* Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

1782 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

Trump's self-imposed cybersecurity deadline is up: What we got?

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If hackers get into private companies which then get into government, surely the government connections need strengthened as well - why trust a private company to be safe if you let them access your network?

'We should have done better' – the feeble words of a CEO caught using real hospital IT in infosec product demos

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Fire people who don't meet their ethical standards. Sounds like if they they have ethics they get fired?

Online ad scam launders legions of pirates and pervs into 'legit' surfing

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Advertisers lose $7m a month. My heart bleeds for them. Really !! Perhaps they'll be so upset they stop wasting their money on internet advertising?

Google's 'adblocker' is all about taking back control

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And even if they do push this out, still run your own HOSTS file to block the rubbish Google finds inoffensive !!!

Mastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor

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Tap to pay - that's the future. What more could you need?

SPY-tunes scandal: Bloke sues Bose after headphones app squeals on his playlist

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How did Zak know what data is being slurped? Did adverts for that ABBA tribute group suddenly start appearing?

We're spying on you for your own protection, says NSA, FBI

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If the FBI wants to search the database for crimes committed by US citizens, on US soil, without all those legal requirements, why not tell the world (or at least Congress) how many crimes *have* been solved by their illegal activities and what those crimes where (i.e. parking fines or mass murder)? Surely they have a number for that?

PACK YOUR BAGS! Boffins spot Earth-size planet most likeliest yet to harbor alien life

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Re: Even if we could get there, somehow

Alas, 'orbit' would likely be very, very far away else we'd be caught in it's gravity and get a one way ticket to the bone crushing surface :-(

Court favours Nexsan over EMC in Unity trademark squabble

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My money is on Dell EMC giving shed loads of cash so they can keep the name/trademark.

Microsoft touts SQL Server 2017 as 'first RDBMS with built-in AI'

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"it wouldn't be a Microsoft announcement without some mention of the cloud" - normally just saying they're living under one would suffice !!!

30,000 London gun owners hit by Met Police 'data breach'

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Everyone is talking about the breach. What about the numbers? Why are the 25,000 shotguns in London? How many have shortened barrels and live in the back of Ford Transits?

Game authors demand missing ZX Spectrum reboot royalties

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Sounds a bit like those Android set top boxes bundled with Kodi to allow viewing subscription TV programmes/movies for free. I wonder if the local Trading Standards bod will pop his/her head through their door?

Stop asking people for their passwords, rights warriors yell at US Homeland Security

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I hope all countries follow the US policy and impose it on Americans. Trump seems to be an isolationist, let's see what the voting public think of him when they want to leave American soil.

We desperately need a Trump icon. I feel it could well be used often !!!!

Oh snap! UK Prime Minister Theresa May calls June election

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She should have called it for next month - papers headlines - "May election" etc. Lost opportunity !!!

Feel guilty for scoffing Easter chocolate? Good news: Scientists have made NEGATIVE mass

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And what about the force of gravity on this experiment? Surely everything should have floated up if it reacted against the force of gravity pulling it down?

'Tech troll' sues EFF to silence 'Stupid Patent of the Month' blog. Now the EFF sues back

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Should someone point out to the EFF that the US constitution for free speech covers individuals and not organisations? That's my understanding of recent libel type cases in the USA. I could be wrong but that's my right !!!!

US military makes first drop of Mother-of-All-Bombs on Daesh-bags

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"What it does is basically suck out all of the oxygen and lights the air on fire," - someone should tell Bill that if you suck all the oxygen out, it'll be very difficult to set the air on fire. Simple physics. Regardless of how big the bomb is !!!

Free health apps laugh in the face of privacy, sell your wheezing data

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Makes you wonder how they got onto the Play store in the first place. You'd think Google would be shit hot by now on apps slurping user data (that is Google's job after all).

Irish! data! police! are! preparing! to! whack! Yahoo! over! that! hack!

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So Ireland doesn't mind Apple being a tax dodger (and losing Ireland loads in tax revenue) but a 'slight' snafu by anyone with data protection failings and they're over it wanting money. I know which is a more regular income stream.

Three indicted over sex trafficking operation run on Backpage.com

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I thought it was going to be about Three, the mobile phone company. A bit of scandal for the weekend sir?

Tor loses a node in Russia after activist's arrest in Moscow

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Sounds like Bogatov wants to be the new Molotov.

Boffins fabricate the 'most complex bendy microprocessor yet'

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I hear Apple is interested in this for their next phone !!

* Substitute Nintendo for hand held consoles if you prefer :-)

No more IP addresses for countries that shut down internet access

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Surely not handing out IP address blocks could stop areas getting online (minority groups etc.) and therefore Afrinic is doing the governments job for them?

