Hmmm, someone forgot to do their homework and thinks that by taking down Janet it'll give them an extra day. So, won't be arts, language or classics students. Wonder what Man Uni specialises in churning out?
Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me
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UK research network Janet under ongoing and persistent DDoS attack
Google Ventures ventures away from European investments
Hacker reveals lifestyles of the rich and famous in UAE bank pop
Russian "Pawn Storm" expands, rains hell on NATO, air-gapped PCs
Putin's Russia outlaws ECHR judgments after mass surveillance case
Weather finally cooperates with NASA, ISS resupply launch successful
France mulls tighter noose around crypto
We mock Kazakstan and North Korea but the rest of the world seems to be following them.
What happens when the terrorists use letters? Are govts going to start opening everyones mail as well?
As for banning encryption. Do you mass block countries IP address space if they also don't ban encryption? What if half the terrorists go to Belgium and the other half goto Germany how will France spy on them whilst they're plotting their new target?
So to sum up, the terrorists have won. Civil liberties and basic human rights are being eroded by our own govts whilst the cyber intelligence agencies do nothing but hack celebrity p0rn with no judical oversight.
Ofcom retreats from 4G spectrum auction after legal threat from Three, O2
Goodbye, Hello Barbie: Wireless toy dogged by POODLE SSL hole
BOFH: Taking a spin in a decommissioned racer? On your own grill cam be it
Facebook to Belgian data cops: Block all the cookies across the web, then!
Surely those who don't use Facebook don't face a security threat? Therefore who gives a fcuk about the others? It's FB's problem of not ensuring all it's customers don't use 2 way autherntication to log in, or do like the banks use, those little number generator devices. They've certainly got the money to hand those out.
How I found a small, weird-looking horned dinosaur from eastern USA
'Dear Daddy...' Max Zuckerberg’s Letter back to her Father
So is that brat going to like being plastered all over Facebook (without consent) from now on so that when she's old enough to be bullied, she'll need all of daddy's money just for the analysts help to find out what deep rooted problems she might have had when she was growing up.
Best get myself to uni to get a psycho degree because I see easy money in the future :-)
Safe Harbor solution not coming any time soon, says Dutch minister
Competition watchdog dismisses plans by TfL to uber-regulate Uber
50c buys you someone else's password for Netflix, Spotify or ...
Bitcoin cloud miners a '$20m Ponzi scheme – there was no cloud at all'
Europe launches search for Einstein's space-time ripples
Mobile bank upstart Tandem scores regulatory thumbs-up
IT pros are a bunch of wedding and funeral-dodging sickos
Re: Mystical creatures
I used to do that (years ago) but I was young and big. I spent many an hour under the desks in summertime when ladies had computer problems - it didn't matter the problem, it was always "I'll just pop under the desk".
Many happy views, er I mean days.
Probably couldn't get away with that nowadays.
Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases etc all up for grabs without a warrant
UK.gov pooh-poohs Virgin Media's whinge to Brussels over beefy broadband pot
Report: VW execs 'knew' about fuel economy issues last year
How to solve a Rubik's Cube in five seconds
Sysadmin's former boss claims five years FREE support or off to court
I've never worked a notice period. Hand in my notice, desk empty by the end of the day.
I've also never allowed previous employers to contact me about 'just fix this would you' since that normally means you're not exclusively working for your new employer which I find pretty standard nowadays.
Now do I know they've screwed up after I've left - oh yes. Do I care, oh no. Why? New company, new priorities, new problems.
LHC records biggest bang ever with 1 Peta-electron-volt jolt
Telegram Messenger delivers candygrams to stalkers
Perhaps this is a spooks snooper operation? Front man says it's secure and we can't give the spooks what they want even under court order (good publicity), that gets lots of bad people using it i.e. drug dealers/paedos which gets into the mainstream news (all publicity is good publicity remember), then even more bad people use it i.e. terrorists when it's shown that it can't be intercepted/cracked.
But all along, certain people have been eavesdropping. The trouble is, they have the knowledge of to-be-commited crimes/atrocities but like when the British broke the Enigma code, if you foil all activities the oppostion know you've broken it. Even if it means members of the public will surely die, some people (unaccountable and acting in the National Security guise) believe that's acceptible.
Personally I don't.
Kids charity hit by server theft
German ex-pat jailed for smearing own pat all over Cork apartment
Protection at last: Operation Emergency UPS succeeds for Telecity
Hungryhouse resets thousands of customers' passwords
Continuous Lifecycle call for papers: It’s the final countdown
How many of the talks are on soft skills* ?
How to sell ideas/methodology etc. to upper management/bean counters?
How to sell your products to paying punters/marketting etc. for independent developers?
All these are as important as developing actual systems.
* Soft skills are p2p (people to people) requirements. As we all know hard skills are what we do and Joe Public doesn't (understand).
Who owns space? Looking at the US asteroid-mining act
This is similar to the moron who 'owns' the moon. Just because you're American actually means nothing to anyone else in the world (let alone the existing Intergalatic Federation of Asteroid Mining Consortium).
If I decide to mine an asteroid, I don't want anyone else muscling in so lasers on standby....
BOFH: How long does it take to complete Friday's lager-related tasks?
Lights, power, action! Smartplugs with a twist
US gourmets sizzle in bacon-scented underwear
IOCCO: Police 'reckless' for using terrorism powers on journo sources
Nominet to hike price of UK web domains by 50%
Nest defends web CCTV Cam amid unstoppable 24/7 surveillance fears
Thin-lipped chancellor tight-lipped on contractor-nudge-onto-payroll plan
"Entirely missing from the document, however, is any mention of the government's promise to bring in a legally binding broadband service obligation by 2020, as pledged by PM David Cameron earlier this month."
That'll be passed in law in April 2020 so the Labour gov't will have to sort it out when they get elected in May 2020 - nice one Davey.
UK gov sinks £25k into Pi-powered cyberdesk
Amazon resets account passwords feared compromised – report
Tor Project: Anonymity ain't free, folks. Pony up
Hacker predicts AMEX card numbers, bypasses chip and PIN
Uber wants UK gov intervention over TfL’s '5-minute wait' rule
Waiting 5 minutes will cost drivers £19 million quid. Really? Isn't it waiting 5 minutes will cost Uber £1900 million quid cos of the crap rates they offer drivers?
But don't worry HRMC, it won't affect our tax returns because we'll still pay sod all in taxes because we don't earn income in the UK.