Posts by Hans 1

The whole point is, there are IT admins and devs that are useless.

The lack of hardening of the MongoDB sais it all about the IT team.

The fact that they were saving recordings in WAV says it all about the devs, really, what a bunch of useless morons.

I would fire the entire dev/IT team if I were in charge of that toy outfit, I would name and shame the guyz on the Internet, never to find a job in IT again.

MongoDB could have provided idiot-proof defaults, then again, MongoDB have decided NOT to cater for idiots, that is their call.

Log files is good, RTFM is much, much better ...

The good news in all this, we get to:

1. Know about data slurped by toy manufacturers being stored in the cloud .... for no obvious technical reason. The masses will probably react at some point ....

2. Have a new company to add to our CV-scanner's blacklist

Re: What utter s*****

>Racists and bigots.

>But hey, people voted for that.

Well, my understanding was the British voted to leave the EU, that is all. The conservatives realized they could turn that into whatever they liked, because the question asked to voters was so vague.

Since the conservatives are a bunch of racist bigots, you can blame it all entirely on them .... I am pretty sure 80% of the registered British voters did not want what is being served here ... or so I hope, right ...

Re: Political theatre

>In that case maybe you should look at Microsoft's arrangement to have Deutsch Telekom act as a data trustee.

Futile move, they are Microsoft for a reason®.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile_US

Re: Another SAP success story (for SAP)

If you use software licensed by <insert_proprietary_software_vendor_of_choice>, you had better read THEIR licence. If you have not yet acquired <insert_proprietary_software_vendor_of_choice> software, you should make sure you use an experienced IT licensing lawyer before contracting OR avoid it like the plague.

TFTFBOY

PS: SAP are no different to Oracle, IBM, HP, or MS, in this respect ... don't, JUST don't.

PPS: The software vendor I work for is, obviously, the same ... try to circumvent licensing (that means different things to us and to them), bad luck if you get caught.

PPPS: Where the licence says "You're free to do whatever provided you ship this text with the software, provide the source code, and contribute your changes back" makes so much, much, much, much more sense ... I know "The world won't listen" but then complains when things get awry ...

>My reply of "Well why are you being employed and paid so much when you can't work out that the problem is always you not switching your laptop off" did not go down well at all.

SP: OS' have sleep/hibernate for a reason, that is, to not have to shut down the computer completely. Anything causing you to reboot that is not a kernel update is faulty design.

LP: Blaming HER for MS Windows ecosystem faults is a bit harsh, mate ... I remember back in the naughties, when I had OS X ... I kept the thing "on" (on or sleep) for months, same later with Linux, then I switched to 7 and rebooted more often the first day than I had it over the previous ten years (well, ok, but not that far off ) ... moved to Linux again, after giving Windows 7 a whopping 6 months to settle, you know, give it its chance ... and another 5 years where I probably rebooted Linux, what, 15 times, tops ... and I think I am being generous, here ... now Windows ten is better in that respect, however, still have to reboot at the very least weekly ... at least not x times daily as with Windows 7 (Windows 7 which was shipped on the thing had a driver issue, clean reinstall (MS-provided ISO) did not help, never fixed by HP, same box later had Linux, no problems, as usual).

Windows 7 lovers, you know where downvote button is, right ?

Re: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 sha1 calculations

>Yes, it's a problem if you can insert 'not'. It's less of a problem if you can only produce the collision if you insert 'KJ"BIUE_D H£(*ERNY£'

Hey, you know that, when it comes to PDF, you could place 'KJ"BIUE_D H£(*ERNY£' behind the image or something ...

Remember, this is bytes, so, you want the hash of 000011100010001xxxxxxx0001000111001100[...] to equal the hash of 00001111101000100100010001000111001100[...], where x can be anything because located behind an image or font color is white or same as background etc ... you name it. This has now been proven to be feasible, expensive, 130k or such, but feasible ... and it will only get cheaper ... in 10 years time, you and I might be able to do it over a weekend for the lulz, better hw, better algo to compute this ... ;-)

You could also say the random bits you want are for an image with total transparency ... you know, the sky's the limit.

Re: C'mon guys...

>The USA is the land of the free

Yes, it is called "land of the free" because freedom is buried there under the famous big statue in New York ...

Re: Eleven year old security bug

Please, you must stop, I beg you ... here I am, still waiting to patch WIndows boxen for this.

"2016-11-16: Bug reported to MS

2016-11-17: Nothing

2016-11-18: Nothing

2016-11-19: Nothing

[...]

2017-02-20: Bug reported to the whole world

2017-02-21: Nothing

2017-02-22: Nothing

2017-02-23: ...

Note: This Linux bug and that Windows bug are very similar, in both cases, you get to memory ... one poses a higher risk afaik, though, as, well, anything on one of our Windows clients/servers accessing a silly image could have our forest 0wned ... imagine, email with embedded image :=> 0wned ....

Staff, STOP LOOKING A CAT images, NOW!

MS, a fix ... please ?

Re: ...the company all-but-accused Google of...

>Google are being the arsehats

It is 2017, and your entire forest can be owned by a silly image file and they do not fix it ? FFS ? Too bad!

