Posts by Gordon 10

Re: I assume it is this!!

Thanks for this. You can also use it to check what you set it to last time you read about an NHS data grab on The Register. FWIW mine was opted out

Brave? Are you insane?

The browser which silently inserts affiliate links as it goes along? And still does according to the twittersphere.

Re: Sending the wealthy to space

They can (space)walk back.

Re: So a recuction of privacy then ?

Thats a rather naive and blanket statement.

On prem is fractionally safer if done well in your own wholly owned DC or Cupboard (are you checking the minimum wage cleaners access?) - but how many companies actually do that? Let alone a Public requirement contracted out to the lowest bidder or an MP's bestie.

However by default a lot more effort has gone into making the the Cloud DC's and their services secure by design, and they are unlikely to be addressable to a random Googler.

With a State actor all bets are off anyway - I would go out on a limb and say they are equally at risk as the compromise is probably at the network/infratstructure/factory level.

Re: Who needs an inquiry?

I was surprised to see that PE appears to have no easy way to contact its journo's. Contrast that with the Grauniad which has Signal addresses coming out of the wazoo.

Re: Place your bets...

Thats a naive statement. Its possible to get quiet co-operation for these sort of activities if the approach is right. It happens all the time in corporate environments.

This was lazy unethical behaviour - I suspect because they couldn't be bothered to get co-operation or were frightened of being told no.

Re: Looking forward to full reusability & refueling

Hmm.

Given that SpaceX is also throwing up entire satellite constellations in volumes few others can match, I think this is a score-draw at best.

I'm no rocket scientist but if a couple of Starlink birds collide I reckon we are right royally f*cked.

Dumb and Dumberer

Since when have GCHQ been good at anything other than electronic eavesdropping or lobbying for encryption backdoors? Its a disingenuous statement from a former member of an organisation who has contributed to the problem by hoarding and not reporting zero days and the like. The intelligence agencies are a large part of the problem.

Banning coverage or payouts is a dumb suggestion. Its no surprise to see technocrats trying to avoid the problem (partially of the industries own making) and ignore fundamental human and business realities that are much much harder to fix.

If this starts hurting insurances companies bottom lines then they will start taking action - such as setting minimum standards for coverage - but that wont address the core of the problem.

Its predicated on the false assumption that people buy the insurance rather than fix their legacy software and hardware estates, and its also predicated that IT is the fundamental reason a business exists rather than a useful tool like accounting or sales people.

There will always ransomware vulnerabilities just as there will always be fire risk in a physical premises. Suggesting that tackling a consequence rather than the multiple causes (human nature, Government behaviour, Vendor software development practises, designed in obsolesce etc etc) is just lazy and clickbait-ish.

Re: I have seen this before

Not entirely sure what your point is. They got a substantial payrise post year 2, maybe not as much as they might have got on the open market, going from the one sample we know about, but they only had to stick it out for a few more months to get off the debt scott free.

They got a career jump start thanks to employer A, and Employer A doesn't appear to have put them into serfdom to do it. They may not like it but it appears the judge also thought the company had been pretty even handed.

I suspect they jumped ship before realising how much they would be clobbered then attempted a tribunal as a way of getting back.

My sympathy for these 2 guys is limited tbh.

Re: That's what you get when software has to cost nothing

Errr. Nice try but no.

How do you explain almost the exact same feature in iOS?

To be clear all your points are valid on their own merits but conflating them with free software is dubious at best.

Re: Why so pro-Autonomy?

0. Anyone who was anyone knew HP overpaid. If you look at the comments section of the Reg stories at the time they are either OMFG or PMSL about HP.

1. Funnily enough the UK Fraud authorities declined to prosecute in this this case which suggests that a) at worst there wasn't enough evidence to prove fraud or b) at best everything was above board.

2. Auditors - see above. Plus the value of the deals highlighted is some tiny fraction of Autonomy revenues at the time. From memory it was essentially immaterial in a financial sense, a couple of % of sales but nothing that was justified

3. GAAP <> IFRS. HPE appear to have had very little understanding of the differences.

4. The due diligence wasn't even completed AND the preliminary report never read. HPE had literally no idea wether they were buying a Tesla or a Model T.

Anyone of these points alone puts HPE on dodgy ground, all 4 would make me very surprised if they succeed.

Also some nuance for the USians. This is a civil case - where judgement is made on the balance of probabilities of something alleged being true, the burden of proof is lower than a criminal trial. If this goes against HPE, Lynch will have a mega strong argument against extradition, as it begins to look like Uncle Sam the bully again.

Eeerr did it ever occur to you that trying to do a job with the big boss man changing every 5 minutes because they've groped the help or because the strategy (tactics) change to another "sure fire vote winner" might be a little more tricky than working in your average corporate?

Whilst Im sure the ability of people in the Civil service has a similar range from time-servers to super bright diligent people, they have many many more rules than the average corporate, and likely a bunch of tossers as CxO equivalents that make the private sector paragons of virtue.

The real problem is that the UK is a super tanker and changing course is the work of years and not amenable to politicians whims and fancies. Plus the fact that some of the problems they have to solve are NP hard.

Legend has it that it was broken after a particularly frantic session of Daley Thompsons Decathlon.

(Thumbs up because its my only functioning finger)

Re: Run for the exit

Eh? You do know what HSBC stands for right?

It’s likely to be ok under any but the most brutal Chinese regime. Especially if they arrange to slip a copy of the PPT out the door at some point.