Troll it your way: Burger King ad tries to hijack Google Home gadgets

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I think the point is

not even Google knows what goes into a Whopper !!!

Parcel bods Hermes become latest London drone delivery droogs

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Has it got a spring-loaded launcher else how will they just chuck your fragile parcel over the hedge/fence?

HMRC beer duty bungle leaves breweries struggling to pay online

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Anyone would think the web designers/coders were tea-totalers !!

MPs worried Brexit vote website wobble caused by foreign hackers

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It'll be hacked by British hackers, or screwed up by British IT staff. None of your Johnny Foreigner hackers here. It is all about Brexit after all :-)

Gordon Ramsay's in-laws admit plot to hack sweary celeb chef's biz

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"alleged mistress, Sara Stewart" - er, one of three alleged mistresses.

Prisoners built two PCs from parts, hid them in ceiling, connected to the state's network and did cybershenanigans

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Did they need "screws" to put the computers together?

Blighty's £1.2bn space industry could lend itself to tourism – report

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"EEF, which represents virtually all of Britain’s so-called prime contractors in the defence industry".

I thought they were called BAE Systems? Did they change their name?

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Re: tourist attractions?

Er, no. That's just the public toilets which haven't been updated in decades!!!

Nerd Klaxon: Barbican to host Science Fiction exhibition this summer

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Mushroom

If Pat Gyger is at the front door counting the people in is he the official Gyger Counter?

China emerges as digital rights champion with new info privacy law

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Facepalm

I thought it was another of your hilarious April Fool's Day postings with that title. Then I realised you weren't joking !!!

Software dev cuffed for 'nicking proprietary financial trading code'

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"Significant investments are made to develop code, safeguard it " - really? Doesn't sound like they safeguarded it at all if the guy snaffled millions of files. I think their internal security team needs to have a word with HR about their future employment status.

Homes raided in North West over data thefts from car body repair shops

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Not a current member of staff. Says everything about the perp.

Evil ISPs could disrupt Bitcoin's blockchain

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Paris Hilton

Well, it's a good thing DARPA invented the internet. So if one node goes down, others will pick up the slack and deliver it safely. And this can happen all around the world seemingly.

Icon - if one goes down, we can guess who that'd be !!!!!

Law Commission pulls back on official secrets laws plans after Reg exposes flawed report

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Trollface

Well, it all seems to have sorted it self out. No harm done etc. etc.

Says a Law Commission laugher, er lawyer.

Broadband providers almost double prices after deals end

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Don't people understand 'cheap deal' any more?

LiveJournal trial a storm in a safe harbour

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Definitely worse - running ads on a forum !!!

Spanish cops snatch suspected top spammer as US moves against Kelihos botnet

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"the use of innovative legal and technical tactics." - so, completely illegal tactics then. But results are results !!

Google fumes after US Dept of Labor accuses ad giant of lowballing pay for women

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I wonder if Janette Wipper is paid the same as male Department of Labor regional directors?

FCC kills plan to allow phone calls on planes – good idea or terrible?

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Don't suppose he can ban them on trains as well can he?

Radio hackers set off Dallas emergency sirens at midnight as a prank

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Script kiddie just texted 'storm' to 555-TEXASIREN

Hi tech breach :-)

Shadow Brokers crack open NSA hacking tool cache for world+dog

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" If they can't, it's a scandal." - losing the stuff in the first place was a scandal. Not being able to locate where they lost it from is insignificant .

T-Mobile US CEO offers kid a year's supply of chicken nuggets for switching from AT&T

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Linux

No comment from McDonalds?

Mmm, penguin nuggets

Subpostmasters prepare to fight Post Office over wrongful theft and false accounting accusations

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Is it called Horizon because their system is on it's back (and legs in the air aka the dead fly pose)?

Machine vs. machine battle has begun to de-fraud the internet of lies

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New Turing test needed

We need an updated Turing Test - not to see if you're a convincing AI bot but to see if you're telling the truth or are a president of a large country.

Payday lender Wonga admits to data breach

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Clarification

Their account (with Wonga) is secure. They should look out for fraudulent activity (on their bank account).

Therefore Wonga can just sit back, not offering personal credit-score monitoring services etc. that other reputable financial companies offer when they get breached.

Uber responds to Waymo: We don't even use that tech you say we stole

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Is Uber LIDAR designed to find the long way around items? See the other posting about them being sued if you don't get it.

Forget Mirai – Brickerbot malware will kill your crap IoT devices

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Whats the probability that it was written/commissioned by someone who has been on the receiving end of a bot DDoS attack and is just making sure they don't get hit again?