Re: mac AV

>"But you know mac AV progs just detect WINDOWS viruses right ?"

>No, there are Mac malware!

Ok, lets put aside the fact that anti-virus software for one platform contains signatures for malware for all platforms, as that has been made clear.

I have worked in A/V and I know precisely the meaning of "virus", "trojan horse" and other "types" of malware.

To this day, I have not heard of a Mac OS X or MacOS "virus", malware, yes, eg "trojan horses", but "virus", nada. Technically speaking, afaik, there has not been a Mac OS X/MacOS virus found in the wild.

From wikipedia:

A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed, replicates by reproducing itself (copying its own source code) or infecting other computer programs by modifying them.[1] Infecting computer programs can include as well, data files, or the "boot" sector of the hard drive. When this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected" with a computer virus.[2][3][4] The term "virus" is also commonly, but erroneously, used to refer to other types of malware.

We are IT professionals, let's start using appropriate terms for this stuff, Ok ?

Re: Low level loss of concentration

>I used to think (and still do) that the appalling accident rate of Starfighters in Germany was mainly because of Arkansas and Texas flyboys the first time off the farm, in a foreign country, and having a blast in a jet aircraft.

No, starfighters were lethal weapons .... of the enemy, lousy maneuverability, a real death craft. The only reason Germany bought any was because some politico got a bank account in a tax haven full of $$$$ $$$ $$$, this has been proven. Note that they even managed to bribe a Dutch^H^H^H^HGerman prince.

Re: IBM, Oracle and Palantir...

>$4.2B

Are you sure you mean $4.2 (Belizean) or what, care to elaborate?

Note that his companies will not receive the same amount in subsidies, regardless ... Trump is against environmental policies and thinks the electric car has a positive impact on the environment, which it does not .... as for space, Trump thinks that is a waste of tax payer's money as the earth is flat, all space "stuff" is just some scientific hoax. You know, all the creationist BS full swing ....

Re: Naive question

High frequency means the reception area is small, the higher you go, the smaller the reception area, at any given intensity. To get Ghz over a km needs quite some energy, then, consider the effects water in the air has ... this is just .... silly!

There must be something I don't know that these guyz know, 'coz, well, I know close to close to nuthing about radio signals, except ... the shorter the wavelength, the more energy you need to reach a given reception area.

>I've not had a windows machine crash on me for a long old time not including dying hardware components or nvidia drivers. Or an odd problem with one of my mother boards where the ssd vanishes.

Why AC ? With so many miracles you must be a prophet, if you have proof, that is ...

>I smartly answered no sorry I stole this phone.

Upvoted, but they might report your sim and IMEI as stolen ...

Re: @Pompous Git - Maybe I'm thick too, but ...

>Given the convergence of PS and PDF, I wonder if a PDF document can be used as a carrier.

The "convergence" (whatever you mean by that in this context) has nothing to do with it.

From the article:

CORS is the mechanism that lets Web pages request data from third-parties (font services, images, and of course advertisements), and it's supposed to be restricted by the same origin policy. “CORS spoofing” demonstrated by the University Alliance Ruhr group breaks those rules and gives an attacker access to a networked printer.

From the web:

Access control CORS

Re: Ah, the old and outdated Unix method of chaining executables...

>Ah, the old and outdated Unix method of chaining executables...

>... instead of using an API with parameters and checking them....

>C'mon guys, it's no longer 1970, you have plenty of RAM now, you can keep some more code in it today, it doesn't make you a great programmer blindly believing in outdated practices just because some dinosaur who is utterly afraid to learn anything new told you so.

Lennart, hau jetzt bitte ab, ja, komme nicht zurück, deine Meinung zählt hier nicht.

>Talk Talk could offer to pay my line rental and service charge for life and I'd still opt to pay someone else.

Upvoted!

Question: Assuming your details were leaked, I do not know of course, but, if that were the case it cannot get worse ... your details are out there and you need credit surveillance for life, might as well go with chalkTalk in that case, what else could go wrong ? Assuming TalkTalk are the cheapest & fastest in your area, that is ...

>Signing Internet petitions is the 21st century equivalent of shouting at the telly. And about as effective.

I agree .... and .... I signed it as well ... not that I see the royals as anything other than bloodsuckers. I am an atheist, so the "They are the earthly representation of god" makes no sense to me, which, basically, disqualifies them from any prerogative they claim to have. However, I would not want Trump to mate with May, which might have already happened, she has been to the US, right ? I digress ... anyway, we have enough excrement in our country with May alone, no need for another helping!

Fellow Brits, as is customary with me, you know where the down-vote button is ... I have 2:1 upvotes vs downvotes and I would like to inverse that so .... be my guest!

Re: Isn't it terrible

> While the world's smallest violin plays, I need a drink...

Same here, although it is not quite Friday, yet ...

Re: About time

@Big John

The President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization recommends that key anti-pollution programs be merged into an Environmental Protection Administration, a new independent agency of the Executive Branch. (emphasis mine)

src: https://archive.epa.gov/epa/aboutepa/ash-council-memo.html

Re: Systemd

>Systemd - Systemd Is Not Windows

Systemd - Spoil your system this elegance must die

TFTFY