Posts by sabroni

Re: they have a responsibility...

... to their management to ensure ad clicks appear bona fide so customers don't complain.

FTFY!

Re: Why?

It's perfectly possible to exploit people without them being aware that that is what's happening. How many of those doing work for Wikipedia for nothing, on the basis that's it's a charitable organisation, are aware of exactly how big a cash pile the organisation is sitting on? They're giving their time to what they believe is a charitable, knowledge sharing organisation, not Jimbo's massive yacht fund.

Re: Can't you find a different forum?

Classic attempt to ensure there's no discussion of the actual issue. Don't feed the troll.

Re: The issue was not the hack, the issue was the content.

No, the issue is the fact that only one party was hacked. Neither of them should be allowed secrets.

Re: Seems simple enough...

Obvious.

Re: Frame got it right the first time

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re: Also they will say that there was a whole load of intelligent interference....

... (they will read design) in the process

That's a fair thing to say, isn't it? The experiment was designed to try and show this behaviour and it succeeded.

Re: Not much of a chemist then?

From: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/theres-a-minute-amount-of-rendered-animal-fat-in-canadas-banknotes-bank-of-canada-confirms

>>The polymer in virtually all of the world’s plastic bills is made by a single Australian company, Innovia Security.

Innovia are the makers of Guardian, a substrate used to manufacture the polymer currency of 24 countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico and New Zealand.

Tallow does not appear to be a stand-alone or critical ingredient in Guardian, but the by-product got into the substrate because it is used in processing by Innovia’s resin suppliers.<<

So it's in there accidentally by the sound of it. As such probably not going to involve masses of retesting to take it out.

Re: what Vegans think will happen to all those animals we breed for food and dairy

They think that we'd stop breeding animals for food and dairy and the population would die out. They think that being born to live your life in a cage and then be killed isn't worth it. They think that a smaller population of animals living naturally is better than a massive population living in misery.

Re: He won, your 'guy' lost - get over it !

All through Obabma's presidency he's been blocked and campaigned against by his opponents. Why would you think the same won't happen to Trump? Democracy doesn't stop after an election and people who are opposed to racism and sexism (snowflakes) aren't going to change their minds because of the president.

Get used to it.

Re: Just switching from next day to some time delivery pays for the subscription.

Amazon prime comes with free next day delivery. What are you talking about?

Re: The rest of the disk is still encrypted

jake linked to this article http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-4484/CVE-2016-4484_cryptsetup_initrd_shell.html

As it points out in the section marked Impact there may be other unencrypted partitions attached to the system, the hacker could compromise the boot partition for later exploitation, the encrypted disk could be copied for brute forcing at a later date or the attacker could just blat the encrypted disk.

Re: Get some perspective.

I agree! El Reg should stop publishing tech articles until we've sorted out all the real problems in the world. Or at least until we've stopped the earthquakes!

re: Micro$oft used to top the vulns list 100:1, because it was the obvious target

Oh yeah, I remember. Everyone used to be on here commenting on how it was unfair on MS, how the number of vulnerabilities wasn't important, etc....

Re: Whaddabout...

Numbers are hard. Claiming victimhood is much easier...

Re: What does Windows 10 have to do with this?

They both suck all your personal data.

Re: You ban "agile".

Agile can work very well for business level stuff, certainly compared to old fashioned development practices. If I can write javascript that compromises the device it runs on that's a problem with the javascript implementation on that device, not my code. Of course I may do stupid things like send passwords in plain text, but that's not the sort of hack we're talking about here.

IT is too big a subject to expect every business dev to understand all the low level stuff. Likewise you probably don't want coders who are shit hot at device drivers designing and implementing client apps. Horses for courses.

Re: GROSSLY NEGLIGENCE is the legal term.

No, "gross negligence" or "grossly negligent" would both be valid terms. Your knowledge of English appears similar to your knowledge of politics.

Weren't the exploits in the wild going through Flash player? If so getting Adobe to plug the vector makes sense.

Re: it's just a sales company

As opposed to all the companies that don't sell anything like.....?

Re: it's gotta be Bombastic Bob!

His formatting may be shit and his communication style Trumpesque but IMO he's right about this being a hideous idea.

re: -100 points for trying to pull the stunt in the first place.

It's no surprise most manufacturers don't give a toss about other OS users.

When they fix something the response is "It should never have been broken in the first place".

Be interesting to see whether Lenovo get more sales after this, or whether they've just pissed money away on a group of people that are never going to buy their products.

Re: only in our modern overly politically correct world

Expecting to be able to go to work in a shirt and trousers, with a briefcase!!! It's political correctness gone mad!!!!

Re: sure, but I care about a 90% drop or maybe a 50% drop in performance

From the article: And at -108dBm, it went to "a whopping 75 per cent."