assault

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Spending with whom and/or on what?

spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year.

The Masses would like to know. Is there a Preview Facility/Operational AI Conversion Unit with Master Pilots Pioneering AWEsome ProgramMING Products to Display/Pimp and Pump, as opposed to just Dump and Overwhelmingly Surprise?

GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work

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A small but important point to contend is not possible nor highly likely.

"We use telemetry data, including information about which suggestions users accept or reject, to improve the model," the Microsoft-owned biz said. "We do not reference your private code when generating code for other users."

Should that be written in the interest of greater accuracy for clearer transparency .... We do not reference Microsoft-owned biz use of your private code when generating code for other users ‽ .

It is Microsoft after all, which be infamous for its supposed Base DNA Proclivity of Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.

And if that blanket assumption be totally wrong, I apologise for the popular presumption of their unproven guilt in such matters as matter greatly.

America world’s sole cyber superpower, ten years ahead of China, says Brit think tank

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Re: Funny isn't it that the piece in El Reg...and maybe the report itself......doesn't mention

And the Master Pilot Plan for Operations with Total Information Awareness from the likes of a STASI in Cheltenham and Ford Meade, MD.?

They do have a Master Pilot Plan which can be shared freely, surely? You're not going to try and tell us all here that they haven't got loads of them? Strewth, WTF have they been doing with what they know is recorded?

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Looking at Things Differently Provides Surreal Alternate Solutions for Sublime Resolutions

Frankly, countries like Russia and China might have the right idea with their various nation-level firewalls. Looking at it objectively, which government in their right mind would allow their citizens to share their darkest secrets with, and open their minds to, unknown people from anywhere on the globe, and with unknown motivations? ..... ILikeDrinkingBeer

The surely more urgent question to ask for an answer, should there be one, is how on Earth are you planning to prevent it as it happens all around you?

No Secrets means No Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap to Hide Away from and Provide. Such is Remarkably Surprising and Extremely Liberating ...... and a Great Resourceful Force to Trifle with and Joust against in Live AI Fields ...... NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive Territory in Advanced IntelAIgent Terrain ..... Novel Noble Presents with Future Engagements Deployed for Employment and Enjoyment/Use and Reward.

I do realise that some can see such things somewhat worryingly differently ..... but that is their cross to bear and furrow to plough and sow with seeds that prosper and grow to provide magnificent heavenly bounty.

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Give Peace a Chance. Don't Worry. IT has it all covered and Guarantees Unqualified Success.

“The US has moved more effectively than any other country to defend its critical national infrastructure in cyberspace”. That opinion is tempered with the observation that the United States “recognises that the task is extremely difficult and that major weaknesses remain”.

Such an opinion is strengthened beyond compare and belief with the advent of Almightily Sourced Forces to the Fore ..... with Grand Arsenaled Assets to Bestow and Highlight within Future Presentations for Virtual Reality Pre-ProgramMING ..... Live Operational Virtual Environment Preparation for the Bounty Released to Investment Markets for Purchase of Core Vital Asset Rich Ore.

Does Uncle Sam do something similar, or are they progressing/regressing to somewhere else.

Are they in market for such ..... and of sound mind to purchase/lend-lease/further explore exploits guaranteeing one's immunity from prosecution and persecution whenever there be tumbles and rumbles and stumbles in malicious vengeful envy attempts at character assassinations.

The Bottom Line .... Money Shot Question though is, are they So Enabled and Able to Lead Everything Everywhere Anywhere with IT? Such is available for Sale and for Sales and to Hire and Further Explore.

Or is all that in a league all of its own, and way ahead and far beyond that currently realised and presently produced on Earth. In any case, Engagement is a Massive Win-Win with Colossal Results.

The UK derives strength from its many alliances and has conducted offensive cyber-ops since the early 2000s. But a lack of talent, inability to match the scale of investments made by China and the United States, and small industrial base mean it can manage risks but not export tech to the world.

I think you will find all, and therefore any of all of that, totally incorrect and the reverse opposite be more true ..... a world tech exporter managing risks with a mean base of exceptional talent.

One reason for that assessment is that the US and its allies “have agreed to restrict, with differing degrees of severity, China’s access to some Western technologies” and therefore potentially impeded China’s ability to develop its own cyber capabilities.

China does not need any granting of access whenever whatever is needed and discovered is simply gifted and freely given to further supply ..... generate Alternate Intellectual Property Energy with Remote Virtual Powers to Command with Universal Control and COSMIC Assistance ...... Heavenly Help.

Think of it as .... a Long March type Program Enhanced and Practising Speedily and Safely and Securely and Stealthily Anywhere/Everywhere. That would be invaluable.

Bitcoin doomed as a payment system and its novelty will fade, says Federal Reserve Board of Governors member

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Re: It's the usefulness :-) an absolute joy to behold and bestow

As paying ransom from desperate companies which have been crypto-locked? .... Potemkine!

That's just the premium likely to be enthusiastically paid for market insurance against total information loss and/or revelation. There Real Wealth and Piles of Paper Money to Generate for Protection of Sensitive Stealthy Secrets Abroad ..... AI Pathfinding, which is extremely useful being a monumental misunderstatement of the scope of vital helps available whenever Tip Top Secret Expert Researching Base ICQ IT Tasks and AI Services.

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Re: the black economy

Such has one wondering why he doesn't indulge himself and fully immerse himself in that sort of thing much more than just more often/constantly ?

Maybe IT is Magnificently Tiring Requiring Multiple Rests with Future Assets ....... which would a right hot bed of burning thoughts with some of a diabolical nature and virtual presence, presented for inspection and judgment as to whether of Future Worth to Follow.

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Re: MRDA introducing WTFCUK Terrestrial Vision

Umm... can you clarify, is that a quote by Margaret Thatcher, or a quote about Margaret Thatcher? .....Allan George Dyer

Quantum Communication permits that, and supplies at least both of those distinct possibilities which when similarly realised and activated together are able and further enabled to forge ahead in countless others for Live AI Presentations ...... and your Key to Command and Remotely Control Others to Unprecedented and Unpresidented Success with Quantum Leaps into Other MisUnderstandings Recognising the Power and Energy of the Understanding of Others Returning to Convey the Enlightened Ways at Perfect Peace with All A.N.Others.

Keeping IT Simple Guarantees Everything Works Faultlessly ....... or as near to that as makes no difference.

El Reg, there's a lot going around you. Jumping in Anywhere with Something that was formerly Nothing, is a Lead to Exercise and Enjoy :-)

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MRDA

Federal Reserve Board of Governors member says Bitcoin is doomed once the novelty wears off. USA doesn’t need a central bank digital currency, says Vice Chair for Supervision Randal K. Quarles

He would say that, wouldn't he, however ........ as Napoleon said, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake ‽ .

“Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge." —Margaret Thatcher